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Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => The Arts => Attic Treasures => Topic started by: NewOrder on July 29, 2007, 06:40:36 PM
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What's your take on this author and his work?
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So far I only read two of his books so I can't really give a competent statement on his works in general. The books I read were "The body" (and I must admit that this book had to be read for school) which was quite alright and enjoyable to read and "Misery". "Misery" really had me hooked right away. I finished the book in two days. It was very exciting, well written, and it also had a rather original topic.
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I haven't read The Body, but Misery was the first SK book I ever read. It got me hooked up like you Malte =P I think you should read The Stand it's 1440 pages, but it's worth every paragraph.
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So far, I'm reading into both It and Pet Sementary. Both of which are superb, in my opinion.
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I've heard about Stephen King, but never read the books, or really plan to.
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I haven't read those, yet. However I've heard they're very good.
Dolores Claiborne is the name of the one I'm reading right now, it's a bit boring, but it keeps you hooked. I want to dig into The Dark Tower collection, but there are many books and they aren't that cheep. And besides it's hard to come across the english version of the books \:
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I've heard about Stephen King, but never read the books, or really plan to.
I hadn't planned to read "Misery" either. Actually horror or thrillers are absolutely not my genre (which is also why I have no definite plans to read another King book any time soon; which is not to say that I wouldn't read the book in case to book found me the way "Misery" did). But I was in the kind of mood where I had to read something. Misery was the first book within reach and once I had it in my hands I just couldn't put it away anymore.
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Unless my school forces me to, I will never read any books for the sole purpose of recreation. I have never even heard of this guy. :unsure:
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He's a pretty famous author. He wrote a lot of horror books such as "It", "Cujo", "Pet Sematry", and..I think he also wrote "Maximum Overdrive", or "Trucks". I forget what it was called.
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He wrote scripts for movies like The Shinning and Rose Red, The Stand is a very famous novel that made it into a TV movie, it has this huge group of fans, and people who are completely crazy about them, like you guys in the US have those people who their lives is star wars and star trek (never got it though, star trek is lame and boring).
This is the problem with todays youth they are so hooked up on new technologies they don't bother to read anymore, oh well, it's their loss.
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...star trek is lame and boring).
I'll pretend you didn't say that. :p
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I never got into Star Trek myself, but I wouldn't say it's "lame and boring".
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Well I guess it's not if you focus on William Shatner you'll spend the whole time laughing at him :D
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I don't know who William Shatner is.
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Do you know the series Boston Legal? He's Danny Crane. In Star Trek I think he was the captain or something, in the Simpsons they mock him a lot, because he has a very funny way of talking, he says a couple of words enphasises the last one, then stops and then speaks again in the same way, it's very silly.
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Never heard of Boston Legal either.
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I don't know who William Shatner is.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't he Captain Kirk on the original Star Trek? Either that or I'm going insane or am very tired (I haven't gone to bed yet :p)
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Yes, he was :yes
This is the kind of question where Wikipedia comes in handy :lol:
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OMG I know more about Star Trek than you guys :(
Twilight Zone :huh:
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OMG I know more about Star Trek than you guys :(
Twilight Zone :huh:
Um..what?
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I never claimed to be a Trekie. I don't know very much about Star Trek. I liked "The first contact" and most of the other Star Trek movies I saw, but I guess I would exaggerate if I claimed to be a Star Trek fan. I guess I prefer Star Wars, but I guess I will never really understand why many Trekies and Star Wars fans can't "coexist in peace". This video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNxhrPaaCA4) is hilarious though :lol:
We got far from our original topic, didn't we?
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Lol, forget it just me considering the irony
Indeed we have Malte (just to rap it up, I prefer Star Wars to Star Trek as well, but the old movies not the new ones, although they do have some quality, they're just not my cup of tea, anyway if there's a sci-fi series I like it's Stargate).
As for Stephen King, one of the things I like the most about him is that the characters are very down-to-earth, they act like normal people do, and they all have a mind of their own. You see very little larger than life characters like Songoku, and more normal people who are just trying to survive because evil is after them.
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This is the problem with todays youth they are so hooked up on new technologies they don't bother to read anymore, oh well, it's their loss.
I agree with that. I'm suprised most kids around my town even know what a book is with all the cell phones and such I see flashed around constantly. They have my sympathies. :(
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Well, what you gonna do? I just hope that there will always be the little few who won't look back on books. There will always be hope.
