he's at it again

OnWisconsin · Nov 17, 2009

went to wal mart today to pick up a bag of dog food, and with it being tuesday i went to peruse the new dvd and book titles. and there it was, an 1100 page behemoth from Stephen King. i used to be a religious follower of king, but his books have been sucking for the past decade or so. i flipped to the back of the book and saw where he said he started writing it in 1976 and then put it up for 30 years.

still can't believe i walked away without buying it. come to think of it, dean koontz has been sucking here lately too.

KingofNicotine · Nov 17, 2009

Didn't he go off on that author of the horrible Twilight movies?

Sure those movies suck but King needs to realize he sucks now too.

OnWisconsin · Nov 17, 2009

i think the reason king started sucking so bad was that he wanted to be taken more serious, so he branched out and tried to write more mainstream shit. Lisey's Story was unbearable. Duma Key was all right, but nothing special. I think the last thing i actually enjoyed reading of his was Needful Things.

funny thing, in this new book, there is no description of plot whatsover on the jacket.

KingofNicotine · Nov 17, 2009

What does it say on the jackets now? "Just buy it asshole?"

OnWisconsin · Nov 17, 2009

KingofNicotine said:
What does it say on the jackets now? "Just buy it asshole?"

pretty much. has his face on the back, and the flaps where they tell you what the book is about are blank. looks like a disaster type book, sort of in the tradition of The Stand. I'm gonna give it a week or 2 and read some reviews. i love long ass books, but it pisses me off to get 200 pages in and realize i've been reading the dead turd scrolls

kfox · Nov 18, 2009

Loved him when he wrote the Stand and Needful Things but the clown in the sewer shit and Tommyknockers and I was done.

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

the tommyknockers kind of sucked. according to interviews, that was a contract book he wrote while under the influence, and it showed. I loved It though. Did a very good job of balancing the childhood/adult hood aspect.

plus, who the fuck could have gotten away with a title of IT at that point in time?

Betallsports · Nov 18, 2009

One of my All time favorite Authors.

But haven't read anything of his since 2006

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

Betallsports said:
But haven't read anything of his since 2006

you haven't missed much.....

Betallsports · Nov 18, 2009

Yeah, I know.....Don't think he was ever the same after he got hit by a Car.......lol

Did you ever read any of the Bachman Books ?

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

Betallsports said:
Yeah, I know.....Don't think he was ever the same after he got hit by a Car.......lol

Did you ever read any of the Bachman Books ?

all of them. The Long Walk was my favorite. The Running Man was good too, but the movie disappointed me. (for those not familiar, the movie was loosely based on the story)

hosnatcher · Nov 18, 2009

Don't read much anymore but King's movies rarely let me down.

I was surprised to find out he wrote The Running Man years back under an alter ego.

Seriously check out this dudes credits Stephen King has given us a lot.

Recently:
1408
The Mist
Dreamcatcher "Ister Gray" "I Duddits"

Greats:
Shawshank Redemption
The Green Mile
Apt Pupil
Thinner
The Shining
Stand By Me
Misery

The list goes on... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000175/

Stephen King is one of my favorites. Keep churning them out you old Southie.

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

did you know he based the book The Dark Half on his own experience? the movie was good too, but a little outdated now -- a recent movie titled The Unborn is a cheap ripoff of it

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

hosnatcher, i'm surprised you'd leave pet Symetary off the list. a very disturbing book that he actually tried to distance himself from by claiming that he wrote it under the influence of drugs, and it bothered him so much that he let it sit for a year or two....

i think that was his first truly fucked up piece of work. before that, he had written about vampires and haunted hotels and haunted cars, but pet symetary was.....fucked up

if you like to read horror and you haven't read that one, i'd recommend it even if you've already seen the movie. his talents as a writer in portraying human emotion and making the fucked up believable are on true display there....the movie was pretty decent, but the book was much more disturbing.....

hosnatcher · Nov 18, 2009

soonerdawg said:
hosnatcher, i'm surprised you'd leave pet Symetary off the list. a very disturbing book that he actually tried to distance himself from by claiming that he wrote it under the influence of drugs, and it bothered him so much that he let it sit for a year or two....

i think that was his first truly fucked up piece of work. before that, he had written about vampires and haunted hotels and haunted cars, but pet symetary was.....fucked up

if you like to read horror and you haven't read that one, i'd recommend it even if you've already seen the movie. his talents as a writer in portraying human emotion and making the fucked up believable are on true display there....the movie was pretty decent, but the book was much more disturbing.....

