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Wait, are they swapping out Bill's wife for a kid instead? I'm learning to hate the fun house hall of mirrors scene that's now showing up in tons of thrillers.
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Jul 19, 2019 00:38
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Krispy Wafer posted:Wait, are they swapping out Bill's wife for a kid instead? His wife is listed on the IMDB cast list. I think that is just some random kid in the trailer. Though I bet that kid will be called "George" or something.
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Jul 19, 2019 01:23
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The trailer looked great to me. Except for Pennywise's tongue. Hopefully the final version is better.
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Jul 19, 2019 15:07
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the loving smokehole is in it, sold
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Jul 20, 2019 04:28
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moths posted:Except for the funhouse, Georgie, and "Not scary at all," I think eveything else was. The quick shots like the smokehole are in there, but the bulk of the trailer was the funhouse scene (I love the idea of him taunting Bill who is -not scared- by killing kids in front of him, works). It definitely looks like they are diving into the ritual of Chud stuff, which is great.
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Jul 20, 2019 20:17
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skimmed Elevation, it was terrible felt like King’s one man struggle to come to grips with the concept of writing gay characters as something other than one off mentions or clown food
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Jul 20, 2019 20:55
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I also read that yesterday and thought it sucked. Like he took part of Thinner but applied the curse to the plot and character development.
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Jul 22, 2019 15:46
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The Berzerker posted:I also read that yesterday and thought it sucked. Like he took part of Thinner but applied the curse to the plot and character development. lol this is a good summary
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Jul 23, 2019 07:20
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I've been listening to the Dark Tower audiobooks and am surprised at how much I'd forgotten. I went on ebay and bought a bunch of other King audiobooks on tape for my afternoon walks.
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Jul 26, 2019 02:18
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lol @ tapes
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Jul 26, 2019 02:34
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I hope it's some kind of neon colored Walkman, but yeah the audiobooks are pretty at least through the 3rd or 4th book. I don't think I listened to em past that so hopefully the later ones are decent too. Did King himself read on some of them? I feel like one of the reasons I stopped listening was that they changed the guy reading and I wasn't a fan.
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Jul 26, 2019 07:01
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Inspector 34 posted:I hope it's some kind of neon colored Walkman, but yeah the audiobooks are pretty at least through the 3rd or 4th book. I don't think I listened to em past that so hopefully the later ones are decent too. Did King himself read on some of them? I feel like one of the reasons I stopped listening was that they changed the guy reading and I wasn't a fan. King read the first three. Frank Muller did them also up to Wizard. While I liked King's reading, he wasn't much on doing voices. His Detta Walker was....interesting. As for buying the tapes, they're super cheap - $5-8 each.
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Jul 26, 2019 19:26
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I just finished Elevation, and it was as preachy & schmaltzy & emotionally manipulative as I expected. But it had just a little streak of what makes his stuff like The Moving Finger fun to read - a completely insane premise that's never explained, weird poo poo just happens. I didn't enjoy it as much as a lot of his other stuff, but I can't say I entirely hated it.
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Jul 30, 2019 14:04
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https://deadline.com/2019/08/the-st...ode-1202659325/ This is probably bad, but I guess it can't be worse than the way the original miniseries ended.
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Aug 2, 2019 04:13
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There is no way to picture that hand of god literal deus ex machina on screen; I hope thats part of the change.
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Aug 3, 2019 03:38
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Darko posted:There is no way to picture that hand of god literal deus ex machina on screen; I hope thats part of the change. It's literally a mushroom cloud.
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Aug 3, 2019 04:52
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No, he's talking about how the Smash Brothers Master Hand saved the day. It was terrible.
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Aug 3, 2019 14:54
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So King re-writes the ending and a new, 5000-page edition of The Stand is released, in hardback?
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Aug 3, 2019 15:24
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I think on Keystone Earth, King actually died in the van accident. We are on a level of the Tower where he survived and ran all of his poo poo into the ground.
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Aug 5, 2019 01:47
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I just watched the Dark Tower movie after having seen it in the theaters. Man, this is probably the most disappointed I have ever been in a movie.
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Aug 5, 2019 02:30
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Sierra Nevadan posted:I just watched the Dark Tower movie after having seen it in the theaters. Man, this is probably the most disappointed I have ever been in a movie. If you enjoyed this disappointing experience I highly recommend checking out the Pet Sematary remake!
