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I came across this podcast this week - it's recently started, and only the intro and the first episode are available. It's got some pedigree, in terms of the presenters, and while the intro episode is a bit "This is me!", I'm looking forward to the first episode, on The Running Man. The hook is that each episode a guest picks a King story and the film adaptation, and discusses them both in relation. Might be good! Which would you choose? I'd do the film Cat's Eye and the related stories, just to be different.
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# ? May 16, 2020 12:47 |
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# ? Mar 30, 2024 06:20 |
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I’d probably pick Maximum Overdrive or Creepshow. If I could talk to the man himself, I’d ask if he had any good stories with Tobe Hooper from when he did Salem’s Lot.
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# ? May 16, 2020 18:57 |
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Teach posted:I came across this podcast this week - it's recently started, and only the intro and the first episode are available. It's got some pedigree, in terms of the presenters, and while the intro episode is a bit "This is me!", I'm looking forward to the first episode, on The Running Man. I feel like trying to compare the book The Running Man and the movie The Running Man is... I mean, why? They have very little in common besides “someone is hunted on TV” and the title.
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# ? May 16, 2020 19:27 |
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I'd probably go with something where they're both equally great like Shawshank or The Body. But then I dunno. Maybe to have more fun, pick two pieces where the disparity in quality is really vast like The Dark Tower or the IT miniseries. Or maybe Gerald's Game. People hate on the book but the Netflix movie was really good. Come to think of it, that does sound fun so thanks for the link. I'm not sure what would be more enjoyable: picking a bad book and a good movie, a bad movie and a good book, a bad book and a bad movie or a good book and a good movie but they all have possibilities. For full comedic value, I feel like at least one of them at least has to be bad. That is, assuming they're being comedic at all.
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# ? May 16, 2020 22:38 |
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Just finished If It Bleeds. Holly story was pretty good. I really liked the Chuck one. Other two were decent. Also in those two the main characters are writers/aspiring writers, in case you needed proof this was a Stephen King work. Edit: also, the Holly story is a sequel to The Outsider and spoils that entire novel AARD VARKMAN fucked around with this message at 03:26 on May 17, 2020 |
# ? May 17, 2020 03:22 |
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In the last month or so I've read/reread It, If It Bleeds, The Shining, The Outsider, 11/22/63, Just After Sunset, and Finders Keepers, and I have to ask: what's with the Ship N Shore blouses? For that matter, why are the women in his books always wearing blouses or blouses and skirts? God forbid one be wearing a t-shirt and jeans.
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# ? May 19, 2020 15:36 |
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The Zombie Guy posted:I was thinking today about Battleground, from the Night Shift short story collection. That was a great little story. Fast paced and knows exactly what it is meant to be, and a fun ending.
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# ? May 19, 2020 16:19 |
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Drimble Wedge posted:In the last month or so I've read/reread It, If It Bleeds, The Shining, The Outsider, 11/22/63, Just After Sunset, and Finders Keepers, and I have to ask: what's with the Ship N Shore blouses? For that matter, why are the women in his books always wearing blouses or blouses and skirts? God forbid one be wearing a t-shirt and jeans. Pretty sure it's the lady-version of the blue chambray workshirt.
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# ? May 20, 2020 01:42 |
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BiggerBoat posted:I'd probably go with something where they're both equally great like Shawshank or The Body. I think you'd want to do something where they're both fairly good, but they have some significant differences. Maybe The Mist.
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# ? May 20, 2020 01:53 |
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TheAardvark posted:Just finished If It Bleeds. Well, gently caress. Good to know as I have If It Bleeds in my Audible queue and I havent read or watched The Outsider yet. I'll have to remedy that before I get into the former. Good looking out.
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# ? May 20, 2020 02:32 |
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Working my way through If It Bleeds. The first two stories were great. Holly is poopy.
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# ? May 20, 2020 23:36 |
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Just about to watch the Christopher Walken Dead Zone movie for the first time. It's pretty well regarded if I remember right?
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# ? May 21, 2020 01:57 |
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Okay I'm 2/3 of the way through and this sucks. They stripped all the heart from the book, and a lot of the fun too. Christopher Walken was a terrible choice even though I love Christopher Walken.
