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OctaviusBeaver posted:What does Loofah mean?
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Sep 18, 2011 22:33
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Quad posted:Sometime after Tommyknockers ('87?) his family did an intervention that led to him eventually quitting pretty much everything. I think Blood and Smoke, him reading 3 short stories that dealt with smoking as audiobooks, was him quitting smoking, too? Not technically a novel, but there's the bit in "The Raft" where the guy and gal, having just watched her boyfriend and the girl he liked get devoured by a sentient oil slick, end up loving (which of course also eventually leads to their own deaths). On the one hand, it's kind of understandable; after all, they're both cold and huddling together to keep warm. And most guys have probably daydreamed about what would happen if they were stranded somewhere with a good-looking woman. On the other hand, you'd think that watching two people get devoured in a particularly gruesome way -- and only a few feet from you, at that -- would be quite the bucket of ice water on the ol' libido there.
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Sep 19, 2011 02:28
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I read Needful Things when I was probably too young and remember a scene where Polly Chalmers and Alan Pangborn screw and there was a whole lot of description of her getting fingered. I could be misremembering it, though.
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Sep 19, 2011 03:20
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Dude masturbating in his wife's clothes and cumming into a garbage disposal in Firestarter.
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Sep 19, 2011 04:48
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Not a sex scene, but from the first ~50 pages of The Stand I read, I remember one of the characters opening the fridge, looking at a plate of sausages and commenting that it looked like the dicks of pygmy people, as though someone cut off their dick and put it on a plate. Still don't get what the point of that way =/
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Sep 19, 2011 05:10
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Have we forgotten Bobbi grabbing her sister with her (Bpbbis) newly grown vaginal tentacles? Or am I misremembering that part? If I am and Bobbis sister didn't get eaten by the newly grown henticles swinging from Bobbis twat then someone point me toward the nearest doctor because I could have sworn that happened.
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Sep 19, 2011 07:13
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I have read ALOT of Stephen King's books and I don't remember ANY of these (except for the one in IT). I'm starting to think my brain just blocks out those parts so I can attempt to enjoy the rest of the book.
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Sep 19, 2011 09:29
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Local Group Bus posted:Have we forgotten Bobbi grabbing her sister with her (Bpbbis) newly grown vaginal tentacles? Or am I misremembering that part? If I am and Bobbis sister didn't get eaten by the newly grown henticles swinging from Bobbis twat then someone point me toward the nearest doctor because I could have sworn that happened. She wasn't eaten, but was grabbed, yes, and then presumably subdued and hung up in the 'organic storage-battery' shower-type place. It was pretty sick.
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Sep 19, 2011 10:20
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A minor one, but the short story "My Pretty Pony". A sweet little tale about an old man giving advice to his grandson and the realisation that time is creeping up on you. Has a throwaway line that the kid's sister strokes his dick, for no apparent reason. Always stuck out at me, for precisely how incongruous it was.
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Sep 19, 2011 11:07
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QuentinCompson posted:She wasn't eaten, but was grabbed, yes, and then presumably subdued and hung up in the 'organic storage-battery' shower-type place. What always bothered me about this is literally right before that happened, the protagonist (I can't remember his name) had sex with her. Did he not notice that poo poo?
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Sep 19, 2011 13:55
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Dreamcatcher had that weird tangent about the army guy who got a boner breaking his neighbor's plates and how he wanted to piss on their toothbrushes but his "dingus" was too hard 
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Sep 19, 2011 13:55
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I'm a few chapters from the end of Duma Key and the book just totally sucks, muchachos. I'm not sure what King was thinking but the whole haunted psychic painting stuff doesn't go anywhere. It just drags on and on and people get killed and it's real boring. Even his characterizations seem forced.
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Sep 19, 2011 13:58
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I actually like Duma Key and I've hated his post-accident stuff, for the most part. I think that the prose/pacing just worked really well for me.
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Sep 19, 2011 15:32
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L-O-N posted:The time structure of It was one of the reasons I liked it so much in the first place. The back and forth seeing what led to certain actions and finding where It really was made it exciting. If the book had a straight timeline like the movie version, it wouldn't have been nearly as interesting. Same here. The climax (and much of the rest of the book) being a parallel back and forth actually kept it more interesting to me, and was one of the main reasons I liked it. It also helped with keeping IT's nature somewhat hidden until the end, which helped to keep the stakes right where they should be at all times. Because of the parallel timeline, the book kept ramping up towards its finale with the danger jumping more and more as the book went on.
