But also I guess a curse of fictional scenarios where the same group of people interact over and over
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 30 June 2016 04:16 (seven years ago) link
I'm so used to it with King that I've come to accept it as a genre convention, just a thing that always comes attached to a certain character's name, like swift-footed Achilles. You don't go "OK, I get it, he has swift feet, enough already" every time.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Thursday, 30 June 2016 05:16 (seven years ago) link
otm
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 30 June 2016 05:29 (seven years ago) link
i read this book too recently; some thoughts in this revive: Stephen King: POO/OPO
(but carry on using this thread, i love this poll)
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 30 June 2016 06:23 (seven years ago) link
thx i put a lot of effort into it
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Thursday, 30 June 2016 12:49 (seven years ago) link
I get the Greek epithet take, but it really adds up over the course of a 1,000 page paperback that I suspect could have gotten 'er done in 600 or less. Sometimes it feels like he gets worried that each element in his fiction is at risk of getting drowned out by the others, so he goes around continuing to add things here, there, realizes that the boomer nostalgia button-presses aren't getting as much page time as the wry comments on getting old, adds some more of the former, and now, crap, what if people get lost in that and forget that Bill's stutter went away after he left town but has come back now that he's returned??? Better add another callback to that. I'm certain he does not write this way at all - you really feel the fingers flying across the typewriter and just cranking this stuff out running straight through the book until it's done, but mannnn it gets ridiculous.
Sorry, post ended up running a little long there, but the old muse is running in the head, isn't it, Doctor? Just below the surface, like Bugs Bunny in a Warner Brothers cartoon, the old Warner Brothers cartoons, long before Speedy Gonzales, when the cartoons came two in a row before the movies and the popcorn still smelled like real butter and not chemicals, and Bugs is picking up speed today, leaving a raised trail of expired thoughts on the surface of the skull, what's up Doc and Howdy Doody Time, sorry to say your life's taken a wrong turn from Albuquerque and up Shit Creek, but what are you gonna do, ask for a refund on your noggin? That's when you realize that this post isn't a dream, wasn't a dream, could never have been a dream because the keys are under your fingers and rapping forward like Liberace's ivories, only the brother George you wish was here is drowned, frozen, yanked away from life but still grinning crazily with blood in his eyes, hanging in front of your eyes and calling up from the drainpipes that we all float down here, oh yes we do. We all float down here.
And then the screams begin.
― Harvey Manfrenjensenden (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
also re: a group of characters interacting again and again - i feel like there are much more evocative or interesting ways to convey how people interact in fiction, or how they remember/rediscover each other, or how their traits change or don't change. i think of the economy of something like clarissa's reacquaintance with peter walsh in mrs. dalloway: "He had his knife out. That's so like him." so much is contained there, and peter does not have to pull out the knife in every single scene or remember verbatim his dialogue with the shopkeeper the day he bought it, etc. etc. it's like king just either does not trust you to remember anything about anybody, or that the only way he can see to manage a large cast is to give everybody a really big clear signifier, like the artificial hair colors of anime characters. people can have multiple aspects to their selves and still remain coherent as characters.
at his worst, stephen king's characters are all stephen king, with one added driving personality quality and one identity-badge tic. if that was all there was to him i wouldn't keep reading these books, obviously... today i got to the part where bill finds his old bicycle at an antique store and it really socked me in the gut. because he doesn't try to spell out all the feelings this thing would conjure up, because, having spent a good amount of time with this bike in good times and bad, you're feeling them.
― Harvey Manfrenjensenden (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:12 (seven years ago) link
I reread It a couple of years ago. Really holds up. I think it's much more his middle period magnum opus than the stand is. He gets all his hobby horses in there but it feels like one organism, the drainage theme is awesome, it's scary as shit...
