I can see that
― a Brazilian professional footballer (wins), Sunday, 2 April 2017 18:49 (seven years ago) link
I remember a late '80s or early '90s King PC game that had a map of Castle Rock included.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 3 April 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
that reminds me, someone told me about a King focused podcast called The Losers' Club where they talk about/analyze his books. haven't checked it out yet, waiting til i finish IT. reading this thread has been a bit treacherous in that regard― flappy bird, Friday, March 31, 2017 2:08 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that reminds me, someone told me about a King focused podcast called The Losers' Club where they talk about/analyze his books. haven't checked it out yet, waiting til i finish IT. reading this thread has been a bit treacherous in that regard
― flappy bird, Friday, March 31, 2017 2:08 PM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I've been listening to this and it's very good and thoughtful, although I can't imagine how they're going to make it through his entire oeuvre. One thing that might put some people off is that the episodes are SUPER-long for podcasts, sometimes approaching the 3 hour mark. The two Night Shift eps combined are over 5.
The episodes on Night Shift were run ballot-poll style which felt very fun and ilxian.
I totally disagree with their negative opinions on the use of black magic as a trope in stories like Sometimes They Come Back and the Mangler though. I love these parts and the library sleuthing that accompanies them. A similar scene features pretty prominently in IT, where Bill describes going to the library and learning about glamours and the Ritual of Chud. I feel like there have to be other scenes like this in King, but can't think of them off the top of my head this morning.
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 12:00 (seven years ago) link
Isn't there something similar in "The Dark Half," where Tad has to do research on psychopomps?
― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Wednesday, 5 April 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link
Did this appear on herehttps://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/01/stephen-king-on-donald-trump-fictional-voters-truth-about-us-electionnot read it yet cos the Weekend Guardian had the glossy sections missing from the copy i bought on Saturday.Then of course I found out that the closest newsagent actually sold the paper with all sections as I was heading home. Drag.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 12:13 (seven years ago) link
xp:
You're right!
https://books.google.com/books?id=rIOMCwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA449&ots=g1LRc7vPul&dq=the%20dark%20half%20psychopomps&pg=PA397#v=onepage&q=the%20dark%20half%20psychopomps&f=false
― how's life, Wednesday, 5 April 2017 13:00 (seven years ago) link
There is another King podcast that's already made it through almost all the books:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stephen-king-cast/id908092216?mt=2
I prefer The Loser's Club, better production and the group discussion works better for me. That guy's reviews are pretty good though.
― sofatruck, Thursday, 6 April 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
lol i got to the part in It last night where Pennywise taunts Richie with a lineup for a band of dead musicians, he misspelled Phil Lynott as "Linott"... how has this not been fixed in 31 years?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 6 April 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
I noticed that the last time I read through the book. And you have a recent version? Someone has to take care of that.
― how's life, Thursday, 6 April 2017 22:57 (seven years ago) link
It's not the most recent one, although I did buy it new. Looks like this
http://i43.tower.com/images/mm100316468/it-stephen-king-paperback-cover-art.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 April 2017 01:04 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that's pretty recent. Crazy.
In the meantime, the Loser's Club dropped a THIRD episode about Night Shift, this one solely dealing with the film adaptations. This brings the total podcast time spent on the collection to over 8 hours.
https://consequenceofsound.net/podcast-episode/episode-8-night-shift-pt-3/
― how's life, Friday, 7 April 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm curious about King's choices about what he goes back and changes. I generally hear that the second version of The Stand is not an improvement and the first Dark Tower book used to have more hallucinatory images that people missed when they were taken out. Was he trying to tighten it up? Do you agree that these changes harmed the books? Why did he never go back and tighten up IT?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 April 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
Loser's Club sounds cool. I like exhaustive discussions, as there are too many podcasts that are like "We're going to talk about a season of this tv show in the next 45 minutes, 20 of which will be banter about snacks."
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 7 April 2017 14:43 (seven years ago) link
And Squarespace. Don't forget Squarespace.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Friday, 7 April 2017 14:50 (seven years ago) link
yeah maybe I need to check out Losers Club. Long episodes are my jam.
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 7 April 2017 16:10 (seven years ago) link
I'm curious about King's choices about what he goes back and changes. I generally hear that the second version of The Stand is not an improvement and the first Dark Tower book used to have more hallucinatory images that people missed when they were taken out. Was he trying to tighten it up? Do you agree that these changes harmed the books? Why did he never go back and tighten up IT?― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, April 7, 2017 9:28 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, April 7, 2017 9:28 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
IT is a lot more focused than The Stand- not nearly as many characters or subplots or locations. Any tightening up would be with his cocaine prose, just getting a better economy of words.
― flappy bird, Friday, 7 April 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
I thought the second version of the Stand was the version that put back in the stuff his editor cut out?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Friday, 7 April 2017 17:09 (seven years ago) link
I think IT could be 1/3 of its length.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 April 2017 17:29 (seven years ago) link
I like the long version of The Stand, there's about 100-150 pages about Mother Abigail halfway through the book that are skippable and boring but the rest is fine.
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 April 2017 17:38 (seven years ago) link
IT might look focused compared to The Stand, but it's pretty damn rambling. That's part of its charm to some, obviously, but there's definitely more than "cocaine prose" that could be tightened up.
