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a hole-y ghost posted:An old west cowboy from the future (but it's medieval times) teams up with a junkie from the 1980s Bronx and a racist caricature black lady in a wheelchiar who, with the help and hindrance of various Stephen King character cameos, fight against an interdimensional conspiracy of autistic people led by Santa Claus who sap the brain energy of children, making them into giants with big rear end tits and dicks, in order to bring the end of the world. Also Stephen King himself appears in the books from time to time. Dinosaurmageddon posted:For its fans, the Dark Tower books are like that Star Trek TNG episode where they discover a race of people which can only communicate exclusively through references to their own cultural narrative history. Thanks guys, I appreciate it.
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SHISHKABOB posted:Stephen King is trash His body of work is large enough that you can point to some of his stuff and find a lot of merit but yeah there's a ton of crap where he is phoning it in as well. The dude knows a ton about the process of actually sitting down and writing a drat book and he's verbose and informative about it. He gets dorks real mad about "genre" fiction which makes me happy as well, as if literary merit were founded upon the ideals of contemporary settings presented as blandly and relentlessly normal as possible.
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Shaquin posted:His body of work is large enough that you can point to some of his stuff and find a lot of merit but yeah there's a ton of crap where he is phoning it in as well. The dude knows a ton about the process of actually sitting down and writing a drat book and he's verbose and informative about it. He gets dorks real mad about "genre" fiction which makes me happy as well, as if literary merit were founded upon the ideals of contemporary settings presented as blandly and relentlessly normal as possible. yeh gently caress steven king!!
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Feb 9, 2016 03:05
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Casting Roland as a black man would totally change and undermine all the racial themes running through the whole drat series.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:06
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notZaar posted:Casting Roland as a black man would totally change and undermine all the racial themes running through the whole drat series. ok how bout eskimo
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Feb 9, 2016 03:07
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A bunch of Real Authors got upset and protested when King won some writing award abd it was a dozen people I'd never heard of who's books sounded like poo poo King isn't great, but he has some good ideas. His short stories are where he really shines
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Feb 9, 2016 03:08
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Orkin Mang posted:ok how bout eskimo He's got to be white, like Mitt Romney white. He's gotta be The Man.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:11
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holy poo poo i hope this is true
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Feb 9, 2016 03:13
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Dinosaurmageddon posted:For its fans, the Dark Tower books are like that Star Trek TNG episode where they discover a race of people which can only communicate exclusively through references to their own cultural narrative history. This mans arms are wide!
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Feb 9, 2016 03:13
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btw we are totally ka-tet you guys!!!! 
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Feb 9, 2016 03:15
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Mccaunghehy should be Eddie.
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phasmid posted:And Benedict Cumberpatch as the Crimson King. Cumberbarch: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
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jet sanchEz posted:Mccaunghehy should be Eddie. too old
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Billmac posted:Cumberbarch: "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
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Feb 9, 2016 03:16
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The wheelchaired black lady fights by throwing big rear end dinner plates at peoples faces.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:20
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Orkin Mang posted:yeh gently caress steven king!! He's fun to read when you are someplace you don't wanna be.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:23
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Too bad Jim Henson is dead. Dark Tower would totes work as a Dark Crystal/labyrinth type puppet adventure, especially Oy, who was the bst character.
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Feb 9, 2016 03:24
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Mutoid Brit with deformed skull drives women wild. All of his features are overly large and he's not that great an actor but he seems a little gay overall which makes him non threatening enough to be marketable for frequent facebook swoon postings.
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Shaquin posted:Mutoid Brit with deformed skull drives women wild. All of his features are overly large and he's not that great an actor but he seems a little gay overall which makes him non threatening enough to be marketable for frequent facebook swoon postings. This for cucumber not Idris Elba who is giving off both mad hetero vibes and is traditionally handsome
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Feb 9, 2016 03:25
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cant wait for demon rape on the big screen
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SHISHKABOB posted:Stephen King is trash if stephen king is trash then ill happily be his retarded pecker suckin trashman
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Bitter Mushroom posted:if stephen king is trash then ill happily be his retarded pecker suckin trashman the trashcan man.
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Canadian Surf Club posted:cant wait for demon rape on the big screen the gunslinger was a weird and cool 1970s as gently caress book and i'm interested in what a movie actually based on it would look like what with all the weird "demon lady pistol rape" and "boy getting run over and making GBS threads out his intestines" scenes in reality all of that bewildering poo poo will likely get left out and instead we'll get a lovely bland movie in the tone of the last 3 books instead, welp
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Feb 9, 2016 03:41
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stephen king is good more than he sucks. his endings always suck except for the end of his recent book "revival" -- that poo poo was traumatizing in a good way
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a hole-y ghost posted:The wheelchaired black lady fights by throwing big rear end dinner plates at peoples faces. For Special.
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i wish i could forget reading these books, maybe id hate myself less then
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Feb 9, 2016 03:48
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I liked The Eyes of the Dragon and The Regulators.
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a hole-y ghost posted:The wheelchaired black lady fights by throwing big rear end dinner plates at peoples faces. You know what? This whole thread is roont, and that spells M O O N.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:I liked The Eyes of the Dragon and The Regulators. The Regulators was Richard Bachman right? root root
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Solice Kirsk posted:The Regulators was Richard Bachman right? Yeah. So was The Long Walk too. Forgot about that one.
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I liked Rage by bachman because I'm an angsty teen
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DiHK posted:You know what? This whole thread is roont, and that spells M O O N. thankee sai
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Feb 9, 2016 05:57
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I love how there are drunken references to the dark tower in all his other books, it's like the drunken drug addled king reaches out from the parallel dimension to our kindly elder king to whisper in his ear still
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I don't know if it was the Stand or Cujo where a couple of crooks got into a shoot out at some gas station or wherever. He makes a point of some silent dude calmly drawing his weapon and carefully blasting one of them before he himself was shot. I always wondered if that was supposed to be a cameo from another book.
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man remember when the stand was pretty good for like 2/3rds of the book, and then the end the nuke turned into a hand and you went uhhhhhhhh huh? and then the book didnt end but sputtered out like a long drippy wet fart
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Wicker Man posted:I don't know if it was the Stand or Cujo where a couple of crooks got into a shoot out at some gas station or wherever. He makes a point of some silent dude calmly drawing his weapon and carefully blasting one of them before he himself was shot. I always wondered if that was supposed to be a cameo from another book. The Stand. Poke and Lloyd rob a convenience store and then Poke just starts Pokerizing everyone, old cowboy dude efficiently plugs him before getting taken out by Lloyd.
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I liked The Talisman and to a lesser extent Black House so I think Stephen King is a cool guy
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Listen to the series as audiobooks if you actually want to enjoy it. Frank Muller was a legend.
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Dark tower news is all ka ka.
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I think the biggest change they will have to do is take Sussanah out of the wheelchair. It's really hard to shoot with one actor standing and one sitting, almost everythig they do would have to be in wide shot. Maybe give her a limp or need crutches. If this actually gets made I wonder who would play young Roland in Wizard and Glass. Michael B.Jordan?
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