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504 posted:Choose a sequel to any King book you like. Twisted Firestarter
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Jan 16, 2017 21:20
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Transistor Rhythm posted:Twisted Firestarter 
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Jan 16, 2017 21:38
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Rage II: The Columbine Caper
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Jan 17, 2017 02:19
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Desperation 2: Regulator Boogaloo
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Jan 17, 2017 02:30
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So I just finished End of Watch and it was no great shakes but satisfying enough. One question though: Near the end when Brady Hartsfield is done kicking Holly and making Hodges play the Zappit, wtf was the breaking window and the "that's a HOME RUN" voice? Was it Holly shooting the 38, missing and shattering the window? Were the "homerun" voices Hodges hallucinating from the hypnosis of the fish game? And how did Jerome get the location/address for the hunting lodge and how'd he get there so fast? The timeline was tight and the travel conditions outlined the book made it clear that driving was a clear problem. That part was so poorly written and hamfisted in its delivery it damned near ruined the whole book. That whole sequence was lame. Come to think of it, it DID pretty much ruin the book. There was A Big Showdown brewing and when I realized I only had about 30 pages left I wondered how they were going to resolve this in a satisfying way. It was bullshit. It was just "they get to the cabin, the villain monologues and then "forgotten off-screen character" saves the day. Although, bonus points to King for not making the orange pom pom on Hodges hat (that he swapped with his fedora) the way that Hartsfield spots him. I was certain that was gonna be the case since, for some reason, the writer seemed to make the hat exchange a poignant scene. I know King catches a lot of poo poo for writing bad endings but this one wasn't so much bad as much as it was just nothing - and poorly written, bad storytelling nothing at that. I'm trying to think of a movie to compare it to because I've had that distinct disappointing feeling watching certain films before, where the ending and the resolution is just "ta-da!" but I guess I've just forgotten them. Much like I'll forget about this book. Even the epilogue felt rushed, hastily tacked on and relatively pointless. Real "sequel" talk and all jokes aside: I think Christine could support a sequel and maybe Pet Semetary but I'm not sure how you could make them interesting. Also, thanks thread for recommending "A Head Full of Ghosts". I enjoyed it a lot.
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Jan 17, 2017 02:50
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Rage II: The Columbine Caper Oh dear.
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Jan 17, 2017 02:59
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The Rage: Carrie 2 
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Jan 17, 2017 04:14
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There should be a sequel to Revival where the main guy is an old man on the verge of death, but trying everything he can to stay alive because of what he knows. For some reason I really liked Revival and want more.
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Jan 17, 2017 04:31
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I was thinking something about 11/22/63. When Al went back through the time hole, he was researching stuff about Oswald to try and determine if he was acting alone in assassinating Kennedy, right? So why not just off Oswald and come back to see if Kennedy is alive or not? If he hosed up, and ooops, Kennedy is dead anyway, he could have just popped back into the time hole and reset the whole thing over again.
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Jan 17, 2017 05:28
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I could be wrong as it's been a while since I read it but I think the problem was that by the time he could get to Oswald he'd have spent too many years in the past to be able to get another try at it.
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Jan 17, 2017 05:59
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kenny powerzzz posted:I could be wrong as it's been a while since I read it but I think the problem was that by the time he could get to Oswald he'd have spent too many years in the past to be able to get another try at it. He'd certainly be older and maybe crippled by the big C A favorite King trope
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The Zombie Guy posted:I was thinking something about 11/22/63. There's also the whole thing about murdering a man and then trying to get back to your woodshed time travel closet without getting arrested or killed yourself. I think he wanted to be absolutely sure what he was doing was all he needed to do just in case he couldn't make it back. I really liked that book.
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Jan 17, 2017 06:23
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kenny powerzzz posted:I could be wrong as it's been a while since I read it but I think the problem was that by the time he could get to Oswald he'd have spent too many years in the past to be able to get another try at it. Yeah. Oswald lived in a military base and then went to the Soviet Union, where he stayed between 59 and 62. So even to just kill him Jake would need to be there for 4 years.
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Jan 18, 2017 07:21
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504 posted:Choose a sequel to any King book you like. I'd like a good sequel to The Talisman
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Jan 18, 2017 07:29
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oldpainless posted:I'd like a good sequel to The Talisman What's wrong with Black House? I haven't read it in years, but I don't remember it being terrible.
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Jan 18, 2017 11:44
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Leavemywife posted:What's wrong with Black House? I haven't read it in years, but I don't remember it being terrible. The usual complaints against it are the weird style of the prose (which I kind of agree with; it takes a while getting used to it) and the clunky Dark Tower connections (which I entirely agree with; the Talisman was better with its own mythos). I like it but I don't think it's one of King's or Straub's best.
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Jan 18, 2017 12:38
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3Romeo posted:The usual complaints against it are the weird style of the prose (which I kind of agree with; it takes a while getting used to it) and the clunky Dark Tower connections (which I entirely agree with; the Talisman was better with its own mythos). I like it but I don't think it's one of King's or Straub's best. I liked the blind radio DJ Just looked it up and his name was Charles Ray King can be pretty cheesy but that was a nice reference
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Jan 18, 2017 13:01
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syscall girl posted:I liked the blind radio DJ Oh yeah, the characters are great. They shouldn't work (a cool-cat blind radio multi-personality? A gang of bikers who read Derrida? they sound like something from a creative writing workshop) but they have enough going on that they're fun to read.
