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Also a term for the people who lived in Lud
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oldpainless posted:Also a term for the people who lived in Lud I just got the joke that the Luddites were killed by technology.
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Mar 30, 2020 12:45
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I'm listening to The Stand again because why the heck not. Which chapter is 'No Great Loss'? I'm sure I've listened to it, but the audiobook doesn't read chapter titles. I tried Googling, but couldn't get a straight answer.
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Apr 1, 2020 17:48
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Krispy Wafer posted:I'm listening to The Stand again because why the heck not. Google Books seems to say it's Chapter 38.
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Apr 1, 2020 17:55
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Isn't "no great loss" in the uncut version only?
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Apr 1, 2020 19:41
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Yes, I believe it was cut from the original. I remember the chapter now. It was alright, not sure it deserves it's reputation though.
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Apr 1, 2020 19:47
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It helps that it's right at the end of the best part of the book, so it caps the general feeling off.
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if the stand ended at no great loss it would be one of kings best novellas
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There are several glaring problems with the modernization of The Stand from 1980 to 1990, but one that is really jumping out at me on my re-read is Larry Underwood going to a telephone book and calling the hospital to get an ambulance. Like, just erase about 3 paragraphs there and write, "and the 911 line rang busy."
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Apr 2, 2020 18:24
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Krispy Wafer posted:Yes, I believe it was cut from the original. I remember the chapter now. It was alright, not sure it deserves it's reputation though. The bit about the little boy wandering around on his own made me cry.
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Apr 2, 2020 22:11
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So wasn’t someone filming The Stand recently for some format? I’m just curious if production on The Stand got shut down due to coronavirus.
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Apr 5, 2020 01:57
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These past few weeks have been the perfect time to get some drone footage of the desolate city streets. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2W07ezSUcA
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kenny powerzzz posted:So wasn’t someone filming The Stand recently for some format? I’m just curious if production on The Stand got shut down due to coronavirus. There's a mini series for CBS all access. It started production last year, but I don't know if they finished shooting.
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Leavemywife posted:Why are people so harsh on Buick 8? Cell, I get, because it's an incredible example of watching a book get worse through every chapter, but Buick 8 has a good cast of characters, a nice mystery, and a good, weird, atmosphere. Really the best part of Buick 8 is a bunch of weird inexplicable creepy poo poo happens and no one ever knows why and it's never explained. The characters rationally decide "know what, gently caress that car, put it in storage and never touch it again." It's a refreshing change.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Really the best part of Buick 8 is a bunch of weird inexplicable creepy poo poo happens and no one ever knows why and it's never explained. The characters rationally decide "know what, gently caress that car, put it in storage and never touch it again." It's a refreshing change. This is exactly right but you basically just described the whole book rather than any one part 
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Apr 6, 2020 20:39
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Maximum Overdrive is supposed to be this way, right? It isn't supposed to be scary but rather hilarious and weird as gently caress?
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Apr 7, 2020 17:03
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Yes. When you have time, watch "Trucks."
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Apr 7, 2020 22:49
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Maximum Overdrive is the movie. "Trucks" is the short story.
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Apr 7, 2020 23:31
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Ornamented Death posted:Maximum Overdrive is the movie. "Trucks" is the short story. Correct, but they also eventually made Trucks into a made for TV movie that’s nowhere as good as Maximum Overdrive. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXP87WW5HoM
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Ornamented Death posted:Maximum Overdrive is the movie. "Trucks" is the short story. And I disagree about the tv adaptation. It was true to the story, it wasn't campy or funny.
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Apr 7, 2020 23:52
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Maximum Overdrive owns. 
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Apr 7, 2020 23:53
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ruddiger posted:Correct, but they also eventually made Trucks into a made for TV movie that’s nowhere as good as Maximum Overdrive. Wow I was not aware of this. Thanks!
