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So today I walked into Barnes and Noble asking for King's new Shining novel remembering that the FB notice I got said September 24. Wait, September 24, 2013? Alas, now I am the fool.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I bought The Regulators (in hardcover) for a buck at the Humane Society thrift store. I should have just given them the dollar and walked out. I really couldn't get into Desperation or Regulators. Those, lisey's story, Rose madder... are probably his worst books.
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Oct 14, 2012 09:01
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GreyPowerVan posted:I really couldn't get into Desperation or Regulators. I liked Desperation  . Regulators not AS much but still way more than Rose Madder. I even have the movie versions of Desperation and The Tommyknockers (somewhere).
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Oct 15, 2012 08:37
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Here's the first teaser for the new Carrie movie. It's supposed to be less a remake of the original film and a more faithful adaption of the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-Ra9EEIGLg&hd=1
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Oct 16, 2012 12:02
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I just borrowed 11/22/63 from my sister. When my dad saw the title, he said "That's the day Kennedy got shot, isn't it?". So I'm going in with a pretty good idea of how significant that date is to King's generation.
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Oct 16, 2012 18:00
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Patchwork Shaman posted:I just borrowed 11/22/63 from my sister. When my dad saw the title, he said "That's the day Kennedy got shot, isn't it?". So I'm going in with a pretty good idea of how significant that date is to King's generation. I finished that up the other week, and I think I can safely say without spoling anything for you that your assessment is pretty much right on the money. Overall I enjoyed the book, but having been born well after the Kennedy assassination (and generally having different cultural experiences than King's), I found that this song kept running through my head while I was reading it.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVfeLavkFso
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Oct 17, 2012 16:54
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I just read The Shining for the first time. It's really great. It's a little heavy handed with Danny explaining everything rather though. Jack keeps saying the hotel wants him. The hotel keeps telling him to kill his wife and son. There's no need for Danny to info dump to his mother. "It wants all of us. It’s tricking Daddy, it’s fooling him, trying to make him think it wants him the most. It wants me the most, but it will take all of us."
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Nov 15, 2012 22:58
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Not sure if this is quite the appropriate place, but I know that the thread here has derailed a little onto his books before and it's been sort of dead lately, so hopefully some of you guys might be interested! Joe Hill (Stephen King's son) had his book Horns picked up to be made into a film. Currently playing the lead role? Daniele Radcliffe. There's a short interview here along with a photo. I'm pretty excited for this, because while Radcliffe isn't anywhere near on my favorites list, Horns certainly is. I hope it's good. :C
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Nov 16, 2012 16:40
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That drat Satyr posted:Not sure if this is quite the appropriate place, but I know that the thread here has derailed a little onto his books before and it's been sort of dead lately, so hopefully some of you guys might be interested! If I thought Heart-Shaped Box had a great beginning but was ultimately a disappointment, is Horns likely to produce the same reaction?
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Nov 17, 2012 08:18
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:If I thought Heart-Shaped Box had a great beginning but was ultimately a disappointment, is Horns likely to produce the same reaction? I don't think so, Horns is better than Heart Shaped Box by far. Then again, I didn't really like any part of Heart Shaped Box. And I think Daniel Radcliffe is a perfect choice for the lead of Horns. I didn't realize it, but he's pretty much exactly what I thought of when I pictured the character while reading the book.
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Nov 17, 2012 08:39
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A HUNGRY MOUTH posted:If I thought Heart-Shaped Box had a great beginning but was ultimately a disappointment, is Horns likely to produce the same reaction? One thing I didn't like about Horns is that it took the mopey but ~totally hardcore~ protagonist of HSB and cranked it up to 11. Once he gets his horns he starts belting out awful one-liners and long monologues about how the devil is really the good guy and god is the bad guy if you think about it maaaan and sick burns that are totally  -worthy even if you accept that it's all because the horns make him act like a mustache-twirling devil. I didn't think it was bad by any means but there was a part around the middle where I just wished I could have less background on his totally perfect goddess girlfriend's murder and more of him loving with people by making them casually reveal their darkest secrets, which is funny because one of the reasons why I liked HSB is because he cut right to the chase and didn't have three hundred pages of farting around before the actual story started like his dad does all the time.
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Nov 17, 2012 17:08
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Farbtoner posted:One thing I didn't like about Horns is that it took the mopey but ~totally hardcore~ protagonist of HSB and cranked it up to 11. Once he gets his horns he starts belting out awful one-liners and long monologues about how the devil is really the good guy and god is the bad guy if you think about it maaaan and sick burns that are totally Horns just went south really fast for me. The "terrible secrets" every one had were just too terrible and too many people had them for me to swallow. I could not give one single poo poo about the protagonist either, because the action ramped up so fast that I never got an impression of what his life was like before, and even though that mystery was solved through flashbacks, after the second half started the book just jumped the shark and became too surreal for me.
