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Ballsworthy posted:The worst poo poo is that story about the loving cymbal-banging monkey. I swear to god that guy used to just go to antique shops, look around and say to himself, "Hmmm, what hasn't been haunted yet?" The moment he realized that the only thing left was the shop itself blew his loving mind. And then he went and wrote Needful Things.
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Outside of all the kindle fellatio, it was a decent story
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Ridonkulous posted:Different worlds. One is about a small town in the middle of nowhere. The other is about invaders in a neighborhood. The entire cast is more or less the same, but the books are unrelated. It's been years since I read the regulators but didn't it basically recreate the conditions of The Mist but instead of a grocery store it was a group of neighbors trapped in their houses together and instead of monsters it was power ranger cowboys?
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Jan 19, 2012 22:34
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Oh my god. Listening to IT on audiobook because I never finished reading it. In the first chapter King foreshadows the death of George a full 3 times. "he ran towards his bad death" "it was the song that was playing the day his brother died" "it was the last time he saw his brother"
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Jan 30, 2012 14:29
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Kelly posted:I just finished 11/22/63 about a half hour ago and needed to tell SOMEONE that I think it's Stephen King's best work - and I have read most of them. I agree. I really liked 11/22/63. Also the guy in your avatar is pretty much how I imagined Chaz Frati.
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Jan 31, 2012 00:35
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:For me, at least, vampires are insidious. Forget romance or sexiness, they're a cancer. Handled properly, they are unbelievably creepy and terrifying. Salem's Lot does it well, with the town emptying out as more and more people are turned. It got really creepy in a way a lot of other vampire poo poo misses out on, because they're too focused on TITS and NECKING and SPARKLY. Lost Boys has that same kind of bleakness, for me. They're just inhuman monsters, there's nothing redeeming about them in any way. 30 days of night did this pretty well too in my opinion.
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Feb 28, 2012 22:58
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ImpAtom posted:One of the big things about It is that childhood has power, and that power is both was leaves them vulnerable to but also allows them to confront It. That is why returning as adults is so dangerous, because they've lost that. I hate to defend this scene because it is a really weird occurrence in the book, but the ideas they used to defend themselves against It weren't successful because they were childish things, but because they were magical, powerful things to the kids and the kids believed they were magic. Beverly's belief was in her love for Bill and the rest of the Losers, and because of the fact that the only way she knew to express love to that point was sex, she had sex with them. Its really creepy, but I don't think its out of place for the character or the act of fighting It.
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Jun 9, 2012 03:13
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ImpAtom posted:It was belief, but it was belief born from being children. They believed in things in the way that an adult can't. Even if you're going with the "Bev was abused" (and I believe the book directly refutes that with her saying that he never touched her but was still a creep) interpretation, it's weird for her firm magical child-belief to be in sex and sexual things, especially after the scene with Patrick and Henry. The only thing it seems to have to do with her character is that she's the girl. IMO her belief wasn't in the sex, it was in the love, and sex was the way she knew to express the love. I think her mom had possibly talked to her about sex? I don't know.
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Jun 9, 2012 12:45
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Vogler posted:I've only read one half of a Stephen King book. It was called 'Dreamcatchers', and I hated it. I'd like to give him one more chance, for some reason, but I don't want to leaf through something which spine holds more than 700 pages. Preferably not more than 400. And the book has to be scary. Thank you. Salem's Lot
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Jun 27, 2012 00:44
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I liked Blaze well enough. For a not so good King book it wasn't that bad. edit: I actually like Koontz a lot, but I can go ahead and point out the major flaws that make his books not really good:
There are a few exceptions to this, though not many recently. Victorkm fucked around with this message at 12:30 on Jun 29, 2012 |
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when worlds collide posted:You both summed it up exactly. What little memory is left of my reading anything of his confirms that totally (and is why I have no desire to read anything of his, ever). Mary Sue is the concept of the author imposing his ideal self on the character. I'm not sure if that's really the case with Koontz as much as him imposing his idea of the ideal person on all of his protagonists, not so much what he wants to be but the way he wants the world and people to be like. Victorkm fucked around with this message at 14:28 on Jun 29, 2012 |
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Jun 29, 2012 14:02
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Geralds game!
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Stroth posted:What? No. Yeah don't read Geralds game. All it has is the rapey stuff.
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Jul 15, 2012 04:50
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Awwww...I liked The Regulators.
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Aug 3, 2012 13:00
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Victory Yodel posted:Swan Song (which scared the poo poo out of me, especially the K-Mart scene) This is by Robert McGammon right? I really loved his book Boys Life growing up. Is Swan Song as good?
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Aug 7, 2012 12:29
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I'll add that Boys Life is pretty decent if you dig Stand By Me.
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Aug 7, 2012 18:16
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Ineffiable posted:The most I heard when I was trying to research this without spoilers was they were supposed to be parallel universes of each other. I thought it'd be interesting in a 'what if so and so happened or something didn't happen' kind of way. How wrong you were. At least you seem to have read the right book first.
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Sep 11, 2012 21:44
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Don't forget the graphic description of the gay guys dick pressing through his leather pants in that one interlude near the start.
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Jun 25, 2013 20:20
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But not Thinner and definitely not Blaze.
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Jul 11, 2013 19:14
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nate fisher posted:Sorry outside of The Long Walk, I thought Thinner was better than any of the other Bachman Books. Maybe I am thinking about the movie as opposed to the book. The movie was pretty bad.
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Jul 12, 2013 16:42
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Bullshit. I love the movie. It's super different from the book but it was great.
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Jul 12, 2013 19:45
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Franchescanado posted:While that's true, Clark Duke looks much younger, and I'd realy like to see him act in a more serious role. Bradley cooper as Stu Redmond, Ed Helms as Larry Underwood, and Zach Galifinakis as Tom Cullen. Justin Bartha as Nick, I guess. Ken Jeong as Harold.
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:I've been pondering a re-read since it has probably been 12-15 years since the last time. And that was the last time the readers of the Steven King thread would read a post by Rev. Bleech_.
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Jul 28, 2014 23:09
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Captain Mog posted:Just finished Doctor Sleep. God drat was that ever a great book. I haven't read a King novel since Under the Dome (and before that, high school, when I read nothing but King and thus burned myself out on him) so this was like biting into a big, juicy cheeseburger. I could talk about it all day. You should read 11/22/63 if you haven't caught any king since Dome.
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It wasn't the true ending people hated IIRC, it was right before when Roland got to the tower, only to face a crimson king who just threw sneetches at him or whatever while making a pitiful "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" sound. After he got into the tower, I at least thought it was fine.
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nate fisher posted:Speaking of books that capture being a kid, has anyone read Robert McCammon's Boys Life? I've only read his Swan Song (while not great it is an interesting read for fans of The Stand), but I have thought about reading Boy's Life for years. Yeah, I've read Boy's Life several times as a pre-teen and teen. Its probably one of my favorite books, and is my mother's third favorite book after To Kill a Mockingbird and Prayer for Owen Meany.
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