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Apr 7, 2020 23:56
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Owns what? Did you read Trucks? Maximum Overdrive was a stupid comedy take on a heart-wrenching short story. Sorry, man. Just remember the guy dying in a ditch and crying for any kind of help and go ahead, tell me I'm wrong. I realize how pedantic I sound so I want to try to clarify, even if it means digging the hole deeper: The original story was a lot like "The Mist." No one knew why machinery was murdering humanity, but the story took place in a tuck-stop/diner much in the way "The Mist" took place in a grocery store. Several different types of personalities got trapped there and it was a perfect King pot-boiler. To compare the stupid goofy movie to the original work is, to my mind, simply ignorant of the source material and how truly powerful and mysterious it was. Dr. Faustus fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Apr 8, 2020 |
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Trucks is a story where Stephen King, noted fuckup of endings, writes an actual good ending. He's a short story man. Even his good books are a bunch of vignettes.
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I know King says he doesn't remember writing Cujo because he was so hosed up, but I forget if he said he ever said the same about directing Maximum Overdrive. "The machine just called me an rear end in a top hat" guy is still one of my favorite King acting roles.
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Maximum Overdrive isn't trying to be Schindler's List. It's pulpy low budget schlock and knows it and revels in it. I stand by my statement.
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Apparently a new book of novella stories coming out this month called "If It Bleeds" https://www.amazon.com/If-Bleeds-Stephen-King/dp/1982137975
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BiggerBoat posted:Apparently a new book of novella stories coming out this month called "If It Bleeds" Oh goody, more Holly. Am I the only one that finds her the most annoying King character of the last decade? She's like the living embodiment of the smucking SOWISA crap in Lisey's Story. And he's putting her in EVERYTHING.
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Baron von Eevl posted:I know King says he doesn't remember writing Cujo because he was so hosed up, but I forget if he said he ever said the same about directing Maximum Overdrive. He's said the same thing about Maximum Overdrive. He also was convinced at the time that it was actually scary. In the trailer he states "If you want something done right, you do it yourself" and something about wanting to scare the hell out of you. Or check out his batshit appearances on talk shows when it was released. His drug use and inexperience also contributed to several accidents on set. Like the lawnmower scene where he insisted on using real blades even though you wouldn't see them, so it caught a piece of wood and flung it into the DP's eye, half-blinding him and leading to a settlement worth millions. There's also been a rumor for a long time that George Romero directed a few scenes when King was too hosed up to do so.
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April posted:Oh goody, more Holly. Am I the only one that finds her the most annoying King character of the last decade? She's like the living embodiment of the smucking SOWISA crap in Lisey's Story. Who is this character? I haven't read any of his newer stuff since my mom gave me Full Dark for my birthday a few years back and I tapped out after the 3rd story.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Who is this character? I haven't read any of his newer stuff since my mom gave me Full Dark for my birthday a few years back and I tapped out after the 3rd story. She was in the Mr. Mercedes trilogy, and The Outsider. And she's annoying as gently caress.
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I like her character in the Mr Mercedes TV show. The actress does a good job in portraying an autistic/OCD person.
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https://news.avclub.com/stephen-king-is-fine-with-coronavirus-being-called-cap-1842794888 Stephen King is cool with calling this virus "Captain Trumps"
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Man, that ending to Castle Rock season two. I mean, given that it's Annie Wilkes we're talking about you knew something was gonna happen, but I wasn't expecting that.
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Castle Rock season 2 is good, except for all the reviewers talking about how it has a so very much younger so not old such not an ancient lady version of Annie Wilkes. When Lizzy Kaplan in that is like 5 years younger than Kathy Bates was in Misery. That's not in any way the show's fault, though, that's just people being morons.
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Apr 11, 2020 06:22
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The Holly character was really good in the Outsider TV show. The actress was great.
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I didn’t mind Holly too much in the Mr Mercedes trilogy. I expected to hate her in the first book but she grew on me a fair bit. Especially when she went ham on Brady with a sock full of ball bearings
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Holly is great in The Outsider TV show, but I've always found King problematic with the Magical Negro trope. I've reached the Abagail Freemantle portion of The Stand and she's about as magical as you can get, but what makes it worse is that I don't think there are any other Black people in this book. There was the scientist in the Stovington Plague Center, but I'm having a hard time recalling anyone else. Maybe someone else pops up in Boulder, but I have no recollection of that from my previous read-throughs. Anyone remember any other Black characters or did Captain Trips kill all but one African-American? Actually, now I remember a lot of Black characters from the TV execution scene and that's not making me feel any better about this book. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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There's the Rat Man. An evil racist who sexually harasses women and is some kind of mad post apocalyptic pirate?
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