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Last Celebration posted:I mean, I kinda agree with him, like not that those things are great but more that Jack in the movie is immediately unhinged and off kilter to an extent that’s almost comical. They cast Jack Nicholson in the role, yes.
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Last Celebration posted:You say that like he didn’t literally play a character who was pretending to be insane and mostly just came across as a bro though. IDK, he comes across as unhinged 24/7, working or not. Doesn't even have to say or do anything.
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Feb 16, 2023 19:30
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I started reading Later on the bus, thinking it was going to be a crime novel, but noo, it's loving Aliens from the Internet again right from the get-go jesus gently caress.
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Feb 17, 2023 19:31
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oldpainless posted:What? Where was that? OK maybe not AftI (that was End of Watch) but preternatural poo poo, anyway. I wasn't expecting that from Hard Case Crime.
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Feb 18, 2023 00:17
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kaworu posted:I don’t think it can really be stressed enough just how tall Stephen King is. Well this was a let-down. I googled it and it's only 193 cm which is tall but not... incredible - like everyone personally knows at least a couple of dudes that tall. I was expecting like 210 at least.
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Mar 2, 2023 20:21
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Leave posted:Though, just imagine, what if he were a giant... I will!
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Baron von Eevl posted:6'4" is "hey you're pretty tall" tall, barely "yeah, he's like the tallest guy I know well" tall. My wife's uncle is 6'3", my boss is 6'7". It looks like 6'4" is 28th percentile in the NBA for height, with the average height being 6'6.5". I thought it was 4'. This is very unsettling.
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Mar 2, 2023 22:43
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Last Celebration posted:I probably watched it in the wrong mindset so idk if I can fully say if it’s bad/good on its own merits, but I do find it extremely lol that the movie kills a black man that survived in the book. A twist. Works both ways!
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Mar 22, 2023 07:54
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Khizan posted:I don't think the movie is as good as the book, because I think the story loses something when it just depicts Jack as straight-up Jack Nicholson Insane. The fedora of movies  It would be somewhat but also greatly improved if they replaced Freeman's creaking with the lovely Youtube Shorts AI-generated voice.e: The Shining isn't a very good book, anyway. I'm glad Kubrick wasn't faithful to it. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Mar 22, 2023 |
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Mar 22, 2023 08:32
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PurpleXVI posted:just has Jack go insane for no clear reason except apparently being a fundamentally bad person Citation needed. (I don't actually want one.)
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Mar 22, 2023 09:02
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hyper from Pixie Sticks posted:Wife's out tonight so I'm gonna watch Pet Sematary. Is there a thread consensus on whether the original or remake is the better movie? Just watch both.
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May 6, 2023 17:37
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I got the second Dark Tower book for free from the pub so I guess now I either have to trade it (too much effort) or get the first one and read the whole series. Oh well.
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Jul 10, 2023 03:34
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BiggerBoat posted:Can't you just get it at a library? I have never been able to return a library book on time and it's cost me a bunch of money. Like, more money than a copy of the book costs.
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Jul 10, 2023 11:45
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I'm like 700 years old and I will never listen to an audiobook until I go blind, and I consider e-books an American poo poo fad that I hate, like 3D-printing.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:16
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PurpleXVI posted:I can read faster by myself than other people can read aloud, so audiobooks just tend to make me insanely impatient, and I hate reading books on a screen. I need some pages to flip or it just doesn't engage me the same way, most of the time, I will only read an "e-book"(what I presume sane people call a .PDF file?) if there's no other option. Ur me.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:25
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Randal posted:What if you could listen to DT read by Stephen King? You know what, I have no idea what he sounds like. But anyway I want trees to die. And obviously I'm dumb as poo poo.
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Jul 10, 2023 20:42
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Drimble Wedge posted:It's weird how people will respect phone scrolling as an important or private thing, but anyone reading a book is apparently begging to be given something else to focus on. Maybe they just don't consider people who are scrolling their phones as anyone worth talking to  e: Just remembered some wino asking me "is it any good?" on the bus, and because I hate people I just said "how the gently caress would I know, you can see I'm only on like page 50?" and he said "yeah" and didn't talk to me anymore. I see this as a win-win result.
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Jul 24, 2023 09:07
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ruddiger posted:hell yeah way to shut down that vagabond looking for a shred of civility and human interaction On the 42?
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Jul 25, 2023 02:12
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Zadok Allen posted:I really enjoyed Fairy Tale I groaned out loud at King's "I'M GOING TO CRAM IN SOME UNDERAGE SEX AT THE LAST MINUTE LOL" shenanigans. Otherwise I enjoyed it quite a bit when I realized it was, in fact, an old-fashioned fairy tale. Vast improvement over Billy Summers, anyway.
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Oct 19, 2023 07:58
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Larry Cum Free posted:Kinda had to throw the kid a bone. He got his rear end kicked while saving a whole drat magical world that he doesn't get to go back to or take any gold out of. At least he got laid out of the whole ordeal. Yeah yeah sure. But you know what I mean. The novel could have just not had it vOv
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Oct 19, 2023 19:39
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Larry Cum Free posted:What really bugs me is although he doesn't exactly bring his dog back to life, he uses supernatural forces to vastly extend her life. Did we learn nothing from Pet Semetary?? And it isn't even a good boy!
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Oct 20, 2023 18:45
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I always get my sister the latest King as a present. Thinking of giving her this for her birthday: https://www.adlibris.com/fi/kirja/aarhus-a-city-of-statues-and-sculptures-9788743056034 (And obviously whatever the latest other Stephen King book is.)
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Jan 23, 2024 08:25
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So King was an addict but I guess he never went for the booze, because he just wrote (well I just read, written by him) a habitual drunk downing two vodka drinks and feeling it like at least ten minutes later. SMHD.
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Feb 10, 2024 06:53
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Cpt. Mahatma Gandhi posted:Also he did his mom’s eulogy black-out drunk. Oof. Was it good?
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Feb 11, 2024 03:50
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For those (fortunate) not in the know: black-out-drunk doesn't mean in any way intellectually impaired, just that you aren't retaining memories.
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Feb 11, 2024 03:53
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Two pages into "Thinner" and already a 14-year-old has the "sexy". Oh Richard...
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Feb 19, 2024 08:09
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loving hell I guess King never thought anyone who knew Swedish was ever going to read Thinner. It's really loving jarring.
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Mar 6, 2024 09:13
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Von Pluring posted:What’s that? The "gypsies" speak gibberish Swedish written without the full alphabet. quote:'Enkelt av lakan och kanske alskade! Just det!'
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Mar 6, 2024 09:57
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OK "Thinner" really wasn't very good  I guess maybe "Running Man" next.
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Mar 13, 2024 23:02
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Android Blues posted:I like the little trick King pulls in Thinner of making you think Billy Halleck is a down-on-his-luck schmuck I didn't think that at any point.
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Cleuseau Remos posted:My favorite part of the stand was when the kid lit the oil reservoir on fire and it exploded. That was Waterworld.
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