Dark Tower - Stephen King

Popkins iirc

tooter fish popkins!

The final books of Dark Tower make some truly bad decisions, among the worst of King's career, but (at least for me) the fundamental project is so worthwhile that it earns your buy-in, you're committed to it and overall don't regret following it through to the end, and yes I own multiple REM albums released in the 21st century

lol, decent analogy because I loved REM and hung in one album too long before decisively peacing out. Thankfully my very strong completist tendencies are occasionally (very occasionally) offset by an unwillingness to engage in needless masochism.

Fables is definitely their Dead Zone, Lifes Rich Pageant the Shining, I think Pet Sematary is Monster (picks one idea, maybe not a great idea, but you kind of admire the commitment to it, and the opportunity to focus the whole work on this one idea is only there because you're coming off a lot of commercial success already.) REM never released a double album so I think there just is no The Stand

New Adventures is their double album in spirit (and always was, on vinyl, tho i'm sure that's also true of Around the Sun)

Hmm, it doesn't feel like their The Stand though

Is Kate Pierson their Peter Straub is the question

Is a mod available to ban ye all is actually the question

(which it character is kenneth tho?)

OMG, the discussion over the last several posts engaged the pattern recognition of my brain and, apropos of little else, it just occurred tk me that The Eyes of the Dragon is Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption in fantasy drag. I don't know how I failed to see it before.

The switching of the rapunzel trick for several hundred yards of shite is somewhat of a distracter youd often find

Speaking of The Talisman... https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/steven-spielberg-duffer-bros-team-to-tackle-stephen-kings-talisman-exclusive

That could def work

You know, people like to frown on the later books, but Wolves Of The Calla is pretty damn good

i have an awful feeling that gyac never read the talisman since ffs

You know, people like to frown on the later books, but Wolves Of The Calla is pretty damn good

― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, December 3, 2023 11:41 AM (eleven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sorry, it's still his Around the Sun

recently started re-reading the talisman after some 30+ years and found myself unable to get past the magical negro (named 'speedy parker' no less! who says shit like 'you weep if it put you easy'!) who sent jack on his way

the whole detta/odetta thing in the dark tower is little more than an excuse to have a character spew the most reductive racist shit possible (but it's okay; she's crazy amirite!)

i don't even know! he doesn't deserve it, but somehow i suspect stephen king means well? but nevertheless his characterization is absolutely and relentlessly racist as fuc