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| Jul 16th, 2003 10:22 PM | |||
| Generator86 |
Okay, I finished the Dark Tower books about two, three weeks ago, and I just don't see the big deal about them. I mean, yeah, parts are interesting and everything, but, aside from Drawing of the Three, they were just plain boring. And don't even get me started on Roland's love interest, whatever the fuck her name was(already forgot it). I had no sympathy for her whatsoever. |
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| Jul 15th, 2003 09:38 AM | |||
| Daphne |
 that was just plain clever. |
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| Jul 15th, 2003 06:13 AM | |||
| jewishcarpenter |
The Eyes of the Dragon and a close second would be The Stand (the uncircumcised edition) the book is about a sixteenth of an inch longer. |
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| Jul 11th, 2003 10:04 PM | |||
| Daphne |
they didn't, they called it the UN-CUT edition. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...167018-2140925 |
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| Jul 11th, 2003 05:52 PM | |||
| IdiotSavant | The title of the damn book is The Stand: Director's Cut. Not Author's Cut, Director's Cut! I don't know why they called it that; they just did. | ||
| Jul 11th, 2003 04:48 PM | |||
| Daphne |
holy jesus are you really that stupid? Books don't HAVE directors, they have WRITERS and EDITORS what you're talking about is the UNABRIDGED version of the story. Directors cuts are for MOVIES. So far I'm not seeing any Savant. |
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| Jul 11th, 2003 04:37 PM | |||
| IdiotSavant |
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| Jul 11th, 2003 06:04 AM | |||
| crash0814 | IT is my favorite, but runners up would be The Stand, Needful Things, and The Long Walk (this has got to be the most disturbing book I've ever read). | ||
| Jul 10th, 2003 09:35 AM | |||
| Daphne |
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| Jul 10th, 2003 12:17 AM | |||
| IdiotSavant |
If you got some spare time (make that lots of spare time) I suggest the Director's Cut of The Stand. Incredibly depressing, and a bit long-winded, but one of my favorite books of anyone, let alone King. If your not into the whole apocalypse thing, The Green Mile or any of the Gunslinger series are both good. One quick question: didn't he once write that he planned on never finishing the Dark Tower saga? I think it's in one of the "message from the author" things in one of the books. |
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| Jul 2nd, 2003 07:49 PM | |||
| Immortal Goat |
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| Jun 27th, 2003 02:40 PM | |||
| The_voice_of_reason | My favorite King book is Firestarter but I've only read that and Hearts in Atlantis | ||
| Jun 27th, 2003 01:57 PM | |||
| FS |
I don't think he every literally said he'd be retiring, it's more that journalists took his words out of context. He has said though that the Dark Tower is kind of his magnum opus, and when it's done he'll probably be cutting back on his writing more... Plus he's got some illness that's deteriorating his eyesight to -I think- the point of eventual blindness. I can't imagine that'll help his writing career. I don't really see how a writer could choose to retire, either. Maybe you run out of ideas for a while, but there's no telling what may come in the future. |
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| Jun 27th, 2003 12:18 PM | |||
| kellychaos |
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| Jun 27th, 2003 12:04 PM | |||
| Protoclown |
I thought Steven King announced that he was retiring a year or so ago?  I don't understand why anyone that full of creativity would ever retire. As long as the ideas keep coming, keep on writing, I say. |
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| Jun 27th, 2003 11:02 AM | |||
| Spectre X |
The Stand, first book of his I've read, and the Running Man, second book I've read. gonna try and pick up an English copy of IT somewhere. |
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| Jun 26th, 2003 11:35 AM | |||
| Husker Jew | What about the Bachman Books? | ||
| Jun 25th, 2003 02:50 PM | |||
| FS |
From StephenKing.com: Stephen's Rewritten the Gunslinger To bring the language up to date, and the style in line with the style of the other Dark Tower volumes, Stephen's rewritten The Gunslinger. The new version, available in June 2003, will also be released in audiobook format. It's probably available already. I think I'll check it out myself, it's a pretty thin book and (in its original form) it's my favorite book of the series. Dark Tower 5 is set for November, right now, and then two more books will follow to conclude the series. The Dark Tower series are kind of a weird mixture of fantasy, westerns, sci-fi and regular King. The main character is sort of a cowboy/knight from another world that is both post-apocalyptic and like human Middle Ages, but he later gets help from people from various time periods of "our" world. |
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| Jun 25th, 2003 10:05 AM | |||
| kellychaos |
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| Jun 24th, 2003 03:41 PM | |||
| Generator86 |
Everything's Eventual was great. I'll check out the revised Gunslinger when it comes out, most likely. Thanks. |
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| Jun 24th, 2003 03:35 PM | |||
| FS | For a while I thought King's new work was getting worse too, but there's just a number of titles throughout his career that are crappy. Books like From A Buick 8 or the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, I just don't check out because the concept seems asinine to me. For recent titles, I thought Black House, Everything's Eventual and Hearts in Atlantis were pretty good. | ||
| Jun 24th, 2003 11:56 AM | |||
| kellychaos |
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| Jun 24th, 2003 09:44 AM | |||
| Daphne |
Different Seasons, The Stand (fucking amazing book) The Shining, Eyes of the Dragon, It. I like Stephen King, but I keep hearing his newer books are poopy, so I'm afraid to read them. |
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| Jun 24th, 2003 04:54 AM | |||
| FS |
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| Jun 23rd, 2003 08:52 PM | |||
| Esuohlim | Different Seasons (more specifically, the Body). | ||
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