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There will always be hope.
I sure hope so. :(
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I like Stephan King. Great horror author and all around writer. His writing is very authentic and...bare - perfect for horror. There's no flowery language, there's just the grit. Flowery language would really muddy the mood (so I'm not saying he can't write flowery, but that he chooses not to for genre) and his stories are quite scary.
I really want to read "The Stand" because I loved the miniseries, but it's so long and I have so little time to read that I fear by the time I get back to it I'll have forgotten what happened XD One day, though....
I like his short stories. They're like experiments. They can be fantastic (like "1408") or silly (like "The Mangler") but they're just overall entertaining!
As a side note, I may like him so much because I've found I agree alot with his theories on horror XD
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My favorite author and writing idol :D! My favorite King book is "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon." Last fall, I actually visited the setting of that novel, White Mountain National Forest, on a New England roadtrip (yes, I'm a frequent traveller). Gorgeous, yet it had the spooky vibe the novel gives it. I fell in love with "1408." Love that movie, BTW :yes. It deals with dark spiritual matters and the dark side of human nature, which are what draw me to King's works. Sadly, I was disappointed in the latest installment, "The Mist." The movie seemed to destroy the story. A fact I read was King had originally left the ending ambiguous, as in the survivors just drive off and the movie ends. Hey, leaves room for fanfiction :P:. However, the director of the film, with King's permission, changed to ending to how it was: the main character has a handgun with four bullets, but there are five survivors. He blows away the other four, including his five year-old son :o :cry2. He then gets out of the car to surrender to the monsters, only for the mist to clear. It then shows the National Guard destroying the monsters' corpses. The film ends with the main character having a nervous breakdown. Totally mindnumbing ending. I would too, if I killed anyone especially my kid. Anyhoo, great author, great stories, keep 'em coming King :D!
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Anyhoo, great author, great stories, keep 'em coming King :D!
If ever he doesn't "his greatest fan", inspired by his work, might have the funny idea of abducting and drugging him in order to force him to continue his writing :lol
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I think ya read "Misery" too much :lol.
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I have read A Buick 8 and it TOTALLY turned me off of his work. I look at some of his books and they seem recycled.
I'm not a real fan of horror (except Poe) and some things go better with a little supernatural.
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Very recently I watched "Stand by me", a movie based on the Steven King novel "the body". We had read that book at school and also watched the movie, but back then I could see only the beginning as I had to appear in court that day as a witness of a car accident. So till now I never saw the end of it.
Notably the German student's version of the book had been kind of "adapted" to spare the teachers some embarrassment before their class of pubescent kids. :lol
The most notable example is a scene where in the original book (and the movie) the main character has a leech sucking blood from his testicles (ouch) :x In the version for the juvenile German students it was changed to the leech sucking from an ear of the character. Funnily we had a Stephen King fan in our class who revealed that fraud to us. Our English teacher dealt with this very competent though and was not shy to teach us the vocabularies for human reproductive organs :lol
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Stephen King is an awesome author in my opinion, and one of my personel favorites of his was the book "IT".
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Stephen King is my favorite author ;)
I read many his books
Like Cell , On Writing , Misery ,The Green Mile , Nightmares & Dreamscapes , Bag of Bones....
But my favorite is The Dark Tower series :rolleyes:
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I have only read one novel by him and that's Carrie. It's more scarier than the movie in my opinion.
Other than that, I've seen movie adaptations of his novels like Misery and The Shining.
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I love The Stand. I have the complete uncut and I'm collecting the comics every month. The movie was okay, but mostly I just like it for Gary Sinise. They're redoing it, and I hope it'll be better.
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Oh yes, I like this guy. I got into him from reading HP Lovecraft and other sci-fi horrors who apparently inspired him, and I can see the link. Both Lovecraft and King usually have very ordinary characters, never explain too much about the monsters, and they both have the concept of characters going insane if they look at the monsters or their true forms.
I've read a few of his short stories from the Nightmares and Dreamscapes book (My favourite being "Chattery Teeth"), and I'm planning on reading It. I've also seen a few film versions, like Stephen King's It (Which probably features Tim Curry's creepiest appearance as a demonic clown), and The Mist, which was amazing. Both great films.