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I think Revival has the best ending from his most modern books. I didn't mind the ending of 11.22.63 at all. Also put me down as one of the minority that liked Insomnia.
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Misery and The Dead Zone have good endings, as well.
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Sep 24, 2019 14:31
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Sep 24, 2019 15:38
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Yeah, I loved Revival's ending, definitely the best of the smattering of modern King I've read. I enjoyed Insomnia as I was reading it 10-15 years ago, but I don't think I remember a single thing about it.
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Sep 24, 2019 15:47
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Steve's patented Drop The Ending™ is why I tend to enjoy his short story works the best. He comes up with a great idea/concept, and then (usually) wraps it up before loving around with it too much. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy a lot of his longer works, but I find the odds of getting a good/satisfying ending is much better when he has fewer pages to paint himself into a corner.
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Sep 24, 2019 17:29
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Canuckistan posted:I didn't mind the ending of 11.22.63 at all. Same.... It didn't blow me away but upon finishing it it felt like kind of the only way I could have seen that story ending without being super depressing/meaningless.
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Sep 24, 2019 18:04
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fishmech posted:That's what he did for Insomnia. A lot of people dont like that book. ...isn't the ending to Insomnia a friendly geriatric punching the bejeezus out of a jive-talking catfish monster in a teleporting portable toilet?
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Sep 24, 2019 21:24
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Coked up Tommyknockers was pretty good too.
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Sep 24, 2019 21:30
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Yeah Tommy knockers I remember being pretty great. That whole book really freaked me out as a kid
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Sep 24, 2019 23:14
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April posted:I've been trying to figure out why King's endings always seem to affect me differently than everyone else in this thread, and I think I finally got it. The endings, from an emotional perspective, are usually fantastic (hear me out). Characters we've come to care deeply about get to have rich, happy lives, or to die terribly and be properly mourned or to try to make what they can with what they have left after [plot happens]. In The Institute when Avery sacrifices himself and thinks "I loved having friends" I was drat near crying in my Cheerios. In IT, when Bill is half-asleep and almost remembering his friends, same thing, and I can't even tell you how many others. The characters & emotions of King's endings just always hit me right in the feelings. Weird because in 11/22/63 I thought he stuck the landing rather well. He's written a lot of stuff that had decent to great endings but his hit to miss ratio is frustratingly odd for a writer of such great talent who works so loving hard. Good endings: Christine, Cujo, Dead Zone, Shining, Joyland, Salem's Lot, Rose Madder, Carrie, 11/22/63, The Stand, Misery, Pet Semetary, Long Walk, Revival, Blaze, ...hundreds of short stories... You're mileage may vary with some of those but, gently caress, he's almost FAMOUS for it and I'm like god drat. I mean, he CAN do it. I didn't even mind the end of Gerald's Game but so many times he just gets into this weird "well, here's a door to another dimension and there's a bug alien demon that shoots lightning out of it's dick and shits fire plus a big space turtle and an earthquake The End so there"
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Sep 24, 2019 23:42
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Canuckistan posted:I think Revival has the best ending from his most modern books. I didn't mind the ending of 11.22.63 at all. 11.22.63 was a good ending, but either Joe or Owen came up with the idea, I can't remember which. You ask me, the "King endings are terrible" trope is wildly overstated, as they didn't get bad until the late 90s/early 00s (include the mid 90s if you don't care for the cruel downer endings of Desperation and The Green Mile). I can't think of any "oh my god gently caress off" bad endings until Rose Madder or so. EDIT: also it irritates me when people conflate the end of The Stand with the cartoony unambiguous version in the miniseries
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:You ask me, the "King endings are terrible" trope is wildly overstated, as they didn't get bad until the late 90s/early 00s (include the mid 90s if you don't care for the cruel downer endings of Desperation and The Green Mile). I can't think of any "oh my god gently caress off" bad endings until Rose Madder or so. Nah, it's a legit thing and this is coming from a guy that didn't even mind the Rose Madder or Gerald's Game endings. I mean, Christ, in his magnum opus/saga, The Dark Tower, that covered (what?) 7 books or some poo poo, he basically came right out and said "gently caress you, I'm not even gonna try to write an ending on this" and dared the reader to hate him for it. I suppose that falls within your timeline for when the endings poo poo the bed but, still, that's a LOT of novels. Enough to matter at least.
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Sep 25, 2019 01:57
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I liked the Dark Tower ending. I didn’t like that it allowed the Dark Tower movie to be made.
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Sep 25, 2019 02:08
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Much like Highlander 2, the Dark Tower movie was never made. I'm looking forward to the Dark Tower Amazon series.
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Sep 25, 2019 02:14
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BiggerBoat posted:I mean, Christ, in his magnum opus/saga, The Dark Tower, that covered (what?) 7 books or some poo poo, he basically came right out and said "gently caress you, I'm not even gonna try to write an ending on this" and dared the reader to hate him for it Except that's not what happened?
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Sep 25, 2019 02:41
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The ending to the Dark Tower is perfectly fine and fits thematically with everything that came before. I mean, "ka is a wheel" is one of the more common phrases throughout the series, big loving surprise that the whole story is a wheel. What irks most people about the ending is a) the Crimson King being so damned stupid and b) that interlude from King between Roland entering the tower and him being in the tower. There's also the school of thought that the poem is the true ending, and that works, too.