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# ? May 21, 2020 03:19 |
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I’m watching 11.22.63 for the first time and while I like Franco enough in the role, holy loving poo poo is this character the dumbest moron this side of Biff Tanner. I’m not even three episodes in and so far this guy’s done more damage than Homer Simpson in that Simpsons Halloween episode.
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# ? May 21, 2020 06:45 |
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ruddiger posted:I’m watching 11.22.63 for the first time and while I like Franco enough in the role, holy loving poo poo is this character the dumbest moron this side of Biff Tanner. I’m not even three episodes in and so far this guy’s done more damage than Homer Simpson in that Simpsons Halloween episode. To be fair that's accurate to the book.
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# ? May 21, 2020 14:18 |
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ruddiger posted:I’m watching 11.22.63 for the first time and while I like Franco enough in the role, holy loving poo poo is this character the dumbest moron this side of Biff Tanner. I’m not even three episodes in and so far this guy’s done more damage than Homer Simpson in that Simpsons Halloween episode. Yep, that's all I could think of watching it. The story itself kind of needs that inner monologue that the book has to explain what he's thinking of or to explain what's happening.
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# ? May 21, 2020 14:20 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Okay I'm 2/3 of the way through and this sucks. They stripped all the heart from the book, and a lot of the fun too. Christopher Walken was a terrible choice even though I love Christopher Walken. It’s been so long since I’ve seen that movie that I can’t recall much about it except that...yeah, it’s not great. The Dead Zone is a weird book. I can’t recall anyone talking about it in this thread even though it’s arguably one of King’s most successful properties. It had six seasons and a movie for Pete’s sake.
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# ? May 21, 2020 14:54 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I feel like trying to compare the book The Running Man and the movie The Running Man is... I mean, why? They have very little in common besides “someone is hunted on TV” and the title. In that case why not go with The Lawnmower Man? Which iirc was discussed for laughs on The Loser’s Club podcast. Just in terms of old memories probably in The Shining episode where everyone had to see the TV movie as well.
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# ? May 22, 2020 19:25 |
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I like Dead Zone a lot. Granted I saw the movie first and am a fan of Cronenberg, but I think it works while being mostly faithful to the book. From what I remember they made the character a little darker and more isolated after the accident whereas the book makes him more sympathetic and human which kind of clashes with where he goes at the end. I think Walken was a good choice for how they were doing the character.
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# ? May 22, 2020 22:27 |
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I'm reading Joe Hill. He is just small Stephen King. The stories are a bit more fantastical. I'm going in order. I finished 20th Century Ghosts and have started Heart Shaped Box. I've already read NOS4A2, Horns, and Full Throttle. I like him better than King at the moment.
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# ? May 24, 2020 13:14 |
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Untrustable posted:I'm reading Joe Hill. He is just small Stephen King. The stories are a bit more fantastical. I'm going in order. I finished 20th Century Ghosts and have started Heart Shaped Box. I've already read NOS4A2, Horns, and Full Throttle. I like him better than King at the moment. NOS4A2 is as good as King’s very best, I straight up could not put that poo poo down.
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# ? May 24, 2020 18:10 |
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Yikes, really? It's been day on my shelf for ages. I'll promote it to the top of the pile.
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# ? May 24, 2020 18:17 |
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Teach posted:Yikes, really? It's been day on my shelf for ages. I'll promote it to the top of the pile. I read it in two days. It has that thing it does where it kind of meanders (in a good way) in the beginning to set up the characters and then when poo poo hits the fan it just goes and has some really interesting stuff going on. Great villains, too, which is somewhere it succeeds and King usually doesn’t.
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# ? May 24, 2020 18:19 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:NOS4A2 is as good as King’s very best, I straight up could not put that poo poo down. its definitely way better than kings worst but i wouldnt put it anywhere close to his best. its similar in quality to tommyknockers or the talisman
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# ? May 24, 2020 19:37 |
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scary ghost dog posted:its definitely way better than kings worst but i wouldnt put it anywhere close to his best. its similar in quality to tommyknockersor the talisman Tommyknockers is easily one of his worst. The pacing alone of NOS4A2 shits all over Tommyknockers.