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After thinking about it, a new IT sequel would be pretty great, if it followed a new group of kids dealing with the monster with the eventual help of one of the adults from the original. They can start an official watch group that has to recruit a new group every 25 years. Not that we need it, but there's a possibility for a story, if we're assuming it'll be just as good as the original. A sequel to The Stand would be great. Both "sides" have managed to work together and build a working society, now we're on a 2nd generation of survivors. Flagg comes out of the wood works, claiming to be the next Messiah, bringing forth the Rapture, creating a civil war. Again, not necessary, but possible. Looking over his bibliography, I can't really name anything that should get a sequel. Maybe The Eyes of the Dragon could have a sequel, but I've never read that.
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I want a sequel to IT set in 2017 where the surviving characters are all 70 years old and crippled by arthritis. To defeat the monster they have to crawl through a sewer and one of them has to sustain an erection.
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Jan 18, 2017 15:04
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oldpainless posted:I'd like a good sequel to The Talisman I'd like a good prequel to Black House
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:I want a sequel to IT set in 2017 where the surviving characters are all 70 years old and crippled by arthritis. To defeat the monster they have to crawl through a sewer and one of them has to sustain an erection. Don't say that about Stranger Things.
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Great front page article today: "If the Dead Zone Happened in Real Life": https://www.somethingawful.com/news/dead-zone-real/
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Great front page article today: "If the Dead Zone Happened in Real Life": https://www.somethingawful.com/news/dead-zone-real/ Great stuff. Also, who knew SA still had a front page?
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Closed-Down Pizza Parlor posted:I'd like a good prequel to Black House Read The Talisman
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oldpainless posted:Read The Talisman it was bad
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Jan 19, 2017 04:50
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Are you sure it was The Talisman and you didn't accidentally read Black House?
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Jan 19, 2017 05:03
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My choice for a sequel was Christine, so I was sorely disapointed by this stephenking.com/promo/christine_lives/
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Jan 20, 2017 09:29
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504 posted:My choice for a sequel was Christine, so I was sorely disapointed by this I'm just imaging a really angry cube of ex-car now.
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My first time re-reading since shortly after it was published - I never realized what a blatant influence Twin Peaks was on "Needful Things."
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Jan 20, 2017 20:24
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I'm reading Needful Things now it's not bad, I guess, but it's not really hooking me in and making me want to see what happens
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Ein cooler Typ posted:I'm reading Needful Things now One thing that really stands out to me on this re-read is how dated it feels. It feels like he's writing a story set in 1961, not 1991.
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Jan 27, 2017 15:52
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Transistor Rhythm posted:One thing that really stands out to me on this re-read is how dated it feels. It feels like he's writing a story set in 1961, not 1991. OMG WAIT! You mean it wasn't based and set in the year it was published?
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Dead Goon posted:OMG WAIT! You mean it wasn't based and set in the year it was published? Most of King's stuff is usually set around or about the year he wrote it, and even if he doesn't give you a hard date he'll throw pop culture at you as a way to bracket the time of the story. Like Blue Oyster Cult in The Stand or the Yes We Still Can bumper stickers in Under the Dome or Game of Thrones in Dr. Sleep. Transistor Rhythm posted:One thing that really stands out to me on this re-read is how dated it feels. It feels like he's writing a story set in 1961, not 1991. I haven't read NT in probably twenty years, so let me ask - does King make a lot of (then) popular culture references? I can't really remember.
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3Romeo posted:I haven't read NT in probably twenty years, so let me ask - does King make a lot of (then) popular culture references? I can't really remember. I'm 300 pages in, and I can't recall any specific pop-culture references but the description of Castle Rock and the people definitely feels like the 1950/1960s. It might also lack a lot of pop-culture references because Leland Gaunt is selling curios, relics, and antiques.
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Jan 27, 2017 17:35
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Dead Goon posted:OMG WAIT! You mean it wasn't based and set in the year it was published? It is specifically set in the year it was published.
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3Romeo posted:Most of King's stuff is usually set around or about the year he wrote it, and even if he doesn't give you a hard date he'll throw pop culture at you as a way to bracket the time of the story. Like Blue Oyster Cult in The Stand or the Yes We Still Can bumper stickers in Under the Dome or Game of Thrones in Dr. Sleep. He references daytime soap operas, Iraq/Desert Shield, and a few other things that make it clear that the book is set in 1990/91. But it is really odd that the kid is obsessed with baseball cards (not Nintendo games or hair metal), the housewives are after Elvis pictures and carnival glass, and the working class adult guy wants a fox tail to fly from the antenna of his car like he did in the fifties.
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As someone who had 1000s of baseball cards as a 6 year old in 1991 and whose family had/still has lots of Elvis poo poo, those two check out.
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Transistor Rhythm posted:He references daytime soap operas, Iraq/Desert Shield, and a few other things that make it clear that the book is set in 1990/91. But it is really odd that the kid is obsessed with baseball cards (not Nintendo games or hair metal), the housewives are after Elvis pictures and carnival glass, and the working class adult guy wants a fox tail to fly from the antenna of his car like he did in the fifties. I mean isn't half the point that these are odd things for them to want, and thus why they couldn't already get them? Like the fluffy tail on your car thing was actually a trend of the late 20s and the 30s, the Elvis picture fad was quite out of date by then etc. The evil store owner wouldn't have as much bait to get people to do terrible things for him if he was just offering normal things it'd be easy to get in 1990.
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