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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was pretty horrible. The fact that it was later made into a children's book doesn't help much, either. I loved Dreamcatcher, though. But, as in most cases, book>movie. Except for the stuff they did between Jonesy and the alien. That was pretty well done.
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Feb 5, 2010 01:29
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Something I was thinking about the other day: apart from his sci-fi and fantasy stuff that's not set in the real world at all, has King ever written so much as a single scene set outside the United States?
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Feb 6, 2010 16:25
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freebooter posted:Something I was thinking about the other day: apart from his sci-fi and fantasy stuff that's not set in the real world at all, has King ever written so much as a single scene set outside the United States? In It, Bill and Audra lived in London (I think - somewhere British, in any event), so the two scenes where they pack up and head to Derry are outside of the U.S.
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Feb 6, 2010 16:27
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Crouch End was set in London too, I believe.
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Feb 6, 2010 18:38
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Yeah, King wrote a couple of stories set in the UK while he lived there, including Crouch End.
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Feb 6, 2010 21:11
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freebooter posted:Something I was thinking about the other day: apart from his sci-fi and fantasy stuff that's not set in the real world at all, has King ever written so much as a single scene set outside the United States? It's not so much the United States as it is Maine. I think I enjoy the fact that he writes about a region he knows well, though. That's why he can put all sorts of interesting mannerisms on characters. There's a lot of authors who write about locations around the globe and everything comes out sounding like a loving tourist guide, complete with cheesy over-the-top dialects. You can't really understand a location well unless you really live there, or have a very good eye for detail and a shitload of patience.
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Feb 6, 2010 21:29
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King focusing on Maine is also I think an homage to Lovecraft and the detailed fictional Massachusetts topography he came up with.
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Feb 6, 2010 23:50
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Chairman Capone posted:King focusing on Maine is also I think an homage to Lovecraft and the detailed fictional Massachusetts topography he came up with. Uh, it's probably that he's from Maine and lived in Maine for most of his life. How's that a reference to Lovecraft?
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Feb 7, 2010 01:58
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King has explicitly stated, among other places in On Writing, that he got the idea to have a self-consistent set of fictional Maine towns from Lovecraft. It's not why he writes primarily in Maine though.
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Feb 7, 2010 02:44
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Finally finished Pet Semetary last night and boy am i glad i stuck with it. As someone else mentioned, those last 100 pages are some of the most intense and satisfying horror i've probably read. It's just a shame that the preceding 300 pages are some of the least engaging i've read from King. But hey, like i said, it was worth it. Goddamn.
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Feb 9, 2010 11:14
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Partyworm posted:Finally finished Pet Semetary last night and boy am i glad i stuck with it. As someone else mentioned, those last 100 pages are some of the most intense and satisfying horror i've probably read. It's just a shame that the preceding 300 pages are some of the least engaging i've read from King. But hey, like i said, it was worth it. I just finished the book a few weeks ago and seeing the movie before kind of ruined it. As I was reading the last 100 pages I already knew what was going to happen.
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Feb 14, 2010 18:04
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Some King news. His next release is going to be a unpublished novella collection  quote:The moderator of the author's official site just posted on its message boards: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=14167 And if you didn't know, his son, Joe Hill released a new novel yesterday. Horns http://www.amazon.com/Horns-Novel-Joe-Hill/dp/0061147958
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Feb 17, 2010 22:41
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Horns sounds completely retarded.
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Feb 18, 2010 10:11
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northerain posted:Horns sounds completely retarded.
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Feb 18, 2010 12:02
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Synopsis for people too lazy to click links:Joe Hill posted:Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. Why do book synopses always need some terrible pun right at the end?
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Feb 18, 2010 20:46
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quote:Ignatius Perrish spent the night drunk and doing terrible things. He woke up the next morning with a thunderous hangover, a raging headache . . . and a pair of horns growing from his temples. Sounds like some lovely fanfiction or something.
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Feb 18, 2010 21:17
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To be fair, the synopsis for Heart-Shaped Box wasn't much better.quote:Ageing rock star Judas Coyne spends his retirement collecting morbid memorabillia, such as a witch's confession, a real snuff film, and, after being sent an e-mail directly about an item online, a dead man's suit. He is told, by the daughter, that the old man's spirit is attached to this funeral suit, and will go wherever it does, and so buying this suit would effectively be buying a poltergeist. Judas cannot pass up this opportunity, and soon the suit arrives in a heart shaped box. After various odd occurances happening to not only himself, but also his 'girlfriend', nicknamed 'Georgia', at the time, his assistant, Danny, and even his dogs, he realises that he did not choose this suit - it chose him, and it belonged to the father, Craddock McDermott, of a suicidal groupie, nicknamed 'Florida', Judas cast aside years ago. The father's dying wish was to be allowed to seek revenge on this rock star who caused his little girl to die. Judas now has to come up with a plan to save himself, and those around him, before Craddock has his posthumous revenge.
