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Nightmares and Dreamscapes had the Castle Rock story It Grows On You, which had this description of Joe Newall's wife, Cora:quote:She was a grainbag of a woman, incredibly wide across the hips, incredibly full in the
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Josef K. Sourdust posted:For those of you working on your dissertations "Hideous Forms: Stephen King and Representations of Obesity" The preacher woman Sylvia Pittston in The Gunslinger. Whole lotta woman there. Then Roland gets his chubby chaser freak flag flying but decides to give her a revolver abortion. 
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I have compiled a list of horrible characters who are fat and whose size is described with the intention to repulse readers:
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JohnnyCanuck posted:Nightmares and Dreamscapes had the Castle Rock story It Grows On You, which had this description of Joe Newall's wife, Cora: lol
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Wasn't Cora in Needful Things, too?
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There was a Cora in Needful Things and I think she was fat. One half of the Elvis loving duo.
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Wasn't the one housewife in Tommyknockers who gets instructed by plastic Jesus to use her television to electrocute the poo poo out of her cheating husband also really fat?
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MrSlam posted:Lovecraft and Mark Twain think I'm an idiot, and now Stephen King thinks I'm hideous Ever read The Pear-Shaped Man? Oh, and The Monkey Treatment.
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At least I'll always have GRRM
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Since there are only two episodes left, I'm wondering if they really intend on making 11.22.63 a standalone miniseries. By the end of the book you've delved into typical King metaphysics about mystical forces destroying the world. Unless they scrap that and replace it with a generic nuclear apocalypse, I don't see how they can show his recovery, the assassination attempt, and the consequences in two episodes. The TVIV thread seems pretty down on the adaptation, but I have really enjoyed it and think that they've pared the story down in a very effective way and I'm interested to see how they end it.
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It has been a long time since I read Danse Macabre, but I am pretty sure there is a section in there where King describes "monsters" we see in our everyday lives. The two examples that I remember him talking about were obese people and people with really bad acne. King thinks society sees these people as monsters and ultimately treats them as such. There are definitely many examples of the obese in his writing and while I can't point to a specific character I feel bad acne shows up every now and then too.
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Oswald has a noticeable outbreak of acne at one point in 11/22/63, actually.
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I finished reading Everything's Eventual I liked a lot of the stories in there. I liked 1408 it reminded me of acid I had a nightmare about 1408 I was trapped in a hotel room and couldn't get out but eventually I did get out the door. Thanks SK. I very rarely have nightmares based on media anymore. The only other SK thing I remember giving me a bad dream was Revival is the movie of 1408 good? I can't imagine it's anything but a typical modern day horror movie with jump scares and poo poo. It's the type of story I can't imagine at all translating well to the screen
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Ein cooler Typ posted:is the movie of 1408 good? I can't imagine it's anything but a typical modern day horror movie with jump scares and poo poo. I guess it's worth watching once. Did you like the ambiguity of From a Buick Eight? "1408" had that to some extent. The movie just fumbles it.
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Dr. Faustus posted:In the same way that the ending to the movie adaptation of "The Mist" was actually kinda better than the novella, the ending of 1408 is truly disappointingly worse. It's actually pretty fun and scary until the final resolution in the last few minutes, which will leave you thinking, "What a goddamn lovely movie-by-committee way to close the story."
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Perhaps a hamster posted:Didn't 1408 have like three different endings depending on which version you saw? There are at least two: John Cusack makes it out alive after setting the room on fire. He later plays back the tape he made while in there and both he and his wife hears their dead daughter. OR John Cusack dies in the fire. Cut to an awkward scene with Samuel L. Jackson raising a glass in his honor and saying he did a great job. They are equally bad.
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I don't know, I really liked the 1408 movie. I just pretend the ending doesn't exist because in my opinion the rest of the movie is so good, my favorite pre-ending King-based movie. If I had to pick a "favorite" ending of the previously posted versions, I'd probably go with the second because the first was just too convenient and "happy ending"-ish.
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I only saw the "bad" ending (didn't know there was another) and all I could think was, "This movie was fun and scary but why did I watch the whole drat thing just for the protagonist to die in a stupid way at the very end?" Loved the short story, though.
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Murphy Brownback posted:I don't know, I really liked the 1408 movie. I just pretend the ending doesn't exist This is the best approach.
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Mar 25, 2016 18:01
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How should it have ended?
