Chupe Raho Aurat posted:You really really really need to avoid Richard Laymon books. Oh man Richard loving Laymon. I remember when I was about 13 getting a bunch of books from the closure of a small-town library, and about 75% of them were Richard Laymon "classics". Books so bad even a horny teenager was unwilling to trudge through them for the sex scenes. I read the one about the earthquake that inexplicably turns people into psychos and the one about the island where the "hero" ends up keeping sex slaves and then it was straight into a charity shop for the rest. juliuspringle posted:The Bachman Books is the one Stephen King book I will never get rid of for that very reason. What was the Running Man future crime? Probably the whole "Person angry at US government flies a plane into a very tall building" thing. Disgusting Coward fucked around with this message at 13:27 on Apr 26, 2014 |
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juliuspringle posted:The Bachman Books is the one Stephen King book I will never get rid of for that very reason. What was the Running Man future crime? 9/11. Ben Richards takes out the main villain in the end by crashing a jet liner into a skyscraper
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Disgusting Coward posted:Oh man Richard loving Laymon. I remember when I was about 13 getting a bunch of books from the closure of a small-town library, and about 75% of them were Richard Laymon "classics". Books so bad even a horny teenager was unwilling to trudge through them for the sex scenes. I read the one about the earthquake that inexplicably turns people into psychos and the one about the island where the "hero" ends up keeping sex slaves and then it was straight into a charity shop for the rest. Believe it or not you missed the bad ones.
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ConfusedUs posted:To be fair, Cell is one of the worst offenders in that regard, if not theworst. Someone described it in here as "a book where every chapter is weaker than the one before it", and it's really the most spot-on thing that could be said about the book. If it ended at the football field bomb on the sleeping zombies it would have been a thousand times better.
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Chupe Raho Aurat posted:Believe it or not you missed the bad ones. I read "The Cellar" a little while back, and it was the first book that has ever left me feeling a little dirty. Which can be expected since it is a book about a mother and daughter hiding from her rapist/child molester husband in a town with a bunch of feral rape monsters.
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Firefly by Piers Anthony. In terms of Stephen King though, is there any talk of a sequel to Firestarter? edit: Apparently Richard Laymon wrote sequels to The Cellar.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Someone described it in here as "a book where every chapter is weaker than the one before it", and it's really the most spot-on thing that could be said about the book. If it ended at the football field bomb on the sleeping zombies it would have been a thousand times better. Absolutely. The whole "hey guys, killing 3 flocks put us in a situation that is so grim that we are driving to our deaths, but what if we killed a fourth flock?" is awkward as hell. Not to mention the computer analogies.
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Roydrowsy posted:I read "The Cellar" a little while back, and it was the first book that has ever left me feeling a little dirty. Which can be expected since it is a book about a mother and daughter hiding from her rapist/child molester husband in a town with a bunch of feral rape monsters. The entertaining part of this description is that this is the least worst part.. Don't forget the ending where the female leads get captured and are now (apparently willing) sex toys for a race of mutants, including the creepily young girl whose new number one desire is to get pregnant to her rapist.
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Chupe Raho Aurat posted:The entertaining part of this description is that this is the least worst part.. but I so dearly WANT to forget that ending.
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Oh man, I didn't finish Cell. Once it kicked in with the supernatural stuff I closed the book and never opened it again. Just finished Under the Dome though, and typical King the ending just dragged and dragged and dragged. It really irks me when everything is just ALIEMS! OTHER DIMENSION! I realize it's his gig, but it's so cheap sometimes. Even his use of language, how he writes kids dialogue so poorly as mentioned in my last post and crappy expletives. All complaints aside I do enjoy the books, ayuh. Also heard the Dome television show sucked hard. 54 40 or fuck fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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syscall girl posted:Not saying this is a bad idea, per se, but it seems like lazy typecasting in that everyone wants him as their favorite villain. I'm gonna make an unusual call here and say Temuera Morrison could make a great Flagg. Anyone who's seen Once Were Warriors knows how well he plays an unhinged monster, if he just stepped up the gleefulness a bit I reckon he'd be spot on. If you haven't seen Once Were Warriors, you really should. Great depiction of a hosed up family with an abusive father (hmmm, that sounds like something an author that is well-regarded around here would write...)
