Does anyone actually unironically enjoy anything from this retard?

Nope

The Shining by Stanley was great, but that's because of...Stanley.

>Does anyone actually unironically enjoy anything?
ftfy

>philtrum press

>>87509504
I liked Christine.

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>>87509532
This. It says a lot that King hated Kubrick's adaptation.

>>87509504

Pet Semetery, the Stand, Salem's Lot, and a couple entries in the Dark Tower are bookkino. The rest ranges from fun to awful.

>>87509504
His anti-trump speeches at feminist rallies were powerful

Misery was good.

Duma Key's fucking excellent, but nobody cares about post accident books.

Shawshank was a great movie too.
He's hit and miss. Lots of miss on the screen.

Sometimes they come back and Christine were kinda fun movies

>>87509504
No, he's the definitive hack.

>Buy a million scratch cards
>One or two of them are winners

>>87509504
He looks like a character from one of his books. One of the recent books. The recent books that suck.
Because he sucks.
He has a turtle face in that picture.

>>87509607
Isn't the story is he wanted to adapt a book and threw a bunch of books away until he saw he could do something new with the shining

>>87509504

I like his work but what I really love is the endless stream of pure idiocy on his twitter feed. King is a gift that just keeps giving.

>>87509617
I want a new Pet Sematary film. I love how bleak the book is.

he drunken coked up days are pretty solid

I've probably read Long Walk and Running Man a dozen times each

>>87509532
It's pretty much identical to the book, though, outside of the ending.

>>87509725
The Bachman Books are some great shit.

>>87509737
Gee I don't remember the living Topiaries in Kubrick's version.

>>87509504
i find it amazing that the (((media))) is pushing him hard this fall
> betting their kike hopes on IT being a hit. LAMAO
> DUMPH SO EVIL LOL

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>>87509504
I loved the books when I was a child. Not as an adult. Regardless, his writing has inspired some very entertaining film/television. Stand By Me, The Shining, Shawshank Redemption, and Misery are all great. I hated most of the other movies based on King's books when I was younger, but I've grown to love them for their camp. For example, Maximum Overdrive, Lawnmower Man, and Children of the Corn.

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just the first pet cemetary, kujo and the mist only because of thomas jane

>>87509779
That's the only other thing that was changed. It's still virtually identical to the book.

>>87509504
The movies were the directors charged completely the plot and the cast was talented work great.
Stuff like the Shinning, Misery and Shawshank Redemption.

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1408 and Creepshow are couple of my favorites, oh and The Mist.

The Jaunt

>>87509564
Sex

>>87509975
This story fucked me up the first time I read it. Survivor Type did too.

just my 2 cents but I've read a few of his books many years ago. Avoided the famous titles, went for more obscure things out of curiosity. He has a few compilations of short stories that are pretty fun actually. I thought they were much more satisfying than his very long stories. This guy gets hyper verbose with some of his tales, it can get tedious. But when he does a 50 page short it's a fun read mostly. YMMV of course.

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>>87509725
>The Long Walk
So good.

People who aren't sneering elitists enjoy his books. He tells good stories, even though his later books are mostly trash.

>>87509504
Love his books, The Shining and Pet Semetary are the only good movies mad f I'm his books. Needful Things is alright.

Argue otherwise and you will get lit up faggot.

Judging by the IT Shills, the 2017 version is going down in film history as one of the greatest horror movies every produced.

That said, it's actually shit. But I don't blame King for that. Also, Pet Cemetery is awesome.

A lot of his short stories are really good
1408, the mist and that one about the rats living under a mill or w/e come to mind
Also the one where 4 teens on a raft in a lake get attacked by an oil-stain monster
The guy produces a lot of pulp fiction but he puts out some good stuff too

>>87509504
yeah he's better than your average aeroplane novel author

The only book I've enjoyed from him was The Gunslinger and that was more to do with it being short and subdued. I read up the 4th book in the series and stopped because they were becoming bloated messes.

>not enjoying The Green Mile
What the fuck is wrong with you cunts.

>>87510234
I honestly think the movie could take an oscar or two.

Daily reminder that Stephen King has openly condoned unprovoked political violence, so long as it is perpetrated by Democrats.

