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liseys story is the only one ive been unable to finish. i barely got 50 pages in before dropping that trash
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Lester Shy posted:There are a few King books I've started and put down after 20 pages, but I plan to finish most of those someday. I think Dreamcatcher is the only one I've given up on after the halfway point. I finished dream catcher and had no idea what the gently caress was happening in the last quarter of the book. It was incoherent. Krispy Wafer posted:I gave up on Just After Sunset. Didn’t get past the first story about the highway rest stop. It felt more like murder porn than horror. That’s the weakest story in there by a wide margin. If you still have the book... wait, I just realized I was thinking of the highway rest stop one in Bazaar of Bad Dreams. I didn’t get through Just after Sunset either.
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Jul 9, 2020 13:48
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I don't think I'll drop it but I'm right in the middle of skimming the last half of Duma Key, the characters just never clicked with me at all. Muchacho.
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Jul 9, 2020 19:53
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Teach posted:Changing the subject, late to the party, probably been said before, etc, but I had a moment last night, watching Doctor Sleep. So, I love Kubrick and have seen The Shining way too many times - I caught this little callback in the theater seeing Dr. Sleep. But I'm not sure I liked it? In Kubrick's film, the interview has a surreal quality (the location of the windows isn't possible given the visible layout of the hotel, for example), inviting you to question later whether this was an actual job interview, some kind of Faustian deal for Jack's soul, or maybe it was both, at the same time? I didn't think the reuse of the interview room setting had an appropriate amount of thematic weight in Sleep. But I've also seen The Shining a million times, and Dr. Sleep once in a theater that lets you order drinks. I thought an unnecessary over-reliance on Kubrick's imagery crept into Dr. Sleep at times, though I generally liked it - does anyone have a pitch for this callback NOT being that, but something weightier? Maybe it was just supposed to be a fun nod, and I'm overthinking it.
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Jul 9, 2020 20:30
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Crindee posted:I don't think I'll drop it but I'm right in the middle of skimming the last half of Duma Key, the characters just never clicked with me at all. Muchacho. Oh yeah, I started that one, too. I basically forgot.
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Jul 9, 2020 21:46
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scary ghost dog posted:liseys story is the only one ive been unable to finish. i barely got 50 pages in before dropping that trash So odd King has cited that as his favorite book he's written.
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Jul 9, 2020 22:02
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I finished dream catcher and had no idea what the gently caress was happening in the last quarter of the book. It was incoherent. I got them mixed up, it must have been Bazaar of Bad Dreams I gave up on. So the rest of the book isn’t as bad?
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Jul 10, 2020 06:37
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BiggerBoat posted:So odd King has cited that as his favorite book he's written. its not that odd.....every sentence is like some stupid wordplay he had stuck in his head for 40 years. it sucks but its just insanely him
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Jul 10, 2020 06:50
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scary ghost dog posted:its not that odd.....every sentence is like some stupid wordplay he had stuck in his head for 40 years. it sucks but its just insanely him I think it's because, as he says, it's a book about a marriage. When you're in a relationship that spans decades, you have inside jokes and nonsense words and gestures and whatnot that make zero sense to anyone else. Everyone does it, and long-term friendships, siblings, and even parent-child types can be the same way. The thing is, when you use those inside jokes nonstop around people who aren't the few people who also use them, it quickly goes from quirky to annoying to excruciating. I'm sure it'll come as a shock to no one that King just didn't know when to say when.
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Jul 10, 2020 15:17
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Krispy Wafer posted:I got them mixed up, it must have been Bazaar of Bad Dreams I gave up on. So the rest of the book isn’t as bad? The rest of the book is really, really good. It just has a pretty crap opener. A lot of the stories have a major emphasis on getting older and having death be around the corner, it’s really interesting.
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Jul 10, 2020 15:36
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I tried at least three times to give Under the Dome a chance because it sounded like such a good premise and I really enjoyed Needful Things, but it felt like hundreds of pages of nothing happening. Which pissed me off because I believe it's like the second-longest book he's written.
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Jul 10, 2020 17:17
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BiggerBoat posted:I very rarely put a book down and your post got me to thinking of King books I abandoned Oh, I meant first horror book I quit reading specifically because of the horror part. I've quit reading a lot of lovely books, including 3 of your list lol. I did love Duma Key, because the King idea behind it (Evil Paintings!) interested me. SSJ_naruto_2003 fucked around with this message at 18:44 on Jul 10, 2020 |
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Jul 10, 2020 18:42
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I’ve read Under The Dome and all I can remember from it is an interesting beginning, Big Jim being cartoonishly evil, children having the absolute worst dialogue, and thinking it could probably have been like 600 pages shorter
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Jul 10, 2020 21:23
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I read Under the Dome in a day, something about that book just worked for me.
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Jul 10, 2020 21:30
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I liked Under The Dome, but I've got no desire to read it again. It's too long, I say, even though I've read The Stand twice and want to read it again.
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Jul 10, 2020 23:21
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I thought Under The Dome suffered from classic King Syndrome: Interesting idea that gets dragged on for too long, and oh poo poo I need an ending *poof* it was
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Jul 10, 2020 23:58
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Under the Dome and Duma Key both worked for me for different reasons. I didn't regret reading either and found UTD to be an actual page turner. They were fine.
