a stephen king poll

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 room—chimes that had always sounded to her like a Chinese name: Ching-Chong!

It was a different time

lol that is classic king

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)

the passage I quoted above is slaying me all over again btw, so good/bad

This guy is totally back right? traffic over 2 threads, like 5 big films in production... 80s babies exercising their purchasing power

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.

I think wins is right about purchasing power. Also the demographics of who's In Charge and making decisions to greenlight things.

thought I would take a break from SK after finishing IT, but I picked up Cujo and I'm totally sucked in. It's a nice companion piece to IT, same idea really, and the prose is wild, makes sense that he wrote it in a total coke/alcohol blackout. really vicious, already so much better than Firestarter (boring! not enough fire starting).

The most effectively-horrifying element of the Cujo novel which is lost in the movie is the presentation of the dog's perspective. I found King's primitive presentation of this well-meaning creature's slow descent into a madness that it doesn't understand really affecting upon re-reading it a few years ago.

Like, something about the knowledge that Cujo just wants to be the same good dog he was before his sickness makes the entire tableau about 100x more awful for me.

King also does good dog perspective in Gerald's Game (which is otherwise fairly rubbish but I am kind of intrigued to see how they pull off the forthcoming adaptation for Netflix)

Like, something about the knowledge that Cujo just wants to be the same good dog he was before his sickness makes the entire tableau about 100x more awful for me.

― Break the meat into the pineapples and pat them (Old Lunch), Monday, April 17, 2017 2:57 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure 12 year old me had no capacity to appreciate this angle, must reread

Well I guess he should write a whole book from the POV of a dog. Why the hell not? It'd probably still have all the same SK tics. The dog would refer to people as "that Johnson woman," etc.

Dog would tell unfunny jokes to other dogs, be annoyingly folksy. Would at least justify the end of the book being a feeble shaggy dog story. Plus dogs come in a range of colours, so the inevitable Magical Negro could instead be red or spotty or brindled instead of black.

lol

The twist would be in the dog version of CUJO, where the dog would be played by a human.