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Babe Magnet posted:Forrest Gump is my favorite Stephen King book Under the arc-sodiums, white half-moons pressed into his palms, was the last time Forrest ever saw Jenny again.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Under the arc-sodiums, white half-moons pressed into his palms, was the last time Forrest ever saw Jenny again. He could call a chapter of the book The Long Run.
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Sep 25, 2014 13:30
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Murphys Law posted:He could call a chapter of the book The Long Run. Well Gump WAS The Running Man.
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Sep 25, 2014 14:00
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juliuspringle posted:Well Gump WAS The Running Man. And a magic retard. Sorry for the Gump rant/derail. I honestly thought I was in a different thread. On topic, I just got Lisey's Story from the library and have heard bad things about it. Then again, I liked Gerald's Game, Rose Madder and a few others that seem to be universally loathed so maybe it'll be OK.
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Sep 25, 2014 19:14
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The best thing about the next King adaptation is people are just going to go "Well it's not as bad as Under the Dome", because how can they get worse than that?
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Sep 25, 2014 19:47
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bobjr posted:The best thing about the next King adaptation is people are just going to go "Well it's not as bad as Under the Dome", because how can they get worse than that? they could hire mick garris again 
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Sep 25, 2014 20:03
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corn in the bible posted:they could hire mick garris again Gopher Boy!
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Sep 25, 2014 23:28
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If I wasn't really into the gunslinger, should I continue reading the dark tower series? There were its moments, but for the most part it didn't really move me.
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Sep 26, 2014 04:59
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joepinetree posted:If I wasn't really into the gunslinger, should I continue reading the dark tower series? There were its moments, but for the most part it didn't really move me. If you don't want to find out about how Clint Eastwood and Jesse Pinkman rescue a raccoon don't read the Dark Tower series.
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Sep 26, 2014 05:40
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joepinetree posted:If I wasn't really into the gunslinger, should I continue reading the dark tower series? There were its moments, but for the most part it didn't really move me. I wasn't a big fan of gunslinger until I had finished the series and reread it. Even then, it is still pretty short and certainly not my favorite. I'd say give it until the second, preferably the third book before totally giving up. The second book is when things really start to happen and has some great parts in it. That said, there were parts where it dragged - the parts with Detta and Jack Mort in particular were pretty boring. I think this is common with a lot of King's books though - you'll get a bunch of action, and then 10 chapters of flashback or jumping into another character's story. Some people like that, some don't. The third book is by far my favorite, and has some of the more memorable parts of the whole series. It does end on an annoying cliffhanger, but fortunately I had started reading when all the books were done, so I didn't have to wait forever to find out what happened. The fourth I think you'll find a lot of different opinions on. It is long, but I enjoyed it, even though it didn't really advance the plot much at all. Books 5 and 6 were definitely not my favorites either (especially the Calla-speak introduced in 5...so many "do ya"s and "say thankya"s and all that "bigbig" stuff). I liked most of the seventh, and at the end, even though I had my doubts earlier, I was glad I got through the books I didn't really like at the time. So basically yes, I think you should keep going and try to finish it. For me every book gets even better each time I reread it.
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Sep 26, 2014 12:23
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If they make some Dark Tower movies they need to cast Clint Eastwood (they could de-age him with cgi) and Aaron Paul.
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Sep 26, 2014 12:33
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They need to do it quickly, though, so they can nab Jaime Sherridan to reprise his role as Flagg 
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Sep 26, 2014 13:04
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BiggerBoat posted:And a magic retard. Sorry for the Gump rant/derail. I honestly thought I was in a different thread. Lisey's Story is...really odd. It's clearly a really personal book for King but I am not sure anyone fully understands it but him. It's another of the first post-van books and, like Dreamcatcher, it's kind of raw but certainly interesting for what it shows about King's mental state during this weird highly traumatic period of his career.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:14
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Please don't read Lisey's Story.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:20
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I can't wait for the inevitable Mick Garris adaptation of Doctor Sleep.
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Sep 26, 2014 19:39
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Under the arc-sodiums, white half-moons pressed into his palms, was the last time Forrest ever saw Jenny again. Jenny then left Greenbow, Alabama with no premonition that she would never return. BiggerBoat posted:It's about... That's what it's designed to be about, but it's too manipulative about it to be classified as anything more than wistful, dewey-eyed dreck to me. EDIT: Wanna know the ironic part? You know how the the staff are supposed to engage you in trivia contests at the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co? When we went, a friend started that and I beat the guy (answering his "what was Jenny's stage name?" with "Bobbi Dylan. What was she playing?"). I hate that movie and yet it's so drat ubiquitous I have it drat near memorized. Rev. Bleech_ fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Sep 26, 2014 |
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Sep 26, 2014 20:05
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I always thought it was well known that Forest Gump was seen as politically less than sound. The movie pertains to be about one thing, in regards to Gump himself, but then basically treats Jenny with disdain. Jenny decides to not conform to standards and think for herself, and she's treated to childhood abuse, drug addiction and eventually aids. Tarantino told Zemeckis at the Oscars that it was one the best black comedies he saw and Zemeckis replied "Finally, someone gets it!" Anyway, King, what a guy.
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Sep 28, 2014 16:05
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LitReactor has a great essay today with a really good synopsis/analysis of Pet Sematary. The broader discussion is about why a remake of the movie should be set in the 80s rather than updated to present day, but the author gives some excellent background on the source material.