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link
yeah this is one of my least favourite things. and yet there's no shorthand for it, it's weird. It's terrible in jk Rowling, renders her almost unreadable. did people do this before televisions
Dickens, bro
― scarcity festival (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 30 June 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah haha. it feels very much like a serial entertainment thing? and it left the novel for decades (still visible in the popular short story to a degree, i guess) but re-emerged after television got its claws into us
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Friday, 1 July 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Finished It a while back and still haven't made up my mind on it. The quantity of bulk that could have been edited out only seemed to rise as it went on, and it started to get really distracting as I contemplated the leaner, meaner book I might have finished days before. Clearly there's a plausible version without the "historical flashback to some other really bad shit that once happened in Derry" material, fewer chases with the bullies, maybe even one or two less kids. There are also some just outright clumsy things - all of a sudden, an additional, deeply psycho, bully gets introduced, where it seems kinda obvious he would have appeared or at least been mentioned before.... and then there's the fizzle of the story around Bev's monstrous husband, where you spend half the book dreading his arrival and then whatever he does is mostly off-screen. The lead bully who escapes from the insane asylum is kind of a similar deal - big big buildup and then he's finished almost immediately, without any really satisfying scenes with the leads - feels like Dick Hallorann (who has a cameo here! Jesus!) in Kubrick's film of the Shining. And it's like, man, if anything should be scary and disorienting and gut-wrenching in the story about kids who have now grown up and are facing their childhood demons again, it should be the unexpected reappearance of their onetime tormentor. And on and on...
But man, the weirdest thing of all is what goes on between Bev and the rest of the gang, as kids, after they've seemingly defeated It and before they get out of the sewers. What in the hell was that? King is so weirdly casual about it, in his ka-tet fate-based "they somehow sensed this was the right thing to do, as if the turtle was nudging them" kinda way. It just seems so totally creepy and out of place, like I guess in some way it's plausible for at least some of the characters but such an odd note to strike.
And yet I didn't put it down, and I enjoyed almost all of it, and the coolest parts were really cool, and the fate of Derry was great (even if I thought it was bullshit that they all lose their memories again when it seemed strongly implied that It caused them to forget the first time). There are lots of great scenes and bits, and I agree with dlh (whose posts in the other thread are all great) that the handling of the town at large is very creepy and unsettling. Moreso than any (or most) of the individual breakouts of horror, it's the everyday wrongness that really works here, and in a way the book peaks in its first few dozen pages, when the first deaths we see have all the shock and sickness of Laura Palmer being found in the Twin Peaks pilot.
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Oh, I also liked how he wrote the revelation that Eddie's inhaler medicine is a placebo twice, down to spelling out that its name means that it's plain water - once from the narrator near the beginning and once from the pharmacist sitting the boy down for a talking-to. Like, did he just forget he wrote it the other time? Or did he like something about both versions and couldn't let either one go? Really thought it was important that for most of the book we, but not Eddie, know exactly what's going on? It just seems so sloppy.
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
I did like that It turned out to basically be Lavos, even if the "smokehouse vision" sequence that gives our heroes this information also seemed essentially unnecessary.
― five memes that i can hardly stand to view (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 17 July 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
The kingian lovecraftian interdimensional copout turned out to be a thing; as far as the umm ahh incident in the sewer at the end, the flippant answer is steve king took a lot of cocaine
― wins, Sunday, 17 July 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
My son wants to read IT and I'm shopping around for a copy to buy for him. I gotta say, I'm pretty disappointed with most of the available book covers beyond this:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/It_cover.jpg
There are some interesting international covers though: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-343ESWN6Fv8/Us10OPF4MLI/AAAAAAAAAvY/rlx_V1-204Y/s1600/P8300155.JPGhttps://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/4d/3c/71/4d3c715da3f226941b348b974c1abb2d.jpghttps://covers.openlibrary.org/b/id/3286314-M.jpg
― how's life, Monday, 18 July 2016 13:06 (seven years ago) link
my cover's a lil DO U SEE
https://dreadfultalesdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/it.jpg
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Monday, 18 July 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
Ha!
