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Beachcomber posted:Why isn't he the voice of my GPS? He is maybe not allowed to because the people who own the rights to KITT would have to be given money? I cannot think of a single other reason why this is not an option.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:This was the first thing that came to mind while reading that story. And the hosed up thing is that the fictional insane pyromaniac getting cornholed with a loaded gun in a was a lot more terrified than this woman. Trashcan Man contemplated murdering the dude afterward, she asked reddit about the situation. Tbf The Stand was written decades before Reddit was a thing and when that scene took place civilization had already collapsed Me [25M] with my weird 50s-throwback rockabilly post-apocalypse partner [31M], something weird happened and I'm considering not carpooling to Satan's survivor colony in Las Vegas with him anymore (non-romantic)
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loquacius posted:Me [25M] with my weird 50s-throwback rockabilly post-apocalypse partner [31M], something weird happened and I'm considering not carpooling to Satan's survivor colony in Las Vegas with him anymore (non-romantic) Bumpty-bumpty-bump
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P-Mack posted:Total coincidence that we got flooded by interracial cuck porn to stoke white anxiety under Obama and then it switched to normalizing incest under Trump. Good point. For a while there it was nothing but interracial gang bangs and cuck stuff. Now it's endless "i bank my not-daughter while her not-mom isn't home"
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burial posted:e: Sick of editing out all contractions to avoid whatever � is. Okay somebody else is having this problem, good to know it isn't something on my end.
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Seriously what even the gently caress is that. Bad character escape?
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P-Mack posted:Total coincidence that we got flooded by interracial cuck porn to stoke white anxiety under Obama and then it switched to normalizing incest under Trump. Eagerly awaiting the Sanders era's inevitable wave of porn themed around girlfriends being stolen by the perfidious Jew, and/or shared by workers' collectives
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How to break it to my large headed (23F) girlfriend that I don't want her wearing my (30M) t-shirts anymore because she stretches out the head-hole.quote:Long story short, girlfriend wears my T-shirt, Which is kind of sexy for me, but after she's done with the shirt the neckline is huge and stretched on my generally slender shoulders/neck.
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Preteen sewer orgy was from It, not The Stand I don't know why I need people to know this, but I do
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Drunk Nerds posted:Preteen sewer orgy was from It, not The Stand Who said it was from the Stand? Rotten Red Rod posted:Somehow less horrifying than the preteen sewer orgy in It, yet that's the one that gets the modern remake
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Wasn't all the weird poo poo that happens in the Steven King universe caused by a wizard named the Crimson King who lives in a tower in the center of reality
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Blade Runner posted:Wasn't all the weird poo poo that happens in the Steven King universe caused by a wizard named the Crimson King who lives in a tower in the center of reality eh, maybe??? The Satan stand-in from The Stand was a trickster villain common to several of his books and I think it was revealed that he worked for the Crimson King in the Dark Tower series, but I don't know whether that means you can pin everything on him Steven King did do a whole lot of cocaine in the 70s though so
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Blade Runner posted:Wasn't all the weird poo poo that happens in the Steven King universe caused by a wizard named the Crimson King who lives in a tower in the center of reality Nah, it was cocaine, mostly. Edit: gently caress, beaten. Then I'll expand this to say it was cocaine and King's propensity for never planning his books out, which meant a lot of books with interesting premises and great disparate elements that he would have no idea how to resolve, leading to anti-climaxes and a LOT of pointless sideplots. If you think I'm wrong, read the ending of the The Stand, which is the finger of god sets off a nuclear bomb and then there's like 50 more pages of one character travelling for no reason. Rotten Red Rod fucked around with this message at 20:19 on Oct 9, 2018 |
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Tbf I had to read the sentence twice before I figured out they were talking about "It" too. At first I was like "What preteen sewer orgy?" because I've never read "It". Never been a huge fan of it. Not a super huge fan of Stephen King as a whole but I've read most of the books until he started getting lovely (imo) circa Geralds Game and Dolores Claiborne.
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almightyerin posted:Tbf I had to read the sentence twice before I figured out they were talking about "It" too. At first I was like "What preteen sewer orgy?" because I've never read "It". Never been a huge fan of it. Not a super huge fan of Stephen King as a whole but I've read most of the books until he started getting lovely (imo) circa Geralds Game and Dolores Claiborne. It is overrated. Some of the kid sections have some classic imagery, but the adult sections all suck and the sum of its parts is way less than the whole. Dolores Claiborne is loving amazing, though.