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Two Finger posted:I'm gonna make an unusual call here and say Temuera Morrison could make a great Flagg. Anyone who's seen Once Were Warriors knows how well he plays an unhinged monster, if he just stepped up the gleefulness a bit I reckon he'd be spot on. Seems like it would be a good contrast to John Coffey, Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, Dick Halloran and all the other dusky skinned magic men in King's books and adaptions.  Seriously though, I will watch Once Were Warriors, one day. It's weird that it's 20 years old and the Maori tatted dude always grabbed my eye at the video rental store but I never once checked it out.
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syscall girl posted:Seems like it would be a good contrast to John Coffey, Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding, Dick Halloran and all the other dusky skinned magic men in King's books and adaptions. Advance warning: It's dark as gently caress. Like, seriously, incredibly utterly depressing for how brutal and raw it is. It's a good story, and I definitely do not regret watching it, but just be prepared, you're not gonna be a happy camper.
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And get gigantic 2L bottles of beer.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:And get gigantic 2L bottles of beer. Those are just regular swappa bottles, I think they're only 600ml. Still all kinds of classy when the wife comes home and pops one open with a spatula though, that's NZ to a T.
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I just finished NOS4A2 and loved it. Anyone know what pages of this thread that discussion happened on?
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I just read 'Salem's Lot for the first time as step one to reading through the Dark Tower reading list... I really enjoyed it! Such a good, tense, slow-burn build-up. And I'm kind of looking forward to watching the two TV miniseries adaptations at some point, even though they don't have the best reviews. (How can I turn down watching Rob Lowe as Ben and Andre Braugher as Matt, though? And Rutger Hauer as Barlow!) On to The Stand and its 1300+ pages now! thexerox123 fucked around with this message at 04:18 on May 2, 2014 |
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Hay guy! It's your unofficial It historian and Maine resident, ready to share with you another key component of the novel that was an actual part of Maine history! It is apropos because of the following news article from today: http://bangordailynews.com/2014/05/01/news/bangor/col-walter-r-walsh-expert-marksman-who-shot-al-brady-in-bangor-dies-at-age-106/ You will note that the story of how the "Brady Gang" was shot down in Bangor (the name was changed to "Bradley Gang" in the novel) is in the article. The event obviously did not go down quite as described in the book, where it sounded much more like a communal event of town carnage that was hushed up rather than an FBI operation that got out hand. But still, sounds like a damned bloody scene just the way it happened in real life. Anyway. I don't know why but the more real events I find that It was based on, the scarier it gets.
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Two Finger posted:Those are just regular swappa bottles, I think they're only 600ml. 750ml bottles of Lion Red I believe, though it's been a while since I've watched it. Lion Red is vile.
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kaworu posted:Hay guy! It's your unofficial It historian and Maine resident, ready to share with you another key component of the novel that was an actual part of Maine history! It is apropos because of the following news article from today: I had no idea that was based on anything real. Thanks for sharing this!
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There's a trailer for Mr. Mercedes up on SK's page, with another site and login mentioned at the end. I tried logging in but nothing happened. Has anyone else tried? http://stephenking.com/promo/mr_mercedes/
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kaworu posted:Hay guy! It's your unofficial It historian and Maine resident, ready to share with you another key component of the novel that was an actual part of Maine history! It is apropos because of the following news article from today: Man, I really need to get around to reading It. If I enjoy it even half as much as I did The Stand, it should be well worth it. I need to get around to rereading The Stand also, now that I think about it. Last time I read it was over 10 years ago but it's stuck with me the whole time. Such a great novel. It's always hard for me to justify rereading books though, since there are so many out there I want to read (and so many unread books I already own, hell, unread Stephen King books I own alone). I think the only books I've ever reread were 1984, the Hitchhiker's guide, the first 4 Dark Tower novels, and the first 3 ASOIAF books. Damo fucked around with this message at 11:48 on May 3, 2014 |
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I finished 'the Troop' last night and would recommend it to anyone with a hankering for some classic King-esque style gory fun. It genuinely creeped me out in several spots without resorting to blatant gorehound style pandering.
