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oldpainless posted:Too many fingers on hand, pass. Dod-a-chock? Dud-a-chum?
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May 17, 2016 01:11
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oldpainless posted:Too many fingers on hand, pass. Too many iPhones.
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May 17, 2016 01:37
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"Go then, there are other worlds than these" *falls* *fifteen assholes in audience: "WHERE'S THE BOY, STRING?!?"
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May 17, 2016 03:00
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His clothes are way too nice and clean. Shab that man up, Hollywood.
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May 17, 2016 03:39
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oldpainless posted:Too many fingers on hand, pass. That's a plot point I could see them skipping because it's just too annoying to do with a movie series.
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May 17, 2016 15:13
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muscles like this? posted:That's a plot point I could see them skipping because it's just too annoying to do with a movie series. I don't know, Roland getting attacked by the lobstrosity sets the stage for a lot of the conflict in The Drawing of the Three.
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May 17, 2016 15:17
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Ornamented Death posted:I don't know, Roland getting attacked by the lobstrosity sets the stage for a lot of the conflict in The Drawing of the Three. There's no way to say this without coming off snide, but but so does Roland being white. I'm happy with Idris Elba and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with the role but I'm pretty sure the movies aren't going to follow the books all that closely.
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May 17, 2016 15:48
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3Romeo posted:There's no way to say this without coming off snide, but but so does Roland being white. I'm happy with Idris Elba and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with the role but I'm pretty sure the movies aren't going to follow the books all that closely. Hah, fair enough. And of course, there's no guarantee that we'll even see a second movie if the first doesn't do well, so it may all be moot anyhow.
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May 17, 2016 15:50
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The movies being different fits in well with the entire idea of cycles and changes that the books have anyway. Who's to say whether the events in this envisioning of the Dark Tower movies take place many cycles ahead of or behind what we saw in the books?
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May 17, 2016 16:49
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Maybe Roland just got super tan.
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May 17, 2016 17:31
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Cuthbert is now Chinese
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May 17, 2016 17:55
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Are we gonna talk The Fireman in here or nah?
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May 17, 2016 20:44
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was it good or nah
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May 17, 2016 23:43
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oldpainless posted:Cuthbert is now Chinese He could be the kid from Up. I would see that.
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May 17, 2016 23:57
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Cuthbert/Eddie played by Kevin Hart. Susannah played by Tilda Swinton. Race card can still be played.
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May 18, 2016 00:02
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Nick Nolte for Gasher, save some of that wardrobe budget
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May 18, 2016 04:35
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^burtle posted:Are we gonna talk The Fireman in here or nah? I'm part way through and I like it a lot so far. That's my main thought on it.
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May 18, 2016 11:09
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^burtle posted:Are we gonna talk The Fireman in here or nah? For only the second time in 10+ years Amazon missed their release day shipping with me (well it was USPS that messed up). It should be here today. ConfusedUs posted:I'm almost done with my third read of 11-22-63. I read it twice when it came out, and I'm almost through it again. I really liked 11-22-63, but I even enjoyed Revival more. I guess that doesn't mean quality wise it is a better book, but I still liked it more. I still think The Shining is King's best written book, and 'Salem's Lot is my all-time favorite. I do think 11-22-63 is better written than a lot of his stuff including It or Pet Sematary.
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May 18, 2016 14:21
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nate fisher posted:I still think The Shining is King's best written book, and 'Salem's Lot is my all-time favorite. Just out of curiosity, did you jump on the Cemetery Dance edition of The Shining?
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May 18, 2016 14:47
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Ornamented Death posted:Just out of curiosity, did you jump on the Cemetery Dance edition of The Shining? I was tempted, but no I didn't. If that edition was released before 'Salem's Lot good chance I would of gotten it. While my fault (I should of researched how long it takes more), but them holding my money for almost 18 months before shipping soured me on them a little. A+ quality product, but in the end I felt like I was kickstarting the book. One time I did preorder two of a limited American Psycho edition (one of my favorite books). It was like $110 for each book, but in the end I felt stupid paying that much money for a book I already own several copies of. So I ended up canceling the two books. Right now new it is going for $1,884 on Amazon.
