stephen king c/d?

in some dimension, Stephen King wrote those words

I choose to believe it was this one

"gingerly" was an expert touch.

Given that my mind was damaged at least in part by reading too much King at too impressionable an age, I think it's fair to give him the credit.

If I'd referred to a woman's genitalia as 'her sex' I might've set myself up for a plagiarism lawsuit.

xps look I know it's very important to you that nobody ever say mean things about sexists but the simple fact is that fame aside Stephen King has always written badly about sex and it has always been funny, I don't know what to tell you

They thrashed their supple, ashen bodies against one another like two frightened ponies who've been tied together and thrown out of a plane.

― Jigsaw Pizzle (Old Lunch), Thursday, 4 May 2017 19:53

I was about go ask which book this was from, disappointed it's not real, but that's genius Old Lunch.

He writes about sex like someone who can clearly recollect a number of sexual encounters just shy of the number of children he has.

xp So, a "takedown" of the most famous author of all time that anachronistically pokes fun at books nearly half a century old by ignoring context and LOLing at fictional characters' failure to take 2017 liberal politics into account. Sounds delightful

― Wimmels, Thursday, May 4, 2017 12:00 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh hey the guy who defends dudes accused of rape because he likes their music also doesn't like people talking about sexism

i am surprise

now put your seatbelt on as you drive 100 yards from stop to stop you dang slob

doesn't like people talking about sexism

I didn't say that at all, but don't let that stop you from your virtue signaling

I just think that CoS podcast sounds extremely boring. sorry

you do realize virtue signaling is a term used by terminal wankstains?

if you're going to be a "oh we can never know what truly happened" dude about rape then if you also use the term virtue signaling you're basically guaranteeing that you come across like a cock

virtue signalling aka having values

you do realize virtue signaling is a term used by terminal wankstains?

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 4 May 2017 22:35

Which is a shame because I think it's a decent term.

you do realize virtue signaling is a term used by terminal wankstains?

― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, May 4, 2017 5:35 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

As long as you're dispensing wisdom, please tell me about the kind of people who use the term "wankstain" and if they are allowed to use scissors unsupervised

xp. it's just that if the people who used such buzz-term jargon shite would think, or read, for a second they would realize that the idea that all ethical statements are essentially emotional, or non-cognitive, expressions and not propositions and that any time we make any value judgement of any kind we are "virtue signaling" and that they themselves do it all the time, including when they tell people they are virtue signaling, as all that amounts to is the expression of the sentiment "boohoo, you made a value judgement i don't like"

above should read they would realize that the idea that all ethical statements are essentially emotional, or non-cognitive, expressions and not propositions is a very old one and that any time we make any value judgement blah blah

lads its the stephen king thread

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Sorry guys, but I must finish this bit quickly.

Jim- That's often true but sometimes the woke-braggery is so pungent, done in such an insincere and self-serving way that it should be criticized. I think sometimes virtue signalling might be a necessary evil when you really need to clarify your position but it so easily slips into self-aggrandizing crap for some people.

And back when sjw (or social justice maniac) was used by left wing people there was an understanding that it was used for bullies and not just social justice people, liberals and lefties in general.

Ok Darragh : Stephen King in creepshow reminds me of Bill Hader for some reason

i think he does look like hader tbh

also RAG tbh that was the least necessary "i gotta just say thus" ever

today i learned about "virtue signalling" in a stephen king thread and now i will walk into the ocean

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xp why walk into the ocean?

http://images.amcnetworks.com/ifc.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Creepshow.jpg

I've heard that Danson prefers not to acknowledge that film.

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Enter, if you dare, a frightening new world from the mind of Stephen King, a world whose seemingly-righteous denizens casually use figures of speech which reveal their true nature as abhorrent wraiths who feed on everything that's good in humanity. Pick up Virtue Signaling at your local B. Dalton Bookseller's today!

i'd like to go back to old lynch's sex paragraph

er, old lunch

Pick up Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph at your local B. Dalton Bookseller's today!

have we polled king in any meaningful way btw cos im just going through the bibliography and short stories alone would be a hell of a thread imo

imho thomp nailed the exact right approach here: a stephen king poll

one could perhaps quibble about the dividing lines, but short of getting really mass participation in a ballot poll, this is surely the most interesting/revealing way of polling the guy, versus a radio button poll of four hundred books with a whole bunch of single votes for "the dark half" and "dreamcatcher" and so on, and three votes each for salem's lot/it/stand/dead zone/carrie.

that was good and thomp beyond reproach but if we can poll action movies of the 00s i believe we can do this

and the point would imo to have a good nomination/discussion process because all stages and approaches of the various stephens kings are fun af to discuss

yeah i agree i'm down

old lunch is very good itt

Slightly surprised that The Shining hasn't been mentioned in the recommendations for surm's first Stephen King. But really any of those first dozen novels / short story collections will do, anything up until Misery, pretty much.

(I started with Night Shift fwiw, then continued with everything up until Delores, which was a few books too far tbh. Have only picked up the Dark Tower books and Full Dark since then. Oh, and the second Straub collaboration)

The best Stephen King movie adaptations > the best Stephen King books > the worst Stephen King books > the worst Stephen King movies.

swap the first two imo

Darragh otm

You think? I'm no expert, but which books do you think are better than their (good) movie counterparts?

I haven't seen all that many but I would say that Dead Zone the film is good, and not as good as Dead Zone the book.

i dont feel like thats the comparison tho

kings best book is better than the best movie adaptation, not necessarily of that book tho

It's telling that many of the best adaptations have been of the short stories or novellas, imo/iirc.

The comparison gets a little thrown off by the presence of a couple of ringer adaptations that are kind of major movies in their own right (Carrie and The Shining) - kinda hard for me to really say that King really has a single book that's as good of a book as The Shining is of a movie, but they're also going for really different kinds of things and are good/significant for different ways. Take those off the table and you're really dealing with the huge huge collection of "Stephen King movies" as I think of them. The best of the books trounce the best of those easy.

poll!

Hmm. I'm not well versed enough in King books, but these are the movies I could defend as pretty great (to different degrees/qualities of greatness):

Carrie
The Shining
Creepshow (maybe? it's fun and minor but memorable)
Dead Zone
Stand By Me
Running Man
Misery
Shawshank
Dolores Claiborne
The Mist

There are a few more that are OK, like Christine and 1408, iirc.