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Sporadic posted:To be fair, the synopsis for Heart-Shaped Box wasn't much better. And trying to describe some of the short stories in 20th Century Ghosts makes you feel a little silly too "There's this little boy who's inflatable..." or "There's this kid who turns into a giant mutant cockroach...". But the stories themselves were excellent.
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Irisi posted:And trying to describe some of the short stories in 20th Century Ghosts makes you feel a little silly too "There's this little boy who's inflatable..." or "There's this kid who turns into a giant mutant cockroach...". But the stories themselves were excellent. Personally, I thought he didn't really do anything with the ideas in the stories. This guy collects last breaths in a museum. A family visits, lady gets freaked out, runs away, gets hit by car. Man collects last breath. The end.
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Feb 19, 2010 22:34
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Irisi posted:And trying to describe some of the short stories in 20th Century Ghosts makes you feel a little silly too "There's this little boy who's inflatable..." or "There's this kid who turns into a giant mutant cockroach...". But the stories themselves were excellent. Or from Skeleton Crew, the story The Raft - an EVIL OIL SLICK!! Which turned out to be pretty loving freakish nightmare fuel.
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Feb 22, 2010 06:53
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Goreld posted:Or from Skeleton Crew, the story The Raft - an EVIL OIL SLICK!! The Moving Finger is a story about a finger that moves. I hope this isn't a spoiler for anyone. What was the scary monster in Dedication? I mean, the magical retard of the story was obviously the stained sheets themselves.
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Thought I'd put on my cool kid glasses and show off my Stephen King related tattoo. It connects two of my favorite books from him, kudos if you know what it means. edit: er, oops, I just noticed the picture is mirrored. So imagine it the right way instead of the wrong way. Troposphere fucked around with this message at 00:55 on Mar 11, 2010 |
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Mar 11, 2010 00:46
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Troposphere posted:Thought I'd put on my cool kid glasses and show off my Stephen King related tattoo. It connects two of my favorite books from him, kudos if you know what it means. Kamikaze?
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Mar 11, 2010 07:52
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cheerfullydrab posted:Kamikaze? har har.
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Mar 11, 2010 14:24
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Nice. It also looks a bit like a ballerina pirouetting while holding a bird in one outstretched hand.
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Troposphere posted:har har. Well I hope you at least got the reference.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Well I hope you at least got the reference. I didnt get it.
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Mar 12, 2010 00:41
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The symbol is in It and Under the Dome, which kind of ties the two together which is cool. That's a page from It, near the end. It's kind of very nerdy. But Stephen King really influenced me and It is one of my favorite book so I thought it'd be a nice subtle tribute. Of course everyone thinks it's kanji but I can live with that I guess haha.
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I didnt get the kamikaze joke
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northerain posted:Personally, I thought he didn't really do anything with the ideas in the stories. You deliberately left out the best part of that story. "Not everyone likes what they hear with that one" and the preceding story of how it was obtained was incredibly freaky, I thought.
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Hedrigall posted:I didnt get the kamikaze joke Insomnia
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Mar 12, 2010 18:12
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Love the tat, count me as one catching the reference.
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Would anyone else have enjoyed a Stephen King-involved anthology series of the Twilight Zone/Tales From the Dark Side/Tales From the Crypt/Outer Limits type which uses that freaky extra dimensional tale-telling club that appeared in only one of his stories as a framing device? Because I sure as heck would.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Would anyone else have enjoyed a Stephen King-involved anthology series of the Twilight Zone/Tales From the Dark Side/Tales From the Crypt/Outer Limits type which uses that freaky extra dimensional tale-telling club that appeared in only one of his stories as a framing device? Because I sure as heck would. That club did show up a second time! I forget where the second time was, it might have been in Just After Sunset.
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fishmech posted:That club did show up a second time! I forget where the second time was, it might have been in Just After Sunset. Hmm, I don't remember reading another story about them. I'm about to start Lisey's Story, the only King book I have never read. Without spoiling it for me is there anything I should know about it before I start? Isn't it supposed to be terrible?
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The tale-telling club showed up in Different Seasons for "The Breathing Method" and in Skeleton Crew for "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands". And I agree, I always wanted to see the club show up again in another story or novel, but it never did. (Although fishmech might be right, it might have been in Just After Sunset -- I haven't read that yet.)
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H.P. Shivcraft posted:The tale-telling club showed up in Different Seasons for "The Breathing Method" and in Skeleton Crew for "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands". And I agree, I always wanted to see the club show up again in another story or novel, but it never did. (Although fishmech might be right, it might have been in Just After Sunset -- I haven't read that yet.) I remembered it from "The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands" but not that it was used in "The Breathing Method". Poor "Method", the only story from that book that hasn't been made into a movie.
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cheerfullydrab posted:Isn't it supposed to be terrible? It sucked so bad I STILL haven't been able to bring myself to read Duma Key.
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iostream.h posted:It loving sucks. Worse than Cell. Worse than anything. Ah, crud. I hated, hated, hated Cell. I haven't heard anything about Lisey's Story except what I've read from the back of the copy I just bought and vague things in this thread and elsewhere about how bad it is. I've tried to ignore people talking about it up till now.
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