The Stephen King Thread

[squeekness]

Yay! I am always happy to get something new.

 

[Maximus One]

Im almost done with Drawing of The Three. It does get pretty slow in parts but Im loving it. I just find it very curious as to why King chose to include a crippled person in Rolands little ka-tet. I mean its cool but as Im reading it Im just like "damn they gonna have to push this chick everywhere!" Lol

 

[caretaker14]

Just finished re-reading the Bachman Books, and I have only one question...

Why on Earth has 'The Long Walk' not been made into a movie or mini-series yet?! One of the most gripping and emotional stories King's ever written.

 

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Why on Earth has 'The Long Walk' not been made into a movie or mini-series yet?! One of the most gripping and emotional stories King's ever written.

I think Frank Darabont own the rights to make The Long Walk. At least he has said he's interested in making it. Someday...

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Why on Earth has 'The Long Walk' not been made into a movie or mini-series yet?! One of the most gripping and emotional stories King's ever written.

Frank Darabont planned to adapt it but I guess it got held up. From '07:

Frank Darabont is two-for-two when it comes to Stephen King adaptations (The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile). His third one, The Mist, looks pretty darn creepy so far -- so what's next? Any of you King fanatics remember the fantastic story The Long Walk?

More of a short novel than a short story, The Long Walk is about a futuristic competition in which 100 young men start walking down a highway in Maine -- and they stop when there's only one living survivor. The story resides in King's "The Bachman Books," and it's absolutely worth reading (two or three times).

And it looks like if Mr. Darabont has his wish, The Long Walk will be his next King flick. Here's a snippet of Bloody-Disgusting's Comic Con coverage: "During an interview to promote Dimension Films' upcoming Stephen King adaptation, The Mist, director Frank Darabont revealed to BD.com that he is in fact going to helm Stephen King's The Long Walk once he has completed Fahrenheit 451."

That's pretty much all the news we have on this adaptation, but I do know that it's been a passion project for Darabont for several years now. Which means the movie will probably be fantastic ... once it finally hits the screens.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mist/news/1657604/frank_darabont_has_another_king_flick_in_him

 

[Maximus One]

Sounds awesome! Ive heard of it but never knew thats what its about. Sounds very coll indeed

 

[Sawyer]

Frank Darabont planned to adapt it but I guess it got held up. From '07:



http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mist/news/1657604/frank_darabont_has_another_king_flick_in_him

Since the article brought it up, exactly what the **** is going on with Farenheit 451?!

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Sounds awesome! Ive heard of it but never knew thats what its about. Sounds very coll indeed

It's really, really good. Put the Bachman Books on your to-read list.

Since the article brought it up, exactly what the **** is going on with Farenheit 451?!

http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2008/03/28/breaking-tom-hanks-drops-out-of-fahrenheit-451/

That's the last bit of news I've heard about it.

 

[Victarion]

^That reminds me, I need to finish The Regulators.

I recently read the graphic novel for The Fall of Gilead. It was alright, there were some plot elements I'd have done differently and I'd hoped that Thomas and Dennis would be more prominent secondary characters. Their pursuit of Flagg could've been nicely tied into the Ageless Stranger's involvement with Farson's war.

 

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Story Titles & Plot Synopses for Full Dark, No Stars


Posted: April 3, 2010, 15:18:38 | Section: Book » Full Dark, No Stars

Straight from www.StephenKing.com here are the story titles and plot synopses for the stories in Full Dark, No Stars:

1922
The story opens with the confession of Wilfred James to the murder of his wife, Arlette, following their move to Hemingford, Nebraska onto land willed to Arlette by her father.

Big Driver
Mystery writer, Tess, has been supplementing her writing income for years by doing speaking engagements with no problems. But following a last-minute invitation to a book club 60 miles away, she takes a shortcut home with dire consequences.

Fair Extension
Harry Streeter, who is suffering from cancer, decides to make a deal with the devil but, as always, there is a price to pay.

A Good Marriage
Darcy Anderson learns more about her husband of over twenty years than she would have liked to know when she stumbles literally upon a box under a worktable in their garage

 

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The cover of the new book:

http://books.simonandschuster.com/Full-Dark-No-Stars/Stephen-King/9781439192566

 

[squeekness]

^^ When does that come out?

 

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^^ When does that come out?

November, I think

 

[squeekness]

Thanks. Looking forward to it.

 

[jrjakn118]

Is Green Mile good too? Just as good as the movie?

 

[squeekness]

Absolutely. It's one of his best.

 

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Description of Full Dark, No Stars


Posted: May 11, 2010, 11:03:18 | Section: Book » Full Dark, No Stars

Here is the description of Full Dark, No Stars from Amazon.co.uk:


'I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger...' writes Wilfred Leland James in the early pages of the riveting confession that makes up '1922', the first in this pitch-black quartet of mesmerising tales from Stephen King, linked by the theme of retribution. For James, that stranger is awakened when his wife Arlette proposes selling off the family homestead and moving to Omaha, setting in motion a gruesome train of murder and madness.

In 'Big Driver', a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger is along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face to face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

'Fair Extension', the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Harry Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends 'A Good Marriage'.

Like DIFFERENT SEASONS and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT, which generated such enduring hit films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me, FULL DARK, NO STARS proves Stephen King a master of the long story form

 

[TheDreamMaster]

I haven't gotten around to reading any of his new works such as Blaze, Just After Sunset, and Under the Dome.
Is Under the Dome any good. I love reading, and it seems like it's a huge book, so I'd hope it would keep me interested enough to want to finish it.

 

[redhawk23]

I enjoyed Under the Dome, its not his best, its a farily good allegory for Kings views of the course of the past 10 years in this country so its very interesting in that respect.

 

[squeekness]

Dome read awful fast for such a long book. I devoured that thing in a week and so did two of my co-workers. It never dragged, not even a little bit.

 

[Sawyer]

Just finished The Dead Zone. Loved it.

 

[bored]

Finished "Under the Dome" yesterday. It amazes me how well he can pack in so many characters and subplots into such a coherent whole. And yeah, for a book that passes 1k pages, it does read quickly.

 

[bored]

Im almost done with Drawing of The Three. It does get pretty slow in parts but Im loving it. I just find it very curious as to why King chose to include a crippled person in Rolands little ka-tet. I mean its cool but as Im reading it Im just like "damn they gonna have to push this chick everywhere!" Lol

Two things:

1. The next book, "The Wastelands", moves much faster. Also turns up the "bat**** insane" factor a bit, but it's a good read.

2. Give Susan a chance. Her handicap is an important trait.

 

[squeekness]

Finished "Under the Dome" yesterday. It amazes me how well he can pack in so many characters and subplots into such a coherent whole. And yeah, for a book that passes 1k pages, it does read quickly.

Almost everyone I know says that same thing. It's a dead giveaway that it's a great story.

 

[bored]

It seriously is. So many great characters, and so much happens. It's a book that really exceeds the sum of its parts.