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Maybe James McAvoy is the one British actor who can't do an American accent?
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not sure if this thread is the right place for this, but I've always been a big stephen king fan, and by far my favorite books of his are those published under the bachman pseudonym. for the past few years I've been trying to track down affordable first edition, first printing copies of the bachman books when they wern't attributed to stephen king. a few years ago I found thinner, and recently got the long walk:  next up, the running man!
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May 13, 2019 03:35
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:...affordable first edition, first printing copies of the bachman books when they wern't attributed to stephen king. I assume you're going to skip Rage then.
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May 13, 2019 03:52
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yea, that one is probably not gonna happen (which is ok because it's the worst Bachman book)
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May 13, 2019 04:24
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Someone never read The Regulators
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oldpainless posted:Someone never read The Regulators I did, all the way through, I have no idea to this day why I did, but I learned my lesson that day.
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May 13, 2019 14:56
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oldpainless posted:Someone never read The Regulators the regulators is way, way better than rage
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May 13, 2019 15:15
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the hero of rage is a school shooter lol
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May 13, 2019 15:51
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Hero or protagonist? (I've never gotten to read it.)
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May 13, 2019 16:02
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Hero. It’s a really, really weird book that has aged extremely poorly. When King wrote it school shootings weren’t really a thing.
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May 13, 2019 16:20
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Oh poo poo, no wonder he let it lapse out of publication.
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May 13, 2019 16:24
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Randalor posted:Was there only 5 in that scene? I thought the other two were in the background. Depends on what point in the story that reflection bit takes place.
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May 13, 2019 19:45
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Krispy Wafer posted:Maybe James McAvoy is the one British actor who can't do an American accent? Doesn’t he become a writer? It may be different from the book (been a minute since I have given it a read) but I believe he marries British and has been living there for some time before getting called back to Derry.
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May 13, 2019 21:11
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hatelull posted:Doesn’t he become a writer? It may be different from the book (been a minute since I have given it a read) but I believe he marries British and has been living there for some time before getting called back to Derry. I honestly don't recall but that sort of rings a bell and would make the most sense. I highly doubt they'd just have one of the Losers Club having a UK accent for no reason. It just took me off guard when I heard it because it's been decades since I read the book and only remember the chapter 1 movie. But I think you're correct
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May 14, 2019 00:50
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oldpainless posted:Someone never read The Regulators I get why so many people dislike The Regulators, but I find its sheer unabashed weirdness compelling. It's a guilty pleasure of mine.
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May 14, 2019 02:15
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hatelull posted:Doesn’t he become a writer? It may be different from the book (been a minute since I have given it a read) but I believe he marries British and has been living there for some time before getting called back to Derry. He does become a writer and move across, but I thought they were wrapping up filming for a movie. I know his wife is English, or thereabouts.
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May 14, 2019 02:16
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ConfusedUs posted:I get why so many people dislike The Regulators, but I find its sheer unabashed weirdness compelling. It's a guilty pleasure of mine. A child's bowel movement is part of the course of defeating the evil thing. You can't get any more guilty than that.
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May 14, 2019 02:36
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I just finished the IT audiobook a few months back and yes, he’s a writer, his wife is British, and they’re making a film in England when he gets the call. I read IT back when it first came out so I’d completely forgotten about the two side plots with the Losers’ spouses. Easily the weakest parts of the book. I hope the movie doesn’t waste a lot of time on them
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May 14, 2019 03:14
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ConfusedUs posted:I get why so many people dislike The Regulators, but I find its sheer unabashed weirdness compelling. fuckin' A. Though I can't imagine reading it again, lines like "Spring on Poplar Street, man oh man can you dig it." or whatever just tickle some stupid part of me. Much like Rage's "lock me, unlock me; I am Titus, the Helpful Padlock."
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May 14, 2019 04:00
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I enjoy reading people's thought on Desperation/The Regulators. It's been said before but it seems people who have read both enjoy the first one they read more. But they also get a lot of scorn. Personally I read Desperation first and I really like it. Tak is a mean sarcastic bad guy in that one, and I have probably have a near phobia of spiders, so it resonates with me. I also like the way it spirals out of control starting with a simple fear: stopped on a desert highway by a cop and I'm going to kill you. The Regulators was ok imo. A lot like that Twilight Zone episode with the kid with superpowers that made it into the TZ movie.
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May 14, 2019 04:16
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Krispy Wafer posted:I just finished the IT audiobook a few months back and yes, he’s a writer, his wife is British, and they’re making a film in England when he gets the call. Don't the spouses have some roles in the final acts though? I thought Denbrough's makes the journey after him without his knowledge and ends up getting messed up in whole business requiring a rescue, and Bev's abusive husband becomes another pawn?