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Sep 25, 2019 02:53
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Crimson king sucked balls but the ending with Roland entering the tower and the final line of the book was perfect. What wasn’t perfect was that tacked on part that he added to the end which was horrific and should never be mentioned.
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Sep 25, 2019 03:21
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Ornamented Death posted:What irks most people about the ending is a) the Crimson King being so damned stupid The Crimson King is the waiter from Lunch at the Gotham Cafe and you can't convince me otherwise. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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Sep 25, 2019 03:27
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I was kinda pissed by the ending of the DT but now I really have no problem with it. It gives a sense of closure without really ending and I’m hard pressed to come up with something of my own I would like more. What else would Roland find? God who says “this is the answer and this and that”? A big monster he shoots and kills and everyone shows up? That being said, the crimson king was kind of a letdown and it still irritates me to this day about kings aside to the reader about endings. Nobody gets 99% of the way through their trip and just stops, Steve.
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Sep 25, 2019 04:45
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the ending of the dark tower was alright but i was pretty annoyed that flagg and mordred had such pathetic conclusions earlier in the book
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Sep 25, 2019 05:02
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scary ghost dog posted:the ending of the dark tower was alright but i was pretty annoyed that flagg and mordred had such pathetic conclusions earlier in the book yeah that sucked and so did the Danville stuff.
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Sep 25, 2019 18:19
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I just started Firestarter for the first time and it really does remind me a lot about The Institute. I really wish The Institute would have touched more on a link between them and The Shop or even the Breakers. I thought at first the hum would be related to a gateway or thinny of some sort.
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Sep 26, 2019 01:39
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firestarter is top 5 king
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Sep 26, 2019 03:05
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5) firestarter 4) the dead zone 3) the green mile 2) pet sematary 1) it
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Sep 26, 2019 03:08
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scary ghost dog posted:5) firestarter So 5 random Stephen King books in alphabetical order, but with IT inexplicably at the end? The Green Mile? Really?
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Sep 26, 2019 03:16
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Krispy Wafer posted:So 5 random Stephen King books in alphabetical order, but with IT inexplicably at the end? Not that I disagree with the sentiment of your post, but what alphabet are you using?
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Sep 26, 2019 03:35
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Krispy Wafer posted:So 5 random Stephen King books in alphabetical order, but with IT inexplicably at the end? those are the stephen king novels that i find to have the best, most complete narratives, and It which i just think has the highest highs even if the lows are pretty low.....its my personal top 5. not random at all but the order isnt really set in stone
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Sep 26, 2019 03:35
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the green mile is a really good book
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Sep 26, 2019 03:36
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I remember when The Green Mile came out in 5(?) pieces and they were in the grocery store check out line next to the Archie comics.
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Sep 26, 2019 03:48
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In the beginning of Firestarter he references both Aladdin and The Little Mermaid years before Disney made the cartoons.
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Sep 26, 2019 03:58
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it and pet sematary are the two best books so that's a good list imo
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Sep 26, 2019 07:12
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scary ghost dog posted:firestarter is top 5 king Hell yeah it is. Just finished rereading it and it was great. The ending is satisfying too.
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Sep 27, 2019 08:39
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Did King ever comment on the Crimson King remarks?
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Sep 27, 2019 10:31
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Acht posted:Did King ever comment on the Crimson King remarks? Crimson Stephen King? 
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Sep 27, 2019 12:42
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Phanatic posted:My big issue with Act 3 is that if you have a bunch of really incriminating evidence on a thumb drive, absolutely nobody is going to believe you when you use the thumb drive as a bargaining tool and trust that you haven't copied the data. And in turn, if you use that drive as a bargaining tool and the person you're bargaining with says he believes that you will turn over the thumb drive uncopied, you know that he is lying, because nobody would believe that. And I know that Luke's plan was just to buy time so that the kids could escape, but the vast majority of them didn't escape and were either just plain murdered or were killed by the circumstances of the escape attempt. So the plan sucked and they should just have shot the doctor and the administrator in the face Expanse-style and uploaded the entire drive contents to the cloud anyway. I honestly thought he had done this when Luke had a brief moment w the laptop. I was sort of fine with the nuclear war deterrence thing until they said the precogs found the targets like 3+ years out when each lab was hosting like 2 wet work squads. I feel like keeping some sort of cosmic horror at bay would have been a more complicated ending and set up some future story with the consequences of this story. I get that King was going for something else with the big bad, though.
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Sep 28, 2019 20:50
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Tastes evil.
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Sep 28, 2019 23:47
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Is that a sour? Those are evil at the best of times.
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Sep 29, 2019 00:24
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Blackberry/pomegranate sour, it's actually really damned good.
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Sep 29, 2019 01:59
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Trailer for Season 2 of Castle Rock. It looks like they might be adapting Jerusalem's Lot (the short story) with Annie Wilkes as the investigator character.
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Another new book!? aw crap, more Holly. I can’t stand that whole series plus Da Outsider
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