― how's life, Monday, 18 July 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
ha, i got stuck with the TV-special-era mass-market size cover:
http://66.media.tumblr.com/8aff9a9cf434fa5aa3a096ce49e79fc7/tumblr_n9snzsrmTv1qkl5tno3_400.jpg
― we're gonna live in spatula city (Doctor Casino), Monday, 18 July 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
By the author of the dark half...
Odd book to choose
― koogs, Monday, 18 July 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
The Dark Half would've been King's most recent novel at the time the miniseries was broadcast
― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 09:36 (seven years ago) link
Also, his books are all varying degrees of shit, one title is as good as another
― đ¸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Tuesday, 19 July 2016 10:09 (seven years ago) link
The new Pennywise looks like complete garbage.
http://io9.gizmodo.com/get-your-first-full-creepy-look-at-its-new-pennywise-1785339893
― how's life, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:32 (seven years ago) link
in unrelated news I am re-reading Dead Zone
the Castle Rock Strangler part of the story resolved way quicker than i remember; and I am finding that the politics part of the story is kinda lacking for me, along with the weird sidebar "teaching a kid to read"
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
Oh shit, this is an I Love Books thread. My mistake. I just looked for the last place anyone was discussing IT.
― how's life, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:38 (seven years ago) link
xxpost I want to see the non-menacing version of Pennywise before I pass judgment. If he's seriously all veiny and brooding throughout the movie, I will concur with your assessment.
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
was always going to be difficult/impossible to match tim curry pennywise. otoh tim curry's pennywise is literally the only good thing about that adaptation which is p garbage
― ĂŚlÉrdaÉŞs (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
Awww, I really liked the "teaching a kid to read" stuff - really skimmed past in the movie unfortunately. It seems like a nice touch to really show Johnny as a normal person, with a normal gift - another glimpse of the happy life that should have been his. IIRC King recycles a bit of this later on, probably for Stuttering Bill in It although I already can't remember... the stuff about making a breakthrough by not concentrating on it, working around the problem area, etc.
Castle Rock Strangler also undersold by the movie; I loved the slow build on that although yeah it is kinda yanked out of the picture to clear the stage for the Stillson plot to take over. Genuinely creepy and disturbing serial killer. Cause I'm so SLICK!
― Silence, followed by unintelligible stammering. (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:48 (seven years ago) link
jim in Vancouver 100% otm.
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
the stuff about making a breakthrough by not concentrating on it, working around the problem area, etc.
this sounds like Firestarter to me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
I read/re-read everything from Carrie through Different Seasons a couple of years back. Everything held up except Firestarter, which is totally forgettable. I think I was forgetting it as I was reading it. Oh, and Rage, which was dumb and pointless and kinda deserves its deletion from the back catalog.
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:05 (seven years ago) link
I haven't read Firestarter since 1988 and a lot of things from it are still kind of lodged in me
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link
I always wanted more stories about The Shop. Did he ever mention them after the late 80s?
― how's life, Friday, 19 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
(feel like I've asked that question on here before tbh)
Oh, upthread. Duh.
― how's life, Friday, 19 August 2016 17:33 (seven years ago) link
Cool idea but, as demonstrated several times over, King should probably leave the higher concept sci-fi to others.
― Two Kisses and Three Wet Mouths (Old Lunch), Friday, 19 August 2016 17:55 (seven years ago) link
And writing in general
― James Morrison, Saturday, 20 August 2016 01:08 (seven years ago) link
audiobook of it read by tv's stephen weber was going cheap on audible, been listening at work. I'll always have a fondness for this book but I will also always lol at this ridiculous episode, stephen king is working out some stuff lmao
Thereâs the short fat grad student who canât or wonât speak above a mutter. This guy has written a play in which there are nine characters. Each of them says only a single word. Little by little the playgoers realize that when you put the single words together you come out with âWar is the tool of the sexist death merchants.â This fellowâs play receives an A from the man who teaches Eh-141 (Creative Writing Honors Seminar). This instructor has published four books of poetry and his masterâs thesis, all with the University Press. He smokes pot and wears a peace medallion. The fat muttererâs play is produced by a guerrilla theater group during the strike to end the war which shuts down the campus in May of 1970. The instructor plays one of the characters.Bill Denbrough, meanwhile, has written one locked-room mystery tale, three science-fiction stories, and several horror tales which owe a great deal to Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Richard Mathesonâin later years he will say those stories resembled a mid-1800s funeral hack equipped with a supercharger and painted Day-Glo red.One of the sf tales earns him a B.âThis is better,â the instructor writes on the title page. âIn the alien counterstrike we see the vicious circle in which violence begets violence; I particularly liked the âneedle-nosedâ spacecraft as a symbol of socio-sexual incursion. While this remains a slightly confused undertone throughout, it is interesting.âAll the others do no better than a C.Finally he stands up in class one day, after the discussion of a sallow young womanâs vignette about a cowâs examination of a discarded engine block in a deserted field (this may or may not be after a nuclear war) has gone on for seventy minutes or so. The sallow girl, who smokes one Winston after another and picks occasionally at the pimples which nestle in the hollows of her temples, insists that the vignette is a socio-political statement in the manner of the early Orwell. Most of the classâand the instructorâagree, but still the discussion drones on.When Bill stands up, the class looks at him. He is tall, and has a certain presence.Speaking carefully, not stuttering (he has not stuttered in better than five years), he says: âI donât understand this at all. I donât understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics ... culture ... history ... arenât those natural ingredients in any story, if itâs told well? I mean ...â He looks around, sees hostile eyes, and realizes dimly that they see this as some sort of attack. Maybe it even is. They are thinking, he realizes, that maybe there is a sexist death merchant in their midst. âI mean ... canât you guys just let a story be a story?âNo one replies. Silence spins out. He stands there looking from one cool set of eyes to the next. The sallow girl chuffs out smoke and snubs her cigarette in an ashtray she has brought along in her backpack.Finally the instructor says softly, as if to a child having an inexplicable tantrum, âDo you believe William Faulkner was just telling stories? Do you believe Shakespeare was just interested in making a buck? Come now, Bill. Tell us what you think.ââI think thatâs pretty close to the truth,â Bill says after a long moment in which he honestly considers the question, and in their eyes he reads a kind of damnation.âI suggest,â the instructor says, toying with his pen and smiling at Bill with half-lidded eyes, âthat you have a great deal to learn.âThe applause starts somewhere in the back of the room.
Bill Denbrough, meanwhile, has written one locked-room mystery tale, three science-fiction stories, and several horror tales which owe a great deal to Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, and Richard Mathesonâin later years he will say those stories resembled a mid-1800s funeral hack equipped with a supercharger and painted Day-Glo red.
One of the sf tales earns him a B.
âThis is better,â the instructor writes on the title page. âIn the alien counterstrike we see the vicious circle in which violence begets violence; I particularly liked the âneedle-nosedâ spacecraft as a symbol of socio-sexual incursion. While this remains a slightly confused undertone throughout, it is interesting.â
All the others do no better than a C.
Finally he stands up in class one day, after the discussion of a sallow young womanâs vignette about a cowâs examination of a discarded engine block in a deserted field (this may or may not be after a nuclear war) has gone on for seventy minutes or so. The sallow girl, who smokes one Winston after another and picks occasionally at the pimples which nestle in the hollows of her temples, insists that the vignette is a socio-political statement in the manner of the early Orwell. Most of the classâand the instructorâagree, but still the discussion drones on.
When Bill stands up, the class looks at him. He is tall, and has a certain presence.
Speaking carefully, not stuttering (he has not stuttered in better than five years), he says: âI donât understand this at all. I donât understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics ... culture ... history ... arenât those natural ingredients in any story, if itâs told well? I mean ...â He looks around, sees hostile eyes, and realizes dimly that they see this as some sort of attack. Maybe it even is. They are thinking, he realizes, that maybe there is a sexist death merchant in their midst. âI mean ... canât you guys just let a story be a story?â
No one replies. Silence spins out. He stands there looking from one cool set of eyes to the next. The sallow girl chuffs out smoke and snubs her cigarette in an ashtray she has brought along in her backpack.
