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blarzgh posted:His short stories are excellent.  He can come up with a neat weird idea and a couple quick character sketches and a cool set piece or two. As long as he doesn't have to keep going beyond that he's golden.
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Hot take: books 2-4 of The Dark Tower are pretty good, 1 and 5 are mediocre (depending on which version of 1 you read), and 6/7 are straight-up Bad
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Oct 9, 2018 20:43
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i think stine is too harsh a comparison. now dean koontz on the other hand... fake edit: speaking of which: that is a bold choice of... wig?
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Oct 9, 2018 20:46
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Oh no that is definitely some kind of parasite
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Dean Koontz is hot garbage unless you are 13 years old with $8 in your pocket at Half Price Books and you think you just bought 4 turbo dark and mysterious paperbacks for grown ups why yes this was meA 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 Smartest thing I ever did was realize I would never like The Dark Tower and I just Wiki'ed the whole thing and reading about the ending I was still mad he tricked people into reading it
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Oct 9, 2018 21:03
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almightyerin posted:/r/relationships: another post about a preteen sewer orgy The forbidden origin of the Illegal Party Toilet.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:10
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Any Anne Rice fans in here?
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Oct 9, 2018 21:11
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Wasn't king like a schoolteacher as his main profession? How and why the hell was he coked out of his mind, was he super rich or summat??
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I only ever read one chapter of a Dean Koontz book and didnt have the stomach to finish it. In fact I don't even think I made it through the first chapter. It was like it was written for someone who got off on horrendous tales of horrendous animal abuse. Nothing but graphic and detailed descriptions of puppy mills and poo poo. Like a Sarah McGlachlan commercial. Pretty sure that was a Dean Koontz book anyway. I'd gotten it in a box of books someone gave me. Another memorable book out of that batch involved a nice graphic description of a satanic lesbian scissoring a woman to death. Made me really question the mental state of the friend that gave me that box of books.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:17
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blarzgh posted:Dean Koontz is hot garbage unless you are 13 years old with $8 in your pocket at Half Price Books and you think you just bought 4 turbo dark and mysterious paperbacks for grown ups why yes this was me Phantoms scared the poo poo out of me when I was like, 12.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:17
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how exactly do you scissor someone to death I'm invested now
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Sloth Life posted:Wasn't king like a schoolteacher as his main profession? How and why the hell was he coked out of his mind, was he super rich or summat?? Friend let me tell you about the 80s.... A Wizard of Goatse posted:how exactly do you scissor someone to death I'm invested now ]www.youporn.com/lesbi.... well you know the rest.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:18
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For some reason I have a memory of Dean Koontz having been revealed as a pseudonym for a group of terrible young writers.
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Straight White Shark posted:
He has two modes, good short story and six thousand page odyssey through stuff that you don't care qbout. Needful Things is still a favorite because all the characters actual did stuff and it came to a proper end
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Pope Corky the IX posted:For some reason I have a memory of Dean Koontz having been revealed as a pseudonym for a group of terrible young writers. i accept this as true with no reservations
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Oct 9, 2018 21:24
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Pope Corky the IX posted:For some reason I have a memory of Dean Koontz having been revealed as a pseudonym for a group of terrible young writers. Yeah it got confirmed a while back, Dean Koontz is three twelve-year-olds in a trenchcoat trying to sneak into a midnight showing of Hellraiser
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Oct 9, 2018 21:25
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I want to say Satan's Lesbian vaginally sucked the other womans soul out or something like it. That was a very weird book all around. Hey, I was bored and stuck in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with no internet or television. I'll read anything I can lay my hands on in situations like that.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:26
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Misery, The Shining, and Pet Sematary are all really good. Two of those are also very good movies. Wellp, bye
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Oct 9, 2018 21:38
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therobit posted:Hostile woke environment. Oh we're talking about Stephen King? Man can't write the second half of a book to save his life. Short stories and novellas are good.
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Oct 9, 2018 21:41
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I read a dean koontz book as a kid because my mom said it was for grownups so I stole it and it was about a time traveling nazi who quit naziing because he fell in love with a dark-haired american woman
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Oct 9, 2018 21:42
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I lived in a house for a year with a guy who had a whole shelf of Dean Koontz books and nothing else. I read a few because gently caress it and I quit after realizing he described every single male protagonist as having 'a Roman nose' Dudes got a type, for sure.