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Sep 19, 2011 15:34
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Stephen King sex scene discussion thread. Is the sex in his books really a big deal I was digging today and found a thing. Stephen King said about the IT gangbang quote:I wasn't really thinking of the sexual aspect of it. The book dealt with childhood and adulthood --1958 and Grown Ups. The grown ups don't remember their childhood. None of us remember what we did as children--we think we do, but we don't remember it as it really happened. Intuitively, the Losers knew they had to be together again. The sexual act connected childhood and adulthood. It's another version of the glass tunnel that connects the children's library and the adult library. Times have changed since I wrote that scene and there is now more sensitivity to those issues. juliuspringle posted:Well this is the WORST Stephen King novel thread not the BEST Stephen King novel. Is there any sort of list out there that lays out what he wrote while trippin balls or whatever and what he wrote when he wasn't? Because I'm wondering if he wrote anything good that wasn't done while high. This is a terrible post. Do people literally just post in this thread as the worst Stephen King novel thread as I think it pretty much functions as general Stephen King discussion ZoDiAC_ fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Sep 19, 2011 |
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Sep 19, 2011 20:44
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So, after being an avid Stephen King fan for nearly two decades now, I think I've actually pinpointed my most irritating King-ism. No, it's not a disturbing fixation on penises (often those of little boys). No, it's not, "But little did he know that would be the last time he did (GENERIC TASK) alive!!!" It's not even his insistence on, "(UNRELATED BOOK TOPIC) HeyGuysthere'stotallyaTOWERouttheredidyouknowIwrotebooksaboutaTOWERthathasnothingtodowiththisnovelIjustthoughtI'dmentionthisTOWERthingagain (UNRELATED BOOK TOPIC)." No, for whatever reason, nothing infuriates me as much as this: "That was when Sally Soandso decided to pour herself a Winnebago Martini. She does this by filling her martini glass to the three-quarters point with high priced gin and formally saluting the unopened bottle of vermouth for good luck while crossing her eyes and hopping on one foot." I swear to God, I've seen variations on this in at least three novels now and it's starting to fill me with disproportionate rage. NOBODY loving DOES THIS AND IT DOESN'T MAKE YOU WITTY AND CLEVER FOR WRITING SOMETHING LIKE THIS!
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Sep 20, 2011 18:14
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Most of the time I get really bothered by his use of private slang and heavily repeated in-joke type phrases. I know that they kind of represent the author's personal style and inclinations, and that King fans eat them up, but drat. *edit* Disclaimer - I guess I'm a Stephen King fan too, and think he's a great writer.  But that doesn't mean I can't complain about him for hours.
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Sep 20, 2011 18:48
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Locus posted:Most of the time I get really bothered by his use of private slang and heavily repeated in-joke type phrases. I know that they kind of represent the author's personal style and inclinations, and that King fans eat them up, but drat. Ayuh, I know what you mean.
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Sep 20, 2011 19:49
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Since this is now the general King thread, I just wanted to point out Tee Fury has a shirt based on The Stand today.
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Sep 20, 2011 20:06
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Locus posted:Most of the time I get really bothered by his use of private slang and heavily repeated in-joke type phrases. I know that they kind of represent the author's personal style and inclinations, and that King fans eat them up, but drat. Sounds like you should poo poo in a boot and eat it. Yeah, goddamn does that drive me crazy when he does that. Actually I think I pretty much said the same thing, a good 20 or so pages back. None of the phrases are even good =/
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Sep 20, 2011 20:35
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Yeah his slang has come up in this thread often. I've often bitched about him reusing the same phrases too. Oy sure looks at everything mistrustfully
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Sep 20, 2011 22:14
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His forced references to pop icons, movies, or actors is kind of annoying to. In that short story about the woman that gets raped by the truck driver he keeps mentioning that crappy revenge movie released a few years ago with Jodie Foster in it. I get the impression he only mentions these people because they are probably his friends in real life and he just wants to give them a random shout out in his book.
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Sep 20, 2011 23:12
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I've mentioned this before, but in IT when the Losers say "Beep-beep Richie" to calm him down when he's being too much of a wiseass -- how did they come up with it? Is it some reference Boomers will instantly get? It always bothered me and I can't imagine a character coming out with it in a natural way.
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Sep 21, 2011 02:16
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Drimble Wedge posted:I've mentioned this before, but in IT when the Losers say "Beep-beep Richie" to calm him down when he's being too much of a wiseass -- how did they come up with it? Is it some reference Boomers will instantly get? It always bothered me and I can't imagine a character coming out with it in a natural way. They explain it in the beginning. It is an inside joke with that group but they talk about it in the book.
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Sep 21, 2011 04:27
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I don't remember an explanation for it. What was it? Also, I think what bothers me about those inside jokes, is that even when they're not totally lame-sounding, they get repeated more than would ever be realistic. In real life, most people get sick of that sort of thing pretty fast.