When Bernie-supporters shut-down Trump's rally in Chicago last year by throwing bricks, beating the shit out of an unarmed woman and calling in a bomb-threat, he justified it by saying Trump, and by proxy his supporters, "deserved it" for having incorrect opinions.

He's literally an ideological authoritarian.

>>87509504
He's rolling on dough while you are posting on an image board. Who's the retard?

>>87509504

I love the Stand, Running Man, The Long Walk. Pet Semetary, The Dark Tower, and Skeleton Crew, but besides that no I really don't enjoy anything from this retard.

>>87510486
Are there any writers that don't have retarded political opinions? It seems like it's a fucking requirement.

Early books were decent.
I really enjoyed the mist

>>87510516

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vudnMLzZjTg

>>87510411
>Also the one where 4 teens on a raft in a lake get attacked by an oil-stain monster
Creepshow 2? That is a classic. Didn't know King wrote that

>>87510541

>Are there any writers that don't have retarded political opinions?

Robert Heinlein.

Everyone else though, yeah, you're pretty much right.

>>87510620
>Robert Heinlein

He's been dead for 30 years you dope, he doesn't have opinions of any kind.

>>87510597
The Raft, yeah. It's from his Skeleton Crew anthology.

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>Opinions vary from hatred to pure love
what do I make of it?

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>>87510708
That different people have different opinions?

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I imagine this scene every time I log into my 4chan account.

>>87510708
Read a few of his books and form your own opinion. Just skip the Tommyknockers. That book is utter shit.

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We all float down here.
HONK HONK

>>87510328
This, hes not /lit/ but he can tell a story that sticks in your head.

>>87510541
Social media really has revealed a lot of dingbats whose work I otherwise enjoy

>>87509504
he just produces a lot of mediocre shit, but I do actually like at least some of his books

>>87510732
But is it worth my time?

>>87510708
>hatred
None of these are real opinions, just political whining by /pol/ justice warriors. Whenever you see mentally ill people here screeching about someone you're safe to bet your life that they tweeted something offensive to conservative SJWs

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I'd love to see a scary Salem's Lot, but like most SK it'd have to be set pre-cell phone.
Pic related is my favorite and should have been made instead of the Dark Tower

>>87510749
>tfw never watched original
>watched 2017 version only
Old looks not nearly as creepy, just some sad dude in make up.

>>87510821
I fucking love the Talisman. Black House was pretty good too. I was pretty sad when that TNT adaptation went nowhere.

>>87510746
>That book is utter shit.
Why? A friend of mine really pushed it on me and I still managed to like it.

>>87510778
I guess? I don't know what you like. I like Stephen King's work so I'll recommended it. But I have no guarantee it'll be "worth your time".

>>87510746
Fuck you I liked it

>>87510813
butthurt SJW cuck detected

>>87509504
CREEPSHOW IS A MASTERPIECE!!!FACT!!!

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>>87511011

>>87510486

Inb4 some legitimate shill for Antifa starts posting smug, illiterate writing about how this attitude is correct and the "u mad alt-right???" shit.

>>87510813

>None of these are real opinions, just political whining by /pol/ justice warriors.

Funny how I don't see that ITT.

/pol/ is apparently living rent-free inside your head with your consent and support.

>>87511161
Goddamn I fucking hate Papyrus font so much.
James Cameron a shit, and so is Avatar.

>>87510823
New IT sucks

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>>87510823

>>87509737

The story isn't anything great.

Directing and acting made it great.

>>87512155
Yes, it is. Horror movies will never beat horror stories. It's a fundamental advantage of the medium.

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>read the Dark Tower series because /tv/ recommended it
>it's fucking shit by the third book

>>87509504
Yeah. Stand By Me, Shawshank Redemption, The Shining, and IT were all top tier. The Mist and Carrie were p. good as well.

I think his basic premises for stories is almost always pretty creative and a good concept, but his execution is almost always lackluster and without a doubt guaranteed to be bloated. I admire his ability seemingly always be writing, there is no question the man has a good work ethic, but his works can be stacked into a skyscraper by now and only a few are actually great from start to finish.

It has been a long time since I've read anything by him, I was considering reading Mr. Mercedes but it's pretty low on my to-do list. I remember really enjoying Misery and The Long Walk and I think that's partially because, as far as a King book goes, they were pretty concise. I remember liking the massacre beginning in The Gunslinger but not enough to finish the book and likely never will. As I've read somewhere else it seems like some of his books he is paid by the word, long ones like IT and The Stand are ultimately hardly worth the effort and time.

