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MrInBetween
03:56 PM

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Can we seal all the Stephen King fans under a dome? Please? That's all what I want for Thanksgiving.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
03:03 PM

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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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Go Like Hell Machine
03:39 PM

@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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TheUptightMidwesterner
04:23 PM

@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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Steverino Begins
02:37 PM

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I'm a big, bright, shining star.
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RollsRoyceRevenge
02:54 PM

@Steverino Begins: Talk to the finger.
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Sir Winston Thriller
02:33 PM

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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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Botswana Meat Commission FC
01:59 PM

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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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RollsRoyceRevenge
02:03 PM

@Botswana Meat Commission FC: Oddly enough, Jack Torrance thought the same two things.
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RollsRoyceRevenge
01:57 PM

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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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Bobby Big Wheel
01:39 PM

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King's just giving us some hair of the dog that bit us.
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seyswho
01:50 PM

@Bobby Big Wheel: Cujo?
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scroll_lock
01:36 PM

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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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Go Like Hell Machine
01:39 PM

@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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scroll_lock
01:40 PM

@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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Lysergic Asset
01:41 PM

@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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scroll_lock
01:47 PM

@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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belltolls
01:50 PM

@scroll_lock: Pennywise?
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scroll_lock
01:54 PM

@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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Lysergic Asset
01:57 PM

@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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belltolls
02:03 PM

@scroll_lock: I know. If he ever did a "best" thing that would be IT.
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BadUncle
02:59 PM

@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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Bunnee
04:34 PM

@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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belltolls
04:45 PM

@Bunnee: Right up there with mimes.
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