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BiggerBoat posted:Insomnia read like a loving Dean Koontz novel; to the point that when I recall reading it I assign it to Koontz in my head before recalling my mistake. The painting scene was great but yeah, it's something that Gerald's Game and Insomnia have in common. He may not write women well, as such, but he's got a good handle on plight. And as a kid seeing this kind of stuff depicted and learning about women's shelters and so on was formative.
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ConfusedUs posted:
That is mine exactly. This is like one of those weird coincidences or parallel events that he writes about.
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Mine is the same!
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Wastelands The gunslinger Wizard and glass The dark tower Wolves of the calla Drawing of the three Song of Susannah
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I was really excited for DT 7 and called Borders to set aside a copy for me because I was afraid it might sell out and the girl was like “ok” and when I got there there was about 100 copies in the middle of the store with no one around them and the same girl was the cashier and she made fun of me but in a good natured way
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3(Wasteland), 4.5(Wind/Keyhole), 4(Wizard/Glass), 1(Gunslinger), 2(Drawing), 5(Wolves), 7(Dark Tower), 6(Song) Added 4.5 because why not. I really, really liked it. I would really dig a whole fairy tale series set in different where/whens.
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I really like Little Sisters and Ur as well.
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I fuckin' loved Insomnia back when it was '94 and I was starving for anything and everything DT related. Hooo man it did not hold up afterward. Also if you don't consider The Waste Lands the best DT book then get the gently caress outta my face forever. I hate that the comic adaptation didn't survive that far.
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The Gunslinger (original edition) is the best, for one primary reason: "The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
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JohnnyCanuck posted:The Gunslinger (original edition) is the best, for one primary reason: gods drat right
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JohnnyCanuck posted:The Gunslinger (original edition) is the best, for one primary reason: it's; the only good part
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Insomnia reminds me of 11/22/63 quite a bit for some reason, except Insomnia sucked and 11/22/63 was great. Maybe the similar plot structure just annoyed me because of how much worse Insomnia is.
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insomnia is bad because a solid 1/3rd of it is king standing on his very boring baby boomer liberal soapbox and the remaining 2/3rds of it is old people looking at auras
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I like how they brought up the moral quandry of aura-sucking, then were like "lol whatevs it doesn't matter anyway now let's just make up aura powers whenever we need to". Lisey's Story still the worst, though. Smucka bucka baby bool, y'all!
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I'm reading the uncut version of the stand and I also picked up the Bachman books. I believe the first story (rage) was taken out of circulation after colombine? Also I'm partway through insomnia but I'm finding it pretty boring.
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quote:In December 1997, Michael Carneal shot eight fellow students, three of them fatally, at a prayer meeting at Heath High School in West Paducah, Kentucky. He had a copy of Rage within the Richard Bachman omnibus in his locker. This was the incident that moved King to allow the book to go out of print.[8] rage is also not that good a story so you aren't missing much imo
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Ah that's right, I forget that was the first well known school shooting, not Colombine
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I just finished The Shining. It was fantastic! I think I'm going to read Carrie next.
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RCarr posted:I just finished The Shining. It was fantastic!
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Dr. Faustus posted:You should, but I have to ask (since I don't keep track) have you read Salem's Lot yet? If not, consider it. Then Carrie and Firestarter and... Nope I have those three + the dead zone to go. I’ll read Salem’s Lot first! Thanks
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FreezingInferno posted:https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/1090767394505670657 I haven’t seen it yet, but i hear the new version of It was pretty good, so it’s probably going to be another 10 years until the next decent King adaption.
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Attitude Indicator posted:I haven’t seen it yet, but i hear the new version of It was pretty good, so it’s probably going to be another 10 years until the next decent King adaption. I honestly preferred the TV version of IT to the movie version.
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New book announced, The Institutequote:In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
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Ornamented Death posted:New book announced, The Institute Kalisha. After 2018’s The Outsider and Elevation I think I’ll just dive into the back catalog for a while and catch up on what I’ve missed
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chernobyl kinsman posted:was elevation bad I havent read it but my understanding is that it was boomer ego stroking. The boomers I know that have read it loved it, everyone else seems to dislike it.
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Davros1 posted:I honestly preferred the TV version of IT to the movie version. Yeah I'll like the movie version if they finish it and put some of the nicer touches of the end of the book in. Such as the watertower.
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Ornamented Death posted:New book announced, The Institute it sounds like that short story about those Breakers from the Dark Tower series. it seems likely lately King's new books (or at least the premises) are sort of a mix-up mash of his old books. I didn't read Elevation (yet)
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I dunno. Something about the writing is not clicking. quote:Excerpt from The Institute, by Stephen King
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I feel like ever since Dr. Sleep, his writing has taken on a strange Saturday morning cartoon tone. I don't know how better to describe it.
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FlashFearless posted:I feel like ever since Dr. Sleep, his writing has taken on a strange Saturday morning cartoon tone. I don't know how better to describe it. It occurs to me I barely recall any of The Regulators 
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syscall girl posted:It occurs to me I barely recall any of The Regulators I know almost everyone hates The Regulators, but it's honestly one of my favorite King books. It's so loving weird.
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FlashFearless posted:I feel like ever since Dr. Sleep, his writing has taken on a strange Saturday morning cartoon tone. I don't know how better to describe it. If you knew nothing about his books, and you just took King's bibliography and studied the prose, you could manage to order it by age/date pretty faithfully. Dude is getting old, and his style is becoming less subtle, because old brains do that.
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ahahah what is wrong with this picture (hint it's not jus The Lil Wicker Man) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK0LNzU2TQI
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:ahahah what is wrong with this picture (hint it's not jus The Lil Wicker Man) what the hell
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So it's a zombie movie now? Cool. Zombies are fresh and exciting.
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