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    Image of MrInBetween MrInBetween
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    Can we seal all the Stephen King fans under a dome? Please? That's all what I want for Thanksgiving.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    I read The Shining right before the movie came out and it taught me to avoid all adaptations of his books.

    The only film adaptation of his book that was any good was "Salem's Lot" back in the 70's. It was made for TV, but Danny Glick hovering outside the window fucked me up forever.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/25/09

    @TheUptightMidwesterner: You really didn't like the movie adaptation? Not the horrible, terrible one with Steven Weber, but the Kubrick?

    And the TV miniseries of The Stand could have been worse. Better, of course, but it could have been a lot worse (see: Rose Red, The Langoliers, every other script King has ever gotten his hands on).
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    11/25/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: No- I hated it because I thought Jack Nicholson was very hammy. I think the Jack Torrence in the book was a bit more subdued and sinister.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    I'm a big, bright, shining star.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    11/25/09

    @Steverino Begins: Talk to the finger.
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    Image of Sir Winston Thriller Sir Winston Thriller
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    Well, it isn't guaranteed to suck. Unless they cast Christian Slater as Danny and he does his creepy Jack Nicholson impersonation.
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    Image of Botswana Meat Commission FC Botswana Meat Commission FC
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    For some strange reason I always found the 70s version of Shelley Duvall attractive.

    I really need to lay off the vodka tonics for a while.
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    Image of RollsRoyceRevenge RollsRoyceRevenge
    11/25/09

    @Botswana Meat Commission FC: Oddly enough, Jack Torrance thought the same two things.
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    From the Very Secret Diaries of Danny Torrance:

    Monday: Called mom. She's sloppy drunk again. They still haven't been able to take away that knife.

    Tuesday: Practiced walking backwards into my own footprints. You never know.

    Wednesday: Didn't get the job. I think "No elevator travel" on the resume might be off-putting.

    Thursday: Put another 1,000 miles on the Volkswagon as of this week. Those suckers really do last forever...and ever...and ever OH GOD DAMN IT.

    Friday: woke up to find DECNUOB KCEHC YNOMILA ROUY written on my door with lipstick. Eerie.
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    Image of Bobby Big Wheel Bobby Big Wheel
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    King's just giving us some hair of the dog that bit us.
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    Image of seyswho seyswho
    11/25/09

    @Bobby Big Wheel: Cujo?
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    Image of scroll_lock scroll_lock
    11/25/09

    In reply to Meaning of 'Redrum' to Be Revealed At Last
    He used to be good ages ago and then got to be a sloppy hack.

    Steve, if you are dying for a little publicity from recycling some of your finest work, toss yourself in front of a van again.
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    Image of Go Like Hell Machine Go Like Hell Machine
    11/25/09

    @scroll_lock: Eh, a lot of his short stories are still pretty good, as are his non-horror works (other than the atrocious EW column).

    However, yes, I agree, this will almost certainly be terrible.
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    11/25/09

    @Go Like Hell Machine: Yes, I did like a lot of his short stories too but as far as I know they were a long time ago. Too long.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/25/09

    @scroll_lock: I haven't read her work, but "sloppy hack" is one of the many descriptive pejoratives I've heard bandied about regarding Steffoneigh Meyer, and she's only at the very beginning of her career.

    What do you think this says about the future of reading?
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    11/25/09

    @Lysergic Asset: I think it says it's time to go back to the classics. I'm whipping out Green Eggs and Ham.

    *ps great to see you back!
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    11/25/09

    @scroll_lock: Pennywise?
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    11/25/09

    @belltolls: heh. That book scared me to death- especially when the photo in the album winked at the kid. The movie, of course, was terrible. Any vehicle with John Boy in it just doesn't deliver. Ask Mary Ellen.
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    Image of Lysergic Asset Lysergic Asset
    11/25/09

    @scroll_lock: My favorite "classic" which describes the mad world we live in well is Inside, Outside, Upside Down. Sometimes I wonder wtf is really going on.

