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
I think the king can't remember writing the Tommyknockers thing was an Onion article
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:42 (seven years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/i-dont-even-remember-writing-the-tommyknockers-10929
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
(the Cujo admission is real though)
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
yeah, the Onion article predated the Cujo admission iirc so I always wondered if King was responding to it.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 10 April 2017 16:48 (seven years ago) link
From his 2014 Rolling Stone interview:
... I mean, The Tommyknockers is an awful book. That was the last one I wrote before I cleaned up my act. And I've thought about it a lot lately and said to myself, "There's really a good book in here, underneath all the sort of spurious energy that cocaine provides, and I ought to go back." The book is about 700 pages long, and I'm thinking, "There's probably a good 350-page novel in there."
I'm trying to imagine what drug King would have to be on to cut 350 pages of a manuscript.
― Brad C., Monday, 10 April 2017 17:06 (seven years ago) link
Alice Cooper has three albums he recorded and toured behind in a total alcoholic blackout - he has no memory of them at all. And when I interviewed him, he said one time some big redneck sheriff-looking guy came up to him on a golf course and told him that one of them, DaDa, was his favorite Cooper album.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:07 (seven years ago) link
Haha wow
― iris marduk (Jon not Jon), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:14 (seven years ago) link
weirdly reminiscent of this post that's always stuck in my brain:
My wife has this friend, and he showed up late to this party last year...I asked him why he'd been late and he said, "Oh well, I wanted to come earlier but I went to the Fine Line cuz my favorite band was playing"Me: "Oh really? cool...what band?"Him: "Dada"His favorite band is Dada. Huh. Didn't see that coming.-- M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:35 PM (Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:35 PM)
Me: "Oh really? cool...what band?"
Him: "Dada"
His favorite band is Dada. Huh. Didn't see that coming.
-- M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:35 PM (Thursday, November 3, 2005 5:35 PM)
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:17 (seven years ago) link
xposts In that vein, I think Cujo is pretty good (along with some of that Cooper blackout period material).
(Cooper's walking corpse look during that era is scarier than any of his intentional efforts at spookiness.)
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Now I'm imagining the nightmarish image of an emaciated, shroud-draped Alice Cooper hovering outside the window in Creepshow and getting the willies.
― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:22 (seven years ago) link
― Wes Brodicus, Monday, 10 April 2017 17:27 (seven years ago) link
Haven't read anything since Under The Dome, which I enjoyed a lot even though it was silly and felt pretty redundant after the ~8 or so other King books I've read. Is anything since then worthwhile, or are they all just kinda "well, if you need something to read you could do worse" books?
― Evan R, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Revival is goodthe Kennedy one too
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:48 (seven years ago) link
Yep, both of those are good, and I liked Duma Key (can't remember if that was pre- or post-Dome).
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 10 April 2017 19:01 (seven years ago) link
huh never even heard of Revival
The Kennedy one is that one that sounded most interesting to me, since it seemed maybe most like a departure from the usual "huge cast of town people/misfits/kids/villains comes together under adversity" thing a lot of his books fall into
― Evan R, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:09 (seven years ago) link
I think King's been on a mostly-good streak since Under the Dome, which was the first book of his in a while that I (a) enjoyed, and (b) read through quickly when it came out, despite the last few chapters being a bit disappointing. The only exceptions (of what I've read) are Dr Sleep and Bazaar of Bad Dreams, a so-so short story collection. 11/22/63 was great and Revival may be a top ten King book for me.
― Duane Barry, Monday, 10 April 2017 19:42 (seven years ago) link
Full Dark, No Stars is another good one. Joyland is a decent, small-stakes book.
Avoid the 2nd and 3rd detective books and burn all copies of Dr Sleep.
― The Thnig, Monday, 10 April 2017 20:45 (seven years ago) link
saw that as "Full Dank, No Stars" at first
― Neanderthal, Monday, 10 April 2017 21:33 (seven years ago) link
I've just been reminded of this slightly incongruous reference (one of many tbf) in Riverdale
https://68.media.tumblr.com/a8543fdacb5d4752db7a9cb8c0ba8d02/tumblr_ol78cdHPxj1w5ugijo1_400.gif
I guess the kids are down with the King these days
― Number None, Monday, 10 April 2017 22:55 (seven years ago) link
BTW, Joe Hill's most recent novel, The Fireman, is the most like his dad's work of all his stuff, but it's also really good.
― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 00:44 (seven years ago) link