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Pretty sure it would have been a more common term like 40-50 years ago when dude started writing too.  Probably even a regional thing at that.
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The first part of the original Dark Tower book was literally being written when King was like 19 or 20 years old.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:He already did No he didn't. The movie is at least a few cycles ahead.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:backstory is boring. answers are boring. worldbuilding is insanely boring. horror's effectiveness is inversely proportional to how much is known and understood about the thing feared Wow, I've got a great story for you then:
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chernobyl kinsman posted:robert aickman is one of the most effective and disturbing horror writers of all time because he gives you nothing. you get the sense that there's an explanatory framework for the tale he's telling, but at no point does he step in and say "yeah the thing in the lake is a monster which was isolated from the larger ocean 5 million years ago and followed a divergent evolutionary path, it's attracted to the castle because of the dark rituals that the main character's father performed in honor of Dagon, the sea god" or whatever, because that's boring and not scary. all of that stuff is shadows, hinted at but never explained. Stephen King's The Moving Finger Mel Mudkiper posted:Yeah, like It is the perfect example of that You're never told everything about It in It. fishmech fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Feb 1, 2018 |
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chernobyl kinsman posted:it's not, though. Carmody is like the bad guy from Under The Dome, Big Jim Remmy or whoever. they're terrible characters. king, himself obviously a liberal, is very good at conjuring up everything that liberals hate and fear and incarnating them in the Perfect Other. he writes the kind of characters that liberals believe their opponents are (and on some level want them to be) in their most reductive and dismissive moments. the movie's depiction of Carmody is much more effective than the novella's because it introduces the subversive element of her being (at least potentially) right, instead of just the ranting Westboro Baptist cardboard cutout that King wrote originally. Truly, Stephen King used his future scrying glass to look into the mid-1990s to mock the Westboro Baptist Church's activities then, from 1980, when writing The Mist.
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chernobyl kinsman posted:she's not literally made of cardboard in the book either, fishmech You are so eager to shriek about phantom liberals that you refuse to realize real people act the way he writes, especially up in Maine.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Planning on buying a couple of King books for Kindle and I’m seeing two versions of a couple I want (Pet Semetary and Rose Madder) from two different publishers: Hodder & Stoughton and Scribner, with the former being half the price of the latter but also about 100 pages shorter. I suspect the one house simply uses smaller text and narrower margins.
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Salem's Lot got its sequel as a significant chunk of one of the Dark Tower books.
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Darko posted:There is no way to picture that hand of god literal deus ex machina on screen; I hope thats part of the change. It's literally a mushroom cloud.
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BiggerBoat posted:So King wrote an enticing read with a lovely ending? Well, gently caress me. That's what he did for Insomnia. A lot of people dont like that book.
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