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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    11/25/09

    @Bunnee: Right up there with mimes.
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    It's very helpful for a writer who is past his Sell By date, like that Ellison, to pretend his work is worth stealing. He can think down in his remnant carpeted basement, man, ten million readers, unfortunately all thieves.


    A certain upscale ivy has never been pressured to drop its AA policy. It sees thirty thousand applicants, accepts ten, tells the rest they were only just aced out by a gay Puerto Rican with a low SAT due to developmental disabilities. Ah cudda been a contender, they muse forevermore in a JC somewhere.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Honestly? I think he was referring to the fact that the people he'd be trying to catch are more than likely without funds (read: deep pockets), not to mention the fact that he's probably making fun of himself by saying that's the kind of person who reads his schlock.
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    Image of sassenach sassenach
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    I wouldn't expect such classist comments from Steve.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/12/09

    @sassenach: See my note above. And I just hobbled my right foot in penance to Funyun-lovers.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    You'd think the author of Misery would know better than to piss off his fans, especially basement-dwelling rednecks.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/12/09

    @Steverino Begins: Caan we believe you said that? Yes we Caan.
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    05/12/09

    @Aaron Altman: Sorry, my wording was deBates-able.


    I just think redneck is the image he was going for. Obviously eating funyuns and having poor basement carpeting doesn't make one a redneck--but it does seem to be the traits of King's classic redneck schlub characters (in his movies at least).


    God, I've seen Misery so many times, you'd think I could make a better Annie Wilkes joke.

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    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    To pirate a quote from Stephen King and direct it now to Stephen King, "Shut ya head, Trout."
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    Image of bayktdin bayktdin
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    My brother let me read his copy of Cujo when I was in Jr. High, was that piracy?
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @bayktdin: Stephen King just called and wanted me to tell you that he thinks you're a moron who lives in refrigerator box and exists on orange circus peanuts.
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @Mama Penguino: hey, dipshit, you forgot your indefinite article!
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    Image of bayktdin bayktdin
    05/12/09

    @Mama Penguino: Are you still pouting about the time I called you out for using a mysognyistic term?


    I like it when you make the homeless feel like more shit by telling other people they are homeless as a way to belittle them.

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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @bayktdin: I was being playful! I don't mind being called out, just so I'm being called.


    @Bob_Mackey: At the library, maybe . . . duh!

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    05/12/09

    @bayktdin: I think it depends on the number of brothers in the family.
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    05/12/09

    @Mama Penguino: Oh, yeah, well I know Penguino, and you're not half the woman he is!
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    Image of Mama Penguino Mama Penguino
    05/12/09

    @Tremonius: *sob*
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    Image of Mutley Mutley
    05/12/09

    In reply to If You Steal His Books, Stephen King Will Mock You
    Perhaps he should write a novel about a pirated story that, once downloaded, causes the readers eyeballs to be slowly eaten inside out. And then the victim is attacked by possessed Funyuns.
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    05/12/09

    @Mutley: Please leave Dostoevsky's minor works out of this.
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