stephen king c/d?

Last, too

(xp obv)

Is it? Like a tribute or homage or a direct lift?

I remember reading a Terry Pratchett book that employed the same "let us float over" technique and hated it then too. I'm generally opposed to any "dear reader" breaking of walls.

Also jarring and off-putting "One fisted hand is pressed between the scant nubs of her breasts as she looks at that pink freak of a moon." - do we, dear readers, really need to know the size of this 13-year-old girl's breasts?

Oh lord no.

Like a tribute or homage or a direct lift?

nm found it
(i should read more poetry and I'd spot such things straight off)

http://www.bartleby.com/198/1.html

Rooty toot.

would be awesome if "We'll stop for a quick check on Barbie and Rusty shall we?" was in Prufrock too

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/cannes-stephen-king-novel-geralds-game-to-be-adapted-by-oculus-helmer-mike-flanagan-and-intrepid-pictures/

Loved Absentia. Missed Oculus in theaters, but will pick it up the second it's available in a home format. Never read Gerald's Game, but from what I gather, it's more hated than loved.

ughhh i hate gerald's game so much. i wish i could unread it

Am I the only one silly enough to be reading Doctor Sleep? Can't decide if it's decent entertainment or complete garbage.

I read Doctor Sleep. Its def second or maybe third tier King, but was entertaining enough. I wish he hadn't associated it with The Shining.

I just recently got Insomnia from the library. Wow, did that suck.

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/12/behold-the-stephen-king-cinematic-universe/full-post/

Bc of that site name I excitedly thought for a moment it was gonna be a round up of the film scores for all the SK films over the years.

(Maybe I'll do that)

If they managed to actually pull this off, I'd be totally into it. My guess, though, is that the rights for the various works lie in different hands. And that any attempt to actually pull this off would be ham-fisted and awful.

That's a lot of potentially awful movies/series to greenlight. But I am living for the idea of Stu Redman played by Scoot McNairy.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/series/rereading-stephen-king

it's weird that I loved horror novels/short stories so much as a teen but could not abide horror movies at all unless they were pitched as "science fiction" or "psychological thriller" or "action movie"; something about the connection of the concept "horror" to actual visuals short-circuits something in my brain and stampedes directly to an unpleasant place in my brain

― DARING PRINCESS (DJP), Monday, September 10, 2012 10:48 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

YES

I read the bookstop version of "The Stand" in 2001, ravenous. Some of the incidental end-of-days shit from that book haunts me even now.

Did anyone else give Mister Mercedes a go? I did the audiobook version - the ending was meh but everything building up to it was so gripping (and so well read by Will Patton) that I didn't listen to anything else for a few days.

I've been reading the kindle version on my phone. It's entertaining. King at his airport-thriller breeziest.

OK, reading the various plot summaries from that Consequence of Sound post: people will eat up any old ludicrous shit King puts out, won't they?

Mister Mercedes struck as something that might have been a leftover from the Richard Bachman days, but overall I liked it.

i gave up on mr mercedes v early

i know its supposed to be couched in hard-boiled cliches but i found it almost intolerably cliched from the beginning

idk. maybe i was just in a bad mood

Mr. Mercedes -- a nice, kind of humble everyday detective story. It's the start of a series -- two more are coming.

Revival is pretty good, despite a mid-book 200 pages or so that was, like, so unnecessary, but in SK fashion, readable anyway.

Revival has its share of typical SK lapses -- some poor editing, odd pacing, and laughable OTTness -- but overall I enjoyed it. Usually I expect his books to start strong and fall apart in the last act, but this was the opposite ... the first chapter or two are so wholesome and bucolic I was tempted to bail, until some gore was splattered; the final chapters, while derivative, are intense, creepy, and ultra-dark.

I enjoyed those Guardian posts linked upthread but was sad the writer stopped with Gerald's Game ... it's the books after that I'd like more help to sift through.

11/22/63 so far is really good!! The show, haven't read the book.

The ending of Revival scared the bejeezus out of me. It's the first time in quite a while I genuinely regretted finishing a book before lights out. For a while there it actually really upset me, until I just thought, "Well, of course that doesn't happen". I think SK tapped into a certain fear really effectively there.

http://www.avclub.com/article/idris-elba-and-matthew-mcconaughey-confirmed-star--233053

Enjoying mr Mercedes

any word on who will play Stephen King in the Dark Tower film? presumably won't play himself but who do you even cast to play him...might have to get Johnny Depp or something...

also mr mercedes and the sequel are great, if you like stupid hard boiled detective novels, not exactly King's wheelhouse but he's pretty good at it

he wrote a sequel?

yep, called finders keepers, strays a little bit more into weird/supernatural King territory near the end, which is probably a good thing

though if you like mr mercedes at all I implore you to check out the "hard case" trilogy by dan simmons, another horror writer trying his hand at the hard boiled detective thing and doing a much better job imo, he could churn one of those out every month and I'd gobble it up like so much nasty candy

So this seems like it's going to be a year of King adaptations going really big -- The Dark Tower and It kinda make for a hell of a one-two. Still no Dark Tower trailer yet but here's a footage report:

http://io9.gizmodo.com/we-have-seen-the-first-footage-from-the-dark-tower-1793703645

As for It:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnCdOQsX5kc

reading IT for the first time, about halfway through, obviously King's masterpiece - wish I hadn't waited to read it for so long... so much better than The Stand.

so this is set in the 80s and won't include the adult timeline?

I dunno if Stephen king has a masterpiece but if he does its surely one from book 2,3 or 4 of dark tower

whoever's behind this must've been pretty stoked to see Stranger Things clean up

no handjob scene no credibility

wasn't IT stephen king's cocaine novel?

he had a few. tommyknockers maybe the most notorious.

Cujo is the one he can't remember

so this is set in the 80s and won't include the adult timeline?

They're doing this as two parts, but yeah looks like they've shifted the first half of the book to the 80s, presumably the second half/film will be the present.

well that trailer does look good tbh

he tweeted a couple weeks ago that he saw the movie, loved it, and said that it's just part one of the book.

should be noted that King reps for a lot of terrible things

this looks like it has potential though

looks like it has the atmosphere down...i think the problem w/most king horror adaptations is they get the gore factor well enough, but they miss the pervasive creepiness.

Hope it's up to the standard of 1997's triumphant the shining

trailer looks awesome

i have a good feeling about this It

also agree it is the quintessential SK book (of the doorstop phase)