Finally the instructor says softly, as if to a child having an inexplicable tantrum, âDo you believe William Faulkner was just telling stories? Do you believe Shakespeare was just interested in making a buck? Come now, Bill. Tell us what you think.â
âI think thatâs pretty close to the truth,â Bill says after a long moment in which he honestly considers the question, and in their eyes he reads a kind of damnation.
âI suggest,â the instructor says, toying with his pen and smiling at Bill with half-lidded eyes, âthat you have a great deal to learn.â
The applause starts somewhere in the back of the room.
^^this genuinely reads like the film GODS NOT DEAD but with garbagey fiction in the place of religion
― Mädchester Amick (wins), Monday, 26 September 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
might as well put this here
Bestselling thriller writer James Patterson has cancelled publication of his novel The Murder of Stephen King, belatedly deciding that he did not want to cause King and his family âany discomfortâ.King has dreamed up his fair share of deranged fans, from Miseryâs axe-wielding Annie Wilkes who keeps her favourite author writing by chopping off his foot, to Morris Bellamy, the villain in his recent thriller Finders Keepers, who shoots his idol in the head. Pattersonâs novel, which was only announced last week for publication in November, promised to feature âall of Stephen Kingâs greatest villains, rolled into oneâ.Why Stephen King's It still terrifies 30 years on Read moreâStephen King is facing a nightmare. A stalker is re-enacting the horrors from his novels. And he wonât stop until he kills the master of suspense himself â unless King puts him out of his Misery first,â ran its description, with Patterson stating that the novelist âdid not participate in the making of this novel, nor is he affiliated with it in any wayâ.âI hope he likes it,â added Patterson last week, describing himself as a fan of the horror novelist - an admiration that does not seem wholly returned. In 2009, King described Patterson as âa terrible writerâ.But on Thursday, less than two weeks after the novel was announced, Patterson announced its cancellation. He added that the decision was taken after the publicity that followed the announcement of The Murder of Stephen King, when he was alerted to the fact that âfans of Stephen King have disrupted the King household in the pastâ.âMy book is a positive portrayal of a fictional character, and â spoiler alert â the main character is not actually murdered,â he said in a statement from his publisher. âNevertheless, I do not want to cause Stephen King or his family any discomfort. Out of respect for them, I have decided not to publish The Murder of Stephen King.âThe novel, part of Pattersonâs BookShots series of short reads and co-authored with Derek Nikitas, will be replaced with Taking the Titanic, a story in which two thieves posing as newlyweds board the doomed ship to ârob its well-heeled passengersâ. âIâm disappointed, yes, but whatâs much more important to me is we do right by Stephen King,â wrote Nikitas on Twitter.According to Associated Press, which saw an early edition of The Murder of Stephen King, the novel features a detective named Jamie Peterson attempting to save King from the man who is trying to murder him.Patterson told AP last week that Kingâs remarks dismissing him as a terrible writer were âhyperboleâ. âI know Iâm not a terrible writer. Thatâs a little over the top,â said Patterson, adding that if King wrote a novel called The Murder of James Patterson he âwould definitely want to read itâ.
King has dreamed up his fair share of deranged fans, from Miseryâs axe-wielding Annie Wilkes who keeps her favourite author writing by chopping off his foot, to Morris Bellamy, the villain in his recent thriller Finders Keepers, who shoots his idol in the head. Pattersonâs novel, which was only announced last week for publication in November, promised to feature âall of Stephen Kingâs greatest villains, rolled into oneâ.
Why Stephen King's It still terrifies 30 years on Read moreâStephen King is facing a nightmare. A stalker is re-enacting the horrors from his novels. And he wonât stop until he kills the master of suspense himself â unless King puts him out of his Misery first,â ran its description, with Patterson stating that the novelist âdid not participate in the making of this novel, nor is he affiliated with it in any wayâ.
