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Just finished Dolores Claiborne Wow. For a book I basically never hear anything about, that was really good! The format really worked for me, I can only imagine it works fantastic as an audiobook too. Will have to give that a listen someday. Is the movie adaptation worth watching?
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Gandalf21 posted:Just finished Dolores Claiborne Absolutely
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Finished Dark Tower book 2. Loved it more than the first. All the crazy scenes, the plane, the tower, the pawn shop. It got kinda slow after the tower, but it picked up in the end. I heard book 2 and 3 are the best? People say it's hard to finish the later books but I'll keep going.
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Nov 7, 2023 04:12
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2-4 is when it's really good, with 4 being my favorite.
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3 and 4 are loving perfect
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2 and 3 were my favorites. It's all downhill from there I'm afraid. 4th is good, and 5 is where it lost me a little bit. It's still ok, but not as good as before. 6 is the worst one. I liked the ending of the entire bit, but a lot of people didn't. The Wind Through the Keyhole was a pretty good addition.
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Nov 7, 2023 08:39
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Read the start of Stephen King's Cujo sequel in excerpt from story collection, You Like It Darker (due out May 21, 2024)
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Nov 8, 2023 23:12
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Great, more Covid poo poo
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I finished up 11/22/63 not too long ago, and I liked it, but it also felt like a "why did you write this" kind of thing. I think I'd read that he'd had the idea for a while, or something similar, but you should have kept this to one yourself, Steve.
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Nov 9, 2023 01:21
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What didn't you like about 11/22/63? (besides the poundcake)
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That's what I'm trying to formulate, and why I almost didn't post. I wasn't crazy about the Boomerisms, even when he pointed out the times were lovely and it was easy to "whitewash" it, if you will. It felt like there were large chunks where nothing happened, where Jake was just did his surveillance and kind of existed; the Yellow Card Men or whatever felt underused, and had an exposition dump at the end that felt like he was just tying up a few loose ends. I dunno, I didn't like it. I can't quite nail it down, and couldn't even while I was reading the book. And I think Sadie is boring.
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Leave posted:That's what I'm trying to formulate, and why I almost didn't post. I wasn't crazy about the Boomerisms, even when he pointed out the times were lovely and it was easy to "whitewash" it, if you will. Hey I feel like Robinson crusoe finding Friday right now
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Nov 9, 2023 02:16
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As with pretty much most of Kings works, you could have cut around 10-15% and not lost anything
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Nov 9, 2023 02:28
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I am a tall intellectual who bangs a much younger lady and for some reason teenagers find me cool. Also I wear a blue chambray work shirt and my nails cut crescents into my palms.
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Nov 10, 2023 13:16
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What's your take on alcohol?
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Nov 11, 2023 04:02
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Also, does your greasy hair hang down in your eyes?
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Nov 11, 2023 22:51
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And that was the last time she ever saw him alive.
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For anybody subscribing to Spotify Premium, there's a bunch of audiobooks available for free now. I'm giving Wizard and Glass a listen because I think it's my favourite King book of all time.
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Nov 11, 2023 23:59
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Cool, thanks for the heads up!
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Skulker posted:I am a tall intellectual who bangs a much younger lady and for some reason teenagers find me cool. Also I wear a blue chambray work shirt and my nails cut crescents into my palms. But are you wearing engineer boots?
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Nov 12, 2023 01:14
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It's hard to tell under the orange, arc sodium lights
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Leave posted:That's what I'm trying to formulate, and why I almost didn't post. I wasn't crazy about the Boomerisms, even when he pointed out the times were lovely and it was easy to "whitewash" it, if you will. There is definitely a long hard slog in the middle where he's in Texas farting around. The first quarter (?) of the book just sweeps you along, as you learn about the past and its possibilities and I think the ending is actually one of his better ones, even though it does seem to tumble together in a rush. In between, it could move along a little more. (I don't recall any hoods in engineer boots in his high school, but maybe small-town Texas hadn't gotten around to having any yet)
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Kosmo Gallion posted:For anybody subscribing to Spotify Premium, there's a bunch of audiobooks available for free now. I'm giving Wizard and Glass a listen because I think it's my favourite King book of all time. dang, not in Canada I guess
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https://twitter.com/MechaBarbarian/status/1723486132300607837?s=20 If you get stranded on your car near Salem's lot DO NOT EXIT YOUR VEHICLE
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Does your vehicle count as a domicile to the vampires? Didn't that dude in One for the Road leave his family in there cuz it was warm?
