The Stephen King Thread

[Ghostvirus]

I liked 'The Tommyknockers'.

I hated the ending of 'It'. I felt robbed. It made no sense at all to me.
'Dolores Claiborne' was a struggle to get through but I did it.
I got half way through 'Gerald's Game' and just couldn't take it anymore. I got turned off to SK after that.
But when I read 'Cell'.........oh boy. And yeah, he did leave the ending open. I'm hoping he's has plans to continue it but who knows.

To me, his older stuff was always the better stuff. 'Carrie', 'Firestarter', 'The Dead Zone', 'The Bachman Books', 'Pet Cemetery'. 'Christine' I thought was okay.

Dude Gerald's game was the sh**! The whole dude just standing in the corner part was creepy as hell!

 

[Frodo]

I'm going through the Dark Tower saga . I finished Gunslinger, Drawing of Three and Wastelands. I'm now in the beginning of Wizard and Glass. After I'm done with the saga, I'm gonna tackle the Stand and It.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

I'm going through the Dark Tower saga . I finished Gunslinger, Drawing of Three and Wastelands. I'm now in the beginning of Wizard and Glass. After I'm done with the saga, I'm gonna tackle the Stand and It.

Damn that's a lot of reading but it's worth it.

 

[squeekness]

When Stephen King appeared on this week's Sons of Anarachy, his character's name was Bachman.

 

[Sawyer]

I'm going through the Dark Tower saga . I finished Gunslinger, Drawing of Three and Wastelands. I'm now in the beginning of Wizard and Glass. After I'm done with the saga, I'm gonna tackle the Stand and It.

You wont regret it. Those are my two favorite King books thus far.

 

[TinkTonks]

I'm going through the Dark Tower saga . I finished Gunslinger, Drawing of Three and Wastelands. I'm now in the beginning of Wizard and Glass. After I'm done with the saga, I'm gonna tackle the Stand and It.

I kinda muddled through Wizard in Glass the first time I read it. But I love anything Dark Tower related. After you finish them all, if you go on to read King's other works, you'll be surprised by how many DT references there are. The DT books draw from the Stand and It, as well as Salem's Lot and many many more. Let us know what you think when you finish the whole series!

 

[Manic]

I was shocked when I found out [blackout]Flagg, Walter, and Marten were all the same man.[/blackout] It was worth finishing Wizard and Glass.

 

[SPIDERFIST]

To Ghostvirus:

Maybe I need to revisit it. I certainly don't remember that or I guess I never made it that far. I don't know. I guess the premise of the story just didn't appeal to me. Maybe I'll find a used copy and try reading it again.

 

[Manic]

I finally finished Wolves of the Calla. I'm gonna pick up the 6th DT book when I get off of work tomorrow.

 

[Figs]

The turtle and the deadlights? LOL, I love how so many things popped up in the Dark Tower books....every time I read Stephen King's other books, I always come across something that reminds me of the DT, and I start reading them all over again!

One thing i'm pretty sure of is that the monsters in The Mist, when they come through the interdimensional portal(which can be considred a thinny in The Dark Tower books), I believe they're the same creatures that they pass over in the wastelands when they're on Blaine the monorail.

That and one of my buddies thinks that the creature/demon

Spoiler

in the little hut/cabin in the last book

might be one of the same types like in IT. I want to see if someone has made a diagram showing how King's other stories connect with The Dark Tower.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Maybe I should give the Dark Tower books another shot. I never knew the books tie in with all his other books.

 

[Sawyer]

Thats what I love about the King books. That most of them tie in in some way or another to another one of his books. For example, It referencing the Castle Rock killings from The Dead Zone and Dick Halloran from The Shining.

 

[SpideyInATree]

I noticed that with a lot of the Castle Rock stories. Like Needful Things referenced a lot of his other books.

I read the first three, or four, of the Dark Tower books before I ever read anything else by him. My girlfriend told me I should read Stephen King so I started with the Dark Tower. Now that I've dove into most of the Stephen King library I may have to give it a try.

 

[Sawyer]

I've only read the first Dark Tower thus far, but I waited until I read at least four or five of his other works before doing so.

 

[TinkTonks]

One thing i'm pretty sure of is that the monsters in The Mist, when they come through the interdimensional portal(which can be considred a thinny in The Dark Tower books), I believe they're the same creatures that they pass over in the wastelands when they're on Blaine the monorail.

I had honestly never made that connection with the creatures before. I thought the portal was in sync with the DT books, but I had thought more along the lines of

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the things that lived in the mist could have been the things that were in the todash darkness. Like what was under the castle in the 7th book.

. But they could very well be the things from 'The Wastelands' too.