    Also: thanks - glad you're still here!

    #tips
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    11/25/09

    @scroll_lock: I know. If he ever did a "best" thing that would be IT.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    11/25/09

    @scroll_lock: The worst is when he has anything to do with the film or tv production process. His cinematic instincts are astonishingly pedestrian for a guy that once wrote pretty scary tales. Despite once writing in an essay that a story or movie are more frightening if you never show the monster, he can't help doing exactly that. But what do you expect from the guy who cast his preferred version of the shinging with Rebecca DeMornay and the guy from Wings?
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    Image of Bunnee Bunnee
    11/25/09

    @belltolls: "It" is one of my Top 3 scariest books ever, after "The Exorcist" and "Something Wicked This Way Comes". God, I hate clowns.
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    Image of belltolls belltolls
    11/25/09

    @Bunnee: Right up there with mimes.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Yikes! Bidding is over a thousand bucks and nine days to go! You're over the limit for what I can get away with without my husband saying "what the hell did you buy???? You're NEVER even gonna to wear those shoes! I bet you can't even walk in them. Walk. Yes, now, WALK! You look like a moron and you're gonna kill yourself in those, enjoy the five hundred dollar blisters, idiot. And change your emergency contact info for when they cart you off to the emergency room in the wahmbulance, cause if it's a shoe-related injury, I ain't comin to get you."
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    Image of momof3wildkids momof3wildkids
    11/24/09

    @misslinda: It is back down to $700ish.... what happened?

    My husband would say something similar about shoes.....
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    11/24/09

    @momof3wildkids: Oh really...hmm...another couple of days and it'll be down into my price range! And if I got another copy of her book (bargain bin, natch), I could strap them to my feet and wear them as shoes (just anticipating the "what the hell are you going to do with that? You're not even going to read it, and if you are, it's just going to make you angry. At least you can wear a pair of expensive shoes. Idiot." rant).
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    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    You are charging $4 for shipping? Really? Couldn't Denton spring for the four bucks?
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @momof3wildkids: I just filled it in because the page wasn't saving. WHATEVER. I'll pay the $4.
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    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Just giving you shit Foster. Great idea! Save the Children does wonderful work.

    Still no 'full-frontal' head shot of you? I'd throw in some change for that.
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    Image of Jim Topoleski Jim Topoleski
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    wow I remember my ex girlfriend LOVING to write so called "slam books"

    She had hundreds of them in high school she passed along to friends, I even found some of them long after we broke up.

    I never knew she stole the idea from someone else. For some reason I always assumed she was deranged enough to have thought of it herself.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Item specifics - Fiction & Literature Books
    Format: Hardcover
    Publication Year: 2009
    Topic: --
    Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Signed Language: English
    Condition: Brand New
    Subject: Folklore, Mythology

    LOLOLOL
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Smails will bit $120 if there're tits involved. Anyone?
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    11/24/09

    @BookishLookish: I'll show tits. WE HAVE $120 DO WE HEAR $2,000?
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    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: Are yours really worth two large, kid? Well, hellooooo....
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/24/09

    @BookishLookish: Not at all. The book, however: YES.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    11/24/09

    @Foster Kamer: *sniff* You did not ask me about mine, Foster. Their wait in gold, my dear. Why, the cleavage alone is worth a fortune.
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    Image of The Real JR The Real JR
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    Dude, I was in the lead then got outbid within 3 minutes.

    Oh, it's a mutha-fuckin-BID-OFF!
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    Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller
    11/24/09

    In reply to The Gawker Sarah Palin Slam Book: Bid on This Literary Treasure for Charity
    This is a farce.

    The best Sarah Palin book in the world is to buy Going Rouge, replace the dust jacket with Going Rogue and convincing her to sign it. Then you return Going Rogue and put Going Rouge on eBay.
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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    11/25/09

    @Alaska Miller: I thought about this when it was mentioned a couple days ago, but when I checked it out it seems that Going Rouge is paperback only.
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