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walnuts
Feb 17, 2007
HEY.... Take the money.

ConfusedUs posted:

Duma Key is rad. You're missing out.

I am about halfway through this after giving King another chance based on a one-line recommendation by someone in a thread in TBB, and I honestly don't know if I can keep going with it. It is really boring the hell out of me. I will pick it up, read a few lines and just feel completely put-off.

This is just my opinion, I think he has had some pretty fantastic ideas but I just can't stand his characters - I just don't find the majority of them believable in the slightest. (I'm speaking a lot about his movies as well).

I'm really glad that somebody mentioned 'Magical Retards' as well as that has been something that has annoyed me a lot in his books and movies.

Edit: also I refuse to believe Stephen King wrote The Green Mile or Shawshank Redemption.

In fact I imagine he was having a family gathering and some distant nephew was there showing him a couple of his works to see if Uncle Steve could offer him any advice. Stephen said sure he would take them away to have a look, and bam he put his own name all over them.

Also the nephew was never heard of again.

walnuts fucked around with this message at 09:59 on May 11, 2009

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