I've read The Stand, Dead Zone, and Pet Semetary.
Good stuff.
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Stephen King thread.
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The uncut version of The Stand had the most charatcer description in a book that I have ever read. It was good though. I liked the villian as an average looking man idea.
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I've read It, Pet Semetary, The Stand, Carry, Dead Zone, The Dark Tower series and Under the Dome.
It and Under the Dome are my favourites. It is the creepiest damn book I've ever read.
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Insomnia is the best book.
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I loved it when he dissed Twilight and said Stephanie Meyer can't write worth a damn.
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I read "IT" which is hundret times better as the fim(who also wasn
t bad). Also read some other stuff from him but cant remember the name of it.
(a girl\boy who has like Ace`S power- a dog who has canine madness and corners a woman and her child in a car out of fuel) -
I've just read "IT" and "Green Mile" … but he's a great author and I think I'll read some more.
Love his creepy stories ... it's like it could happen everywhere anytime :ninja:
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I'm about to read The Dark Tower
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I still read Desperation yearly… such a great book imo.
Too bad about that mini-series on ABC... good LORD that was bad.
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I've only read The Stand and The Shining. I've seen the movies for 1408, The Mist, a lot of IT, The Shining, and some of The Stand miniseries.
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The Shining was a terrible terrible adaptation (Stanley Kubrick one).
ABC tried making a better adaptation later with Stephen King himself but it suffered from TV editing that made it a bit too tame for it's own good.
X.x
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Might not have been a good adaptation in that it cut quite a bit of stuff out but it was still an extremely good movie.
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Most of his books are terrible
well, not despicably terrible, just overwhelmingly mediocre
Most of his books have good premises, but he almost always fails to create a worthwhile plot or cast
I read a lot of his shit a couple years ago, and really the only book that came off as being okay was Cujo
The Stand and Pet Sematary are close, but they had several extremely dull and unnecessary passages that seemed to carry on for a thousand pages
oh, and jesus christ, the Shining is pretty bad, but it's a downright brilliant movie; one of Nicholson's best
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I read The Shining the other day, probably one of my favourite books. It's far better than the film imo. I've also read Cell and that was just okay.
I'm new to Stephen King but he is my new favourite author I guess
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Yeah, Stephen King doesn't really write the type of horror that I like. That's the reason I've only read The Stand and The Shining.
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My two biggest problems with King are the pacing and that most of his books have downright retarded endings.
The Stand: [hide]HAND OF GOD[/hide]
The Dark Tower: [hide]Infinite loop. I actually like this one, but I can see where the complainers come from.[/hide]
Under the Dome: [hide]Alien bullies are mean and everybody dies.[/hide]
Dead Zone: [hide]No pay-off at all. You read 600 pages for nothing.[/hide]I still love reading them though. It and Carrie are perfect. Most of his horror books are better than his fantasy books.
The only book that was an utter waste of time was Dead Zone. Goddamn.
I also think Kubrick's Shining is much better than the actual book.
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I liked the ending to The Stand. How did the Dead Zone end? Was it the same as in the movie?
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Wait… concerning The Dead Zone
[hide]Johnny stopped Senator Stillson from becoming President… wtf else did you want?[/hide]
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That's… not how the movie ends as far as I remember. Maybe, though.
! In the movie Johnny attempts to assassinate Stillson and after shooting, Stillson hides behind someone, though I'm not sure who, which causes him to lose favor with the voters. Johnny's shot in the process, though.
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It could've been done in 100 pages.
Instead, I read 500 pages of build-up just to see Johhny dying on a suicide mission and Stillson not dying a horribly painful death.
Most of the stuff was unneccesary. It would've worked better as a series of small stories.
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I love Stephen King, and have read all of his books (non-fction and fiction) and stories.
I've read It, Pet Semetary, The Stand, Carry,
Dead Zone, The Dark Tower series and Under the Dome.It and Under the Dome are my favourites. It is the creepiest damn book I've ever read.
Don't you love how they're connected?
! The symbol on the box in UtD is the exact same symbol on It's lair.
Insomnia is the best book.
That book is terrible in my opinion. It took way too long for anything to happen and the ending was just eh. I did love the connection to the Dark Tower series though.
My two biggest problems with King are the pacing and that most of his books have downright retarded endings.
The Stand: [hide]HAND OF GOD[/hide]
! While the bomb was eh, the overall ending to the book was fantastic with Stu and Fran wondering if humanity can ever learn from its mistakes.
Under the Dome: [hide]Alien bullies are mean and everybody dies.[/hide]
Seriously? That is what you got out of Under the Dome?
! First off, the look at how quickly a civilized town can deteriorate when blocked off from the rest of the world is appallingly great. Second, the aliens were barely aliens, in their actions anyway. There's a reason King made the comparison to children. Finally, I don't know if you have read IT, but the symbol on the box is the exact symbol the was on the door that led into IT's lair. UtD really built on the mythology that King has created in his universe, and that's why it's probably my third favorite King novel after IT and The Green Mile.
While I think King writes fantastic books, where he really shines is the short story and novella. I loved the Mist, and of course, everyone knows and loves The Shawshank Redemption.
I won't even get started on his short stories, because so many of them are fantastic.
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I always assumed Stephen King just didn't want to kill off an interesting character with a kick ass power.
Plus he had was starting to tie books together at this point moreso than before, since it's alluded that:
-Frank Dodd essentially became a boogeyman and possessed Cujo
-Psychics in The Dark Tower are called Breakers
-Characters from It reference Frank Dodd as "that crazy cop that killed all those women"But the book could've been shorter I guess… but where's the fun in that :<
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I don't know Rican.
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I'm a big fan of King, although his books vary widely in quality. From a Buick 8 was a snore-fest, and there have been others I was equally unimpressed by, such as Duma Key. However, when he's at the top of his game, his ability to write interesting, sympathetic characters may be unparalleled. I adored Jake, Eddie and Oy from the Dark Tower, Barbie from Under the Dome, and the list goes on.
I don't think he can be classified as just a horror writer. There are few, if no, elements of horror in stories such as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, or even the Dark Tower series itself. A lot of his earlier books are, but his writing started to evolve, and branch off in different directions, sometime around when he wrote It.
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I don't know Rican.
I absolutely love Night Shift…...and Skeleton Crew.Oh don't get me wrong.
I LOVE those.
But I like all the short stories in Everything's Eventual.
"That Feeling you can only say in French" was genius… as was the "Autopsy" :V
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I don't think he can be classified as just a horror writer. There are few, if no, elements of horror in stories such as Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, or even the Dark Tower series itself. A lot of his earlier books are, but his writing started to evolve, and branch off in different directions, sometime around when he wrote It.
Just because there's nothing supernatural doesn't mean it's not horror. What happens to Coffey in the end is quite horrifying. especially since we all know
! that he's innocent. Even Paul and the gang know, but there's nothing they can do to help them.
Oh don't get me wrong.
I LOVE those.
But I like all the short stories in Everything's Eventual.
"That Feeling you can only say in French" was genius… as was the "Autopsy" :V
I guess I'll have to read it again, because the only stories I even remember from it are the two you said, "Everything's Eventual" "1408" and that one about the maitre'd…......