I watched the movie and I liked it wasn't great but a good view.

"Sometimes dead is better"

Betallsports · Nov 18, 2009

soonerdawg said:
hosnatcher, i'm surprised you'd leave pet Symetary off the list. a very disturbing book that he actually tried to distance himself from by claiming that he wrote it under the influence of drugs, and it bothered him so much that he let it sit for a year or two....

i think that was his first truly fucked up piece of work. before that, he had written about vampires and haunted hotels and haunted cars, but pet symetary was.....fucked up

if you like to read horror and you haven't read that one, i'd recommend it even if you've already seen the movie. his talents as a writer in portraying human emotion and making the fucked up believable are on true display there....the movie was pretty decent, but the book was much more disturbing.....

I know he has written Better, But Pet Sematary was My Fav..

They Did a Butcher Job on the Movie...IMO
and Here is one thing that Really got me Pissed off about the Movie, which Others will find small.

In the Book, Winston Churchill ( the Cat) was a Striped Taby...in the Movie, ty use a British Shorthair.

I Know I Know...you will say I'm crazy.....But DETAIL'S !!!

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

LOL BAS.....

even i missed that small detail, but the movie failed to portray the overall creepiness of the cat as well, especially at the end

i will say, it has been my experience, when i read a really good book and there's a movie, it's always best to wait a few months before watching the movie

examples: lonesome dove (larry mcmurtry), bonfire of the vanities (tom wolfe), and timeline (michale crighton)....i always feel cheated when i read a good novel and then watch the movie immediately afterward.

SoCal · Nov 18, 2009

I too was an avid Stephen king fan. The Bachman Books, The Shining, Pet Semetary.. and another short story collection he has... were among my favorites. About 15 years ago, I tried to get thru "the stand", "it", and I started some of those dark half stories... but i just put it all down and gave up on him. I caved in recently and bought his latest collection of short stories... "just before sunset". I am halfway thru it and I will finish. It's enjoyable though nothing is as good as from the past... yet. Maybe there's a story that will get me, I hope so.

All that being said, I just finished "Shutter Island" by Dennis Lahane. Fantastic thriller with an a great twist. The book will be a movie soon and I highly recommend this book.

If you guys have never read "silence of the lambs" by Thomas harris....btw... that's a great one too. I bought that book well before it was proposed to be a movie and it has always been a favorite.

after seeing the movie years ago... I've forgotten how another story by Lahane, "Mystic River" ends... so I just got that book and I am 1/4 way done. It was a movie that most people saw and is a critically acclaimed book. So far, to be honest, I like Shutter Island better, but mystic river looks like it will will not disappoint either.

OnWisconsin · Nov 18, 2009

i've read everything you mentioned. the ending to shutter island was one of the best twists i have ever read -- never saw it coming, believed it all the way. mystic river was good too. as far as just after sunset, those were nothing but recycled stories -- probably a book they put out to make some money by using King's name.

i enjoyed The Stand. i read it in 4 days while suspended from school :103631605

also, if you like jaws, read the novel by peter benchley. even now, 30 years later and knowing everything, it's still a good read

Betallsports · Nov 18, 2009

soonerdawg said:
LOL BAS.....

even i missed that small detail, but the movie failed to portray the overall creepiness of the cat as well, especially at the end

i will say, it has been my experience, when i read a really good book and there's a movie, it's always best to wait a few months before watching the movie

examples: lonesome dove (larry mcmurtry), bonfire of the vanities (tom wolfe), and timeline (michale crighton)....i always feel cheated when i read a good novel and then watch the movie immediately afterward.

Yes Very True......But they did use the Right Cat in Cat's Eye....

I think Overall, the Movies have not been as good as the Books.
But I can't take away from the Good ones, like The Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile ( a bunch of shorts ), The Shining ( still liked the Book more ), Carrie ( liked the Movie, more than the Book )...even though they took away from the Mother in the Movie....

and of Course, Misery...which I thought was a Good Book, and a Great Movie.

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