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May 14, 2019 16:59
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hatelull posted:Don't the spouses have some roles in the final acts though? I thought Denbrough's makes the journey after him without his knowledge and ends up getting messed up in whole business requiring a rescue, and Bev's abusive husband becomes another pawn? Bev leaves her abusive husband at the beginning of the novel, and he follows her and gets taken over by It in the same vein as Henry Bowers in the first book. Bill's wife comes without his knowledge, and then gets captured but goes insane and falls into a catatonic state after seeing It in person (his spider body). He retrieves her body after defeating It, and rides with her on his bike to restores her to consciousness by riding down a big hill.
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May 14, 2019 23:41
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None of those plots were integral to the plot, but I guess they fleshed out Beverly and Bill’s characters. Sticking them in the movie would just slow it down. We want another IT, not another Dark Tower.
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May 15, 2019 00:51
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Both Audra and Tom have been cast for IT 2, so they're in it at lease.
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May 15, 2019 18:44
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Hey goons. I'm getting married later this year and, as a male goon, I need to have a speech prepared. I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on King's, or any other author's, cognitions and quotes on love etc. I've got a good idea if what I want to say, but someone else has almost always said it better.
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May 15, 2019 23:44
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I think there may be better places to go for quotes about love then the author of a children's sewer gangbang
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May 15, 2019 23:58
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Seven Hundred Bee posted:I think there may be better places to go for quotes about love then the author of a children's sewer gangbang
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Hey goons. Um...Why? I'm divorced so I might be the wrong cat to ask but I made it 13 years so my advice would be to write what YOU think. Assuming you're serious, one quote that always struck with me was : "Show me who it is that loves you, and I will tell you who you are" or something to that effect and I can't remember whose quote it was. I'm not too sure I'd go poking around Stephen King's writings for something to use at your wedding but, hey, what the gently caress do I know? *googles* Here you go: “Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society's map. What others don't know about it is what makes it yours.” ― Stephen King, Bag of Bones That ought to wow em.
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quote:“Garraty wondered how it would be, to lie in the biggest, dustiest library silence of all, dreaming endless, thoughtless dreams behind your gummed-down eyelids, dressed forever in your Sunday suit. No worries about money, success, fear, joy, pain, sorrow, sex, or love. Absolute zero. No father, mother, girlfriend, lover. The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing. An end to the agony of movement, to the long nightmare of going down the road. The body in peace, stillness, and order. The perfect darkness of death. How would that be? Just how would that be?”
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May 16, 2019 00:37
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Marriage - It's longer than you think!!
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May 16, 2019 00:41
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Hey goons. Serious answer: Neil Gaiman did it best, IMO. http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2017/10/wedding-thoughts-all-i-know-about-love.html quote:This is everything I have to tell you about love: nothing. Bonus answer: "I made sure to put a loofah on the registry baby."  
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May 16, 2019 01:14
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Hey goons. Definitely something from The Regulators.
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May 16, 2019 03:47
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Hey goons. talk about how u used to use the word love to describe books and authors u like, but now ur a mature adult and use it to describe whatever ur relationship is like
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May 16, 2019 04:22
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java posted:Definitely something from The Regulators. 
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I look forward to dancing the commala with my wife for years to come. Dadda-chum, dadda-chee!
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quote:“Love is a fake!” Olson was blaring. “There are three great truths in the world and they are a good meal, a good screw, and a good poo poo, and that’s all!”
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May 16, 2019 14:28
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Gr3FsJ4A0
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:fuckin' A. Though I can't imagine reading it again, lines like "Spring on Poplar Street, man oh man can you dig it." or whatever just tickle some stupid part of me. Much like Rage's "lock me, unlock me; I am Titus, the Helpful Padlock." “My mom fucks, AND I LOVE HER.” WattsvilleBlues posted:Hey goons. “My mom fucks, AND I LOVE HER.”
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May 16, 2019 15:07
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What is it with Welsh dressers and Stephen King?
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RC and Moon Pie posted:A child's bowel movement is part of the course of defeating the evil thing. You can't get any more guilty than that. Eh, I'm able to compartmentalize that kind of thing. Sure, it's dumb. Sure, the book would be better without it. But it doesn't ruin the entire rest of the work. I just roll my eyes and move on. I feel that's sort of the key to being a King fan: accepting that sometime's he's weird as gently caress for no good reason, rolling your eyes, and getting back to the good parts.
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