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Nov 18, 2012 05:18
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On the same Joe Hill tangent, his upcoming novel 'NOS4A2' is really good, in my opinion leaving Horns flat. It shows he's really growing into his fathers shoes and filling them out VERY well.
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Nov 18, 2012 05:26
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I think its funny that while he doesn't exactly advertise it, its extremely obvious that Joe Hill is King's son. Not because of his writing but because of this: Dude couldn't look more like his father if he tried.
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Nov 18, 2012 05:35
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muscles like this? posted:I think its funny that while he doesn't exactly advertise it, its extremely obvious that Joe Hill is King's son. Not because of his writing but because of this: Actually, it looks like he's tring pretty hard, doesn't it? If he shaved, changed his glasses and combed his hair he could totally go incognito, especially when you compare his jawline to his father's.
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Nov 18, 2012 07:26
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muscles like this? posted:I think its funny that while he doesn't exactly advertise it, its extremely obvious that Joe Hill is King's son. Not because of his writing but because of this: That is a very awkward looking beard. It looks photoshopped. That thing could cut glass. I only have his short story collection. Some of them were pretty decent, a couple were not to my liking. I would try his other stuff one day, but I won't pay full price or anything. They lack a certain je ne sais quoi that his father had, for me.
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Nov 18, 2012 09:14
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Farbtoner posted:one of the reasons why I liked HSB is because he cut right to the chase and didn't have three hundred pages of farting around before the actual story started like his dad does all the time. See, the reason I didn't like Heart-Shaped Box was because he jumped right into the story and then spent three hundred pages farting around.
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Nov 18, 2012 20:45
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when worlds collide posted:That is a very awkward looking beard. It looks photoshopped. That thing could cut glass. I've actually found that Hill's a bit of a polar-opposite of his father as far as short stories vs novels go, at least thus far. King can write some really disappointing novels, but his short stories are almost always at least palatable; Hill's short stories disappointed me most of the time, but his two novels, thus far, have been quite good; he's a better novel-writer than short-story-writer. Of course, I've only checked the books out from the library; I'm not about to own copies or anything.
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Nov 22, 2012 06:29
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iostream.h posted:On the same Joe Hill tangent, his upcoming novel 'NOS4A2' is really good, in my opinion leaving Horns flat. It shows he's really growing into his fathers shoes and filling them out VERY well. I'm dying to read this - where can I get a copy?
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Nov 22, 2012 13:42
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iostream.h posted:On the same Joe Hill tangent, his upcoming novel 'NOS4A2' is really good, in my opinion leaving Horns flat. It shows he's really growing into his fathers shoes and filling them out VERY well. Is it about street racing vampires?
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Nov 23, 2012 22:23
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April posted:I'm dying to read this - where can I get a copy? It doesn't come out until April, he must have gotten his hands on a proof/ARC.
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Nov 23, 2012 23:58
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Ornamented Death posted:It doesn't come out until April, he must have gotten his hands on a proof/ARC. Well crap! Thanks for the info, though. On the plus side, maybe I'll get to go to another Joe Hill reading. I went to one when Horns first came out, and it was great.
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Nov 24, 2012 01:04
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I read In The Tall Grass today. It's sort of a poor man's Children of the Corn. The set up is good but then it loses something as it goes on.
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Nov 26, 2012 01:50
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I scored FDNS at Goodwill the other day for a buck. Very dark stories, some of the scariest.
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Nov 26, 2012 02:25
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April posted:I'm dying to read this - where can I get a copy? Yes, my sister is a librarian and while visiting I snagged it for a couple of days and tore through it. I didn't even pause to think whether or not that was kosher in this forum. Apologies if not.
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Nov 26, 2012 02:32
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iostream.h posted:NOS4A2  UltimoDragonQuest posted:I read In The Tall Grass today.
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Nov 26, 2012 15:51
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Pheeets posted:I scored FDNS at Goodwill the other day for a buck. Very dark stories, some of the scariest. I think "Fair Extension" and "A Good Marriage" are the best in that book. FE is just so gloriously pessimistic about human nature.
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Nov 26, 2012 19:01
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Mister Kingdom posted:I bought The Regulators (in hardcover) for a buck at the Humane Society thrift store. I should have just given them the dollar and walked out. I did this at a salvation army this weekend. I don't know what it is with people using creepy children with psychic powers/demon possession as villains but that poo poo was old before I was born. On the plus side the murderous children toy hallucinations killing people in drive-bys is pretty funny. Too bad the kid wasn't in to power rangers.