I think his strength is in setting a scene and being pretty subtle about helping your mind picture everything. It seems effortless to him. Everything else, though, not the biggest fan I guess.

>>87509504
all of king's works have a comfy aspect
that's why ppl like him

>>87509504
I actually liked the 1st book of the Dark Tower and the last page of the last book.

>>87512792
Mr. Mercedes is shit.

>>87509504
it's like anime. you gotta pick and choose the decent parts from the main shit, that sounds like a good idea but isn't fun to read/watch. gundam is the anime i am thinking about

>>87509598
why is christine so underrated

>>87512829
Actually "shit" or just not his best? I torrented it a while ago and if I ever get around to reading it, it won't be for a long, long time, but if you can tell me why it's literal trash I will probably skip it.

>>87509725
of all his books i read running man last because i didn't think it could top the movie but its some good shit same with long walk good taste anon

Some of his books are alright, although almost all of them could have some 200 pages cut and that'd only improve them.

Some of his adaptions are kino as well.

>>87509723
the film is bleak as hell too. CGI Zelda would just be shit.

>>87509671
He has a ton of books that are great. You're talking bollocks. I'd say one of his strengths is the way he goes about fleshing out characters.

>>87512792

Both IT and the Stand are good actually although the former's ending isn't that hot. I thought the stand was going to be a chore but strangely not

>>87509737
>Jack is the main character in the book

>>87509683
But isn't he turtley enough for the turtle club?

>>87510541
>>87510659
Dan Simmons. His novel FLASHBACK states over and over that Islam is a mind-virus that has infected 2 billion people and that nukes are an appropriate measure to deal with them.

>>87513085
>ending isn't that hot
all of king's endings are shit. dude can't write an ending to save his life. the ending of THE STAND was absolutely retarded. it's like he had no idea what to do, looked up deus ex machina and decided to have God show up to save the day because LOL.

>>87513085
I'd kind of agree on The Stand thinking about it now, I was mainly disappointed with the time I put into it because of its ending. It just started off with such a bang and simmered and by the end was flat (well except for one moment, obviously), though I suppose that's the nature of a story where 99.8% of people die. Can't be a thrill ride the whole time.
But IT was just lame to me. I was 15 when I read it so maybe I was too stupid to really appreciate it, but I just remembered going into it thinking "This is THE iconic horror novel" and excited to be terrified page after page, but that ending was even worse than The Stand's and by a giant margin. I mostly found it just bizarre and nothing scared me. It must have been an editing nightmare because I'm sure he was told it was far too long and what we have is a shortened version which is still begging for a trim.

>>87513116
It's split pretty evenly between Jack and Danny. But that's just perspective stuff, which isn't really covered in a movie without a running internal monologue. The events of the movie and book are pretty much the same save a scene or two and the ending.

>>87513181
King said he had major writer's block while working on the Stand. That's why he kills off half the cast half way through. He was trying to shake things up so he could keep writing.

>>87513181
>But IT was just lame to me. I was 15 when I read it
the best age to read IT is when you're the same age as the kids, so 12-13.

>>87513181
you can talk shit about King but IT is a masterpiece

The Shawshank Redemption, but it had been really rewritten and changed from King's original.

>>87509504
The Stand is pretty fucking good

>>87513323
>muh wise magical negro woman
the trope wasnt as problematic 30 years ago when he wrote it but people will go BERSERK when it isnt changed for the new film(s)

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>>87510541

This writer started the "Sad Puppies" group of science fiction writers, to fight the SJW takeover of the Hugo awards.

>>87509779
Neat can you give any evidence that you've read the book? Sounds like the only thing you know about the novel is through the NC review of a tv miniseries adaptation.

His short stories are great. His novelettes are really good (some are GOAT like The Breathing Method and The Body). His books are pretty good (muh endings meme aside. I like his endings). His book series/sequels are okay.

His plotted books are a lot better than his seat-of-the-pants one, even if they don't *feel* as good to him. The Dead Zone and Rose Madder were plotted, for example. Rose Madder is so underated. It's a great book.

>>87510620
Heinlein was an authoritarian retard

>>87509504
>likes Chris Nolan
>hates Stephen King
What did /teevee/ mean by this?

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I read the first “Dark Tower” book. It was garbage. The plot was a mystery, but it wasn’t a mystery novel. The characters knew what was going on. King just left the reader completely in the dark until the very end. For all I knew, the Gunslinger was a stalker planning to ass rape the Man in Black. By the time the plot was revealed, I had stopped caring. Then the bullshit nonsensical ending that felt like the end of a Lost episode. To be continued, my ass. People have terrible taste for liking that mess.

>>87513671
You're so cool, Brewster!

>>87513555
He was asking for writers who DIDN'T have retarded political opinions, not yet another example of it.

>>87509504
literally look at his weird mouth

>>87510541
None within the last 5-7 years. Most of us have to self-publish because all the agents are SJW Jews in NY who will check your posts from Facebook and Twitter. No MAGA allowed.

>>87513738
Liberals are garbage humans, mate.

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>>87513738

So you are one of (((them))).

>>87509504
I do like King yes. I will never read his recent books however since he stopped writing about horror. I guess you could say I am a horror fan not a King fan. Can you recommend me any other horror authors. I know King himself has recommended Nick Cutter. I do have a couple of Cutter's books waiting to be read.

>tfw I unironically loved The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Bag of Bones, Rose Madder and The Dark Half

Stephen King is a legend, show some fucking respect.

>>87513792
Recent or are older recs okay?
I haven't read anything horror past 2003, I think.

Fuck this hack. His style and narration is absolutely atrocious. People only like him because he tells wacky stories but an author, he is not.

>>87513819
i refuse

>>87513819
B-but our parents and grandparents liked him!!
He MUST be shit!

>>87513848
As long as it's written post World War II I think whatever you are willing to recommend is fine. I would go further back if I wasn't confused by archaic English.

>>87513862
>>87513862
Autism/YA Speaks.

https://enotez.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dark-tales.pdf

Read:

That Feeling, You Can Only Say
What It Is in French

I liked 11.22.63, especially the tv series

>>87513956
Really? I've never read it does the adaptation not suffer from being an adaptation? Usually adaptations are missing King's signature edginess that nu-4chan hates.

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>>87513862
>but an author, he is not.

Strange he knows how to tell an engaging story that sticks with you. Thats the job isn't it, to entertain, leave something behind to ponder? How is he not a author, asking as a man who works with his hands but loves to read.

>>87513885
The Journal of Edwin Underhill by Peter Tonkin (pretty much the only vampire book I liked beside Carmilla)
Sacrifice by John Farris
Intensity by Dean Koontz (I usually don't like Koontz that much, he's not a very good author imho, but Intensity is a really good book)
Flights of Fear by Graham Masterton (short stories collection)

>>87513994
It does suffer a bit, it's different right from the start - but it was very well made imo. I liked Franco and Gadon, they pulled off that 60s vibe really well. The ending is a bit different too, but that doesn't make it any worse!

The book was also very long, too much filler in some points. They did a good job of capturing the essential

the langoliers is the best thing ever wrote
the miniseries is the best adaptation

11-22-63 was idiocy

And it was plagiarized wholesale from a little-known Twilight Zone episode called "Back There" starring Russell Johnson (Gilligan's Island professor) trying to save Lincoln from assassination.

>>87509802
That's because his writing can only appeal to teenagers, that's true. He MAYBE has five works (all of which are short stories) that are readable to me now, and I used to like King when I was around fifteen.

>>87513671
Agree but read book 2 it's one of his best, book 3s decent to the rest are meh

>>87513996
Yeah, back when he was doing drugs. He hasn't written one good story in over 27 years.

The Long Walk is brilliant

>>87513738
>being anti-sjw is a retarded political opinion
Consider my almonds activated.

I enjoyed the dark tower series but I also was in middle school at the time

>>87509504
I liked the mist movie
but only because of it´s creature design so he can´t have much to do with that

the dead zone

>>87509993
Can't enjoy what I don't get

>>87509504
I like everything he writes

I liked pet sematary

The Stand, The Long Walk, Under The Dome, 11/22/63 are books that he wrote that I enjoyed.

but i don't consider him a good writer from a technical standpoint

>>87509564
being alone

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>>87509504
He's a hack writer, but many good films come from shit books.

Stephen King wrote a thousand best-selling books while drunk and coked out. That's a fucking man right there.

>>87514288
Lot's of authors do that. Lovecraft, Stoker, etc. almost all their stories were 'fanfics' of earlier authors. It's part of the process of becoming an author. Some of them never get over that though.

>>87514856
If you faggots are trying to admonish drugs you are failing hahaha know what I mean?

You fake human beings if you read the book the sewer scene isn't disturbing at all. I'm not moved by racism but it's more disturbing on top of the junkyard blowie and the leper blowie than Le Sewer Scene which was written as pure friendship love. "Think of the birds" WOW real freaky!!!!!

>>87514830
This

>>87509504
>Secret Window
>Shawshank Redemption
>It
>Pet Sematary 1
>Pet Sematary 2
>1408
>The Shining
>Creepshow
>Creepshow 2
>Stand by Me
>The Dead Zone
>Cat's Eye
>The Running Man
>Sometimes They Come Back
>Children of the Corn
>Dreamcatcher

If you don't like any of those you're an absolute pleb

>>87509725
>Misery
>Shawshank
>Stand by Me
He has hits and misses, though his hits could be counted on one hand. Still waiting on a faithful NC-17 adaptation of The Apt Pupil

>>87515361
Meant to post to OP

>>87509504
Iliked Dark Tower series up to book 3 or 4. Leter it turned to shit so bad it was painful to read. Also Under the Dome was pretty decent. Problem with this faggot is that for some reason most of his books reads like some kind of a low effort fan fiction.

No OP, his millions of readers spend money and time on his books entirely out of irony. You're the hyper-intelligent renegade willing to take the risk to point this fact out. You probably have a wicked sense of humour too.

Every dollar he's earned has been a joke on him, when he flies to his various houses he cries knowing that those millions were only given to him 'for a laugh', and that all his film deals, awards and interviews were just people pranking him.

>>>/lit/

>>87509504
I really liked It and Insomnia and lots of his books as a teenager. Almost all the adaptations are shit though.

>>87509532
The Shining is pretty bad for a horror film.

Why do we like Kubrick's Shining exactly? Be specific don't vaguely pretend any of the horror is subtle.

>>87509504
I liked the Buick one where a bunch of small-town cops try to apply regular police procedures to detain and comprehend a dimensional wormhole in the shape of a car and the absurdity slowly begins o drive some of them nuts. "I missed the dog and hit the woman" was also a pretty powerful line.

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He was good in Creepshow.

>>87515545
He made the story better and more realistic, for example, in the book, Wendy is an alpha woman, it wouldn't have sense that she takes Jack's temperament, in the movie, Wendy is a beta woman, taking Jack's temperament makes much more sense

>>87509779
>Stanley Kubrick decided that having the hedge animals come alive (as they do in the book) was unworkable due to restrictions in special effects, so he opted for a hedge maze instead.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081505/trivia?ref_=tt_trv_trv

>>87509504
he writes so much some of it has to be good just by weight of numbers.

I liked IT, the first 2 books of he Dark Tower, some of the short stories in Sunset made me loose sleep (i like most of his shortstories desu), Salems Lot, and the Kennedy one.

there are some others you can like without being objectively wrong.

>>87511242
>>87510486
I mean he's not wrong though, Trump supporters could barely be categorised as sub-human.

>>87515795
Which was way better, it would have been hilarious (like the shitty miniseries [really, what's King's fetish with miniseries?])

>>87510689
underrated

>>87515970
>Which was way better
For the movie. It worked fine in the book because there's no technology limitations.

>>87509504
does he have fetal alcohol syndrome?

>>87511293
>rent free
Yep, fits the profile. A good deal of them are on the dole.

>>87516002
How are trees going to hurt you though?

>>87509504

His only good novel is Pet Sematary and he stole it largely from Lovecraft's Re-Animator. Some of his short stories are solid but otherwise hes a hack.

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>>87516061

>>87516082
The asshole's fault, not the tree's

>>87516061
Dear god, we're discussing things with it's one of those kids who grew up with an iphone and never played outdoors.

>>87516117
I grew up outside, I showered in the rain, tree leafs were my salad, what are you talking about, anon?

>>87516148
I'm telling you to look out for the trees, George.