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Aug 5, 2019 13:47
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Oh no, how did they mess that one up?
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Aug 5, 2019 14:12
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Sierra Nevadan posted:I just watched the Dark Tower movie after having seen it in the theaters. Man, this is probably the most disappointed I have ever been in a movie. I dreaded it when I first heard about it, but forced myself to watch it and give it a chance. That was a mistake. I can't imagine the franchise going any further.
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Aug 7, 2019 01:25
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Aug 7, 2019 01:47
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As much as I really like the casting of Roland and Walter, I have read enough to know I will never, under any circumstances, subject myself to that film. Thanks for the warnings.
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Aug 7, 2019 04:36
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I wish Walter used his speech power to make me forget seeing the Dark Tower. The worst part is you got to see a small hint of how the movie could've worked when Roland is in NYC. But then they go back to his world and everything gets boring.
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Aug 7, 2019 13:31
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Hello strange forum. I've never read a Stephen King book. Well, I should say I've never finished one. I've started IT and Cujo but didn't finish either one. Not because of the books, just because I'm an idiot. Well lately I've gotten back into reading horror (reading A Head Full of Ghosts now, which is terrific), and I want to become a King guru. I'm considering reading all his fiction novels in order of publication date. My questions: Is this a good idea? If yes, should I read The Dark Tower series by publication date too or clump them all together? And should I include the short stories collections or leave them until the end?
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Aug 10, 2019 18:14
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Spatulater bro! posted:Hello strange forum. I've never read a Stephen King book. Well, I should say I've never finished one. I've started IT and Cujo but didn't finish either one. Not because of the books, just because I'm an idiot. Well lately I've gotten back into reading horror (reading A Head Full of Ghosts now, which is terrific), and I want to become a King guru. It's a fairly common reading challenge, go for it if you feel up to it. Just know that there are pretty big tonal shifts several times in his career, so if you really start digging what he's writing over a given span, it's going to change soon enough. As far as the Dark Tower question, that's up to you. I'd personally go by publication date, but either way is fine. I'd also include the short story collections in publication order.
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Aug 10, 2019 18:34
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Just read the good books imo. His short story collections are his best writing, id personally read those first
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Spatulater bro! posted:Hello strange forum. I've never read a Stephen King book. Well, I should say I've never finished one. I've started IT and Cujo but didn't finish either one. Not because of the books, just because I'm an idiot. Well lately I've gotten back into reading horror (reading A Head Full of Ghosts now, which is terrific), and I want to become a King guru. just read the ones you want to read
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Aug 11, 2019 14:52
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A Typical Goon posted:His short story collections are his best writing, id personally read those first  King is at his best when he's not trying to fill 500 pages.
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Aug 11, 2019 15:12
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There are at least half a dozen books of his that I would never read again so I would never suggest someone read everything in order, otherwise you might hit a wall with something that sucks I'd also read the Dark Tower books in order after you've read a lot of his other stuff because if you go in publication order you're forcing yourself into a several book-long cliffhanger for no real reason or benefit
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Aug 11, 2019 15:52
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Listening to Shawshank on audiobook in a drive thru with the window open and figured how bad could it get. I won’t pause it. 10 seconds later King uses the N word in a book based in Maine without any Black people.
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Aug 11, 2019 16:17
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Red is black
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Aug 12, 2019 09:07
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oldpainless posted:Red is black More like oldcreativelibertiesinthedapation. Red is White in the book. Maybe he's Black Irish?
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Aug 12, 2019 12:26
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A Typical Goon posted:Just read the good books imo. His short story collections are his best writing, id personally read those first Completely this. King is an outstanding short story author. I'm suspicious that his novels are the consequence of losing control over a tight, focused story and launching another short one in the same context rather than concluding the original story.
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Aug 12, 2019 12:46
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oldpainless posted:Red is black red is red because he has red hair. Morgan Freeman jokes about having no idea why he is called red in shawshank
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Aug 12, 2019 14:06
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Krispy Wafer posted:More like oldcreativelibertiesinthedapation. If he is I hope he doesn't have a short fuse 
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So, here's a Stephen King book that doesn't get talked about much - Cycle Of The Werewolf. Is it any good? Has anyone actually read it?
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