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I was cleaning out my bookcase for a move and came across Storm of the Century which is more or less the script (or screenplay? I don't know the difference) for the TV series. It was the first ever thing by Stephen King I read and I flipped through it for nostalgia's sake. And holy poo poo the ending in this version. The ending in general is good but in King's original written plan Linoge turns into an old wizard with a pointy hat with stars and poo poo all over it like he's a goddamned Disney wizard from Fantasia. Whoever helped adapt this thing from page to screen needs to just sit in on all of King's endings because that is exactly the kind of stuff that sneaks in and takes me out of them.
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Franchescanado posted:How should it have ended? Like the short story?
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dirksteadfast posted:And holy poo poo the ending in this version. The ending in general is good but in King's original written plan Linoge turns into an old wizard with a pointy hat with stars and poo poo all over it like he's a goddamned Disney wizard from Fantasia. Whoever helped adapt this thing from page to screen needs to just sit in on all of King's endings because that is exactly the kind of stuff that sneaks in and takes me out of them. See also the ~!magic hands!~ ending to Needful Things.
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Regarding 11/22/63. The miniseries had a few groan worthy parts, but overall they did it. Those beautiful bastards actually did it. They made a tv adaptation of a King novel that didn't suck rear end and was emotionally moving.
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Jealous Cow posted:Those beautiful bastards actually did it. They made a tv adaptation of a King novel that didn't suck rear end and was emotionally moving. I'm not sure what it was exactly, but Sadie's speech at the end and her dance with Jake made me cry like a baby. Really got to me.
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Hello King thread, I'm reading the Dark Tower series and am currently most of the way through Wizard and Glass. Why did everyone start speaking Spanish?
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They're in Mexico
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oldpainless posted:They're in Mexico Yeah but for the first 10 chapters of Roland's story-in-a-story nobody was talking Spanish, then it's almost The Reap and look we're all speaking Spanish now
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youre in texas and they introduce mexican bandidos that work for farson towards the end
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scary ghost dog posted:youre in texas and they introduce mexican bandidos that work for farson towards the end Ok that makes way more sense
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consider the thinny the rio grande
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I'm rereading The Dark Tower series for the first time since high school, and I think I picked up on something that's... well, in error, historically speaking. I'm on Book 3 and Jake has just run into Young Eddie and Young Henry in New York. But Henry was supposed to have been wounded in Vietnam. And Jake's timeline is 1977. Am I missing something?
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scary ghost dog posted:consider the thinny the rio grande We're gonna build a big, beautiful wall, and FARSON'S gonna pay for it! - Trump of the Eld
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scary ghost dog posted:consider the thinny the rio grande Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
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Admiral Bosch posted:I'm rereading The Dark Tower series for the first time since high school, and I think I picked up on something that's... well, in error, historically speaking. I'm on Book 3 and Jake has just run into Young Eddie and Young Henry in New York. But Henry was supposed to have been wounded in Vietnam. And Jake's timeline is 1977. Am I missing something? not really....i dont remember if thats ever explained but it wouldnt be difficult
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Admiral Bosch posted:I'm rereading The Dark Tower series for the first time since high school, and I think I picked up on something that's... well, in error, historically speaking. I'm on Book 3 and Jake has just run into Young Eddie and Young Henry in New York. But Henry was supposed to have been wounded in Vietnam. And Jake's timeline is 1977. Am I missing something? An entire ocean moved in between books 2 and 3, little details aren't really King's specialty.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:An entire ocean moved in between books 2 and 3, little details aren't really King's specialty. Arrrghhhhh I had forgotten about this.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:little details aren't really King's specialty. Yep, remember that time when Eddie grew an extra arm in It? I remember - correct me if I'm wrong - at the climax Eddie had one broken arm which he couldn't use and his good arm was bitten off by It. Then as Eddie died he touched Richie's face.... with his 3rd arm? 
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It's not too much of a stretch to assume he was using his broken arm, was it? You can still move a broken arm, it's just painful and not a good idea. When you're at death's door you probably don't care too much, right?
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I think there was a similar thing in the original Green Mile mini series books. I think it's when Percy was in the straightjacket, and he wiped the sweat off his face with his hands.
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Look, when you're writing on coke it's really hard to remember piddly details like how many arms a person has when you could be spending precious time describing how disgustingly obese
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