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Tommyknockers was second King book I read. Pet Sematary was the first. I can't remember the order after those two, but know the Bachman Books and Christine were soon after.
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my first was the girl who loved tom gordon, followed by the eyes of the dragon
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Oct 2, 2018 13:00
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Ornamented Death posted:The Eyes of the Dragon here Same here, 7th grade if I remember correctly.
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Oct 2, 2018 14:17
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My King fascination started in 2nd grade when I watched the original Salem's Lot miniseries. My mother had all his books at the time (she had some scam she was running with the DoubleDay book club thing where you get 10 books up front), and I finally talked her into letting me read Firestarter in 4th grade. Still it wasn't until 6th grade that I truly became a King reader. I went back and read most of his previous books, but I can't remember in what order (either Salem's Lot or The Stand was my 2nd book). I do know it wasn't until 7th grade that I finally read Pet Sematary (which was just released in paperback at the time). I credit Stephen King, Judy Blume, the Hardy Boys' books, and elementary school book fairs as the reasons I am a reader today.
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Oct 2, 2018 14:43
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syscall girl posted:I read it during puberty and iirc found one of the sex parts hot 
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Oct 2, 2018 21:08
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Krispy Wafer posted:Man, who would have thought. I read Tommyknockers at the height of my high school King fanboy period and it just slammed the brakes on that. It was a decade before I picked up another one of his books. I loved all the crazy gadget stuff. I also lived in a small town, not much bigger than Haven, surrounded by lots of rural farms, much like Haven. The names were different, but I could picture almost every single person in the book as someone from my hometown. It was that, even more than the weird gadgets, that sold me on the book. To this day I feel that King is the undisputed master at creating fictional small-town communities.
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Oct 2, 2018 22:04
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ConfusedUs posted:To this day I feel that King is the undisputed master at creating fictional small-town communities. This is painfully hyperbolic. Of course he isn't. Is it one of his stronger skills? Yes. But undisputed master?
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Oct 3, 2018 19:51
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Franchescanado posted:This is painfully hyperbolic. Of course he isn't. Undisputed by what's available at every airport and Walmart
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Oct 3, 2018 20:59
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ConfusedUs posted:To this day I feel that King is the undisputed master at creating fictional small-town communities. no
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Oct 3, 2018 22:24
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It's one of those things where yeah he's really good at it but at the same time you can only put the words "in a small New England town. . ." on so many dust jackets before it starts to grate.
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Oct 3, 2018 22:59
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He's really good at it. Until you read Carson McCullers, John Irving, Flannery O'Connor, Harper Lee, Sherwood Anderson, and everyone else Stephen King learned it from. Something Wicked This Way Comes is like the framework for every King small town story.
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Oct 3, 2018 23:02
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Franchescanado posted:He's really good at it. I wish I'd reread that before Bradbury died because I need to know what happened to the school marm who was transformed into a little kid. She was very confused and scared and presently abandoned. I don't need her to have a good ending but just an ending
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Oct 3, 2018 23:12
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Franchescanado posted:He's really good at it. You can be good at something without being the person who invented it. I take your point, for sure, but all I'm really trying to say is that it's a trope he's probably too comfortable with.
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Oct 4, 2018 13:04
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I didn't even know they were doing a Pet Semetary remake https://news.avclub.com/ayuh-the-pet-sematary-remake-is-looking-mighty-spooky-1829530384 Lithgow's a good choice and the original is mediocre at best aside from Fred Gwynne's performance so I'm down with this.
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Oct 4, 2018 23:14
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BiggerBoat posted:I didn't even know they were doing a Pet Semetary remake I was all Lithgow's too ooooo Ayuh
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Oct 5, 2018 01:15
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With a nine month-old in the house right now I'm not sure how well watching this will sit with me. So of course like an idiot I'll probably see it in the theater and be the middle-aged guy sobbing uncontrollably for no obvious reason.
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Oct 6, 2018 14:26
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Am I too late for "babby's first King" chat? Mine was Pet Cemetary, in sixth or seventh grade. After that I probably went to one of the short story collections. King is at his best when he's at his most concise.
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Oct 6, 2018 23:24
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short story collections are like getting to read the best parts of a bunch of new king novels at once
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Oct 7, 2018 01:09
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Krispy Wafer posted:No one ever says their first King book was Tommyknockers because if you read Tommyknockers first you never read another King book. I dunno, my first King novel was Dreamcatcher.
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Oct 8, 2018 12:47
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Sefiros posted:I dunno, my first King novel was Dreamcatcher. drat. I'm surprised you stuck with him.
