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the first third is still really good but so much if it just becomes a loving slog once they get to boulder
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I just reread that last month. I have poo poo taste in everything, but I still loved it. Still in my top three King. The Stand, Salem's Lot, and It. The virus stuff hits a little different post(ish)-covid.
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Apr 30, 2023 18:43
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My favorite part of the book are the little vignettes about the world going to poo poo and various people getting killed in random and ludicrous ways. "No great loss".
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Apr 30, 2023 19:44
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I have a little son now, so the bit about the kid getting lost and dying in a pit was kinda rough this time aroun for me. But, you're right, it's a neat sequence.
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Apr 30, 2023 20:22
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Narzack posted:I have a little son now, so the bit about the kid getting lost and dying in a pit was kinda rough this time aroun for me. But, you're right, it's a neat sequence. Yeah I don't have kids or anything but even I think that one was a little harsh lol
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Apr 30, 2023 21:14
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Baby, can you dig your man?
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May 1, 2023 19:54
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I like reading Steven King because he like just, makes up ways he thinks people talk and it's almost always incredibly painful. Good stuff imo
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May 1, 2023 20:08
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When he really picks up some steam in the Mother Abigail sections, yeeeeeesh
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May 1, 2023 21:14
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Boofy posted:the first third is still really good but so much if it just becomes a loving slog once they get to boulder Are you reading it again because you didn't understand, or because you keep understanding? Lol
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May 2, 2023 01:57
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I unironically love to sit and read 1400 pages of The Stand, even the parts that are boring. I love SK because nobody else can make me nostalgic for places I've never been and times i never knew but god drat does he write bad dialogue.
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May 2, 2023 02:12
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I like reading Steven King because he like just, makes up ways he thinks people talk and it's almost always incredibly painful. Good stuff imo i'm reading the dark tower series, and just finished Drawing of the Three. The way the Detta speaks is loving insane, King was really on one
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May 4, 2023 19:40
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haljordan posted:My favorite part of the book are the little vignettes about the world going to poo poo and various people getting killed in random and ludicrous ways. "No great loss". Absolutely the same for me. From the very beginning, I love the little ways the world starts to fall apart, people start getting sick in later numbers, people noticing things are not quite how they're supposed to be, and then the poo poo hitting the fan pretty much all at once and non-viral deaths ramping up too. Same with the movie Contagion, and also with all of the old-world connections and machinery of King's Dark Tower series. Something about using a decrepit, long-abandoned piece of hulking machinery, hearing the gears groan, it barely serving its purpose one last time, and then the protagonist moving on with the machine never to move again is my extremely niche literary fetish.
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May 4, 2023 20:48
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Stephen King is definitely the world's best worst author. The Stand is so loving crazy, M O O N that spells crazy. I read it in high school, the unabridged version, and that's something you're not gonna forget. For some reason the food scenes are what stick in my mind, like Tom wanting to eat Pringles or or Lauder forgetting the sugar in the Kool Aid.
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May 4, 2023 23:23
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MNIMWA posted:i'm reading the dark tower series, and just finished Drawing of the Three. The way the Detta speaks is loving insane, King was really on one At one point Eddie has to explain to Roland that the reason Roland can't understand half of what she's saying is because she doesn't talk like an actual person.
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May 5, 2023 00:36
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:I like reading Steven King because he like just, makes up ways he thinks people talk and it's almost always incredibly painful. Good stuff imo He has a specify style of rural eccentric that rings true for me as a fellow Mainer. My grandfather would genuinely say "ayuh" and had all these bizarre sayings and metaphors his problem is when he tries to extrapolate it to dialects of other areas. someone already posted about Odetta which is some crazy loving poo poo, but Eddie is just as insane, it's just not as shockingly racist but the way he writes kids... it's just a masterclass. It's like the only kids he knows are from 90s sitcoms and he bases all his characters on them, but with a 50/50 chance that they'll have some sort of Twilight Zone twist to them
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May 5, 2023 03:18
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My favorite line, which may or may not be in the book is: Don't gently caress with my disco, Nadine!
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May 5, 2023 05:19
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WarpDogs posted:He has a specify style of rural eccentric that rings true for me as a fellow Mainer. My grandfather would genuinely say "ayuh" and had all these bizarre sayings and metaphors Stephen King is to regional dialogue what a 1970s ad writer is to regional dialogue The Cohen brothers are to regional dialogue what any normal person would just pick up by asking around
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May 5, 2023 05:24
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I know everyone and anyone is supposed to have read it by now, if you go out into the city, sit on a bench and start reading it someone will say "Great book" but I've yet to have done so. Saw the mini in the 90's was it? Felt content by that. And yes, I know, a mini can never do the book justice.
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May 5, 2023 05:40
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b mad at me posted:My favorite line, which may or may not be in the book is: while this may be the best line in the book and telvision series lets keep in mind there is a pretty good story that follows
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May 5, 2023 06:05
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If you like the first third of The Stand, then Greg Bear's Blood Music is entertaining. It's a fun sci-fi book that's apocalyptic in both the modern and the literal Greek sense. It's a bit of a slog in that specific sci-fi way, in that the protagonist of a large stretch is an extremely gross nerd (but it seems mostly intentional on the author's part, to whatever degree that matters), and that the way the Bear writes the women is pretty atrocious, at best. If you can stomach that, there's some wild-rear end imagery that sticks with you. The gradual breakdown of physics, resulting in The Winter of Burning Snow is a helluva thing DrankSinatra fucked around with this message at 18:19 on May 5, 2023 |
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May 5, 2023 18:15
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The copy I had had a cover with like medieval dudes, one with a hosed up mask and sickle and about 2/3 of the way realized I was never going to actually see that.
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May 5, 2023 20:36
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bollig posted:The copy I had had a cover with like medieval dudes, one with a hosed up mask and sickle and about 2/3 of the way realized I was never going to actually see that. I think the guy in black is meant to be a mix of plague doctor, jester, and grim reaper. he's cool. other guy sucks, though
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May 5, 2023 21:45
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the part where they're leaving new york going through the tunnel was so drat scary. pretty good book, he knows how to ratchet up the tension! the end is silly but i do respect king for actually trying to wrap things up in his books
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Did you get to the part where covid happened and Trump wanted everyone to come to Las Vegas yet 
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