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lukevictorious posted:Does your vehicle count as a domicile to the vampires? Didn't that dude in One for the Road leave his family in there cuz it was warm? He did but they could have been suckered into opening it, the vampires were starting to become intelligent enough to trick their old friends into coming in/over by the end of the book.
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Nov 28, 2023 14:55
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(Song of Susannah) lmao I forgot that Black Thirteen gets destroyed by 9/11. Thank ya big big, sai bin Laden 
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lukevictorious posted:Does your vehicle count as a domicile to the vampires? Didn't that dude in One for the Road leave his family in there cuz it was warm? Doubtful. The Salem's Lot vampires seem to be a lot weaker without Barlow around but they were still fairly lethal and sneaky. Can't imagine a car door would stop them. My assumption was always that some vampire tranced the mother and little girl in "one for the road" so that they would leave the car voluntarily, so even if the car would've counted as a "home" it wouldn't have saved them.
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lukevictorious posted:Does your vehicle count as a domicile to the vampires? Didn't that dude in One for the Road leave his family in there cuz it was warm? Maybe if it's a motor home?
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They optioned The Long Walk! Let's go! Wait lol, it's the hunger games director. Oh well, still excited, it's a great weird book.
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Mr. Nemo posted:They optioned The Long Walk! Let's go! There's so much world-building that could be done, but I worry that it could overwhelm the simplicity of the idea.
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Just finished Dark Tower #3 and it was good. I liked the weird town they visit and the hosed up city. I am still unsure on a lot about Roland's past, but it sounds like #4 has a lot of flashbacks? I kinda wanna look up fan art but I'm afraid of getting spoiled. The worldbuilding is my favorite parts.
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Davros1 posted:Maybe if it's a motor home? Also like unfortunately it's not rare for people to live out of there cars. Particular now days.
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err posted:Just finished Dark Tower #3 and it was good. I liked the weird town they visit and the hosed up city. I am still unsure on a lot about Roland's past, but it sounds like #4 has a lot of flashbacks? I kinda wanna look up fan art but I'm afraid of getting spoiled. The worldbuilding is my favorite parts. You're in for a treat, Wizard and Glass is such a great book. Yes, it's pretty much all flashbacks but it's really good and if you like world building you'll definitely enjoy it.
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Yea it’s awesome. Arguably the best in the series.
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Mat Cauthon posted:Doubtful. The Salem's Lot vampires seem to be a lot weaker without Barlow around but they were still fairly lethal and sneaky. Can't imagine a car door would stop them. How do people feel about One for the Road? I think it's a great short story, but it really twist the nail on the ending of 'Salem's Lot by making it clear that Ben didn't really accomplish poo poo in the end. Unless it's meant to take place before Ben burns the town down at the end? I don't think that can be the case though?
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PriorMarcus posted:How do people feel about One for the Road? I think it's a great short story, but it really twist the nail on the ending of 'Salem's Lot by making it clear that Ben didn't really accomplish poo poo in the end. Unless it's meant to take place before Ben burns the town down at the end? I don't think that can be the case though? I love it, but I'm also not a big fan of Salem's Lot. It's too early King for me - hokey prose, full of unreconstructed sexism. One for the Road is just a good solid horror story.
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PriorMarcus posted:How do people feel about One for the Road? I think it's a great short story, but it really twist the nail on the ending of 'Salem's Lot by making it clear that Ben didn't really accomplish poo poo in the end. Unless it's meant to take place before Ben burns the town down at the end? I don't think that can be the case though? I think they specifically mentioned Jerusalem’s Lot burning down “inexplicably” in One For The Road, so it’s after the ‘Salem’s Lot ending. And it’s hard to say they did nothing; yeah the vampires aren’t all gone but since there’s no more town that stuff that got mentioned in the epilogue about people trying to move in disappearing isn’t happening, and even if no one likes taking about it it seems like an open secret now that the ruins are haunted by vampires.
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