stephen king c/d?

His editor should just take his finished manuscripts and be all, 'looks great, Steve!' and then 'accidentally' drop like the last 10-15 pages in the wastebasket. SK is like a champion gymnast who ends every routine by clumsily doing the running man (fittingly enough).

Ehhh it's not like there's a want of clumsiness in the beginnings and middles; I don't go to king for elegance so I'm easier on his cruddy endings than most. I love the ending of IT although (because) it's total anticlimax

The climaxing happens just a little earlier

Which obv is gonna happen at that age

🤢

yeah he is definitely notorious for whiffing endings to some of his better stories

i’m not mad abt Dark Tower AS much, but Under The Dome had me in full “old man yelling at clouds” mode when I was done.

Really?

Dark tower had me out fighting haystacks at midnight

Under The Dome's ending sucked, but the book still reached a pretty satisfying payoff. 10 pages of "ah that's stupid" is an OK tradeoff for several hundred pages of earned destruction and mayhem

Lol America

yeah I don’t remember being that mad abt Dark Tower but that’s not to say I can’t understand it. especially writing that series for so long to end like that was definitely not ~ideal~

under the dome ending was some St Elsewhere BULLSHIT

Yeah, I genuinely can't believe the resolution hinged on Howie Mandel pulling an inflated rubber glove over his head.

Please no spoilers

The under the dome ending wasn't that bad but it quite CLEARLY wasn't enough like st elsewhere, I mean cmon the entire novel is literally set in a snowglobe

Under The Dome had me in full “old man yelling at clouds” mode when I was done.

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:3

Dark tower had me out fighting haystacks at midnight

― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Monday, 18 December 2017 19:36

I've yet to have the pleasure of disappointing books giving me such powers. Keeping my fingers crossed I'll turn into an old woman who can hurt clouds with my screams.

I didn't say I won

Like it's an actual betrayal that the ending of that novel isn't a deranged jordy verrill saying "ain't I a stinker" xp to me

Darraghmac- Haha

The ending of the dark tower is fine, if we're just talking about the last scene it's one of his better endings, but the problem is the whole series is like half rubbish and the greater part of that half is in the back end - that whole last book is dogshit iirc

I was in a book queue with The Dark Half about ten years ago and - for reasons I still can't fathom - the clerk told me the ending (that is, the identity of "The Dark Half") as I was buying it.

I've never read it because of that, but is it still worth it I (kind of) know the mystery?

I think it's the only King book I've never finished

ymmv

Duma Key is SK's own favorite book of his, fwiw.

was there really a mystery in the Dark Half? if so the title kind of gives it away

Yeah, I mean, once you learn in the first chapter that the protagonist is the left side of a guy who somehow lives a normal life despite having been bisected down the middle in his youth, the denouement is fairly obvious.

(Although the reveal that the rest of his body is the rhythm guitarist in a Type O Negative cover band is kind of a surprise.)

I guess this is the best place to mention that I'll be ghost writing Stephen King's books from here on out so that he can ease into retirement, and you're all welcome in advance.

Which son are you again

I picked up "It" the other day and read a passage aboat a dick flappgni about and being observed and dull dialogue anyway and thought why do people like Stephen Kind otehr than being a story writer for films to be based on

maybe they like to read about flappgni dicks

No, you see, sir, Dick Flappgni is the name of my dog.

Reading through The Dark Tower, would it be preferable to read The Wind Through the Keyhole after Vol. 4 Wizard and Glass? I know King wrote the The Wind Through the Keyhole after he finished the series, but from what I understand without looking too close and reading about the book's plot, it is supposed to take place tied to the story Roland is telling the Ka-Tet about his past, right?

Just finished Duma Key. It was really good - barrelled me along like I want King to do. Yeah, there’s some flab that should have been trimmed and I think it would have been a much better book overall if it hadn’t turned into a monster story - I’m much more creeped out by disembodied evil than embodied evil - but I dug it. Would reco.

And he didn’t totally whiff the ending, so that was a nice surprise.

that fuckin doll creeped the shit out of me

Fuckin dolls.

Fuckin’ lookie-loos

Not just about King, but I found this book yesterday and it seems dope:

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Briefly discussed in the Signet horror paperback thread. Haven't bought it yet but it's the top of the list.

I just read it a couple weeks ago. It's really, really fun! I remember both seeing so many of those books on drugstore racks and, once I was in middle school, reading them as well.

Just finished Duma Key. It was really good - barrelled me along like I want King to do. Yeah, there’s some flab that should have been trimmed and I think it would have been a much better book overall if it hadn’t turned into a monster story - I’m much more creeped out by disembodied evil than embodied evil - but I dug it. Would reco.

There's a Grady Hendrix now?

He did a big King reread column on tor.com awhile ago. https://www.tor.com/series/the-great-stephen-king-reread/

Some readers might be turned off by King’s on-the-nose indictment of our patriarchal society, but Gerald’s Game has other rewards, including what might be the most sustained scenes of terror King has ever written. Starting with a sequence told from Prince’s point-of-view (reinforcing the idea that King may be one of America’s great dog POV writers, see also The Stand, Cujo), then moving into the hallucinatory first appearance by the Space Cowboy, followed by Jessie’s de-gloving and escape, King turns in 200 pages whose intensity would be hard to rival, by King or anyone else. Unfortunately, it’s a 420 page book.

couldn't find a thread specific to it but I finally watched IT from last year. Can't tell if I liked it. This was one of my favorite King books, and I seem to remember liking the mini series too; but the movie, despite being over 2 hours long and only covering half the book, seemed to be missing something; like, the kids are just presented, here they are, now there's terror....their backstories seemed perfunctory and superfluous. chubby kid's history of the town stuff seemed rushed and unbelievable. and finally, the kid with the munchausen's syndrome mom and the kid from stranger things were both fucking annoying. chubby kid and the girl were the only ones that didn't get on my nerves frankly. clown was alright.

itt: it

thanks!

I have a theory that SK chose the name It specifically because he was amused by the thought of the novel's title being the catalyst for a number of 'Who's On First?'-esque discussions.

Finished Duma Key. Can't say I liked it... it took forever to get to any real action, and a lot of it was just silly. Paintings that try to bite people? A spy heron? Gah.

Oh yeah and the pirate ghost was sooooooo goofy. Just kinda killed everything that came after

Too many blurbs written by you

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I own at least 2 books with no Stephen King blurb, but I had to write them myself.