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Two sources I’ve seen say it was between 380 and 403 miles.
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4 and a bit days then. Blimey. There's probably some lunatics out there who could do that if they could have a snooze at some point, but the problem is the continual movement and no breaks.
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Sep 23, 2020 23:22
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i could do it no problem. i love walking
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Sep 23, 2020 23:33
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Krispy Wafer posted:Looking at crop of a thumbnail I didn't think those covers looked all that bad, but then at full size those look like garbage. A relative had this version when I was a kid; I didn't know what the book was about, so I didn't see the rest of the dog's face, all I saw was the snout, and it freaked me out, because I thought it was some sort of alien monster. I thought the nostrils were empty black eyes.
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Sep 24, 2020 00:28
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That reminds me of being a kid and seeing The Dark Half on a bookshelf. Turns out, from really far away those two mirrored birds look like some horrible red monster glaring at you.
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Sep 24, 2020 01:53
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Stephen King had no idea how fast 4mph was. He mentions a 4mph walking speed in another book (can’t remember which, maybe Salem’s Lot). If they made a Long Walk movie where the competitors were walking that fast it’d look ridiculous.
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Sep 24, 2020 01:55
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Krispy Wafer posted:Stephen King had no idea how fast 4mph was. He mentions a 4mph walking speed in another book (can’t remember which, maybe Salem’s Lot). If they made a Long Walk movie where the competitors were walking that fast it’d look ridiculous. Yeah, I remember putting that speed on a treadmill and being like “what the actual gently caress, that’s on the border of light jog”. E:just a hundred teenage boys bookin it like the old ladies that would powerwalk malls in the morning before they opened.
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Sep 24, 2020 02:43
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What are Stephen King's "core ideas" that shine though all his fiction?? I've got two: 1. Fat people are bad 2. Don't trust the government
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Sep 24, 2020 03:36
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I don't know if it's a core idea so much but every loving single one of his books has something really uncomfortably sexual in it, "the king's iron" in eyes of the dragon, unnecessary description of child porn in drawing of the three, that scene from It, some guy jerking off to celebrity nudes that were conjured up in needful things, the nazi sex dreams in apt pupil...
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Sep 24, 2020 03:48
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I just gifted Eyes of the Dragon to my friend's 12y/o daughter thinking it was pretty safe as far as weird sexual bullshit. Totally forgot about "king's iron" though. Dang. Will tell them to read it first I guess to see if they think it's appropriate for her. I think they kind of planned on it anyway since they got a little concerned about a King book giving her nightmares.
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Sep 24, 2020 04:32
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I'm sure it's fine for a 12 year old, I think that whole thing is like one paragraph and as uncomfortable as it is it's not like the first scene with Rhea and Susan in Wizard and Glass.
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Sep 24, 2020 04:37
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That's good. As for Wizard and Glass, every time the Mayor got near a woman it always turned gross as hell too.
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Sep 24, 2020 04:43
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How bad it is tends to depend on how descriptive it is. Like "the king's iron" and "the queen's forge" or whatever is gross and cringy but it's not like it describes what it felt like when he penetrated her or like the sound of his knobbly old bones creaking or how his breath stank or whatever. I haven't read it in a long loving time but from what I remember it's very brief and those euphemisms are about as graphic as it gets.
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Sep 24, 2020 05:04
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What are Stephen King's "core ideas" that shine though all his fiction?? The best "not Stephen King but Stephen King" movie is Pumpkinhead 2, which had to have been produced by feeding Steven King's works into an AI and forwarding the result to Lifetime's production team. It's got nearly all the King hallmarks (and a surprising amount of Evil Dead homages.)
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Sep 24, 2020 07:05
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Baron von Eevl posted:How bad it is tends to depend on how descriptive it is. Like "the king's iron" and "the queen's forge" or whatever is gross and cringy but it's not like it describes what it felt like when he penetrated her or like the sound of his knobbly old bones creaking or how his breath stank or whatever. I haven't read it in a long loving time but from what I remember it's very brief and those euphemisms are about as graphic as it gets. It just describes his limpdick as “he could make no iron before the forge”. Though the whole plot is kicked off by Flagg making him Magic Viagra.
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Sep 24, 2020 10:46
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What are Stephen King's "core ideas" that shine though all his fiction?? 3. Trust old men giving you directions out of town.
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I'm reading Home Delivery in Nightmares and Dreamscapes again. The main character, Maddie Pace, is painted as a neurotic, indecisive woman who needs a man in her life to show her the way. Very much like her mother. Her father was fond of saying to his drinking buddies, "If those women didn't have me to tell them where to squat and lean against the wheel, I don't know what they'd do!" What... what does it mean?? Is that just some nonsensical, old-timer saying that Stephen made up? Or an actual regional thing? So many questions. 
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What are Stephen King's "core ideas" that shine though all his fiction?? 3. Arc sodium lights 4. It's very easy to cut yourself with your fingernails 5. Black people sho is fine with you throwin' shuck and jive talk from an Amos and Andy skit around Lurk Ethic posted:I'm reading Home Delivery in Nightmares and Dreamscapes again. The main character, Maddie Pace, is painted as a neurotic, indecisive woman who needs a man in her life to show her the way. Very much like her mother. Her father was fond of saying to his drinking buddies, "If those women didn't have me to tell them where to squat and lean against the wheel, I don't know what they'd do!" It's a down-homey way of saying someone is so helpless they "need to have someone tell them where to squat and poo poo". That's the regional version I grew up with anyway
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Sep 24, 2020 22:55
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Autism = magic
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Inspector 34 posted:That's good. As for Wizard and Glass, every time the Mayor got near a woman it always turned gross as hell too. I am currently reading Wizards and Glass for the first time. I like it so far (it is like King wanted to write a true western), but it bothers me that Roland is telling a story in perspectives that is not his. How can Roland know all this stuff that happen without him being a part of?