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I think my boyfriend has been drugging me to make me forget things. He is a doctor.quote:This is in north Texas. Oh this one's good. From the comments: texasgunowner12 606 points 2 hours ago You mentioned red bumps on your thigh, insomnia, memory loss, paranoia and anxiety? Pull the sheets off your mattress please. Check in the little creases for brown specs or encrusted brown flakes. These symptoms sounds eerily famaliar to what happened to a friend of mine. We thought he was going crazy. Turns out he was having a severe reaction to long term bedbug bites. You mentioned that you remember everything that hapoened at his place but as soon as you got home it started up again? Bedbugs can cause psychological symptoms if the reaction is severe enough. I would check the lip of the mattress first to see if you have bedbugs. IntrepidSport[S] 210 points an hour ago Wait Seriously? Does it look like dried chocolate or poop chunks along the seam of the mattress? texasgunowner12 152 points an hour ago Yes. That what you see? IntrepidSport[S] 195 points an hour ago Yes. All long the left side of my mattress by the wall.
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almightyerin posted:I think my boyfriend has been drugging me to make me forget things. He is a doctor. OH GOOD GOD 
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quote:Turns out he was having a severe reaction to long term bedbug bites. Whoa whoa whoa
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Oct 9, 2018 21:58
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The Stand is 2/3rds of a good book + two lovely books
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Oct 9, 2018 21:59
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tactlessbastard posted:Whoa whoa whoa Good god man spoiler that poo poo! I'm itching all over!! aaaaaaahhhhhhh
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Oh thank gently caress, someone finally posted sometalmightyerin posted:I think my boyfriend has been drugging me to make me forget things. He is a doctor. 
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Oct 9, 2018 22:00
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Look I know a lady got a loaded gun shoved in her vagina and all but that might be one of the worst things I've read in this thread in a while.
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Oct 9, 2018 22:02
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Great, now I have to go check my mattress
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MarcusSA posted:Look I know a lady got a loaded gun shoved in her vagina and all but that might be one of the worst things I've read in this thread in a while. Don't kink-shame.
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Oct 9, 2018 22:03
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brb delousing my home.
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Oct 9, 2018 22:04
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King wishes he could write that poo poo
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Oct 9, 2018 22:05
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That's the good poo poo - a mundane, plausible explanation that is even more viscerally disgusting than the Dr. Von Rapenstien theory she originally posted 
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Stephen King might be overrated but he's no Michael "i'll just write this critic into my next book as a child molester who rapes children because he has a small penis" Crichton
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Like an awful, awful Sherlock Holmes storySplicer posted:From months back but still deserves quoting. this also brought me to quote:I’m off work today but no by choice. I got a reprimand and a one day suspension at work and now I’m thinking I need to find a new job. What happened was I have a co-worker who was diagnosed with cancer. She mentioned to a few people she started a blog so she wasn’t annoying people with cancer talk all the time and her family and friends could read what’s going on with her. The blog is called “Jane’s” cancer fight. I got into trouble for calling her out for using the word fight in her blog because it implies people who died from cancer are losers who lost the fight when it is hardly the case. I was just wanting her to check her choice of word and do better. She complained to our boss about me to her boss and got other people to complain too. I wasn’t trying to upset her but I just wanted to bring attention to her choice of the word fight. She says her support group of people who had or have cancer or lost someone to it picked the title. Since I admitted to HR when asked that I’ve never had cancer myself or had anyone close to me have it [I have had acquaintances and co-worker’s who’ve had it but never any family members or close friends] and I’m not close to Jane, I was told I have no right to question Jane and no idea what I’m talking about. I didn’t intend to upset her by pointing it out. When I come back after my suspension I will be sent to a different team away from Jane and since the job/pay/location of the office are the exact same I have no legal leg to stand on. I’m feeling a little dumbfounded it went as far as a suspension. Do you think I’m right to be dumbfounded or did I cross the line? I have an issue with her word choice and not her. I’m using my suspension time off to look for a new job but I just wanted an outside perspective re: my situation and her choice of word. I’ve never been disciplined at work like this. Everyone at work thinks I should not have called her and no one is talking to me unless it is about work. lol
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I can just see this conversation. "Hey I thought you were drugging and raping me but it turns out I just had a really bad reaction to the bedbugs my house has been infested with for god knows how long. Just wanted to let you know you might have bedbugs now too" This guy is fixing to be absolutely blindsided I bet.
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I've never been happier to see a story end with bed bugs 
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Admiral Ray posted:Like I'm glad he at least goes to the bathroom to do that instead of just opening his rear end right in the middle of the living room like an animal I don't know what animals you're thinking of, but I can't think of any that like to open their asses up. rear end-opening seems to be something unique to humans.
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Bed bugs are a loving curse. I listen to a management advice podcast and there was one episode about how to diplomatically try to get an employee to submit to having their house deloused on the company's dime because they couldn't find another way to keep the employee from spreading bedbugs at work
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almightyerin posted:I think my boyfriend has been drugging me to make me forget things. He is a doctor. Nature is amazing.
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