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Lisey's Story was a chore initially but once you get past the whole pretentious made up language and get to the weird interdimensional stuff, it's not too bad. My vote would probably go to Wizard and Glass. That entire novel could do without the whole middle section.
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racecardriver posted:Seconded. I liked the movie, though, as well. Thought it was extremely entertaining. Definitely. Short story was great, and the movie was good, certainly one of the best King adaptations - though for the most part that's not saying much.
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May 7, 2009 09:03
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I preferred the hopelessness of the originals ending. The changed ending has a little of that, but it's still like IT'S OKAY EVERYONE, THE UNSTOPPABLE MIGHT OF THE U.S. ARMY HAS DEFEATED THE MIST, IT'S OKAY (EXCEPT EVERYONE YOU LOVE IS DEAD, SORRY)
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May 8, 2009 10:40
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Just After Sunset is amazing and anyone who hasn't read it should do so.
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May 11, 2009 09:38
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Probably Misery. As King himself would say, it's salami. But it is loving awesome salami and written incredibly well for a thriller story.
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Jun 11, 2009 09:20
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I think the short story The Jaunt is one of the few texts that has actually scared me. Not necessarily from the story itself, but the implications of the story. Floating in some dark void for trillions and trillions of years.
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Jun 13, 2009 01:31
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Mister Kingdom posted:I got seriously creeped out by "Mrs' Todd's Shortcut" and "Survivor Type" from the same collection. Yeah, I think those work on the same level as The Jaunt. It's whats implied rather than said that makes them terrifying.
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Jun 14, 2009 06:16
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Foppish posted:That's what was so good about The Mist (the uncertainty), and what the film lost with it's truck-wide holocaust ending. I'm still genuinely surprised that King liked that ending. I think it's interesting but takes away from the hopelessness of the original.
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Jun 15, 2009 04:31
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ScreamingNinja posted:(king sucks are writing realistic dialogue) I disagree, I think he has a good grasp of language for the most part; and I find his dialogue flows naturally and well. This is most obvious in It I think.
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Jun 19, 2009 06:05
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fishmech posted:I used to think that the dialogue for the characters in his stories was a little unrealistic, but then I spent a summer in Maine. It's actually really neat how he captures the feel of a Maine accent in his writing without resorting to unreadable phonetic stuff for accents like some writers I could name. And when he does write phonetically, like in Mrs Todds Shortcut it works pretty well.
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Jun 20, 2009 01:43
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Aturaten posted:What I'd really like to know is what people actually do not like about King's writing. Occasionally, it's slightly wooden, but I've always been under the impression that his prose was quite good. I'm a big fan of literary fiction and pretentious stuff, but I think King writes well. I think he's one of the best authors of genre fiction around. What grabs me most is how amazingly naturalistic his dialogue is, especially when he's writing in his Maine dialect, seeing as he's so familiar with it. He has such a knack for a realistic dialogue, and it tends to flow well. But yeah, he does get a bit wonky when it comes to stopping the verbal diarrhea and writing a decent ending.
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IceNiner posted:I still have to put up "Just After Sunset" as his worst work that I've read. Always before I would get at least a few good stories out of his short collections but Sunset didn't even have one for me. Not a single story was worth the slow drudging through. I don't think so. That one about the MURDEROUS HOBO HITMAN was pretty awesome. A Very Tight Place was also good I think because of the sickeningly vivid descriptions of the interior of the effluence tank
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