stephen king c/d?

Full Dark, No Stars, btw, is amazing. It feels like the work of a much younger King.

Agreed, this was great. I feel like King almost always does better work on short stories/novellas than he does with the longer form stuff though.

that's almost a given i think!

explicitly had a literal magic negro in it

I was genuinely surprised at how uncritically this was embraced. Not surprised that King created this character.

I got off the bus around Needful Things and didn't really get back on until Duma Key ... since then I've gone back a bit and found some books in between that I enjoyed. He's always been inconsistent and willing to publish some awful crap, but he's been on a good roll the last few years.

[xp] you're talking about a critical engine that gave "The Legend of Bagger Vance" mixed reviews so I'm not sure where your surprise is coming from

I mean, here's a quote from Ebert about "Bagger Vance":

It handles a sports movie the way Billie Holiday handled a trashy song, by finding the love and pain beneath the story.

and this is from someone writing in Kalamazoo and is hilarious:

Robert Redford's beguiling drama reminds us even the most hopeless causes can be turned around through the power of positive thinking and perserverance, if we're willing to embrace the possibility of success instead of the probability of failure.

obviously questioning the concept of the magic negro archetype is not the at the forefront of the filters of the people reviewing these movies

Never watched bagger vance 'cause it was supposed to be some inspirational movie about golf.

wikipedia says the term/concept didn't enter the mainstream until spike lee used it to describe bagger vance and the green mile.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/38/Kazaam_poster.jpg/220px-Kazaam_poster.jpg

So would any of you recommend 11.22.63? I was iffy on reading it because King can be so hit or miss and time travel always has the potential to be terrible, but I've been hearing some good things about it.

thread revive was two or three saying it's good

100% recommended

I gave up on the Dark Towers after Wolves of the Calla, should i bother with the final 2? And can i skip Song of Susannah... it sounds lame.

Those last two get SUPER SUPER meta, like enough to make you suspect King was back on coke at the time, but I think they're worth it. They contain two of the most heartbreaking scenes I've ever read, if nothing else.

he'll just keep making more: http://www.avclub.com/articles/stephen-king-the-wind-through-the-keyhole,73144/

sigh. i'm going to read it

don't

I can quit dark tower any time

I dunno, I enjoyed them a ton. Also: crying. lots of crying.

that vulture article is some garbage

Huh: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stephen-kings-be-adapted-by-334899

Warner Bros’ adaptation of the classic Stephen King novel It has a director and writer.

Cary Fukunaga, the hot-shot filmmaker behind last year’s adaptation of Jane Eyre, is boarding the project as director and will co-write the script with Chase Palmer, who previously adapted Frank Herbert’s Dune for Paramount.

. . . A best-selling book when it was published in1986, It, like The Stand, is one of King’s biggest and most dense tomes, and the plan is for Fukunaga and Palmer to adapt the work into two films.

"who previously adapted Frank Herbert’s Dune for Paramount" = "do not get your hopes up, that was nearly 30 years ago and also terrible"

Also, creepy paedo gangbang scene this time or I want my money back.

I imagine they're talking about the new Dune adaptation

According to his imdb, it was

(2010) Unused screenplay for a new adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel Dune, for director Pierre Morel and Paramount Pictures.

Everything else he's been involved with has been short film.

There's a NEW Dune adaptation? Wait, you mean that one for Syfy a few years back?

http://vimeo.com/8898869

it seems to have been shelved but there was a new movie on the cards for a while

11/22/63 - worth reading?

Definitely.

100% worth it

Friend of mine randomly gave me an old copy of Night Shift the other day. Haven’t read King since I was a teenager and I’m oddly psyched to dig into it.

I love "It" so much as a novel (even though the ending is wtf) but I have no hopes that a good film can be made from it.

IT's has already been filmed once. had john boy walton in it iirc.

Yep, and Tim Curry as the clown. It's okayish, but enh.

tim curry as pennywise totally ruined my sleep for months when i was 8 or 9 years old

tbqf this is a great way to snatch kids. probably.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EWQ_Pvviocw/TAsMy6bKBJI/AAAAAAAAANM/Z9SPfr-218U/s1600/clownIT1.jpg

xxxpost Night Shift! omg the first two SK's I read were Skeleton Crew and Night Shift...god Grey Matter was a trip and a half. That story wigged me out for a great many nights.

xp: my little girl has taken to hanging out on top of a storm drain at our local park (it's the best place to throw rocks from, which is basically her favorite thing to do). Yesterday some crazy noises came out of it and I totally had an It flashback.

also had an It flashback during the Beasties poll.

He's doing a sequel to The Shining?
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/stephen-king-shining-dr-sleep-240853

ooooh that IT pic just gave me a flashback to the book, *shivers*. think there might be a lot in there that i'd rather not remember.

It's a beast of a book. I love the historical digressions (the vIronworks, the Black Spot, etc.)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/rereading-stephen-king

Grauniad columnist Jason Smythe re-reads King's works in chronological (publication) order.

jason smythe can die in a fire

Has to wait 2-3 more books for that iirc

lol

I am enjoying these purely because of the nostalgia rush I feel for King novels up until Gerald's Game, particularly the early period where dude was consistently and scarily awesome (in my memory, Rage is a lost classic)

is that the school-shooty one? i liked it when i read it but i was p much the protagonist's age so i fear a lack of critical distance

'the long walk' was my favourite of the bachman books i think

oh yeah, easily; The Long Walk is in my top 5 King stories ever

i tried to do a top five and got i. misery ii. under the dome and then far too much of everything else was showing up at some kind of technical joint twenty-second place

haha

for me it's:

The Stand
It
The Long Walk
Misery
'Salem's Lot

I hear really good things about some of his more recent work (esp. Under The Dome) and it kills me to not have The Gunslinger or Eyes of the Dragon on that list

it
the shining
pet semetary
the dead zone
salems lot

DJP, I read Cell this summer and enjoyed it start to finish.