stephen king c/d?

lmao

yeah I had an English teacher who told kids off for reading Stephen King - "it'll rot your brain" like the dad at the start of creepshow

I ended up doing mine on Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, so I think there was plenty of bad judgement involved.

there was a Lawnmower Man game (based on the film) on the SNES

can't think of anything else off the top of my head

Half-Life was partly inspired by The Mist though

Oh! Lawnmower man is a good call!

There's loads of games based on lovecraftian, though...

Didn't he get in on the interactive cd-rom thing it seemed like everyone was doing around the turn of the millennium?

There's perhaps a sense that twin peaks wouldn't have existed without king. But I'm as drunk as an owl, so that's it for now.

I can see that

I remember a late '80s or early '90s King PC game that had a map of Castle Rock included.

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.

Isn't there something similar in "The Dark Half," where Tad has to do research on psychopomps?

Did this appear on here
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/01/stephen-king-on-donald-trump-fictional-voters-truth-about-us-election
not 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.

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

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.

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?

I noticed that the last time I read through the book. And you have a recent version? Someone has to take care of that.

I noticed that the last time I read through the book. And you have a recent version? Someone has to take care of that.

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

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/

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?

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."

And Squarespace. Don't forget Squarespace.

yeah maybe I need to check out Losers Club. Long episodes are my jam.

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

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.

I thought the second version of the Stand was the version that put back in the stuff his editor cut out?

I think IT could be 1/3 of its length.

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

I really hate that the second version of The Stand updates the setting to 1990

I've only read the expanded Stand so not sure how it compares.

loved it tho. and that Mother Abigail was some kneejerk conservative

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".

I've always thought it was 'Mary'.

Listening back now, it's clearly Mary. I may have been influenced by King's misquote.

clearly BABY I mean. Damn.

Rolling S King rock errata thread 2017

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

Revival is the most rocking recent King: "All that shit starts with E."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AxxUTc50C8

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.

Was It one of the books he later claimed he couldn't remember writing?

Cujo is the one i know of

Pretty sure he said the same thing about The Tommyknockers.

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

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.

Omg no, he drank mouthwash?? I thought it was like 24-packs of beer. Both?

"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

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww