Posted on 02/01/2018 11:56:52 AM PST by Kazan
Well I don’t like his horror books at all. I liked the movie Christine and then read the book. Big difference, book was dull. Did he do the movie about this housing development built over a graveyard? I saw that one which was sorta okay.
Thanks, I must be mis-remembering. Maybe “Misery” was the inspiration for the van driver.
Questa Verde I think was the name of the development.
That's a very accurate description. In addition to never writing with syntax or vocabulary above the grade school level, none of King's characters have any real depth. You just get one set of posterboard cutouts, overused tropes, and clichés after another.
The books certainly sell well, but that says nothing of their quality. Barack Obama sold well to voters, and the Kardashians seem to sell well to tv watchers.
...how’d that van feel?
I agree.
I get the impression that once upon a time King was more conservative. His earlier books had some kind of moral voice.
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>> “I get the impression that once upon a time King was more conservative.” <<
That’ll never fly!
My wife was one of his pupils when he was teaching, and she says he was always out of touch with reality.
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ET: How verbose was this script, Gene? Roger?
Ebert: Well, it was as wordy as a Stephen King book intro.
Siskel: Nothing is that wordy fat boy. War and Peace is a quick read next to one of those ...
Ebert: Bite my crank Gene. You’re dead.
Yes, the TV movie reeked. He can’t seem to break out of his niche market of `tards, Larpers and basement dwelling failures to launch.
And his opus magnum `The Gunslinger’ was a monumental movie fail. I don’t know why King’s movies blow-so-badly.
Oh yeah. It’s because the stories are stupid.
If you want to see a real stinker, watch `Desperation’.
More years than I care to remember I bought his books & car tapes because of a stressful job. Now, when trying to read his stuff, I find it’s not only baloney but I can’t help but think about that nearsighted weenie gnashing his buck-teeth and cursing president Trump.
Cuesta Verde
“Where Dreams Come True”
Where nightmares Come True.
The Shining was actually made into a Jack Nicholson vehicle that wasn’t very faithful to the plot in 1980 and also a TV miniseries that was much more faithful. I like the miniseries better.
“A trainload of Republicans on their way to a PRICEY retreat...”
Because Democrats hold their retreats at abandoned barracks, or off-season Bible campgrounds.
How does “karma” fit in to his narrative, considering that the train that crashed was carrying physicians who saved lives of victims?
And for an allegedly smart guy, he doesn’t understand karma. According to whatever religions karma is related to (Buddist? Hundu?) karma is what happens AFTER death in reincarnation, not getting paybacks — good or bad — later in life.
Guess I’ll be cancelling my “Stephen King” tour I had booked for Maine this August. Any ideas for substitutions? I’ve been to Maine before many times but hubs has never been.
Gerald’s Game was one of many boring wastes of trees by this hasbeen.
I’m a John Sandford fan. His genre, though, is murder mysteries, not horror.
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