Thoughts on Stephen King?

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Cheesegirl78 said:
Still doesn't make it right for him to curtail our 2nd amendment rights.
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Oh I agree, it's just that at least Stallone's reasons are more grounded and relatable compared to the rest of the Hollywood cabal who only want them banned because Hollywood's a liberal echo chamber.

I don't agree with him at all since gun ownership is a fundamental American right and gun control is mostly ineffective, but I understand why he feels that way.
 
Ex Cummunicated Sasser HD said:
edit: The Langoliers was also his best film adaptation.
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Nigga what, the fuck, are you on?


...can I try some?

Also I just looked up the intro to The Stand adaptation expecting it to suck but it actually looks pretty good, so I'm gonna torrent that for something to do while my relatives get drunk and watch football on Turkey Day.

By the way, for everyone complaining about his TDS sperging I chalk it up to one of two things: Either he's just old and doesn't know how to use the internet, or he hired some marketing kid to run his Twitter/social media and doesn't give a fuck about it. He seems to be no fan of Trump, the military, guns, etc but I'm not convinced he has full blown TDS if it hasn't infested his works yet.

Duncan Hills Coffee said:
To be fair, Stallone's anti-gun stance was because a personal friend of his was shot to death, so I think his reasons are a bit more justifiable than the rest of Hollywood's.
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Shit, I didn't know that. When did that happen? If it was awhile ago, it would explain why his movies got way more violent and navel-gazy as time went on.
 
L50LasPak said:
Shit, I didn't know that. When did that happen? If it was awhile ago, it would explain why his movies got way more violent and navel-gazy as time went on.
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I looked at the story again because I remembered it was a friend who was shot to death. What I forgot was that said friend was Phil Hartman which was back in 1998.
 
King's TDS has started to infest his work, his last few books have taken shots at Trump, I'm sure after 2020 he will go full-blown asshat and write some novel about a king of a mythical nation that basically cries orange man bad as the entire plot.
 
He’s always been pretty heavy handed with his politics though, Insomnia has some pretty mean spirited caricatures of anti-abortion people for example, Under the Done has obvious Bush and Cheney stand ins and his work has always had topical cultural references.

So nothing has really changed which makes it a little more forgivable, it’s just his Twitter that sucks so hard.


Cheesegirl78 said:
Salems' Lot, Carrie, Pet Sematary, and The Stand are my favorites.
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The Stand and IT are definitely some of my favorites but it’s kinda hard to pick a third one, Dark Tower 3 maybe?

Really I’d pick Skeleton Crew for my third favorite book, even though it’s not a novel.
 
steves pretty good and is nowhere near as bad as snobs like to pretend he is, hes just way too productive, if he were more reserved like salinger and not constantly pushing his bullshit all over the place, and if he were to only have released his good stuff like Green Mile, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, IT, and The Shining, i bet he would be almost universally loved
 
What was everyone's first King story to their knowledge? Mine was either Stand By Me or The Stand, can't remember which I saw first.
First King book I read was IT in middle school.
 
Marco Fucko said:
What was everyone's first King story to their knowledge? Mine was either Stand By Me or The Stand, can't remember which I saw first.
First King book I read was IT in middle school.
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Mine was The Shining.
He had written something about Jack Torrance being so scared "his face felt like a mask." I can't remember the exact wording, but that phrase was so descriptive, and I knew exactly what he meant. It made me want to read more of his stuff.
This was in 78, IIRC, right before 'Salems Lot.
 
Marco Fucko said:
What was everyone's first King story to their knowledge? Mine was either Stand By Me or The Stand, can't remember which I saw first.
First King book I read was IT in middle school.
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From a Buick 8 wasn't just my first King book, it was the first proper novel I read as a kid. I think I must've been 12 or so.

Still think that's a pretty good book. I love alien monster horrorshows, and it connected up with a lot of his mythos so as I read more of his books I was like "HOLY SHIT ITS THAT THING" often, which was a cool experience back in the day before the nightmare of cinematic universes and shit.

I also love how so much of the book was told in retrospect, it really felt like a bunch of older people talking.
 
chainlinktrillionaire said:
steves pretty good and is nowhere near as bad as snobs like to pretend he is, hes just way too productive, if he were more reserved like salinger and not constantly pushing his bullshit all over the place, and if he were to only have released his good stuff like Green Mile, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, IT, and The Shining, i bet he would be almost universally loved
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If you read his own commentary on his writing it's pretty clear that he's a very clumsy writer on a conceptual and plot level even if his prose style is effective for the kinds of things he writes. I remember the afterword to the edition of The Stand that I read had him admitting to deciding on major events in the book on a fairly arbitrary basis, and it shows in how the plot progresses. I admire his work ethic and his prose gets the job done, but there are very clear reasons for the criticism he gets.
 
L50LasPak said:
From a Buick 8 wasn't just my first King book, it was the first proper novel I read as a kid. I think I must've been 12 or so.

Still think that's a pretty good book. I love alien monster horrorshows, and it connected up with a lot of his mythos so as I read more of his books I was like "HOLY SHIT ITS THAT THING" often, which was a cool experience back in the day before the nightmare of cinematic universes and shit.

I also love how so much of the book was told in retrospect, it really felt like a bunch of older people talking.
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I read that one when I was on my Stephen King kick and I hated it because it wasn't horror like his other stories. It's kinda creepy, but I wouldn't call it straight horror. I should read it again now that I'm older and I can appreciate that sort of thing.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I read that one when I was on my Stephen King kick and I hated it because it wasn't horror like his other stories. It's kinda creepy, but I wouldn't call it straight horror. I should read it again now that I'm older and I can appreciate that sort of thing.
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Its hard to relate the appeal of it unless you grew up in the kind of climate the book is set in. Bunch of people way older than you sitting around, gabbing, talking sometimes about mundane stuff, sometimes reminiscing about the past, then boom, suddenly someone will bring up "Remember that time Earl lost his arm in a woodchipper? Sprayed blood for thirty feet cross't the yard!". Having that kind of mundane, real-world horror combined with the monster freakshow and the mystery of what the point of the car is supposed to be really worked for me.

However, I advise that if you haven't read Hearts in Atlantis, particularly the short story Low Men In Yellow Coats, make sure not to read that first because King spoils the mystery of the car by coming up with an explanation for it. If you've already read that, well, at least Buick 8 doesn't hinge on the mystery of the car.
 
Marco Fucko said:
What was everyone's first King story to their knowledge? Mine was either Stand By Me or The Stand, can't remember which I saw first.
First King book I read was IT in middle school.
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Mine was Cujo. Read that when I was around 11 or so. I'd been familiar with King beforehand, as my dad is a huge fan and we would watch some of the movie adaptations together. Cujo's ending really stuck with me after reading it first story I read where the little kid dies and stays dead, and it's not just glossed over. My dad got me Carrie and Christine after I finished Cujo and I've been a fan since.
 
Marco Fucko said:
What was everyone's first King story to their knowledge? Mine was either Stand By Me or The Stand, can't remember which I saw first.
First King book I read was IT in middle school.
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The Shining was the first one I read, circa 2005.

That would have been followed by Cell in 2006 and Night Shift and The Stand in 2007.
 
My first was "Cell", though I read a snippet of "It" via skimming.
 
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