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Jul 11, 2020 00:06
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I have wondered if there was a good way for Under the Dome to end without kind of giving the out it did. I did like most of the book though outside of a few parts, and for a long book it did keep things moving at a brisk past it felt like.
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Jul 11, 2020 05:52
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Yea I enjoyed Under the Dome. The ending wasn’t great but that’s kinda to be expected with most thing King writes so it’s your own fault if it that shocked you.
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Jul 11, 2020 05:56
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I liked the idea of alien kids just slapping a dome over a town. It's loving goofy, and seems what like a child would do, alien or not.
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Jul 11, 2020 06:15
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The Under the Dome tv show was absolutely ridiculous, I watched all of it because my family was into it and my god was it trash. Made me appreciate the book and it’s ending
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Jul 11, 2020 06:46
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bobjr posted:I have wondered if there was a good way for Under the Dome to end without kind of giving the out it did. I did like most of the book though outside of a few parts, and for a long book it did keep things moving at a brisk past it felt like. The dome protects against climate change / nuclear war / pandemic or other apocalypse, and the twist ending is people are clamouring to get in.
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Jul 11, 2020 12:00
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The thing about under the dome that kind of bugged me as I read it is that it is peak "boomer's understanding of the internet" with all the nonsensical plots points about which types of communication worked and didn't.
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Jul 12, 2020 20:28
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Do small-town hoods still wear engineer boots? Trying to remember if King still uses that (or even who his latest small-town hoods are).
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Jul 14, 2020 22:20
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Drimble Wedge posted:Do small-town hoods still wear engineer boots? Trying to remember if King still uses that (or even who his latest small-town hoods are). Yep, a few bars near me recently banned them because of issues. E:Issues being in this case about a half dozen stabbings and a shooting.
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Jul 14, 2020 22:35
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they were blue chambray shirts, just like everyone does. edit: what kind of boots were banned? steel toe? I should stop posting high escape artist fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 00:22
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Drimble Wedge posted:Do small-town hoods still wear engineer boots? Trying to remember if King still uses that (or even who his latest small-town hoods are). I just started re-reading The Gunslinger today (I only read the first 3 books so trying to finally read them all), and guess what old Nort from Tull was wearing? That is right, engineer boots.
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Jul 15, 2020 01:08
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nate fisher posted:trying to finally read them all Dear god no edit: I'll go ahead and stan book 5 but 6 is really loving dire and 7 has like a 300 page section of just wandering through a barren tundra and absolutely nothing happens and gently caress why are you padding out the last book this much? Baron von Eevl fucked around with this message at 03:54 on Jul 15, 2020 |
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Jul 15, 2020 03:52
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6 is really awful but 7 is fine because you know its the last one the whole time lol
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Jul 15, 2020 03:59
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1 is great 2 barely makes it past ok 3 is the best in the series EXCEPT THAT 4 Is actually the best in the series even though it shouldn’t be in the series 4.5 I can’t even remember even though I read it 5 is worth reading but needs to be cut down like 20% 6 is absolute garbage second only to my posts 7 is a great 350 page book stretched out to almost 800 pages but I still reread chunks of it
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Jul 15, 2020 04:06
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4.5 is a really cool side story.
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Jul 15, 2020 04:39
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What’s 4.5? Wind Through the Keyhole or something like that?
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Jul 15, 2020 04:44
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I always get confused between 6 and 7 because those are the only ones I've only read the one time. Which is the one with the Mind Trap because that's potentially the most embarrassed I've ever felt for an author, and I know a thing or two about feeling embarrassed for an author.
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Jul 15, 2020 04:46
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ruddiger posted:What’s 4.5? Wind Through the Keyhole or something like that? Yea
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Jul 15, 2020 04:47
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little sisters of eluria is the best part of the dark tower imo
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Jul 15, 2020 05:13
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Wind Through the Keyhole was alright. I liked the story, but it incorporated way too much of the terms and in-jokes that were developed in the last few books. So even though the telling of the story was supposed to be before book 5, a lot of the way it's communicated is like it's after the series. Can't think of specific examples since it's been a while since I read it, but it definitely stood out to me like, "The didn't know what this thing was called until book 7!" Or something like that. Overall it was good, better than Song of Suzannah for sure, but it kind of let me down a little to because it didn't seem like King paid enough attention to where he was supposed to be at in the story.
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Jul 15, 2020 05:16
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oldpainless posted:1 is great This is... uh, actually completely correct and factual
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Jul 15, 2020 09:58
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Well it is my one glaring hole in my King reading. I did remember enjoying the first 3 books, but that was like 20 years ago or something. Wish me luck.
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Jul 15, 2020 12:50
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I must be out of my loving mind, because I keep seeing hate for the Regulators when it's long been one of my favorite King books.
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oldpainless posted:1 is great Yeah this checks out. Little Sisters (.5?) is up there. I'd say that, The Gunslinger, and W&G are top 3, with Wastelands as a close runner up. Wizard and Glass is so much better than you really expect it to be, it's definitely the best in the series and one of my favorite King books of all time. I wonder if whatever he was channeling there would've stuck around had he not nearly died.
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