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May 18, 2016 15:32
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nate fisher posted:I was tempted, but no I didn't. If that edition was released before 'Salem's Lot good chance I would of gotten it. While my fault (I should of researched how long it takes more), but them holding my money for almost 18 months before shipping soured me on them a little. A+ quality product, but in the end I felt like I was kickstarting the book. Nah that's understandable. CD is actually somewhat notorious for taking FOREVER to release titles. Their Century's Best Horror two book set was late by several years, and I think there's a non-fiction book about Dean Koontz that is either right at, or just past, the decade mark with no projected release date in sight. Sometimes that's some fault on their end, either in editorial or production ('Salem's Lot was so late because they found formatting issues introduced into the master file by a previous publisher that they had to go back and fix), but sometimes it's due to the authors. They're ostensibly doing limited editions of del Toro's The Strain trilogy, but only the first book has been released because del Toro has been sitting on the signature sheets for the second for years.
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May 18, 2016 15:53
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reading The Fireman - fat intellectual assholes named Harold have rough times in these King family post apocalyptic communes
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May 18, 2016 16:37
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halfway through and so far its the stand except flagg and abigail are the same character
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May 18, 2016 21:48
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scary ghost dog posted:halfway through and so far its the stand except flagg and abigail are the same character Can you elaborate? Is the character good for some and evil for others, or something?
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May 18, 2016 21:50
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Franchescanado posted:Can you elaborate? Is the character good for some and evil for others, or something? i should clarify. its like if the stand was written by modern King instead of early King; instead of being about good vs evil, with two settlements representing each, its about the way evil springs up inside of good, and has one settlement
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May 19, 2016 01:53
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also it has almost the same exact structure as under the dome
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May 19, 2016 02:33
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egon_beeblebrox posted:
I like Insomnia too and I don't really get all the hate for it. But to each his own.
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May 19, 2016 02:35
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all in all The Fireman is insanely derivative of stephen king. like if stephen king wrote it nothing would be different.
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May 19, 2016 02:46
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only 80% through though so maybe it will end really well, which is very unlike stephen king
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May 19, 2016 02:51
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fishmech posted:The movies being different fits in well with the entire idea of cycles and changes that the books have anyway. Who's to say whether the events in this envisioning of the Dark Tower movies take place many cycles ahead of or behind what we saw in the books? So on this point, King just posted the following to Facebook: Stephen King posted:The Dark Tower is close, now. The Crimson King awaits. Soon Roland will raise the Horn of Eld. And blow. It may mean nothing. It may mean a great deal.
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May 19, 2016 14:12
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It has to mean exactly what we think it means. Last time around the horn was left behind. This time around the horn will be blown.. Like my mind.
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May 19, 2016 15:16
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finished the fireman. its no nos4a2 but its alright. i definitely prefer the joe hill books that resemble stephen king books in mood rather than structure and i wont deny that several times i forgot i wasnt reading a post-van king novel. it has a lot in common with the stand on a superficial level but the books it reminds me the most of are under the dome and, well, cell.
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May 19, 2016 16:38
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scary ghost dog posted:the books it reminds me the most of are under the dome Yay! scary ghost dog posted:cell. Boo!
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May 19, 2016 19:42
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Wait... Which part of Cell?
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May 19, 2016 20:07
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scary ghost dog posted:finished the fireman. its no nos4a2 but its alright. I am going to start The Fireman soon, but I thought NOS4A2 was just alright. I preferred his first two novels over it.
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May 19, 2016 20:41
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Just started the Fireman as well and if you peel back the Joe Hill sticker on the cover it says Not Stephen King underneath. It's a good read so far. I also picked up the new audiobook version of Desperation read by King himself, I wish he did more of his books, love how he reads them.
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May 19, 2016 23:46
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Canuckistan posted:It has to mean exactly what we think it means. Just texted my wife about that tweet. She's one of the
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May 19, 2016 23:56
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Safe Driver posted:I also picked up the new audiobook version of Desperation read by King himself, I wish he did more of his books, love how he reads them. Agreed. My favorite part of Bag of Bones is him reading it out loud, and getting his accented Mainers to sound authentic. He always gets the emphasis and tone right. He's probably not right for all of his books, but I've enjoyed all the ones he's done. Listening to The Fireman, enjoying it so far. The narrator also did N0S4A2, and I enjoyed her narration there.
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the gunslinger (without the bad revisions) is my fave king book.
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