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Sep 25, 2020 02:47
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nate fisher posted:I am currently reading Wizards and Glass for the first time. I like it so far (it is like King wanted to write a true western), but it bothers me that Roland is telling a story in perspectives that is not his. How can Roland know all this stuff that happen without him being a part of? It gets explained towards the end of story.
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Lurk Ethic posted:I'm reading Home Delivery in Nightmares and Dreamscapes again. The main character, Maddie Pace, is painted as a neurotic, indecisive woman who needs a man in her life to show her the way. Very much like her mother. Her father was fond of saying to his drinking buddies, "If those women didn't have me to tell them where to squat and lean against the wheel, I don't know what they'd do!" I always liked the zombie apocalypse in Home Delivery. It's one of my top 10 favorite King short stories.
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Sep 25, 2020 03:15
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:It's a down-homey way of saying someone is so helpless they "need to have someone tell them where to squat and poo poo". That's the regional version I grew up with anyway
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Sep 25, 2020 03:50
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Lurk Ethic posted:Where does the wheel come in? Sounds like some poo poo New Englanders would squat next to. Waterwheels at the mill maybe? Beats me why people who enjoy candlepin bowling would say it.
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Sep 25, 2020 03:57
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This got doesn’t know about the
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Lurk Ethic posted:Where does the wheel come in? I always thought it meant leaning up against the car to piss when you couldn't find a gas station.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:3. Arc sodium lights 6. Blue chambray shirts - the perfect garment for every occasion! 7. Clicking noise when swallowing. 8. AND THEY NEVER SAW HIM AGAIN.
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Inspector 34 posted:Autism = magic How many magical mentally handicapped characters has he done? Tom Cullen, Duddits and Sheemie all come to mind (I can’t remember if Sheemie was magical in Wizard and Glass or just the terrible comics). I can’t remember others but I’m sure there’s more. E:Oh, and John Coffey.
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Pretty sure young Danny Torrence was initially intended to be one, too.
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April posted:6. Blue chambray shirts - the perfect garment for every occasion! 9. Someone, usually a writer (maybe even King himself!) gets hit by a loving van.
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April posted:6. Blue chambray shirts - the perfect garment for every occasion! 9. Engineer boots
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I’m over 400 pages into Wizard and Glass, and it might be my favorite book so far of the series. If I was going to adapt the Dark Tower series the first season would be the story of Hambry and the Big Coffin Hunters and not as a back story either. I would start Roland’s story there instead of the first book (save that for season 2).
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It's probably the best book in the series overall. After that, I don't know, probably 3 or 5. 5 is almost a really solid book too but there's some batshit stupid stuff leaking into it, especially towards the end. I'm not going to spoil stuff, but I think earlier on there's also some very stupid stuff that works, as opposed to the very stupid stuff that I think doesn't.
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Baron von Eevl posted:It's probably the best book in the series overall. After that, I don't know, probably 3 or 5. 5 is almost a really solid book too but there's some batshit stupid stuff leaking into it, especially towards the end. I'm not going to spoil stuff, but I think earlier on there's also some very stupid stuff that works, as opposed to the very stupid stuff that I think doesn't. Agreed, 5 kind of spirals a bit at the end but the majority of the book takes stuff that shouldn’t possibly work and makes it work. 6 is probably the worst, but even then it has some parts that are excellent. And the cliffhanger made waiting for book 7 to release really hard, I was glad it was a very short wait.
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Wizard and Glass makes me wish we got more books about gunslingers just hanging out and meeting girls. A prequel going back further before the stakes got so high could be good, but I guess that's kind of Eye of the Dragon.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Stephen King had no idea how fast 4mph was. He mentions a 4mph walking speed in another book (can’t remember which, maybe Salem’s Lot). If they made a Long Walk movie where the competitors were walking that fast it’d look ridiculous. Any time an author gives any sort of measurement or anything like that it's wrong, and you need to subsitute it with something that makes sense. It's wierd that it's like that, you'd think there's so much fiction in the world that they'd sometimes just slip up and get it right by accident, but no, they're dedicated to whatever it is they're doing here.
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Sep 26, 2020 18:15
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wolves of the calla cheats by being another version of the seven samurai
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Crespolini posted:Any time an author gives any sort of measurement or anything like that it's wrong, and you need to subsitute it with something that makes sense. It's wierd that it's like that, you'd think there's so much fiction in the world that they'd sometimes just slip up and get it right by accident, but no, they're dedicated to whatever it is they're doing here. *checks notes on average kids per sewer gangbang* Yeah these are high
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:9. Engineer boots 10. Psychic kids can be exploited by the power-hungry 11. Throwing back your head and laughing 12. Ayuh
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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:*checks notes on average kids per sewer gangbang* The answer should be 0, so the fact it's 7 is really disconcerting. Also, the 1950's story is supposed to mirror the 1980's selves and yet the only gang bang is when they're all 11 and 12. I know King was high on coke, but I didn't realize his editors and publishers were also on a bender.
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