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I'm about 200 pages into Sleeping Beauties and really liking it, please tell me this doesn't have an awful Stephen King type of ending.
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Mr. Mercedes got a second season. I never read the book, but it really doesn't seem like it has enough meat to warrant that - is there a lot more in the book that isn't in the series?
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Oct 11, 2017 02:15
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Medullah posted:Mr. Mercedes got a second season. I never read the book, but it really doesn't seem like it has enough meat to warrant that - is there a lot more in the book that isn't in the series? There were two sequel books. They weren't great.
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Oct 11, 2017 02:57
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Old Kentucky Shark posted:There were two sequel books. They weren't great. Ah that's right. There goes my hope of a nice mini series type event. Actually think the show is pretty decent.
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Oct 11, 2017 03:03
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mr mercedes is shot in charleston my beautiful hometown so i love it
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Oct 11, 2017 03:46
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Reading through Dark Tower, goddamn is Callahan such a badass. Probably one of my favourite SK characters.
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Oct 11, 2017 11:36
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Does Pennywise kill any adults other than Mellon in the beginning of IT?
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Oct 11, 2017 16:23
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He killed Stan, albeit indirectly.
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Oct 11, 2017 17:22
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oldpainless posted:Does Pennywise kill any adults other than Mellon in the beginning of IT? He kills Eddie
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Oct 11, 2017 17:24
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Just finished DUMA KEY and I liked it a lot. Like DOCTOR SLEEP I think I'd like to see King tackle a straight book because I got surprisingly invested in the story of a one-armed man's art show.
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Oct 11, 2017 17:41
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DrVenkman posted:Just finished DUMA KEY and I liked it a lot. Like DOCTOR SLEEP I think I'd like to see King tackle a straight book because I got surprisingly invested in the story of a one-armed man's art show. Joyland is mostly a straight book and a coming of age story, with a side story involving a ghost, but I'd barely call it supernatural.
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Oct 11, 2017 17:45
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Franchescanado posted:Joyland is mostly a straight book and a coming of age story, with a side story involving a ghost, but I'd barely call it supernatural. Well... There's also the kid that can see the future. The Colorado Kid is a totally straight book.
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Ornamented Death posted:Well... There's also the kid that can see the future. I forgot about that! Still pretty minor.
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Oct 11, 2017 18:49
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Franchescanado posted:I forgot about that! Still pretty minor.
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Oct 11, 2017 18:53
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Franchescanado posted:Joyland is mostly a straight book and a coming of age story, with a side story involving a ghost, but I'd barely call it supernatural. I liked Joyland the first time I read it, but when I tried to read it again the narrator got on my nerves. He started feeling like a Mary Sue to me, because he was ohmygod so good at being a mascot and lost his virginity to a hot MILF and was just all-around the best thing ever to happen to that little amusement park. I ended up not being able to finish it on re-read.
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Oct 11, 2017 19:37
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Medullah posted:Ah that's right. There goes my hope of a nice mini series type event. Actually think the show is pretty decent. You know, I couldn't remember if I'd read the sequels or not, so I looked up the summaries on wikipedia and I still couldn't remember if I'd read them or not so I checked my itunes inventory and apparently I've listened to both audiobooks. That's how little of an impact they made. Also, apropos of nothing, I just got done listening to Danse Macabre again after re-reading IT for the movie, and it's fascinating to see Stephen King putting together all the elements of IT as he wrote about the history of horror. You can trace an almost direct through-line in the book as he assembles the elements of what must have been his first draft a few years later; from the history of horror monsters to ruminations about childhood and the peculiar power of children and fear.
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Oct 12, 2017 00:56
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He kills Eddie Pretty sure he kills Tom too (albeit incidentally?). Edit: and doesn't he claim to have given the librarian a stroke or something?
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Oct 12, 2017 14:32
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henpod posted:Reading through Dark Tower, goddamn is Callahan such a badass. Probably one of my favourite SK characters. Only issue with Callahan in the Dark Tower series is he's obviously OK with ridding the earth of Vampires anytime he runs into one, but Roland and company is going to be in a world of poo poo should they kill a demon in utero. Coulda just went with "Ka's will" etc from Roland but they went with Catholic priest is super anal about abortion so much that they can't just kill the critter when it would be easiest to do so
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Oct 12, 2017 19:10
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Eat This Glob posted:Only issue with Callahan in the Dark Tower series is
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oldpainless posted:Does Pennywise kill any adults other than Mellon in the beginning of IT? It kills a guard while busting Henry out of prison, I think
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Crimpolioni posted:It kills a guard while busting Henry out of prison, I think Oh yeah. My original question should have been "Does Pennywise kill any adults directly excluding the main characters" because I was reading when Mike describes the murders starting again and uses the phrase "a gay and rather child-like man" about Mellon which got me wondering about any adults being killed.
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Crimpolioni posted:It kills a guard while busting Henry out of prison, I think Whose name is Koontz
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Oct 13, 2017 06:39
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bobkatt013 posted:Whose name is Koontz  literally never noticed that before!
