Favourite book or short story by this testudinate fucker? Just finished the long walk, bretty good

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Anonymous Tue Mar 17 01:43:59 2015 No.6280260 [Reply] [Original]

Favourite book or short story by this testudinate fucker?

Just finished the long walk, bretty good

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 01:44:54 2015 No.6280264 IT is good, I also liked Full Dark No Stars quite a bit when I read that.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 01:46:57 2015 No.6280271 I've made it almost two and a half decades as a reader without opening a King book either I'll keep it this way or get to him when I marathon some airport fare

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 01:48:03 2015 No.6280274 File: 145 KB, 817x612, 1424247068561.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Does anyone remember the story told in Psychiatrist notes, where OCD Kills his patient and eventually himself. One of the best shorts I've ever read actually.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 01:52:55 2015 No.6280288

The long walk is as good as it gets with him, OP, I'm sorry. I also liked Running Man, Carrie made me really sad, The Stand absorbed me (although it has pleeeeenty of bad stuff) and some short stories are worth it (there's one called Stop Inc. or something of the like, and it's /lit/ tier, excellent rhythm and delivery). He's too inconsistent (I read three collections of short stories, the first three Dark Tower, Cujo, The fog and Buick 88 besides the ones I mentioned, and none of those are worth a damn). I wouldn't read another book by him, it's just not worth it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 02:04:48 2015 No.6280308 >>6280274 N. >>6280288 Quitters Inc.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 02:06:34 2015 No.6280313

>>6280288
yeah the guy went through a period where he was just churning out books like nothing, there's definitely more stinkers than not.

I remember reading an interview where some lady came up to him and said cujo was her favourite novel and he just kinda looked at her and said he didn't remember writing that one

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 02:17:31 2015 No.6280335 >>6280313 That's another level of not giving a shit. I'd judge you but understand it if you read a novel and not remember it, or if you forgot one short story you wrote, but a complete novel... Dude really gave no shits. Captcha: oyele

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 02:20:08 2015 No.6280338 Wanna discuss The long walk OP? It's been a while since I read it, but I remember feeling very tired every time I took a break from it.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 03:28:14 2015 No.6280485

>>6280338
it'd be cool to see a film adaptation of it, not very difficult really, no special effects or anything. Could be a good contrast to hunger games that scene where the truck runs over that kids legs and the guards keep counting down as if he would keep walking on his bloody stumps

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 08:36:24 2015 No.6281049 IT, Dead Zone, Salem's Lot, Different Seasons, Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 08:43:17 2015 No.6281064 daily reminder that kiddie gang bang

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 08:44:18 2015 No.6281065 Hearts in Atlantis is a genuinely great book

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 08:45:52 2015 No.6281068 >>6280335 King was just too high when he wrote Cujo

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 09:34:18 2015 No.6281148

A lot of people shit all over King, but his short fiction can be amazing at times, he's up there with the best of them when it comes to that, sure, he can be inconsistent, but when you have written as much as he has, not everything is going to a be a 10/10.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 09:48:36 2015 No.6281174 Danse Macabre is pretty top if you like non-fiction about horror! ... Just me? ... >an hero time

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 10:13:45 2015 No.6281223 >>6280260 im so fucking tired i thought this was bryn jones of muslimgauze for a second, holy shit i cant stop laughing

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 10:21:07 2015 No.6281250 >Favorite Book The Long Walk >Favorite Short Story Tie between Survivor Type and The Jaunt

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 10:29:19 2015 No.6281271 When I was 15 (now 40)... 'IT' rocked my boat. I also remember the two Bachman books 'The Long Walk' and 'Rage' resonating with me. Every healthy American boy in sophomore year of high school should read 'Rage'.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 10:43:50 2015 No.6281306 >long walk great taste OP I really liked Salems lot

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 10:57:58 2015 No.6281340 >>6280335 King was a raging alcoholic and coke head when he wrote Cujo, and wrote it during a manic episode. It's not that he didn't give a shit, he was too high to remember it.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:00:13 2015 No.6281345

>>6280485

Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Mist) has the film rights to The Long Walk. He's calling it a "rainy day project" so don't hold your breath for anything in the near future.

I think it'd be tricky to find 100 child actors who had the acting chops to make a movie like that work effectively.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:00:19 2015 No.6281346 how on earth did guys like him, Koontz, and lovecraft churn out so many stories? It baffles my mind how they did it. So many!!!

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:11:36 2015 No.6281386 >>6281346 If they don't write, they don't get paid. It's their job.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:14:10 2015 No.6281393

>>6281386
Yeah. As far as king's shit stuff that he published:

If you guys wrote something you knew was shit, and somebody said "Hey, we'll still give you 500,000 upfront plus 15% royalties on it," would you seriously say "Uh no, it sucks, I have too much integrity to that man, fuck your money!"?

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:20:03 2015 No.6281405

>>6281393
haha of course not
I mean his situation is incredible all those books, all that money.
Their ability to write and churn out more and more
incredible and lucky
I wonder how it all fell into place
guess his first stuff must've really impressed the publisher

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:24:20 2015 No.6281415

>>6281405
Read "On Writing."

He tells it all in there. He was writing short stories obsessively when he was like 10. I don't think he remembered when he was first published. He wrote tons of material submitted it all, maybe 5% of it was actually published.

As far as books, he had several books published by the time he was in his early thirties and teaching creative writing, but he was still broke as fuck. then it seemed like out of nowhere his horror novels started catching on. He got paid almost nothing for the first publication of Carrie, then the book blew up and he got paid 200,000 (in 1970s money) for the paperback printing.

It was just one of those things that he just kept working, just kept trying until something finally hit.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:27:09 2015 No.6281419

>>6281415
in the 80s, he was one of the first authors to have TV ads, maybe the first.

I remember seeing ads for his book at just about every commercial break. I remember going to my friend's house and they would have all of his books on their bookshelves, I remember asking if they were any good and most all of them said they never even read them. It did become the books to buy to prove that you're smart and you read, but nobody really read them.

That was a pretty brilliant idea. You still never see authors having ads on tv.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:33:42 2015 No.6281434 >>6281415 >>6281419 wow fascinating

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 11:45:55 2015 No.6281473 >>6281415 This is great, actually.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 12:44:14 2015 No.6281627 >>6280260 WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE AREA BETWEEN YOUR NOSE AND YOUR UPPER LIP

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 12:48:06 2015 No.6281635 I really enjoyed reading "Misery", it was better than the picture (which is also pretty good). King has written so many books, some of them were better, some worse, everyone should decide on their own.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 13:32:21 2015 No.6281716 >>6280260 Novel: The Stand (unabridged) or Wizard and Glass. Story: The Woman in the Room or The Last Rung on the Ladder.

Anonymous Tue Mar 17 13:46:15 2015 No.6281756

>>6281415
>>6281473
Scatterfire. It's the way fat, unattractive men get dates. They hit on everything even remotely female and hope one accepts.

The difference between King then and King now is that only the publishable stuff got into print back then. 95% is still garbage, but 100% f the slop gets in.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 14:09:34 2015 No.6281841 >>6281756 so? The fat unattractive man still get a date while you sit in a corner by yourself, bashing him. Same way King is still a legend, while you sit on 4chan, alone and unpublished and bash the guy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 14:20:25 2015 No.6281880 File: 27 KB, 271x418, Earthbound_Giygas_Lair_Cervix_6529.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Is King popular in Japan? I just finished IT and it was basically a novel version of this vidya.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 14:35:47 2015 No.6281938 >Stephen King thread I was told this board was pretentious.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 19:53:00 2015 No.6283323 >tfw he's 67 >tfw we will have to live through the death of Stephen King N... no, Steve, please don't go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Mar 17 19:55:18 2015 No.6283333 >>6283323 Meh, if he makes it another 20 years they'll be able to make him immortal. That way we'll have child gangbang stories forever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 01:44:12 2015 No.6284407 >>6281938 Every once in while you'll get pretentious shitposters in Bradbury/King threads but they're best left ignored. There's really no shame in liking sci-fi or horror authors, as long as your admiration is proportionate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 01:49:00 2015 No.6284423 >>6284407 is it weird to not consider King a horror novelist?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 01:54:52 2015 No.6284437 >>6283333 >if he makes it another 20 years they'll be able to make him immortal I've heard this literal phrase 20 years ago. Best not hold your breath.

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 01:55:00 2015 No.6284438

>>6284423
I hate to pidgeonhole the guy but yes, because that's wrong to say that he isn't.

Yes, he branches out from horror very frequently, especially so in the last decade or so (to varying degrees of success), but let's be real and say he's a horror writer. He thinks of himself as one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 01:57:53 2015 No.6284445 >>6284423 I consider him a pop schlock scribbler who knows the public want's something fantastic and mystical in the true bullshit they read. So, I guess I don't consider him a horror writer either.

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 01:59:31 2015 No.6284450

>>6284423
>is it weird to not consider King a horror novelist?
Not at all. He's advertised as one, because you can't get your novel on an airport-tier-fiction book shelf without a genre label, but let's face it -- nobody ever got scared by a Stephen King book. Spooked out, grossed out -- yes, but that's not horror, that's titillation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 02:02:52 2015 No.6284455 king is the bottom of the barrel

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 02:11:37 2015 No.6284466 >>6284450 Lisey's Story is actually a decent and somewhat scary novel imo.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 02:15:59 2015 No.6284478 >>6284466 How is Lisey's Story? I heard Stephen King considers that to be the best thing he's ever written.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 03:09:00 2015 No.6284579 King is confirmed for ugliest author right?

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 03:13:12 2015 No.6284595

>>6281340
>
I might be misremembering, but I think that's the case with several books he wrote back then. He'd churn out the first draft during a month-long blitz of coke and alcohol, send it to his editor and let the editor take out the parts that didn't make any sense.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 03:13:38 2015 No.6284596 >>6284450 What are some actually scary books? Can books even be scary?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 03:30:40 2015 No.6284621 >>6284596 >Can books even be scary? Yes, but it's usually the nonfiction that is truly scary.

Anonymous Wed Mar 18 03:51:55 2015 No.6284649

my favorite?
The Dark Tower and every book following in the series. i even have a copy of Wind Through the Keyhole from Europe with my picture as part of the mural on the back of the book.
i like the tower books because they suck you in. i walked the path to The Tower with Roland, Jake, Eddie, Susannah...and all those whose fell before the goal.
amazing writing.
9/10
nobody gets a ten.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 10:14:53 2015 No.6285379 >>6281250 >Survivor Type Jesus fucking Christ. Nothing King wrote ever even scared me except that. >ladyfingers they taste like ladyfingers

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 11:51:57 2015 No.6285623 >>6280288 >The Long Walk >as good as it gets >there are people who don't think Salem's Lot is his best The Bachmann Books are also really underrated in his work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 11:57:58 2015 No.6285645 >>6284450 I don't read a lot of horror, so I don't know that I'd call any book spooky. That said, the end of Gerald's Game ("You're not real! You're not real!") was bretty good

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 11:58:57 2015 No.6285648 >>6285623 this Salem's lot is fucking incredible one of, if not my favorite so far

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 13:26:54 2015 No.6285935 Reading "On Writing" right now. I like how he talks to the reader, he really sounds like a down to earth, likable guy. Also the prose is good and the book is kept short, which are both unusual for him.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 18 19:45:03 2015 No.6287361 KING IS ROTTEN FAGGOT!!!!!

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 00:26:41 2015 No.6288366 >>6284596 I am legitimately creeped out by Robert Aickman short stories. There's a short story by Shirley Jackson (I think) called The Summer People that creeped me out too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 01:34:22 2015 No.6288505 >>6284466 That book bored me to tears and I only made it about half, but yeah you're right, I was completely unsettled the whole time.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 01:35:25 2015 No.6288508 >>6284649 I wouldn't give them a 9/10 (although I have to say the first book is pretty close) but I love them regardless of there flaws cause I read them to death when I was 14.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 01:45:48 2015 No.6288529 >>6285935 You know what's even better than On Writing? On Writing Well by William Zinsser.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 13:30:40 2015 No.6289945 >>6281880 say fuzzy pickles

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 13:34:37 2015 No.6289967 File: 27 KB, 623x469, 1414635144498.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] sure are a lot of plebs here

Anonymous Thu Mar 19 13:36:17 2015 No.6289971

>>6288508
>I love them regardless of there flaws cause I read them to death when I was 14.

So you love them, because you read them when you were young, impressionable, undscerning, had no real concept of what good writing nor good literature was, and your favorite band was probably Smashmouth. Do I have this correct?

By the way, had you read better literature at 14 than you did, you'd probably know it's "their flaws", not there.

Sooner or later, you must come to realize you're not skilled nor knowledgeable enough to give your opinion on books and have it matter.

Anonymous Thu Mar 19 13:57:45 2015 No.6290032
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Really dug Running Man and the first of the Dark Tower series. Otherwise, he's not that great. I happened upon a 'revised' copy of Dark Tower 1, turned out the fuck had written out the more quirky flavor text in favor of edge. Completely ruined it for me.

Anonymous Thu Mar 19 13:58:34 2015 No.6290035
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>Down in there, along with his keys and his change, was a very battered old Zippo lighter. He bought it in Germany in 1954. Once the hinge had broken and he had returned it to the Zippo factory and they had repaired it without charged, just as advertised.

lol

Anonymous Thu Mar 19 14:01:07 2015 No.6290040

>>6290035
It's a character's memory highlighting his attachment to the more simple things in life. Like warranties. I'll bet you've never sent anything in on warranty, shit's convenient and it's nice to get things replaced.

smh lil niggas too young to understand

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 14:40:50 2015 No.6290202 File: 506 KB, 847x681, You__I_Like_You.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6281716 Those are my two favorites too man. Wizard and Glass especially is fantastic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 14:59:29 2015 No.6290268 Where should I start with King?

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 15:17:03 2015 No.6290312 >>6290040 Sure, but I didn't like it. It came during what was suppose to be a tense moment and while the intent was sentimental, it felt awkward.

Anonymous Thu Mar 19 16:08:22 2015 No.6290519

>>6290268

Start with Salem's Lot, continue in chronological order until you hit the mid-80s. Quality of writing goes way down hill and has on recovered this past year with Revival.

Best books:

>Different Seasons
>The Stand
>The Shining
>Salem's Lot
>The Long Walk
>Pet Sematary
>The Dead Zone
>Firestarter
>Misery
>Skeleton Crew

Honorable mentions:

>It
Tons of people love It but I thought it was just OKAY... still made it through the entire book.

>Thinner
It's fun.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 16:10:07 2015 No.6290528 >>6290519 *has only

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 16:31:19 2015 No.6290594 >>6290519 Cheers. I just started to try with the gunslinger; I put it down after the first chapter, feeling like I was rejected by it. Is this common for King?

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Anonymous Thu Mar 19 16:41:08 2015 No.6290624

>>6290594

It can be. I can understand the rejected feeling with the Gunslinger, it took me three tries over a few years to get into it. Luckily after I finished the Gunslinger the rest of the Dark Tower was enjoyable and well written.

However the reason I omitted the Dark Tower books from my list is because they are a little weird (I've never read any other fiction / fantasy like it) and I wouldn't recommend starting with them.

It's an enjoyable series but not King's best work. Different Seasons (highest recommendations for this one),The Stand and The Shining are definitely his deepest books. You can't go wrong with any of those. Salem's Lot is very good as well and the best starting point in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Thu Mar 19 21:47:45 2015 No.6291715 >>6290611 Sweetness right here. Read during class in high school. Cathartic, to say the least.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 00:02:00 2015 No.6292063 >>6290202 >wizard and glass bretty gud

Anonymous Fri Mar 20 14:41:10 2015 No.6293936
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'Salem's Lot contains some of King's best writing to date. Bag of Bones and Dead Zone are both pretty goddamn good, but the writing on display in 'Salem's Lot is pretty much unmatched in King's oeuvre. I think you'd probably have to turn to Different Seasons or his short stories to find something that rivals it on a technical level.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 18:11:58 2015 No.6294793 >>6293936 agreed

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 18:27:23 2015 No.6294852 File: 549 KB, 1600x1398, rear cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6293936 >"give me that back, thats my dust catcher" BOB really drags near the end imo. Pretty decent tho. I agree about 'Salem's Lot.

>>	Anonymous Fri Mar 20 18:28:40 2015 No.6294861 >>6280260 >Favourite op isn`t probably even british

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