Is this the the thread where we make Stephen King references?

pxlboy: Is this the the thread where we make Stephen King references?


It was creepy til the horrible orgy in the sewers.

I just started 11/22/63, and I was surprised at how happy it makes me to revisit some of the Derry kids, even if only briefly.

Jake Havechek: The pacing in that book is terrible. Great story, but King could have used an editor. I don't know why the "It" book gets the props that it does because the writing is very sloppy and lazy.

I could have been shorter, yes. But it's creepy -- I suppose that's why. But yes, he's done much better. Duma Key and Under the Dome were pretty cool.

Jake Havechek: The pacing in that book is terrible. Great story, but King could have used an editor. I don't know why the "It" book gets the props that it does because the writing is very sloppy and lazy.

Post fail. 'It' could have been shorter.

/off for caffeine now

They all float down here...

namegoeshere: Yeah, still not sure how he got away with that. The only way out is to gangbang the eleven year old girl...

I'm not either and it came out of farking nowhere. There was no need at all for that considering that it added nothing to the plot. His short stories are much better than his novels.

satanorsanta: Jake Havechek: pxlboy: Jake Havechek: The pacing in that book is terrible. Great story, but King could have used an editor. I don't know why the "It" book gets the props that it does because the writing is very sloppy and lazy.

I could have been shorter, yes. But it's creepy -- I suppose that's why. But yes, he's done much better. Duma Key and Under the Dome were pretty cool.

Yeah, it doesn't flow. You get jerked back and forth in time so much it gets tedious. I liked Under The Dome because it went in a straight line, and when it ended, it ended. Cell and The Long Walk are my favorites as well.

I disliked cell. But I really liked It, The Long Walk, Duma Key, Under the Dome, and 11/22/63 among many other of his books. I read It as a kid on family vacation on the drive from Ohio to Florida and back, It really freaked me out.

/thankee sai

Long days and pleasant nights

A Terrible Human: namegoeshere: Yeah, still not sure how he got away with that. The only way out is to gangbang the eleven year old girl...

I'm not either and it came out of farking nowhere. There was no need at all for that considering that it added nothing to the plot. His short stories are much better than his novels.

Also (usually) this

sxacho: I read It when I was a kid. I don't remember much of the orgy scene. I find that odd.

Yeah I read it as a kid too and didn't pick up on that until I re-read It just a few months ago. I was like "OK...I guess it KINDA fits with what you've built so far...a little...but...yeah it's still creepy/weird."

pxlboy: Also (usually) this

Skeleton Crew has most of my favorites in it with The Jaunt being the best at least in my opinion.

A Terrible Human: pxlboy: Also (usually) this

Skeleton Crew has most of my favorites in it with The Jaunt being the best at least in my opinion.

"It's forever in there!" Funny, I was telling someone about that story recently. Not sure how we segued into it, but there you go. Also loved/was creeped out by "You Know They've Got a Hell of a Band"

fortean chicken: I read "It" when I was the same age as the kids in that book. The sex scene in the sewers seemed perfectly reasonable to me at the time. Maybe Stephen King understands young teenagers better than we do. I read it now and was dutifully horrified.

I was around the same age as the kids in the book when I read It too and that scene came off as very out of place even then. The tone went from "YAAAY WE KILLED THE CLOWN MONSTER" to "Oh no we're lost,better gangbang Beverly to get out of here"

mortimer_ford: pxlboy: Jake Havechek: The pacing in that book is terrible. Great story, but King could have used an editor. I don't know why the "It" book gets the props that it does because the writing is very sloppy and lazy.

I could have been shorter, yes. But it's creepy -- I suppose that's why. But yes, he's done much better. Duma Key and Under the Dome were pretty cool.

Really? I barely got through those two. Buick 8, man. That's the fresh precident.

I thought Duma Key was great! I liked Under the Dome until the cause was revealed.

pxlboy: Also loved/was creeped out by "You Know They've Got a Hell of a Band"

That one rocks... I've been a King fan since the mid-80's, not everything is a hit, but I still like his books. That was one of my absolute favorite stories though. Somewhere out there are torrents of the short lied Nightmares and Dreamscapes episodes, and they did that one.

Jake Havechek: The pacing in that book is terrible. Great story, but King could have used an editor. I don't know why the "It" book gets the props that it does because the writing is very sloppy and lazy.

How can it be "lazy" when it's 3 times as long as an book written by another author?

As for the pacing, there are a few spots that drag, but I personally have always liked King's character development, and this is the sticking point with some people. 'It' is a great example. I had a crappy childhood, after about 9 years old, playing with friends ended up being a once-a-month experience, due to an emotionally abusive biatch of an adoptive mother. For a few years though, I had that childhood of exploring and getting into stuff that wasn't exactly safe for a kid, yet I always survived. I could totally relate to the kids in the Barrens when I read 'It'.

Add to that the great character of Pennywise, and I can totally understand why it gets props. Not my absolute favorite(That honor is reserved for 'The Stand'.), but it's in my top 5. In high school, I think I read it in something like 4 days.

The author whose pacing I have issues with s Frank Herbert, to me it's like walking through drying cement with swim fins on and crutches... Tolkein was hard, too, but after watching the movies, I had characters to relate to in T.L.O.t.R., after that, it was a breeze.

See, it all depends on the readers with these.

Crewmannumber6: I have no idea what you people are talking about, but I've never heard of a tire blowing out windows before.

Why not? A 2 inch thick slab of rubber8 inches across, and God knows how long, embedded with woven steel threads? Throw a tore at your living room window and get back to us... :-)