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Sep 21, 2011 04:46
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Having finally started a serious run at Under the Dome I was liking it until that "skateboard" kid showed up. Yet another instance of King not knowing how people younger than him talk and act anymore.
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Sep 21, 2011 08:41
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Drimble Wedge posted:I've mentioned this before, but in IT when the Losers say "Beep-beep Richie" to calm him down when he's being too much of a wiseass -- how did they come up with it? Is it some reference Boomers will instantly get? It always bothered me and I can't imagine a character coming out with it in a natural way. It's a reference to television, when something is bleeped out.
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Sep 21, 2011 10:00
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juliuspringle posted:I have read ALOT of Stephen King's books and I don't remember ANY of these (except for the one in IT). I'm starting to think my brain just blocks out those parts so I can attempt to enjoy the rest of the book. Same here for the most part, though I read most of them 20-25 years ago when I was pre-sexual so I probably didn't appreciate how screwed up it all was. The scene in IT didn't even make an impression. Only things that really stood out were the tentacles in Tommyknockers, the frequent allusions to pedophilia in The Talisman, and IT's syphilitic hobo "Come back here kid, I'll blow you for free." Funny thing is, I thought at first that these kinds of things happen frequently. Then I went through most of my life thinking it was mostly made up. Unfortunately, now I know that King's sex stuff isn't uncommon enough...
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Sep 21, 2011 14:13
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Locus posted:I don't remember an explanation for it. What was it? I didn't mind the phrases in IT, so much as his newer books. For instance, his new Kindle short story has the kids talking in slang that I'm not sure any kid would use in any era, like a weird mix of 60s and 80s slang - I actually thought the books was supposed to be set in the 60's at first and he was forgetting some words weren't in use yet. Also, yeah, he tends to date his modern stuff more than his earlier stuff - he seems to be so enamored with certain bits of new technology that he includes them in his books immediately, by brand name, which dates certain things that don't really need to be dated.
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Sep 21, 2011 14:27
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I just remember one of the kids in Under the Dome saying radical or some other outdated slang. I rolled my eyes because its 2011 and come on Stephen. RADICALS ARE FOR MATH!!
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Sep 22, 2011 04:54
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JammyLammy posted:Sounds like you should poo poo in a boot and eat it. "CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT, BUT SATISFACTION BROUGHT HIM BACK."  (Yeah, I know it's a real quote. But it's also never actually been said by a normal human being in coversation, ever.)
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Sep 22, 2011 14:47
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I realized while browsing this thread the other day that I've never actually read Bag of Bones, so I got it on my Kindle and have been reading through it... And God, I'm only like 35% in (Noonan's just gone back to Sara) and if I have to read one more time the guy talking about hallucinating because writers train their minds to misbehave, I think I might just delete the drat thing. To me, that's the worst part of King's writing - it's not that he comes up with goofy responses for his characters to normal world things, but that once he finds something he thinks is clever or whatever, he runs that poo poo right into the ground.
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Sep 23, 2011 05:10
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That drat Satyr posted:To me, that's the worst part of King's writing - it's not that he comes up with goofy responses for his characters to normal world things, but that once he finds something he thinks is clever or whatever, he runs that poo poo right into the ground.
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Sep 23, 2011 05:26
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Just finished reading The Long Walk in one evening on saturday following the suggestions in this thread. Pretty good book. Ending is a bit of a downer. King really has a knack for writting about people getting shot dead.
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Sep 26, 2011 20:09
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"And that was the last time he spoke to #63.." I'd re-read Long Walk if King foreshadowed every death in it (Which he did but you know what I mean) Goddamn Gramma is a wonderful short story. Good length and build-up and the payoff is wonderful. I wish he could write them like this still.
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Sep 27, 2011 05:12
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This just in: "The Colorado Kid" may be the worst King book I've ever read. It literally, by it's very nature and definition, goes absolutely nowhere. I knew this going into it, so I have no one to blame for reading it but me.
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Sep 27, 2011 21:42
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OK Octopus posted:This just in: "The Colorado Kid" may be the worst King book I've ever read. It literally, by it's very nature and definition, goes absolutely nowhere. I knew this going into it, so I have no one to blame for reading it but me. But it gave us the show 'Haven' so there IS at least one redeeming factor.
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Sep 28, 2011 00:29
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So apparently King IS writing a sequel to The Shining. Called Dr Sleep it follows a 40 year old Danny as he works as an attendant at a hospice using his powers to help people transition into death. Also there will be vampires. Pirate vampires.
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muscles like this? posted:So apparently King IS writing a sequel to The Shining. Called Dr Sleep it follows a 40 year old Danny as he works as an attendant at a hospice using his powers to help people transition into death. Also there will be vampires. Pirate vampires. 
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