The Stephen King Thread

[SsM]

The Stand is an absolute MUST read.

 

[The Professor]

Forgot about The Stand. Have it on my bookshelf due to various recommendations. It's quite the brick, though.

 

[SsM]

Yeah, it's a little over 1000 pages.

1153 to be exact..

 

[adhokk7]

Was there any allusion besides the title?

Yeah, the whole narrative style and the structure of the story were basically homages to Bleak House.

 

[Ghostvirus]

My first King book was The Dark Half, followed closely by The Eyes of the Dragon. I was 12.

After that, I couldn't get enough. I've read all of his classic stuff, but I'm a little behind on some of his most recent.

Up until I was 15, my favorite book of his was Needful Things. Then I read the Gunslinger.

The Dark Tower is, in my oh-so-humble opinion, the SINGLE GREATEST BOOK SERIES IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. I've never read a series of books that made me care for these characters, and yet be so damned EPIC, over SEVEN BOOKS.

Most recently I've finished Low Men in Yellow Coats (Great, by the way) and the only book of his I've ever really not cared for was Dreamcatcher.

The Dark Tower series is simply awesome. I couldn't put it down. I was at my local library everytime I finished a book like a crack head. Now I own all but 2, & 5.

Third Talisman book in a year one or two?
Posted: April 8, 2009, 12:40:45 | Section: Book » The Talisman 3

Bev Vincent reported this in regards of the Writer's Digest: An Epic Conversation on Writing:


Lanny F. McKay tells me that one of the King's most interesting quotes was about how he has occasionally enjoyed the collaborative process, "enough so that Peter and I will probably write the third and last Talisman book in one or two years."

If King is so interested in collaborating. Then I woulld love to see him & Barker do a book together.

 

[squeekness]

Is Barker even still around? I can't recall the last time I saw he had written anything new.....

 

[Ghostvirus]

He is currently over seeing the remake for Hellraiser.

 

[Galactus]

Is Barker even still around? I can't recall the last time I saw he had written anything new.....

He's been busy with the third Abarat-novel which should be out this year or next year. And a new short story collection called Journeyman about which Barker said:

"We decided we’d call it Journeyman - you know, one up from an apprentice but not quite a master! And Chiliad will be in there, for instance: there will be a lot of new stuff people haven’t seen, there will be a large selection of poetry, there will be a big, fairly provocative piece called the Book of Golgotha which is about the crucifixion and so what I’m doing right now is organising the contents page. The only things which I have yet to do are either the afterword or the foreword, whichever way I decide to do it, and the final draft of The Book of Golgotha...
"There will be a lot of surprises and it is by no means - you know every now and again Steve [King] collects up his short fiction, it’s not like that at all. This book has more of a Borgesian feeling about it, a library within a library, different books, you know, It will be a book about Christ, a book of poetry, most of which you will never have seen before. I think we’re looking at something like a 120,000 word book, so it’s not going to be a slim little volume. I’m thinking of putting in the little pen portraits of the Nightbreed Chronicles because I think those are lovely and they don’t need the photographs and they are witty little narratives...
"It will come through the regular HarperCollins. It is going to be a very diverse and rich book and it’ll be nice to have in print something like On Amen’s Shore. It will also be nice to have the recent more provocative pieces."

 

[Sawyer]

Forgot about The Stand. Have it on my bookshelf due to various recommendations. It's quite the brick, though.

Once you get past the first hundred or so pages, it's an absolute breeze. Mark my words, you wont be able to put it down. It's bar none my favorite novel I've ever read. The characters are fantastic, the subject matter is thrilling.... it's just a fantastic story.

Oh, and by the way....
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Great opening. Cant go wrong with "Dont Fear the Reaper". Too bad the same cant be said for the rest of the miniseries.

 

[SsM]

Once you get past the first hundred or so pages, it's an absolute breeze. Mark my words, you wont be able to put it down. It's bar none my favorite novel I've ever read. The characters are fantastic, the subject matter is thrilling.... it's just a fantastic story.

Oh, and by the way....

Great opening. Cant go wrong with "Dont Fear the Reaper". Too bad the same cant be said for the rest of the miniseries.

The first hundred pages were also a breeze.. The only parts I had trouble getting through were the segments about the trashcan man.

 

[Sawyer]

The first hundred pages were also a breeze..

Eeh... some parts were better than others. I got a bit bored at the segments with Frannie and her baby daddy. I think it was once I got to Lloyd and Poke's robbery when I was like "holy ****, man... this thing is badass!" I couldnt put the thing down.

The only parts I had trouble getting through were the segments about the trashcan man.

Oh, yeah, I can definitely agree with that. I found his parts very easy to skim over. Plus, I ****in' hated "The Kid".

 

[SsM]

I remember the beginning when no one had met up with each other.. I would always either want the chapter to be about Stu or Nick because at the time they were the only two I cared about.

I hated the Kid.. Really ****ed up.. I understand where King was going with it but damn... He didn't have to so descriptive.

 

[Sawyer]

I remember the beginning when no one had met up with each other.. I would always either want the chapter to be about Stu or Nick because at the time they were the only two I cared about.

I hated the Kid.. Really ****ed up.. I understand where King was going with it but damn... He didn't have to so descriptive.

It's not even the graphic nature of what he did. It's like "okay, he made trashy give him an HJ... big deal!" I was more annoyed with the same damn phrases he used "happy crappy" and whatever other stupid crap he said. I was just like "Trash, will you kill this guy already?!"

The most disturbing chatacter for me personally was Harold. As the book went on I was just stunned by what a sick bastard he became.

And as for the beginning of the book, I really liked the Nick and Larry (cause he reminds me a bit of myself) segments.

 

[SsM]

Yeah. The entire character sucked.. I also liked Larry! I forgot about that.



Harold... I always held out hope that Harold would come around.. The writing makes you think that there is a chance and then BLAM. It was really messed up the lengths he was willing to take his sleaziness to.

 

[Sawyer]

Seriously, should we just start up a straight up "The Stand" discussion thread? I think I might... aw, hell, I'm gonna do it. Meet me there.

http://forums.superherohype.com/showthread.php?t=323127

 

[Sawyer]

SsM and I were having a pretty good discussion on The Stand and I though it was due time that this glorious piece of fiction had its own discussion thread.

Enjoy and discuss.

 

[Ghostvirus]

I enjoyed the movie, but have yet to read the book. I am currently working on Lord Of The Rings. But once I am done with that I am going to light this bad boy up.

 

[Sawyer]

I enjoyed the movie, but have yet to read the book. I am currently working on Lord Of The Rings. But once I am done with that I am going to light this bad boy up.

If you liked the movie, you're almost destined to like the book too, because it's easily 1000x better. Check it out.

 

[squeekness]

I don't suppose any of you guys are picking up the Marvel comic adapation of the Stand? It's really quite good. I imagine it's going to take them a mega long time to do the whole thing but I have been collecting it and I really like it.

 

[Sawyer]

Bump. Come on, people. This is an American classic!!!

 

[Sawyer]

This is disappointing, hypesters...

 

[adhokk7]

This is disappointing, hypesters...

Okay, I'll throw this out here: I hated Stu. There, I said it.

 

[Sawyer]

Okay, I'll throw this out here: I hated Stu. There, I said it.

Eeh, well... it's something.

 

[gap5ewl]

I've always wanted to read it. Looks interesting.

 

[amazingfantasy15]

I read it a couple years ago, it was good, but did drag at times. Almost fell asleep while reading it on a few occasions.