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Nov 26, 2012 23:18
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Klisejo posted:I did this at a salvation army this weekend. Considering how he holds up The Village of the Damned in his novels (Bobby Garfield has an awakening that movies can be art when he sees it in Hearts In Atlantis and I'm pretty sure he's mentioned it in other novels) I imagine it had a profound effect on him as a kid and he's been drawing from that ever since.
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Nov 26, 2012 23:56
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Just wanted to pipe in and say that I picked up Joe Hill's Heart Shaped Box cause of the thread. Only about half way through it, but it is definitely..... different. I'm enjoying it, and I gotta say that it's actually a pretty creepy book, but sometimes the story gets a little disjointed. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out that Judas is actually just going nuts or something. I'd recommend it if you want an interesting romp. *edit* Just finished it. Good book, ending was a little.... cheery considering the tone of the book, but not bad at all. If I liked this I guess I should take a look at Horns next, huh? USMC_Karl fucked around with this message at 06:20 on Nov 28, 2012 |
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'Under the Dome' just got a 13-episode TV series order for CBS's 2013 summer lineup, helmed by 'ER' and 'Law & Order SVU' writer/producer Neal Baer and 'Lost' alum Brian K. Vaughan. Baer wrote a lot of early-season 'ER' episodes, including season two's "Hell or High Water", generally considered to be just about the best episode in the show's 15-year run. Vaughan created and wrote the comic series "Y: The Last Man" and a handful of 'Lost' episodes. https://www.variety.com/article/VR1118062857
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Nov 29, 2012 20:43
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Aatrek posted:'Under the Dome' just got a 13-episode TV series order for CBS's 2013 summer lineup, helmed by 'ER' and 'Law & Order SVU' writer/producer Neal Baer and 'Lost' alum Brian K. Vaughan. On one hand, that's awesome, but on another, the network adaptations of his books have generally left something to be desired.
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Nov 29, 2012 22:41
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3Romeo posted:On one hand, that's awesome, but on another, the network adaptations of his books have generally left something to be desired. Most movies and TV treatments of his books tend to reveal the stunning amount of blood and gore in his works. Strange how I barely seem to notice it while reading, but holy poo poo he wrote a lot of blood-soaked horror. So maybe that's why the movies are not as popular to the mainstream? "Under The Dome" would be a horrific movie for the faint at heart.
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Nov 29, 2012 23:03
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I hope they don't change the kid who talks like she's from a bad tv show in 1991. And psychic dog obviously.
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Nov 29, 2012 23:12
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Aatrek posted:Vaughan created and wrote the comic series "Y: The Last Man" and a handful of 'Lost' episodes.
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Nov 30, 2012 01:07
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Pheeets posted:
No, the movies aren't unpopular because they're gory.
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Nov 30, 2012 04:37
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3Romeo posted:On one hand, that's awesome, but on another, the network adaptations of his books have generally left something to be desired. And by 'something', I'm thinking 'a lot'. I can't think of one good one, myself. Pheeets posted:Most movies and TV treatments of his books tend to reveal the stunning amount of blood and gore in his works. Strange how I barely seem to notice it while reading, but holy poo poo he wrote a lot of blood-soaked horror. I wouldn't expect Stephen King to be for the faint of heart. Perhaps a nice historical romance... Fallom posted:No, the movies aren't unpopular because they're gory. Pretty much this.
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Nov 30, 2012 07:02
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when worlds collide posted:
I thought "Carrie" was quite romantic, after all what girl doesn't want to be Prom Queen?
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Nov 30, 2012 08:49
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Pheeets posted:I thought "Carrie" was quite romantic, after all what girl doesn't want to be Prom Queen? That's the stuff a girl's dreams are made of! 
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when worlds collide posted:And by 'something', I'm thinking 'a lot'. I can't think of one good one, myself. Yeah, I was trying to be nice. Network adaptations of his have sucked more poo poo than a porta-john vacuum. They have their good parts, sometimes, but as a rule, they're terrible. And it isn't because they're gory. It's because they aren't. King's style--outside of his naturalism, I mean--only really works on the screen when you have one of two things: actors who can sell some otherwise cheesy dialogue (eg, Morgan Freeman) or buckets and buckets of blood and gore. I'm talking like a red tide of eyeballs and intestines. It's where his humor comes from. Without either of those two things--neither of which you'll find on network television--his stuff tends to suck real bad.
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