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Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:30:10 2021 No.18503610 [Reply] [Original]

I want to get into Stephen King but I don't know which one to read. Where should I start, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:31:17 2021 No.18503615 Read Ray Bradbury because Stephen King just took his style and ideas and extended them into lengthy pulp monstrosities.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:33:29 2021 No.18503631 >>18503610 try The Ghost of Harold Bloom

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:40:12 2021 No.18503674 >>18503615 >Stephen King just took his style If that's what he was going for he's done a piss poor job during the last forty years.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 00:46:33 2021 No.18503709 >>18503615 Okay, thanks >>18503631 Nothing is showing up

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 01:23:45 2021 No.18503885 >>18503709 >Nothing is showing up Now you're on the trolley!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 01:30:00 2021 No.18503916 >>18503709 >Nothing is showing up http://archive.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2003/09/24/dumbing_down_american_readers/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 04:31:27 2021 No.18504577 >>18503610 The shining Its the best book he has ever written. IT is his worst book. Tower shit is meh.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 04:35:51 2021 No.18504590 >>18503610 Don't, he's shit. Read Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz instead.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 04:49:38 2021 No.18504629 >>18503610 Cute Abby And don’t read King, read the guys he stole his shit from like Lovecraft or Clark Ashton Smith

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 04:52:43 2021 No.18504642 Start with his early short stories.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 05:14:39 2021 No.18504714 >>185046429 This. King sucks, but his short stories are the best of his shit output. If you're going to read him just read the short stories.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 08:39:56 2021 No.18505495 >>18503610 His Bachman books are good. I hate his other stuff, and I hate him.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 08:46:54 2021 No.18505516 >>18503885 >>18503916 I thought it was a book >>18504577 >>18504590 >>18504629 >>18504642 >>18504714 >>18505495 Thanks, I got interested in reading him because of the Green Mile film which he wrote.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 11:07:48 2021 No.18506218 File: 36 KB, 461x500, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18503610 Start with the Bachmans.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 11:09:55 2021 No.18506229 >>18504577 >IT is his worst book. IT has the worst ending but it is one of his best books

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 11:19:59 2021 No.18506276 File: 802 KB, 1345x2200, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This was, legitimately, an excellent science fiction novel.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 11:41:11 2021 No.18506416 >>18506276 it's about a town of people who rape a child named Tommy

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 12:06:19 2021 No.18506555 File: 142 KB, 435x574, 1548715317279.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18506416

Anonymous Tue Jun 22 12:10:03 2021 No.18506570

>>18506229
>IT has the worst ending
Endings are King's weakness. He usually sets up with an interesting premise and characters. Then he has no idea how to wrap up, and it turns into a hot mess. Bachman Books and Tommyknockers were the only ones where he managed to pull it together.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 12:49:27 2021 No.18506748 >>18504577 Misery is also good. >>18506570 >Endings are King's weakness That, and bloat. Almost all of his novels would be significantly improved if ~400 pages of extraneous nonsense were removed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 13:13:00 2021 No.18506865 >>18506748 >and bloat True. I honestly have no idea how King achieved superstar popularity. Marketing I guess.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 14:03:40 2021 No.18507132 >>18504642 I second this motion. He's better at not fucking up the ending when the story is only 20 pages long.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 17:34:19 2021 No.18508462 >>18506416 What?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 18:21:03 2021 No.18508863 >>18503610 I recommend "On Writing", which is his book on why he writes and how does he do it. I think everything else becomes more clear after that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 22 22:45:13 2021 No.18510331 >>18506570 Tommyknockers was shut and about 400 pgs too long

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 00:31:21 2021 No.18510838 >>18508462 He was making a joke

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 00:32:31 2021 No.18510841 >>18503610 >>18504577 I'm a few chapters into The Shining and I'm enjoying it so far. Obviously, different from the film, but the differences are legible and make sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 02:49:14 2021 No.18511338 >>18510331 >was shut Is this the hip new zoomer slang?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 02:55:33 2021 No.18511362 >>18511338 *shit you shut for brains

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 02:59:35 2021 No.18511378 >>18511362 kek

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 03:29:42 2021 No.18511500 File: 20 KB, 739x415, 1E6EBA4C-A432-4BAC-8639-E21951CF6646.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>18503631 mfw

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 23 04:11:13 2021 No.18511654 File: 59 KB, 630x1200, MV5BMzc0MDIwZjktYTEzNC00ZWQxLTk5MWYtYjBmMDI3YTg4ZjYzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_UY1200_CR100,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is my favorite

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