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kaworu posted:Hay guy! It's your unofficial It historian and Maine resident, ready to share with you another key component of the novel that was an actual part of Maine history! It is apropos because of the following news article from today: Hi there Main-uh. I was actually in Bangor last year and I was struck by how similar the place is to how Derry is described, including such features as a standpipe and so on. Is this something you have noticed? Has King ever said anything about it?
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Two Finger posted:Hi there Main-uh. I was actually in Bangor last year and I was struck by how similar the place is to how Derry is described, including such features as a standpipe and so on. Is this something you have noticed? Has King ever said anything about it? Yes, in the introduction to the story Fair Extension in the book Full Dark, No Stars, King says Derry is Bangor masquerading under another name. He uses those exact words.
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Certainly explains why I had such an unsettling feeling of knowing the place, despite having never been there before.
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Richard Laymen is pretty bad but The Traveling Vampire Show is an amazing book, easily his best. I'd reccomend it to any It fans, it kind of has the same prepubescent angst and horror vibe.
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iostream.h posted:I finished 'the Troop' last night and would recommend it to anyone with a hankering for some classic King-esque style gory fun. I am right in the middle of 'The Troop', and I just found out yesterday that Nick Cutter is really Craig Davidson. While not horror (I guess all his horror stuff will come out under Cutter with The Deep being his next book) his short story collection 'Rust & Bone' is pretty awesome.
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kaworu posted:Hay guy! It's your unofficial It historian and Maine resident, ready to share with you another key component of the novel that was an actual part of Maine history! It is apropos because of the following news article from today: Right next to it: Things to consider before going to a Bangor area abortion clinic 
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Remember, you are NEVER alone. Has season 2 of Under the Dome been out yet?
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juliuspringle posted:Remember, you are NEVER alone. Has season 2 of Under the Dome been out yet? It starts June 30.
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Reading nightmares and dreamscapes and it is much more uneven than the previous 2 short story antologies. I enjoyed suffer the little children, popsy and a few others, but some of them are pretty dull, and dedication is... well... strange, but not in a good way.
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Just saw The Troop by Nick Cutter, the book that's been mentioned a few times the last few pages, is available on Kindle for only $4. I just bought it. I'll read it soon.
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Franchescanado posted:Just saw The Troop by Nick Cutter, the book that's been mentioned a few times the last few pages, is available on Kindle for only $4. I just finished this a few days ago thanks to this thread and it was disgusting but a good read.
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The first page of this thread made me think that Cell - the only Stephen King book I've ever read - might not have been the best example of his work. I was surprised. I thought it was okay except for the non-ending and a few parts that dragged. It at least got an emotional reaction out of me at the random death of one character. That said, I have recently started The Gunslinger and I have had about 40 pages of not knowing what the hell is going on at any point. It's somewhat irksome.
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VagueRant posted:The first page of this thread made me think that Cell - the only Stephen King book I've ever read - might not have been the best example of his work. I was surprised. I thought it was okay except for the non-ending and a few parts that dragged. It at least got an emotional reaction out of me at the random death of one character. It tells everything you really need to know in the very first sentence.
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VagueRant posted:The first page of this thread made me think that Cell - the only Stephen King book I've ever read - might not have been the best example of his work. I was surprised. I thought it was okay except for the non-ending and a few parts that dragged. It at least got an emotional reaction out of me at the random death of one character. Cell is like most of his work but worse. You might like The Long Walk, The Stand, and The Mist if you enjoyed Cell.
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