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Sep 30, 2014 04:31
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I watched Bag of Bones on Netflix and holy hell was this a terrible boring movie with a boring plot. Something about the main character being a writer with writer's block that gives his publisher a 'trunk novel' that he thinks is a piece of trash makes me think that King wrote this book with his tongue in his cheek.
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Oct 1, 2014 07:25
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Doltos posted:I watched Bag of Bones on Netflix and holy hell was this a terrible boring movie with a boring plot. Something about the main character being a writer with writer's block that gives his publisher a 'trunk novel' that he thinks is a piece of trash makes me think that King wrote this book with his tongue in his cheek. The miniseries takes the worst parts of the book and adds even worse stuff to it, so it's not really a judge of the source.
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Oct 1, 2014 14:37
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the Dolores Claiborne movie is pretty bitchin' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B4v2-lLuHE
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Oct 1, 2014 17:28
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DrVenkman posted:Jenny decides to not conform to standards Forrest effectively drops out of society for three years to run across the country for no discernible reason.
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Oct 5, 2014 02:05
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corn in the bible posted:the Dolores Claiborne movie is pretty bitchin' Has anyone seen this? It actually looks like it might be worth watching.
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Oct 5, 2014 16:20
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ProfessorProf posted:Has anyone seen this? It actually looks like it might be worth watching. It is worth watching for sure.
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Oct 5, 2014 18:25
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ProfessorProf posted:Has anyone seen this? It actually looks like it might be worth watching. It's a good movie. I've never read the book.
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Oct 5, 2014 19:17
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corn in the bible posted:It's a good movie. I've never read the book. I've read it and watched it. Because the crucial events of the story happen in the summer I thought of it as being summery but the movie is set in a much colder, darker Maine. Also, great cast. Would recommend both.
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Oct 5, 2014 19:21
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The eclipse sequence is really good. Movie has a great score, also. Of all the King stories its probably one of the more filmable ones, since I don't think there's any significant supernatural influence even in the book's version of the story. King's supernatural monsters are all terrible to film.
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Oct 5, 2014 20:59
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There's nothing supernatural to Dolores Clairborne, beyond the vision which ties it to Gerald's Game for absolutely no reason.
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Oct 5, 2014 22:34
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:There's nothing supernatural to Dolores Clairborne, beyond the vision which ties it to Gerald's Game for absolutely no reason. Eclipses and getting molestered by their dads (or someone) too I think. For things that tie it to GG I mean.
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Oct 5, 2014 23:11
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Doesn't the vision and the eclipse also tie to bag of bones?
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Oct 5, 2014 23:13
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Nintendo Kid posted:Doesn't the vision and the eclipse also tie to bag of bones? I don't know (I may have actually never have read that) I just remember hearing that it was like light and dark, sun and moon, Dolores Claiborne and Gerald's Game.
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Oct 5, 2014 23:21
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juliuspringle posted:Eclipses and getting molestered by their dads (or someone) too I think. For things that tie it to GG I mean. Sure, but in a movie it can be played as just some weird stuff that might not be real. You can't do that with Gerald's Game, because Gerald's Game is loving retarded.
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Oct 5, 2014 23:22
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corn in the bible posted:Sure, but in a movie it can be played as just some weird stuff that might not be real. You can't do that with Gerald's Game, because Gerald's Game is loving retarded. Gerald's Game is the only SK book I know for a fact that I just skimmed and didn't read, maybe Rose Madder too but I KNOW I just skimmed GG.
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Oct 5, 2014 23:29
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I still think the "reality" of Gerald's Game is that she was hallucinating the creepy guy all of the time and he didn't have a real connection to the events of the story. Nothing in it involves him directly interacting with her during the time she's stuck. Any of the connections that come up later seem more like coincidences.
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Oct 5, 2014 23:33
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juliuspringle posted:Eclipses and getting molestered by their dads (or someone) too I think. For things that tie it to GG I mean. Yeah, but that basically all happens at the same time. Dolores and Whats-Her-Name are both watching the eclipse; the paranormal energies of the moon passing in front of the sun as it does constantly connects the two briefly and we get treated in two different books to King describing the scent of semen as "rusty pennies in a wet sock", or something similar. Thanks, Steve!
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Oct 6, 2014 13:04
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That eclipse is also in an episode of Mad Men. I don't think there was any molestation in that episode.
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Oct 6, 2014 14:12
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Needing a good book of horror short stories, I gave Everything's Eventual a try. It's boring, mostly just rambling stories from various people about their lovely lives and little to do with anything remotely dark or frightening. It could be made worse by the Audiobook version, which is read by multiple people of varying levels of talent. Stephen King himself was by far the most tolerable.
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Oct 6, 2014 16:26
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Talmonis posted:Needing a good book of horror short stories, I gave Everything's Eventual a try. It's boring, mostly just rambling stories from various people about their lovely lives and little to do with anything remotely dark or frightening. It could be made worse by the Audiobook version, which is read by multiple people of varying levels of talent. Stephen King himself was by far the most tolerable. Everything's eventual is one of his worst short story collections. Skeleton Crew and night shift are much better.
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Oct 6, 2014 17:27
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Talmonis posted:I gave Everything's Eventual a try. Yeah, that's by far the worst one. I tend to get them mixed up and confuse one with the other but Everything's Eventual is the only one I remember (because it stood out for being terrible). I guess what I'm saying is that any of the short story collections besides that one are pretty good so read one of those.
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oldpainless posted:Please don't read Lisey's Story. I really liked Lisey's Story but I could have done with most of the plot going away. I didn't care about the psycho that got the plot started, but the parts between the author and his wife/dead family/weird alternate world were some really good poo poo.
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