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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Sept 24, 2014 15:44:50 GMT -5
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Sept 24, 2014 17:07:01 GMT -5
Read it a few days back. A few good ones, some hit a reoccurring joke well, others whiffed. Some flat out sucked. And 2 were Dean Koontz books.
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Post by dav on Sept 24, 2014 17:13:57 GMT -5
Here's one for most of them based off my own experience with Stephen King's novels.
"They're not very good."
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Post by jagilki on Sept 24, 2014 17:17:46 GMT -5
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 24, 2014 18:00:50 GMT -5
In all honest, he's a pretty repetitive writer. With a few exceptions, all of his books feature characters who are psychic, at least one character who is a drunk or recovering drunk, some person or item that is possessed by demonic forces, and are either set in New England or at some point it will be mentioned.
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Post by wakko on Sept 25, 2014 1:58:42 GMT -5
Maine is where most his stuff is set. Castle Rock, Derry, and Bangor being the popular locals for some. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Sept 25, 2014 7:47:32 GMT -5
In all honest, he's a pretty repetitive writer. With a few exceptions, all of his books feature characters who are psychic, at least one character who is a drunk or recovering drunk, some person or item that is possessed by demonic forces, and are either set in New England or at some point it will be mentioned. You forgot "main character is a writer" which is often. He is repetitive, but he is a hell of a world and situation builder. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Sept 25, 2014 8:01:27 GMT -5
Cell (2006)
Worst ending ever, seriously, made me hate King. He even admits that he f***ed up.
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Post by Nr1Humanoid on Sept 25, 2014 8:01:55 GMT -5
Read it a few days back. A few good ones, some hit a reoccurring joke well, others whiffed. Some flat out sucked. And 2 were Dean Koontz books. I think he simply means the Koontz books might as well have been written by King. |
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Post by Sephiroth on Sept 25, 2014 8:30:30 GMT -5
In all honest, he's a pretty repetitive writer. With a few exceptions, all of his books feature characters who are psychic, at least one character who is a drunk or recovering drunk, some person or item that is possessed by demonic forces, and are either set in New England or at some point it will be mentioned. You forgot "main character is a writer" which is often. He is repetitive, but he is a hell of a world and situation builder. He also tends to ramble. I have enjoyed some of his books, but some of them were a downright struggle to read because they would be good...then get dull...then good...then dull. The Stand is a very unique idea and downright frightening in some of its realism-but do we really need an in depth portrait of half the populace of north America? |
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 25, 2014 8:35:56 GMT -5
Cell (2006) Worst ending ever, seriously, made me hate King. He even admits that he f***ed up. And it is still better than the ending of "Under the Dome". Cell's bad ending I can handle. Mostly because the book wasn't a 1000+ page mammoth like Under The Dome was. The UtD ending feels like he realized he had written enough for a novel,then just pulled an ending out of his ass. Heard that he told the writers of the UtD tv show to come up with a new ending. Also I sometimes feel like I am one of the few that loved the ending of the Dark Tower series. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Sept 25, 2014 9:18:57 GMT -5
Read it a few days back. A few good ones, some hit a reoccurring joke well, others whiffed. Some flat out sucked. And 2 were Dean Koontz books. I think he simply means the Koontz books might as well have been written by King. I figured, but you undermined the joke when you put the cover of the book that says "Dean Koontz" right on it. Also, it isn't funny, and lastly, they really are not that similar aside from being hella prolific. |
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Post by khali on Sept 25, 2014 10:54:50 GMT -5
In all honest, he's a pretty repetitive writer. With a few exceptions, all of his books feature characters who are psychic, at least one character who is a drunk or recovering drunk, some person or item that is possessed by demonic forces, and are either set in New England or at some point it will be mentioned. I think you're being a little unfair. Yes, a lot of those tropes do appear in his books. But he's actually wrtitten quite a lot that deals nothing with psychics, demonic forces or things like that. Overall, he is a master storyteller who is particularly great at building big grand stories like It and The Dark Tower series. And although he is mostly known as a horror writer, he's created a number of very moving personal stories that have nothing to do with horror at all. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Sept 25, 2014 11:14:10 GMT -5
In all honest, he's a pretty repetitive writer. With a few exceptions, all of his books feature characters who are psychic, at least one character who is a drunk or recovering drunk, some person or item that is possessed by demonic forces, and are either set in New England or at some point it will be mentioned. I think you're being a little unfair. Yes, a lot of those tropes do appear in his books. But he's actually wrtitten quite a lot that deals nothing with psychics, demonic forces or things like that. Overall, he is a master storyteller who is particularly great at building big grand stories like It and The Dark Tower series. And although he is mostly known as a horror writer, he's created a number of very moving personal stories that have nothing to do with horror at all. Joyland is freaking fantastic and touches none of that. If people read it blind, they'd never know it was King. |
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Post by khali on Sept 25, 2014 11:31:04 GMT -5
I think you're being a little unfair. Yes, a lot of those tropes do appear in his books. But he's actually wrtitten quite a lot that deals nothing with psychics, demonic forces or things like that. Overall, he is a master storyteller who is particularly great at building big grand stories like It and The Dark Tower series. And although he is mostly known as a horror writer, he's created a number of very moving personal stories that have nothing to do with horror at all. Joyland is freaking fantastic and touches none of that. If people read it blind, they'd never know it was King. That's one of the ones I was thinking of. Joyland completely blew me away, his best in a long time. And three of his best film adaptations are based on stories that people wouldn't suspect King to write: The Body (Stand By Me), The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. |
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Post by AFN: Judge Shred on Sept 25, 2014 11:55:22 GMT -5
Joyland is freaking fantastic and touches none of that. If people read it blind, they'd never know it was King. That's one of the ones I was thinking of. Joyland completely blew me away, his best in a long time. And three of his best film adaptations are based on stories that people wouldn't suspect King to write: The Body (Stand By Me), The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. It is shame the movie for Apt Pupil screwed around with what made the book awesome and dark. I cannot believe this sentence is going to be uttered, but the movie made the nazi too unsympathetic. From one short story collection we got an ok Apt Pupil movie, and a great movie for Shawshank and The Body. The forth story never did get a film as far as I know. But 3 out of four being at least ok, is impressive. |
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