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Oct 8, 2018 15:23
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Watch The Green Mile again yesterday when it showed up on my Netflix recommended for you feed. Forgot how good that movie is, right up there with Shawshank. Frank Darabont is a goddamn genius.
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Oct 8, 2018 16:01
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My first novel was The Gunslinger. Wizard and Glass was the first book I ever read on my Kindle, making The Waste Lands the last paper book I've purchased... 7 years ago. drat.
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Oct 8, 2018 16:23
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VllcgXSIJkE im loving this wave of king adaptations and it seems to be accelerating
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Oct 11, 2018 01:42
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First king for me was 14, The Green Mile. 2nd was either Gerald’s game or rose madder. I remember liking both decently enough
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Oct 11, 2018 04:29
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I watched The Shining on TV when I was 12 and was mesmerized by it. It was edited for basic cable (the woman in the bathtub and the fursuit fellatio scene took me by surprise when I watched the real thing years later) and it took like four and a half hours with commercials, but I sat through the whole thing. Went out and got the book from the library the next day. It was really good, probably the first "adult" book I ever read, but I picked up The Stand next and was completely hooked.
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Oct 11, 2018 07:52
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I was about 10 when my mom gave me a copy of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon to read. I haven't read it since then, but I remember really liking it.
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Oct 11, 2018 23:51
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My first was It, the summer of 96 right before we moved back from South Korea. Then I hit Needful Things, Firestarter and at one point was told by the teacher not to bring Cujo to class. My parent's bought The Stand for me probably solely on the grounds that at 1000+ pages they thought it would take me awhile. Sometimes I wonder if I ruined them for myself reading them so young because I remember too much of the plot to ever bother doing a re-read but not enough to say I had a meaningful connection with them.
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Oct 25, 2018 22:39
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Every time I’ve thought that about a book I read when I was almost certainly too young to completely digest it I’ve been pleasantly surprised. Sure you might remember what happened to a point but I doubt you remember why and if so you can still enjoy the characters motivation to do so. Or the journey to get there. Every time.
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Nov 1, 2018 23:43
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all i remember about cujo is the really sad scene where the dog goes crazy because of the rabies from the bat-scratch on his nose or whatever it was, the scene at the end where the woman beats the dog to death with the bat, and the scene where the guy jacks off on the bedspread
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Nov 2, 2018 04:49
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My first King was IT. I was of an age with the Losers as kids, and the book scared me so badly that I would wrap the book in a sweater and bury it in my closet before the sun went down. It was winter in Canada. I didn't have too many hours of daylight in which to read.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:My first King was IT. I was of an age with the Losers as kids, and the book scared me so badly that I would wrap the book in a sweater and bury it in my closet before the sun went down. I had this version, and the eyes just seemed to glow out at you:
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Nov 2, 2018 19:40
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chernobyl kinsman posted:all i remember about cujo is the really sad scene where the dog goes crazy because of the rabies from the bat-scratch on his nose or whatever it was, the scene at the end where the woman beats the dog to death with the bat, and the scene where the guy jacks off on the bedspread lol same
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Nov 2, 2018 20:14
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the narration is like, “he was so good at jacking his red raw hog that in just three pumps there was a drying puddle on the comforter” and im like, wtf. thats impossible
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Nov 2, 2018 20:15
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scary ghost dog posted:the narration is like, “he was so good at jacking his red raw hog that in just three pumps there was a drying puddle on the comforter” and im like, wtf. thats impossible look at mister amateur hour over here
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Nov 4, 2018 00:08
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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Stephen King: jacking his red raw hog
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Nov 4, 2018 01:49
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Davros1 posted:I had this version, and the eyes just seemed to glow out at you: By the author of The Dark Half? That’s what you’re going with, book cover?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:By the author of The Dark Half? That’s what you’re going with, book cover? To be fair, The Dark Half had been the most recent King release when that version of It was published.
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Nov 4, 2018 23:31
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chernobyl kinsman posted:The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > Stephen King: jacking his red raw hog We need this.
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Speaking of jacking off, I'm reading Revival and it's starting to drag at around the 100 page mark. Whole lotta talk about hard-ons and seedy wanking sessions and it's all making me ask, "does this come(lol) into play later"? Come(lol) on, King! Make with the Frankensteins!kenny powerzzz posted:We need this. Agreed. Drunken Baker fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Nov 5, 2018 |
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Dissapointed Owl posted:By the author of The Dark Half? That’s what you’re going with, book cover? I thought by that point King was popular enough that you didn't need to reference his prior works. I believe IT may have broken some records for presales on a 1st printing and that cover would be the 2nd or 3rd printing. But yeah,"The Dark Half"? Really?
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