stephen king c/d?

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

— Dr. Jennie Bujold🌹🏳️‍🌈 (@JennieBujold) June 28, 2020

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+?

I am not.

I did watch both seasons of Castle Rock, enjoyed the pastiche stuff in the beginning, but S2 was a lot less fun and just kinda bizarre/disappointing at the end

Yeah I haven’t watched the Annie season of that yet. Liked the first arc a lot.

Molly, aka the Thing of Evil, joins the Children of the Corn. pic.twitter.com/STvcGIzXcl

— Stephen King (@StephenKing) August 27, 2021

ugh ok Billy Summers was a dud for me

enjoyed the first third, but after the dumb wtf plot twist with the girl i hate-read the rest of it

Jamie Lee Curtis connects Halloween and Stand By Me

https://www.fangoria.com/podcasts/the-kingcast/86-stand-by-me-with-jamie-lee-curtis/

So who's been watching Midnight Mass?

I’m 4 episodes in. Feels so much like a King adaptation that I came here looking for discussion. It’s schlocky, low-cal, and overwrought, like pretty much everything King has written. Also like King, it’s oddly effective even as you roll your eyes at the B-movie monsters in rubber suits. All that wordy heart-to-heart stuff in the middle of a small town possessed by a Nameless Evil.

Unlike King (but, alas, very like most King movies), it doesn’t succeed in sucking you into the horror. Riley & Erin feel like they’re living alongside, not within, the scary part. King at his best can make the most mundane everyday stuff seem fraught with dread.

I actually kinda feel like I’d like this better if it was just a miniseries about these ordinary people in this dying community and the 2 youngish ones coming back to come to terms with their tragic backstories and the place that spawned them — leaving all the boogeyman stuff out of it.

Have thought that about king tv adaptations for a while!

The Outsider was excellent as a mystery with a hint of supernatural and somewhat humdrum in plot (still excellently cast, played, shot tbh) once we had found out what the cause was (wont spoiler just in case but its as lazily predictably done as anything king has written in his career, they practically look it up in a library and say "wow thats absolutely implausible but it could be this" and it is and thats that)

Fourth Dark Tower book is a bit of a drag, could do without King describing a teenager masturbating ever again.

Just wait until you read the next three. You’ll look back fondly on this oneS

I am 100% out after this one, if I don’t abandon ship early.

Fourth Dark Tower book is a bit of a drag, could do without King describing a teenager masturbating ever again.

My only direct IT experience is the detour in the Kennedy book.

The existence of… that scene is impossible for me to comprehend.

could do without King describing any sex act ever again

Fair. The demon sex scene in the third book was even worse in its own way.

The teenage masturbation content of It is great (also horrific and homophobic, what’s great about that novel is also what’s terrible about it)

xp that scene is the worst imo

Isn't "Steven King" just a collective at this point?

James Patterson is a load of writers hooked up to those matrix pods, king’s books seem consistently the product of the same weirdo

FFS "Stephen"

yeah, there have been SK imitators over the years but no one could quite bring the crazy like he does

aside from wtf sex stuff, on a purely supernatural/horror level he’s still one of the best at creating tension & getting a reader to suspend disbelief - something about the familiarity of his characters & their lives, he’s v good at putting the reader in a time/place & giving plenty of room for you to get to know characters. incredibly patient with his pacing imo

xp that scene is the worst imo

In case it isn’t clear I am referring there to the “demon sex scene” from the third dark tower book and not the infamous scene from the end of It, which I would not vote for in such a poll

The folksiness of the voice just makes everything 30% more ick. It’s a shtick but it always works. It’s like the fun schoolteacher who you can never tell if they’re cool or creepy. I think a lot of his “oh Stephen” moments are probably more deliberate than we think

on a purely supernatural/horror level he’s still one of the best at creating tension & getting a reader to suspend disbelief - something about the familiarity of his characters & their lives, he’s v good at putting the reader in a time/place

This is very striking when you read a bad Stephen King impression. I read Nick Cutter's 'The Troop' late last year and it's a pure 'kids in quasi-supernatural danger' King thriller and it was just absolutely terrible without any of King's charm.

I've read IT three times, and I still went "wait, what masturb... oh..." I think I've just blocked that scene.

It's also why I can reread books and rewatch movies. I forget things.

There are also two scenes being talked about here which may confuse: the teenage masturbation scene is the bully characters in the junkyard, the other scene is at the end and involves the *preteen* characters

Pretty much everything in Detta Walker's voice rivals the sex scene but that one's on a whole new level.

Theres a dark tower prequel short story about a vampire nun tugging roland off in a tent y/n?

As per last post, at this stage king is probably better writing boomer nostalgia via punk rock horror but leaving:

i. monsters
ii. characters with disability
iii. characters with weight issues
iv. poor characters
v. child sex

out of it entirely