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# ? May 24, 2020 21:30 |
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Untrustable posted:I'm reading Joe Hill. He is just small Stephen King. The stories are a bit more fantastical. I'm going in order. I finished 20th Century Ghosts and have started Heart Shaped Box. I've already read NOS4A2, Horns, and Full Throttle. I like him better than King at the moment. I've yet to read any of his novels, but his comic Locke and Keye is great.
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# ? May 25, 2020 00:48 |
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The show NOS4A2 is a lot of fun too
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# ? May 25, 2020 00:50 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Tommyknockers is easily one of his worst. The pacing alone of NOS4A2 shits all over Tommyknockers. tommyknockers is way better than liseys story, bag of bones, dr sleep, roadwork, the list goes on
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# ? May 25, 2020 01:19 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:NOS4A2 is as good as King’s very best, I straight up could not put that poo poo down. It's good, but it's strictly in the middle-tier of King's writing. It doesn't stack up to the top-shelf King like Pet Sematary, The Dead Zone, Revival, or any of his short story collections. I'd put it squarely in the middle of the pack along with the Talisman, which it really reminded me of.
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# ? May 25, 2020 01:40 |
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scary ghost dog posted:tommyknockers is way better than liseys story, bag of bones, dr sleep, roadwork, the list goes on That's kind of a dumb list but: a) Lisey's Story was adorbs, my SO just loved quoting the icky squicky lines at me (I am somewhat piebald) b) Bag of Bones, that one was okay, it was a really boring movie with Pierce Brosnan but the book grabbed me with its spookiness c) Dr. Sleep, well that one grabbed me and made me never want to hook up with a single mother who has a cocaine and alcohol addiction that outweighs the value of her young child's life (many would agree) d) roadwork, that was not Dolan's Cadillac I contest that SK's Florida stories are currently best and most relevant, gently caress ME Duma Key, and that guy that got trapped in a porta potty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E0NeG0HpkE
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# ? May 25, 2020 02:34 |
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RCarr posted:You’ll know exactly when it takes a nosedive. I enjoyed the ending, but struggled with the middle of The Outsider. It just lost its narrative drive for me after one of the key events in the story.
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# ? May 25, 2020 02:53 |
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:That's kind of a dumb list but: duma key rules
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# ? May 25, 2020 05:35 |
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I really liked the second story in If It Bleeds. It's beautiful and sad. Definitely written by a human who knows he's got a lot less time in front of him than he does behind who has come to accept that fact. Not looking forward to story 3 and more Mercedesverse nonsense.
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# ? May 25, 2020 05:54 |
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I really liked the second story in If It Bleeds. It's beautiful and sad. Definitely written by a human who knows he's got a lot less time in front of him than he does behind who has come to accept that fact. My Pretty Pony
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# ? May 25, 2020 06:25 |
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scary ghost dog posted:duma key rules Duma Key was really good, my only complaint is that it laid on the foreshadowing incredibly thickly, even for Stephen King.
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# ? May 25, 2020 12:43 |
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re: Joe Hill, may be unpopular opinion around here but I loving love Horns. I'm a sucker for stories where completely inexplicable poo poo happens and is never explained. I mean, I appreciate "The Moving Finger" for gently caress sakes. Also "Pop Art" is the best short story I've read in 20 years.
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# ? May 25, 2020 16:24 |
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I'm going to make a website called "The Stephen King Plot Generator" and all it's going to have is a button that says "generate plot" and when you hit it it brings up the words "alcoholic writer has unfinished business" and that's all that it ever generates no matter how many times you hit the button.
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# ? May 26, 2020 12:11 |
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Man, 11.22.63 (the tv series) was a bit of a letdown. Oh well.
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# ? May 26, 2020 15:57 |
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ruddiger posted:Man, 11.22.63 (the tv series) was a bit of a letdown. It started strong but fell apart by the end for sure. The book meandered in the middle but I liked that, and it gave a sense of Jake being torn between his old life and his life in the past. The show just failed to pull that off and it hosed with the entire rest of it.
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# ? May 26, 2020 18:45 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:NOS4A2 is as good as King’s very best, I straight up could not put that poo poo down. I went and looked at the synopsis for this, it really sounds like a grab bag of his dad's favorite ideas and themes remixed but if the pacing is right I can see how it would be very engaging.
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