stephen king c/d?

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:

https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1504436691i/33826872._UY720_SS720_.jpg

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

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/30124134_10156417288381518_6923352825639488201_n.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=fb186ac66474fe6ad84d10d73b97dbbe&oe=5B334ACE

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

Yeah I lol'd at that - part of me thinks there has to be a little bit of self-awareness there surely?

Also I have read that book. It is a lot of things, a masterpiece is not one of the things that it is.

It's the one full of detailed descriptions of child rape, right?

Bill Hader and Janes McAvoy! Jessica Chastain as well. Very curious to learn who she’s playing.

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/james-mcavoy-and-bill-hader-it-sequel-1202749616/

I’m really curious as to who is playing

^the post equivalent of the absorbed twin from The Dark Half

oooooooh

“The gunslinger had no idea what tooter-fish was, but he knew a popkin when he saw it.”

I think about this too often.

Sigh. King and his weird sexual euphemisms.

Jessica Chastain as well. Very curious to learn who she’s playing.

has to be grown-up Beverly, right?

I think about tooter fish probably every flight I take. Popkin had fallen out of my vocabulary though.

Bill Hader's almost certainly gonna be Richie

How have they not started filming this movie yet?

I still think they should go with surprise casting of Amy Adams for Beverly (she looks quite a bit like the actress from the first one) & the twist is that chastain is playing bill's wife who everyone thinks resembles bev

Jessica Chastain as well. Very curious to learn who she’s playing.

has to be grown-up Beverly, right

I think that was a joke...

She’s playing the Turtle

no man, fucking Clint Howard as the turtle or GTFO

Just read Joyland, the first King novel I've read since I was probably 14 of 15. It's fun; a good little supernatural murder mystery that doesn't overstay its welcome (my frustration with King way back when was largely due to his tendency towards pointlessly epic length) and mostly plays by the rules of the add-up-the-clues type of thriller. Like many recent books and films, though, I have to wonder if its period setting is strictly functional: if this were to take place in the present day, much of the mystery and suspense could have easily been curbed by access to Google and texting.

The Outsider sounds quite promising

First half out Outsider is GREAT, then (wait for it) SK realizes he's painted himself into a corner yet again & has to get silly to get out of it.

My suggestion for a newbie would be to rip out like the last quarter of any given King book before reading. And then just imagine an ending.

thats p solid advice

for the dark tower, sub "ripping out" for "not buying"

real talk now: stephen king is butt

don't @ me

Get out.

My (negative) epiphany came with The Stand. I went back to it not long ago thinking I would give it a shot, knowing nothing about the author's extended version. Which at the time was the only one you could buy. Still is? Anyway, it restored some 400 (or something) pages his editor originally cut, and when I learned that I thought, wow, the last thing that book needed was to be longer. For that matter, if you can cut 400 pages from a book and no one really noticed ... wow.

In other words, yeah, cut out a quarter of each book and make up what's missing. Create your own suspense!

I dig the extended version but I skimmed right through the Trashcan Man and Mother Abigail origin chapters (which, iirc, are really long and get in the way of the story). But it's pretty damn consistent for a book that size. And the ending sucks in the short version, too.

Dear King fans, please name me one (1) good King ending. I cannot think of one (1).

The Mist?

Yeah, I immediately started thinking of some as soon as I posted that. The Mist, Dead Zone, Cujo, The Long Walk. All fine. Earlier stuff, mostly, I guess.