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Rotten Red Rod posted:Nah, it was cocaine, mostly. "Stephen King can't write an ending to save his life" is such a common criticism that he devoted several pages before the epilogue of The Dark Tower to basically telling the reader to shut up and stop whining about it and then the ending itself was just the main character being sent back to the beginning of book 1 in an eternal time-loop so that there can never be an actual ending man the end of that series was super self-indulgent, Stephen King is himself a minor character in it (the main characters show up on Earth and rescue him from his real-life car accident and he repays them by deus-ex-machina-ing them out of a dangerous situation later)
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somehow the preteen sewer orgy never makes it into the screen adaptations somewhere there is at least 1 person who saw the movie and was very disappointed
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Steven King can't write anything well, just generally. Endings are just where people hope all the garbage they just sat through will pay off and get mad when it doesn't. and yet, somehow, Maximum Overdrive
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loquacius posted:Tbf The Stand was written decades before Reddit was a thing and when that scene took place civilization had already collapsed P-T-S-D That spells Moon
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The real failure of Stephen king endings is they don’t come 645774357 pages sooner
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I think his crappy works coincided with him getting hit by the van and quitting drugs. I couldn't even finish the book that came after Dolores iirc. It's been a long time though. God that was 1992??
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oh and the actual ending to King's decades-spanning magnum opus The Dark Tower is the main character being sent back to the beginning of book 1 in an eternal time-loop right before realizing his life's goal, so that there can never be an actual ending dude just hates the concept of endings
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:Steven King is a terrible writer, just generally His short stories are excellent. His good novels were published under Bachman.
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I have a copy of the short story book that had "Rage" in it kicking around here somewhere. That was a pretty good collection except for the last one.
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i liked maximum overdrive, because it was about bird people. e: and cuz max saves the world in every book, and sometimes I just need to know that the media i consume has a happy ending.
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blarzgh posted:His short stories are excellent. His good novels were published under Bachman. I really enjoyed the Long Walk. I can't honestly think of another stephen king novel I actually liked(generally I agree that his short stories are pretty good) even though I've read loads of them. now that I think of it on some level I'm still mad about the ending of under the dome
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i like the iron druid because he has a talking dog, and the narrator for that series gives the dog a goofy voice.
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blarzgh posted:His short stories are excellent. His good novels were published under Bachman. Even the Regulators, which came out after Bachman "died" Holy poo poo, that is such a deliriously insane book.
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cujo ended pretty well i thought, but it is something of an anomaly in the king cannon
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I'd complain that we went from talking about shoving guns in butts to a deep critical dive into King's work, but it was mostly my fault (and I actually like it). My hot take is that King is a really good writer who has written some total garbage because he's written so loving much stuff it's inevitable some of it will suck. I just find it annoying that some of his shittier horror novels are his signature works.
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cock hero flux posted:I really enjoyed the Long Walk. I can't honestly think of another stephen king novel I actually liked(generally I agree that his short stories are pretty good) even though I've read loads of them. I actually liked Under the Dome's ending, as in it made me the least mad out of any Stephen King ending (Dark Tower made me the most mad) It seemed to have actual thought devoted to it and gave the central premise of the book an interesting new context Same with 11/22/63 honestly, that one could have been executed better but the main concept of it was sound
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blarzgh posted:His short stories are excellent. His good novels were published under Bachman. He's R.L. Stine for people old enough to read about children loving and that'd be OK if his fans didn't treat The Dark Tower like it's the modern fuckin Paradise Lost, I mostly just resent being conned into reading It and The Langoliers by On Writing A Wizard of Goatse fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Oct 9, 2018 |
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lol but seriously I posted:cujo ended pretty well i thought, but it is something of an anomaly in the king cannon He literally doesn’t remember writing that one because he was so coked up at the time, right?
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A Wizard of Goatse posted:He's R.L. Stine for people old enough to read about children loving and that'd be OK if his fans didn't treat The Dark Tower like it's the modern fuckin Paradise Lost, I mostly just resent being conned into reading It and The Langoliers by On Writing
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