stephen king c/d?

I am not completing that analogy

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, 11 September 2017 19:59

Please do, I'm not getting the joke.

Love this picture
http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Tom_Bombadil_2.jpg

Funny website name too.

Thought this was mostly just mediocre, occasionally veering towards outright bad due to some really weird stylistic choices e.g. cheerful gore clean-up montage soundtracked by The Cure, slow-mo bully shouting "fuuuuuck yooooou", couple of others that don't spring to mind just now.

oh yeah, Pennywise did the futterwacken too. That kind of took me out of it

cheerful gore clean-up montage soundtracked by The Cure

oh yeah i forgot about this!

So many odd decisions, tho tbh those were what gave the movie any character.

I at least appreciated that they used a relatively obscure Cure song, in addition to the first verse of an XTC song. I can only imagine how heavy they would've leaned on the 80s references if it had been shot after Stranger Things came out.

oh yeah, Pennywise did the futterwacken too. That kind of took me out of it

― Number None, Monday, September 11, 2017 3:34 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I thought I had made this comment here, but apparently it was while I was still fruitlessly trying to comment in the gawker media realm:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/he-looks-like-johnny-depp-as-the-mad-hatter-if-it-star-1785356078

Never really liked how the turtle and It spoke like a jokey kooky uncle. Is that what eons old entities speak like?

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, September 12, 2017 12:03 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

King can only write in 3 voices, give him a break

you guys are a tough crowd, I thought this movie fuckin kicked ass

Me 2

I watched about an hour of the TV movie yesterday and it was more consistent and had better pacing. The scary parts felt scarier for me too. The acting and the cinematography were better in the new one though.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKQxpZFXUAU7OHj.jpg

That photo is more terrifying than his collected works

why, are you scared of dams

70 today

the one good thing about that coiffure on SK is that it conceals his weird face shape

Is that extra zero a Maine Campus typo or some kind of clairvoyance?

perhaps they are sprirtually gifted.

two imminent Netflix adaptations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twbGU2CqqQU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E_fT0aTsjI

gerald's game is a mike flanagan joint so it should be at least decent

but geralds game itself is bad so idk

Any recommendations for authors whose books go down as easy as Stephen King's? He's been my go-to guy whenever I'm looking to turn my brain off for a while, but his books repeat themselves so much I can't justify reading too many more of them. Would love to get that fix somewhere else.

if you haven't read him, I'd say Elmore Leonard -- quick reads, extremely entertaining, likable characters, excellent villains.

Any genre goes? or still horror?

xp yeah Elmore Leonard is a great example

Any genre, so long as its a page turner. I like the horror/suspense elements in King's books but honestly it's the world building that draws me in. He just makes them all so leisurely. They're like hang-out books really

i was going to say the parker books by richard stark

which are much shorter than stephen king books but there are like 20 of them

I want to say Michael Crichton hits a similar 'quick & entertaining & requiring minimal effort' sweet spot but I haven't read his stuff in decades.

Jim Butcher's Dresden Files series fits this description as well.

Yeah no coincidence that Crichton, King and Grisham were the ones I read in middle school. They're all pretty unchallenging.

Those Jim Butcher books look like something I'd be way too embarrassed to read at an airport, unfortunately

That seems silly to me in a post-Harry Potter world.

(but then, I can't think of a single book I've read that I was embarrassed to be seen reading so maybe that's just me)

yeah I'm not above admitting I'm self conscious about that stuff. But I'm not a Harry Potter or really a fantasy fan either so that might be part of it

i'd add Jonathan Franzen. obviously not horror/crime/mystery/thriller, but he's imo an excellent world-builder and Freedom is a serious page turner, and a really beautiful book. Not challenging. Another lesser realist writer who's p good is Jonathan Dee - I'm reading his most recent one, The Locals, which is p good, & worth reading if only for the first 50 pages set in Manhattan on 9/12/01.

I recently read Lawrence Block's Getting Off and felt like I had to cover up the cover on the train. xp

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51IZpv51wIL._SY346_.jpg

Elmore Leonard and Richard Stark OTM, but (Stark's real name) Donald Westlake even better if you're looking for hang-out-iness. Try a couple of the books about Dortmunder.

ohhh forgot about Franzen. I've had a copy of The Corrections sitting on my shelf for years so maybe I'll finally queue that one up once I finish King's JFK assassination time travel one

loved crichton as a lad, and even started a thread on him, but gotta give credit where it's due, he is not half the writer king is. crichton's stuff definitely goes down easy but mostly that's because the overall situations he comes up with are interesting, and the sentences are very basic, like chapter-books-for-kids level. he really relies on you filling in for yourself what a dinosaur looks like and how scary it would be if one was attacking you. king has a much stronger sense of prose, character, pacing, suspense, atmosphere, mise-en-scene... not to say he doesn't have numerous faults and annoying tics and a real problem with editing as i've stated repeatedly but there's just a lot more to his stuff, at least his best stuff.

I'd put The Terminal Man up there with King's stronger efforts.

yeah if i ever bump into that one or the great train robbery at the thrift store, i'd totally reread. i remember both being more substantial than his later stuff.

I also remember Congo the book being much, much more entertaining and darker than "Congo" the movie.

that wouldn't take much! but yeah i remember being generally creeped out by parts of it. i should give that one another spin but i'm always afraid the dark-continent themes will really squick out Adult Casino.

1922 is one of my favorite things SK has written. Doesn't mean the adaptation will be worth a hoot, of course.

The dinosaur had torn him open. His guts had fallen out.

all time HOF for that one obv

re Evan's request for recommendations

Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad is the most addictive series I've read in forever. They're not exactly your brain off material, but by god they're compelling. There's six of them to date

Try Don WInslow. His new book The Force is great.

ooh yeah, Winslow is also a good pick. Looking forward to reading The Force