That and one of my buddies thinks that the creature/demon

Spoiler

in the little hut/cabin in the last book

might be one of the same types like in IT. I want to see if someone has made a diagram showing how King's other stories connect with The Dark Tower.

Oh! That

Spoiler

Dandelo

character! Yeah, I got a definite 'It' vibe from that. I'm not sure if anyone's attempted to chart all of the connections...it would span several books of it's own, I would imagine! I don't know if the Dark Tower Concordances that have been published reference the connections to his other works or not.

 

[Figs]

I had honestly never made that connection with the creatures before. I thought the portal was in sync with the DT books, but I had thought more along the lines of

Spoiler

the things that lived in the mist could have been the things that were in the todash darkness. Like what was under the castle in the 7th book.

. But they could very well be the things from 'The Wastelands' too.

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Yeah, it could also very well be the things in the darkness under the castle.

I love all his connections.

Oh! That

Spoiler

Dandelo

character! Yeah, I got a definite 'It' vibe from that. I'm not sure if anyone's attempted to chart all of the connections...it would span several books of it's own, I would imagine! I don't know if the Dark Tower Concordances that have been published reference the connections to his other works or not.

That's cool because I thought my buddy and I might have been the only ones. I was expecting a lot of people to pop up and say that that idea was stupid or not the thing from IT. It might not be of course but as you put it, it definitely had an IT vibe to it.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Started reading Under the Dome. Interesting so far. Is it worth finishing?

 

[Scourge2099]

It's worth reading Under the Dome from start to finish. Don't do what I did and skip through certain parts because you're so eager to see Big Jim get his comeupance though.

 

[TinkTonks]

It's worth reading Under the Dome from start to finish. Don't do what I did and skip through certain parts because you're so eager to see Big Jim get his comeupance though.

Yeah, but what did you think of the ending? Didn't you think that

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the aliens were a little bit far out, even for Stephen King?

I thought so. It was a well written story, I just couldn't get past the far from left-field "reveal".

 

[Maximus One]

I thought the creatures from the mist were the lobstrosities from drawing of the three

 

[LOBO3315a]

The Dark Tower series is by far the best of all his writings. I love how the other storys fit into it. The lobstrosities were smaller than a man, as I recall. I'm thinking the creatures in The Mist were as described in the spoiler above.

That's another one of the things I like about that particular storyline. Once some connections are shown by SK, the Reader is allowed to make others on their own.

I liked Cell, but was disappointed it didn't have more to do with the Dark Tower.

So, Dome is worth picking up? Incidentally SK has written about that subject before in The Tommyknockers.

 

[squeekness]

I loved The Dome. I couldn't put the darn thing down once I started it.

 

[Scourge2099]

Yeah, but what did you think of the ending? Didn't you think that

Spoiler

the aliens were a little bit far out, even for Stephen King?

I thought so. It was a well written story, I just couldn't get past the far from left-field "reveal".

I didn't think the ending ruined it. I wish he would've said more about

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the Leatherheads , if I remember the name those kids gave them correctly , though.

 

[Scourge2099]

The Dark Tower series is by far the best of all his writings. I love how the other storys fit into it. The lobstrosities were smaller than a man, as I recall. I'm thinking the creatures in The Mist were as described in the spoiler above.

That's another one of the things I like about that particular storyline. Once some connections are shown by SK, the Reader is allowed to make others on their own.

I liked Cell, but was disappointed it didn't have more to do with the Dark Tower.

So, Dome is worth picking up? Incidentally SK has written about that subject before in The Tommyknockers.

TommyKnockers and Dome aren't the same though. Sure they both involve

Spoiler

aliens from BEYOND THE MOON !

, but beyond that , they're totally different.

 

[Victarion]

I had honestly never made that connection with the creatures before. I thought the portal was in sync with the DT books, but I had thought more along the lines of

Spoiler

the things that lived in the mist could have been the things that were in the todash darkness. Like what was under the castle in the 7th book.

. But they could very well be the things from 'The Wastelands' too.

Oh! That

Spoiler

Dandelo

character! Yeah, I got a definite 'It' vibe from that. I'm not sure if anyone's attempted to chart all of the connections...it would span several books of it's own, I would imagine! I don't know if the Dark Tower Concordances that have been published reference the connections to his other works or not.

Thinking about Dandelo

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He had Patrick Danville as his prisoner. Patrick grew up in Derry. It left some eggs in the Derry sewers at the end of the novel, IT. Dandelo could well be one of the progeny.

Here's some more on the connections among King's novels:

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In Insomina, Ralph Roberts is exploring the lair of Atropos, one of the little bald doctors, and the book mentions a shoe. Robert touches it and gets a psychic vision of a toddler. I think it also had Gage written on its sole. As you know, Gage Creed was the baby in Pet Semetary that hamstrung Herman Munster with a scalpel.