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bobkatt013 posted:Whose name is Koontz Koontz was the worst.
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Oct 13, 2017 19:59
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I'm reading Apt Pupil right now and I know the general consensus is that the movie is meh at best, but holy poo poo I cannot wait to see Ian McKellen play this character.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:06
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Picks off a few of the racist dudes who set fire to the Black Spot as well, and is directly responsible for Eddie Corcoran's dad's suicide.
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Karmine posted:I'm reading Apt Pupil right now and I know the general consensus is that the movie is meh at best, but holy poo poo I cannot wait to see Ian McKellen play this character. The whole sequence of events that starts the unravelling of the Nazi's and the kid's worlds is incredible. It's like Alex the Droog whistling "Singin' in the Rain" while taking a bath in that guy's house.
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Oct 14, 2017 00:22
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Karmine posted:I'm reading Apt Pupil right now and I know the general consensus is that the movie is meh at best, but holy poo poo I cannot wait to see Ian McKellen play this character. I just finished it yesterday and the last line of this story is one of the most chilling things I've ever read.
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I am in the middle of my 10+ reread of Salem's Lot. I am reading the original version this time. I have a question about Danny and Ralphie Glick. Does Ralphie even turn into a vampire in the book? Who turns Danny? In the book Barlow is not even in town yet (we assume he arrives by that U Haul). Straker seems to be the one who kidnapped Ralphie, and does some ritual in the graveyard with him (sacrifice?). Danny comes out of the woods, and he is dazed. Has he already been bitten? Who visits him in the hospital? In the movie it is his brother Ralphie, but book doesn't say. After all these years of thinking it was Ralphie in the book (could be because I saw the miniseries first) I now don't think Ralphie was ever turned. Unless he was kept alive until Barlow showed up, which doesn't sound right. I just remembered Danny doesn't go to the hospital until like 5 days later, but the U Haul section is right after he is taken to the hospital. Stupid questions I know! nate fisher fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Oct 17, 2017 |
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I read Dr. Sleep like 3 years ago and I hated that book That's my Stephen King story
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dr. sleep is fine that's it. it's just fine. it's not scary, but it's fine.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:dr. sleep is fine I was in the odd position of just having read The Shining for the first time when Dr. Sleep came out so I pretty much had to read it. It had some good spooky/creepy poo poo in it but overall not exactly a worthy sequel.
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Furia posted:I read Dr. Sleep like 3 years ago and I hated that book I loved it as I read it just as I was getting sober, and it was just what I needed at the time. The fact as it's a giant love letter to Aa helped me a bunch.
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Dr. Sleep was OK but all that bullshit with the vampires or whatever it was stupid and overall it barely felt connected to The Shining except tangentially. Seemed like there were a lot of more interesting places King could have vistited if he wanted to do a true sequel. As it was, Dr. Sleep was more or less a stand alone novel.
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Sorry about the slight derail, but...Al Cu Ad Solte posted:Story Engineering by Larry Brooks. Cheers for the recommend. This was exactly what I was looking for in regards to what I felt was missing from "On Writing". If "On Writing" was the heart of what makes me want to put pen to paper then "Engineering" is the skeleton and the flesh that it powers. April posted:Gary Braunbeck Started this one as well and it has an odd start. Fan fiction where the dude's Stephen King novels fight a toy Godzilla. Very bizarre.
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BiggerBoat posted:Seemed like there were a lot of more interesting places King could have vistited if he wanted to do a true sequel. Like you'd assume the kid would recover from his crazy dad and have these wonderful powers and nope It's all terrible reliving monstrosities because you can't shut the tap off. The vamps were a good take on Insomniafolk, though.
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FilthyImp posted:
Why would you ever assume this
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FilthyImp posted:I appreciated the kid being super hosed up, basically the 6th Sense kid as a grownup. It was a perfect example of King's penchant towards making the supernatural equal part curse and gift. 1. That's not how abuse and trauma works. 2. That was the best part of the book.
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syscall girl posted:I was in the odd position of just having read The Shining for the first time when Dr. Sleep came out so I pretty much had to read it. There was no dramatic tension whatsoever because the bad guys were such a bumbling bunch of idiots and were totally overmatched from the get-go. It's like King set up a bunch of tin soldiers for the protagonist to knock over. So the spooky/creepy poo poo was neutered and it was just the literary equivalent of a stale Twinkie.
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Phanatic posted:There was no dramatic tension whatsoever because the bad guys were such a bumbling bunch of idiots and were totally overmatched from the get-go. It's like King set up a bunch of tin soldiers for the protagonist to knock over. So the spooky/creepy poo poo was neutered and it was just the literary equivalent of a stale Twinkie. Thematically, I felt like the Monstro-Hippies were okay, because it was the natural extension of a normal King schtick; that the bad guys are just everyday, hosed up people with their own trials and tribulations who got swept up into some bad poo poo and kept digging down instead of digging up. When it works, like in The Stand or The Shining or the middle part of the Tommyknockers, that shtick works really well. The problem was, there just wasn't much of a story going on around them.
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