stephen king c/d?

Might have found it, will let u know if it works

Doctor Sleep:

Stephen...Stanley...always you wrestle inside me

Not sure if this is the best thread for it, search wasn't coming up with anything promising, but this season of Castle Rock has been great. Lizzy Caplan is really, really good.

Last week's "origin" episode was excellent

Do you need to have seen the first season to watch the second?

Xposts: archive.org is the ticket. There’s a rip of someone’s vhs tape complete with local New Hampshire commercial breaks. File is too large to stream in browser but you can download it.

xp no, completely new cast & storyline

Last week's "origin" episode was excellent

It really was great, reminded me of "The Queen" episode from last season.

Why am I rereading loads of Stephen King atm? Who can say? Anyway rereading The Tommyknockers which i like more the second time, but it probably helps that I’ve completely forgotten most of it, including the ending.

I liked King a lot in junior/high school, though hadn't read anything of his after Dark Tower finished. I mostly read non-fiction these days but needed something breezy but engrossing for lunch breaks and commutes, so ended up rereading most of his bibliography in chronological order this year, since I planned on reading the post-"retirement" books for the first time. Very much my comfort food.

It was pretty fun! I don't recall that many outright stinkers, though Christine and The Dark Half wore out their welcome with the length. I thought The Outsiders was pretty bad after the initial chapters. Really felt like King by the numbers: small group starts to band together after piecing together weird circumstances and overcoming their skepticism at the supernatural, a few secondary characters get killed off to raise stakes, etc. Maybe I'd have liked it better if I read the mystery novels it crossed over with.

I dug the Dark Tower books as a kid but soured on them this time around. Due to that, I increasingly resented references to it in the non-DT novels.

I have weirdly strong memories of The Tommyknockers and am sort of afraid of re-reading it. My sense of it is very much coloured by the anecdote King tells wherein he was doing so much coke at the time, he spent most of his time at the typewriter with tissue stuffed up his nostrils to stem the bleeding.

Mom gave me The Institute before Christmas but I haven't gotten around to it. Gotta get in the right mindset.

Having seen both recent It movies I'm reading the book for the third time, roughly 20 years between readings. While his writing is occasionally terrible, and in spite of the length, he does know how to write a page turner.

I think It is just magnificent

I think he's great at writing what one could un-charitably describe as "Boomer nostalgia". My favorite parts of It, 11/22/63 and Joyland were the mundane "life in the 1950s-70s" character stuff, like the Losers hanging out and seeing movies, reading comic books etc. I'd happily read a non-genre novel like that if he wrote one.

^^^ first part of Hearts in Atlantis has some of this too, and I agree.

Worst part of 11/22/63 is his need to shoehorn in specific bands and songs he loved as a kid.

The first half of The Stand, the dissolution of society and wandering, is his peak IMO.

all off these books (up to rose madder) were in my teenage bedroom when I went home for Christmas. I brought exactly none of them back with me. this thread is making me think that was a wasted opportunity.

the talisman was right there, a nice hardback of IT (huge), the long version of the stand (unread), some bookclub edition that randomly combined the shining, Carrie and misery in one volume, the bachman books with the story he retired after the school shootings, several other fondly remembered short story collections...

The Institute is kicking so much ass for me.

really? that’s good to hear. I might give it a whirl

I’m watching “the outsider” adaptation on hbo and once again King pulls out the magic negro card, cf the Shining, the Green Mile, etc. Damn

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Negro

if you mean the Holly Gibney character, she's white in the book

Yeah
Guess hbo is at fault then

Yeah, I haven't watched The Outsider, but there was a 3-season adaptation of Mr. Mercedes and the other Bill Hodges books on DirecTV's Audience network, and Holly was played by Justine Lupe.

I’m rereading The Stand, which I haven’t read in about 17 years, and had forgotten how good it is and how much I remembered. The scene with Frannie and her mother in the calendar? Instantly remembered the clock ticking and the rose-patterned carpet. Incredible the things that stick with you, but that scene is great.

The Outsider is feeling a lot like The Dark Half 2

i watched the whole thing even though it felt pretty dumb. it's almost pulled off by the strong cast. but the whole show is so incredibly dark (visually) and then they have the entire climax take place in a cave, good luck figuring out what's happening.

every new HBO drama is required to have a climactic sequence take place in near-complete blackness. budgetary restrictions, what can you do?

i thought mare winningham in particular was excellent in it, plus a lot of the supporting cast was interesting (i particularly liked the private detective with the mustache). too bad about the plot and pace.

IMO, this was the closest an adaptation has come to replicating the pacing of a King novel. Ten hours seems about right, just enough time to let the thing breathe and to let the audience live with the characters and situations before the carnage begins in earnest.

I kinda think that may be a key element missing from many of the less successful King adaptations. You don't really get time for the low-key domestic texture which is imo one of his strong suits.

I was very into the vibe of the descent into the cave, it felt like how the endings of the two It movies might have felt if muschietti was good not bad

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Yeah, in 11-22-63 the low-key hangout parts are really enjoyable. It’s a bit like Better Call Saul - you don’t want the plot to move forward because you know something bad will happen as a result

I thought this was (mostly) a pretty excellent adaptation - like you say, I don’t think I’ve seen another adaptation do King’s trademark “slow descent into weirdness” quite so effectively

Though admittedly some of it has been very silly (which is also very King)

A play in three acts. pic.twitter.com/5hs3n1Kyfc

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author of Insomnia is woke go figure

Enormous list of every book king has blurbed, but I seriously doubt each blurb is for every individual book, most are probably general praise for the writer or for previous books? I'm certainly not reading each one to find out.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4816194-debra?shelf=sai-king-recommends

ha. I know James Ellroy says he never actually read any of the books he blurbed, but King mentions so many other writers in his books and interviews that I believe he reads all this stuff.

A friend of mine wrote a book King blurbed, and King not only follows him on Twitter but replies to him and occasionally quotes or RTs him, so that makes me think he's honest about what he claims to like.

Even more impressive is that those "reviews" aren't all blurbs, a lot of them are just books he's mentioned in tweets and in Danse Macabre. Unless his tweets get used on books?

From what I have always understood, Stephen King has always been a voracious reader.

When you're on day 3 of a coke bender, you've got to do something to fill the time.

Reading _The Institute_. Some of the Holocaust refs are a bit heavy handed, but I never expected Walter Rauff’s name to get dropped.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Rauff

Also took me quite a bit to realize that Mrs Sigsby is a ref to Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

i havent read that one - let me know if it’s any good

i just started Billy Summers, supposedly a crime novel… i like the premise so far, we’ll see!
though it is set in Red Bluff, which is v funny to me bc it is literally like northern california’s own “nowhere usa” (though ok fine that describes a lot of northern california)

nobody watching the jerusalem lot teevee show?

what channel/service is it on?

epix, lol
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/chapelwaite-stephen-king-epix-series-interview

I promise I will eventually watch all Stephen king shite, not up for series rn tho (there is also a prestigey liseys story show by pablo larraín with a great cast but man that book is so bad)

Billy summers is v down-the-line, I enjoyed it quite a bit with the usual set of peeves. Reminded me of wizard & glass & 11/22/63, king is quite good at “dude with a secret mission insinuates himself into a community” - there is a big plot turn I don’t really like, also a shining reference that is the laziest fucking pandering even by the increasingly low standards of king “Easter eggs”

Also wow this guy can let his imagination run riot for half a century and yet will never conceive of the possibility that fat people are human beings huh

Hi I’m new to this thread. Anyone watching the show in Apple TV+?