― circa1916, Friday, 7 April 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link
Yeah a lot of the time King's verboseness is actually a strength, e.g. his chatty tone, or his ability to stretch out a single incident to many, many pages to wring out maximum tension (the scene in Salem's Lot where Mark escapes from being tied up comes to mind)
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 7 April 2017 17:46 (seven years ago) link
Generally dislike the chatty tone and find it anything but tense but I'm intrigued that you say it works so well in Salem's Lot
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 7 April 2017 17:57 (seven years ago) link
Extended Stand is awesome for the trashcan man + kid idyll, but abominable for that new closing chapter, tear that thing out the fuckin book imo.
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Friday, 7 April 2017 18:26 (seven years ago) link
I really hate that the second version of The Stand updates the setting to 1990
― Number None, Saturday, 8 April 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
I've only read the expanded Stand so not sure how it compares.
loved it tho. and that Mother Abigail was some kneejerk conservative
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 8 April 2017 16:03 (seven years ago) link
doesn't the intro of The Stand incorrectly cite "(Don't Fear) the Reaper" too?
he quotes the lyric as "Mary, take my hand" and it's "baby, take my hand".
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 8 April 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
I've always thought it was 'Mary'.
― how's life, Saturday, 8 April 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
Listening back now, it's clearly Mary. I may have been influenced by King's misquote.
― how's life, Saturday, 8 April 2017 17:44 (seven years ago) link
clearly BABY I mean. Damn.
Rolling S King rock errata thread 2017
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 8 April 2017 19:26 (seven years ago) link
Confession: I'm pretty sure reading SK at an early age is why I became a fan of Springsteen lol
And Dylan for that matter
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 8 April 2017 19:51 (seven years ago) link
Revival is the most rocking recent King: "All that shit starts with E."
― Brad C., Saturday, 8 April 2017 19:55 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AxxUTc50C8
― in time of lost search (wins), Saturday, 8 April 2017 19:57 (seven years ago) link
I've gone on about this at length in the poll-by-era thread, but 100% agreed that IT could lose a few hundred pages with no loss. He actually straight repeats at least one entire section (the secret of the inhaler contents) and I refuse to believe it's on purpose.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:24 (seven years ago) link
Was It one of the books he later claimed he couldn't remember writing?
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Cujo is the one i know of
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 8 April 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Pretty sure he said the same thing about The Tommyknockers.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 8 April 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
He wrote It from 81-85, his maniac years
just realized that Phil Lynott mention must've been last minute bc he died in early 86
― flappy bird, Saturday, 8 April 2017 21:19 (seven years ago) link
The Tommyknockers came out at the peak of his cocaine and mouthwash phase, and is fairly clearly about his addiction. It's also one of his worst books. But then, Pet Sematary, It and Misery were all written under the influence and I think most fans would regard them as among his best.
― Number None, Saturday, 8 April 2017 21:26 (seven years ago) link
Omg no, he drank mouthwash?? I thought it was like 24-packs of beer. Both?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 April 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
"Tabby asked me if I drank [bottles of Listerine]. I responded ... I most certainly did not. Nor did I. I drank the Scope instead. It was tastier, had that hint of mint.
http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/gossip/stephen-king-personal-demons-article-1.936068
― flappy bird, Sunday, 9 April 2017 00:27 (seven years ago) link
ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2017 00:28 (seven years ago) link
First time I heard of that was on an episode of Intervention, an alcholic woman was standing on the lawn yelling that all the mouthwash was gone O_o
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 April 2017 00:29 (seven years ago) link
That episode has stayed with me too, so super sad. I'm really glad King (and hopefully that lady too) has since stopped drinking mouthwash.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 9 April 2017 13:28 (seven years ago) link
There are some pretty colorful/o_O stories about him while he was directing Maximum Overdrive too.
― circa1916, Sunday, 9 April 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Which is a cocaine movie if I ever saw one. "How about the entire soundtrack... AC/DC!"
― circa1916, Sunday, 9 April 2017 13:51 (seven years ago) link
it's cool his marriage stayed together even when he was doing so much cocaine he had to keep cotton balls in his nostrils to stem the bleeding
― Treeship, Sunday, 9 April 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
Any of you read any Tabitha King? I haven't. Am curious. My dad just gave me all his Dark Tower books recently though, so after those.
― how's life, Sunday, 9 April 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
Accidents on set[edit]When filming the scene where the ice cream truck flips over, the stunt did not go according to plan and resulted in an accident. A telephone pole-size beam of wood was placed inside so it would flip end over end, but it only flipped once and slid on its roof, right into the camera. Gene Poole, dolly grip on the film, pulled the cameraman out of the way at the last second.
A second incident, this time leading to serious injury, occurred on July 31, 1985 while filming in a suburb of Wilmington, North Carolina. A radio-controlled lawnmower used in a scene went out of control and struck a block of wood used as a camera support, shooting out wood splinters which injured the director of photography Armando Nannuzzi. As a result of this incident, Nannuzzi lost an eye. Nannuzzi sued Stephen King, and 17 others, on February 18, 1987 for $18 million in damages due to unsafe working practices.[8] The suit was settled out of court.
― nomar, Sunday, 9 April 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
That grip's name being gene poole is the best little detail in that first incident
― briscall stool chart (wins), Sunday, 9 April 2017 22:51 (seven years ago) link