âI hope he likes it,â added Patterson last week, describing himself as a fan of the horror novelist - an admiration that does not seem wholly returned. In 2009, King described Patterson as âa terrible writerâ.
But on Thursday, less than two weeks after the novel was announced, Patterson announced its cancellation. He added that the decision was taken after the publicity that followed the announcement of The Murder of Stephen King, when he was alerted to the fact that âfans of Stephen King have disrupted the King household in the pastâ.
âMy book is a positive portrayal of a fictional character, and â spoiler alert â the main character is not actually murdered,â he said in a statement from his publisher. âNevertheless, I do not want to cause Stephen King or his family any discomfort. Out of respect for them, I have decided not to publish The Murder of Stephen King.â
The novel, part of Pattersonâs BookShots series of short reads and co-authored with Derek Nikitas, will be replaced with Taking the Titanic, a story in which two thieves posing as newlyweds board the doomed ship to ârob its well-heeled passengersâ. âIâm disappointed, yes, but whatâs much more important to me is we do right by Stephen King,â wrote Nikitas on Twitter.
According to Associated Press, which saw an early edition of The Murder of Stephen King, the novel features a detective named Jamie Peterson attempting to save King from the man who is trying to murder him.
Patterson told AP last week that Kingâs remarks dismissing him as a terrible writer were âhyperboleâ. âI know Iâm not a terrible writer. Thatâs a little over the top,â said Patterson, adding that if King wrote a novel called The Murder of James Patterson he âwould definitely want to read itâ.
― Number None, Monday, 26 September 2016 18:56 (seven years ago) link
lol and the missing link between my post and yours = michael chrichton's paedophile character based on a critic who gave him a bad review
― Mädchester Amick (wins), Monday, 26 September 2016 19:04 (seven years ago) link
finished IT last night and fuck man it's impossible to search ilx or google for discussion. is there an ILX thread just for IT?
i knew for years that there was some kind of fucked up orgy at the end of the book, i assumed it was this huge evil climactic thing with Pennywise, the kids and their parents or something. i'm not exactly sure why that was supposed to scare IT away for 27 years. did i miss that? did the turtle tell beverly to do that? hm
― flappy bird, Thursday, 13 April 2017 17:08 (seven years ago) link
Apart from discussion here, there's definitely a fair amount of bits and bobs on the long stephen king thread, which was just active recently but which I now cannot find even with Google...
I think the orgy is solely something that enables their escape, after they've wounded IT. I remember it seeming like the sex actually teleported them out of the catacombs when they were done but I might be misremembering. Anyway, I don't think it's supposed to directly affect IT.
― long dark poptart of the rodeo (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 13 April 2017 19:13 (seven years ago) link
stephen king c/d?
― Number None, Friday, 14 April 2017 10:17 (seven years ago) link
It recentres their chakras maaan
Then as now, kudos on the poll options itt
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Friday, 14 April 2017 10:42 (seven years ago) link
I randomly opened the book for the first time in years and opened straight to this quote:
She heard the familiar chimes from the living roomâchimes that had always sounded to her like a Chinese name: Ching-Chong!
― how's life, Friday, 14 April 2017 18:54 (seven years ago) link
It was a different time
― virginity simple (darraghmac), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:04 (seven years ago) link
lol that is classic king
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:21 (seven years ago) link
that "he had always thought" or "it had always seemed to her that" is very characteristic kingism (not that other people don't do it, I just think he notably does a lot of it)
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:22 (seven years ago) link
the passage I quoted above is slaying me all over again btw, so good/bad
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
This guy is totally back right? traffic over 2 threads, like 5 big films in production... 80s babies exercising their purchasing power
― briscall stool chart (wins), Friday, 14 April 2017 19:32 (seven years ago) link
yeah it's weird, i've seen several articles & talk in SK fan communities about his sudden cultural resurgence (as if he ever went away), but I think you can chalk it all up to the success of Stranger Things and two of his most beloved novels (IT & Dark Tower) getting made into movies this year.
― flappy bird, Friday, 14 April 2017 20:07 (seven years ago) link