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Taeke posted:It's been a while since I read It, but maybe that was just the kid's impression the pharmacist? It's very common for kids to find perfectly normal people creepy or sinister for absolutely no reason, especially ones the in a sort of gatekeeper profession of (perceived) power. The creepy librarian for example is pretty common. The librarian is my most hated villain of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
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BiggerBoat posted:wasps Director's Cut movie Dr. Sleep is a sequel to movie Shining and goes off in a completely insane direction very different than the book and *major spoilers*: has adult Danny go back to the non-boiler-exploded totally intact Overlook Hotel, and then has him do everything Jack goes through in the book. Imagine someone who fully understands that people are more familiar with Movie Shining than Book Shining, who loves actual Book Shining, got put in charge of adapting Doctor Sleep. And they got the job by telling executives that they were going to make a sequel to the popular movie, and that the movie they were making could be marketed as a sequel to that movie. And then they created a film that has some elements of a sequel to the movie, and some elements of the book they're supposedly adapting, but actually is an adaptation of Book Shining. Secretly! The only way The Shining could be actually made into a movie in the 2010's!
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Jun 27, 2021 04:36
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Yes it's all the emotional stuff from the book that the movie left out added to the visual stuff the movie was good at with also some of the novel Doctor Sleep thrown in there as a way to move things along.
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Jun 27, 2021 06:54
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Don't forget all the stuff about how your addiction seems cool and interesting and you the addict seem like a neat person but in the end it's just addiction and response it's intensely boring in its sadness.
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Jul 1, 2021 06:59
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If Jack Torrance got a job at the Overlook in the high season, June or July, whatever job it was, and he and Wendy and Danny lived there, would the hotel have tried to go after Danny in the same way?
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Jul 2, 2021 05:47
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NikkolasKing posted:So I'm still going through the Kill Count playlist and got o Dr. Sleep. I didn't know this was a Shining sequel. Movie is better than the book.
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Jul 18, 2021 02:17
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So it's going to be more true crime garbage?
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Jul 21, 2021 05:59
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I only like the audiobook of From a Buick 8. I don't know why.
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NikkolasKing posted:On the topic of the Losers' post-Derry life and all its accompanying weirdness, I did remember the comment on how they all ended up pretty well off. I couldn't recall if their memories fading and their success was part of IT's machinations. After all, maybe IT was "bribing" them to stay away.
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Gambrinus posted:There's also a psychic dog as well, although it's been so long since I've read it I can't remember what the dog does. The dog was the best character.
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Jul 13, 2022 01:34
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That slow middle is at least good at creating a powerful sense of dread.
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Jul 25, 2022 18:51
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If you've got premium, Spotify now has the very good audiobook of From a Buick Eight that is strangely hard to find. I think it's even better than reading the printed version. It's a story made for an audio production.
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LochNessMonster posted:How do I find this, I thought spotify only had Audiobooks and podcasts?! Just search for it, it's there
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Apr 1, 2024 20:21
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Can we come with an exhaustive list of Stephen King characters who just do their jobs? Most of them don't have anything bad happen to them. They just do their jobs and don't bother anyone
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Apr 3, 2024 05:25
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King seems to like the wise janitor or groundskeeper that no one pays attention to but who knows exactly what's going on. I'm surprised he never learned about Star Trek's Boothby.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:Needful Things maybe? The movie was nowhere near darkly funny enough. Needful Things with Idris Elba as Leland Gaunt and Juno Temple as Sheriff Alaina Pangborn
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