>>87516235
I already did, they haven't hurted me yet

>>87510746
I unironically purchased and read all of his books but couldn't manage to get past a hundred pages of tommyknockers.

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>>87509504
the day somebody adapts this is the day when the pigs will fly

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>>87510620
>Robert Heinlein.

>>87512792
>I think his basic premises for stories is almost always pretty creative and a good concept,
>Writer with substance abuses problems fucks around in Maine.

Pretty much 50% of his leads right there

>>87509504
I read some of his books when i was in my teens. All were shit.

>>87512902

Not him but Mr Mercedes was OK. Just pretend the sequels didn't happen. Those are complete trash

>>87515630
METEOR SHIIIIIIIIT!

>>87509504
The books Dark Tower 1-4 are salvageable. The Gunsliger (first book) is actually A R T but that's because he was 17 writing a pulp novel for a magazine. He was trying his ass off. Everything after that is various degrees of hack. The second he lost his notes on Dark Tower we got book 4 (based off what he could remember) and then the rest of the series (free style austitic self insert fan fiction).

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>>87516061

>>87516746
Jesus fuck, that asshole doesn't even sell it anymore.

>>87510541
Varg Vikernes.

>>87510708
>opinions either say he's completely shit or there are a few stand outs
The take away is that he's a fucking hack but he's got a lot of varied and unusual topics so you might find one of them uniquely trivial purely because he has done it and no one with talent has shown up to write it again but better.

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>>87509504
go to bed Donald

>>87512632
Stephen literally lost his notes. Accept The Gunslinger as a stand alone story, which is how it was intended. He wrote it was a pulp novel.

>>87512632
wizard and glass is the only good one

>>87512632
>>87516991
the first book is shit, it gets better not worse.

>>87512902
it's OK but horribly clicheed as far as the psycho is concerned.

>>87509504
I just finished watching The Mist, should I read the novel?

>>87515361
>a faithful NC-17 adaptation of The Apt Pupil
I'm sure Singer filmed plenty of hardcore gay sex scenes for his private use

>>87509504
a hack writer who happened to get lucky thats all.

>>87517062
I've seen some bad opinions in this thread but yours is actually offensive. The last few gunslinger books are borderline unreadable. They are filled with character assassination, pointless tangents, unfulfilling conclusions, self insert fantasies and a jarring shift in tone.
>susan becomes the main character
>better gunslinger than the guy who learned under Roland
>super special bango skank Mary-sue psychic
>special mary-sue multiple personality
>muh racism and shiet
>talks shit to Roland as the voice of reason
>gets a happy end (which is fine in and of itself) only to punctuate that Roland's suffering is 'his fault'
FUCKING AWFUL

>>87517142
I really should have said I haven't finished the series, I'm only up to the Wizard and the Glass which was solid. I'm standing by my opinion as far as I've read.

In terms of movies, I love Stand By Me. Shawshank and The Shining are great too.

>>87517104
Sorry your boo couldn't attract the masses to read his book kino

>>87517198
Get ready for absolute ruination. It's fucking AWFUL. The only good bit is the -secret- ending. The 'good end' is awful and Stephen is a hack for even imagining that anyone would think that was satisfying for anyone.
Even with how far through the series you are, I have to let you know that you're already wrong. The first book is A R T. 2-4 are good. Key hold is A R T. The rest is shit smushed inside a paperback.

>he shit talked Drumpf now I hate him!
seriously? you faggots used to circlejerk over his books all the time.

>>87509504
Standard three characters in everything King has written:

Artist/writer/creator
Hilariously stereotypical religious nut
Kid/naive person who acts like a child

Every
Fucking
Story

>>87517068
the villain is basically a /b/tard

>>87513612
Are you actually retarded or are you so willfully ignorant that ou think he only wrote starship troopers and that was it?

>>87517304
I'm not sure how to describe it but the first book felt too empty. It suited a dying world but none of the characters seemed to care about anything beyond living a bare existence so I couldn't get emotionally invested in them at all. Even Roland's quest seemed like something he was doing because he didn't have anything better going on. It was probably all intentional, and it did feel very much like a Western, but I wasn't pulled in by it.

>>87516896
That seems more realistic than the shit animal trees in The Shining book

>>87509635
Second

IT is my favorite book of all time and his writing style really suits that particular story, I loved the history of Derry and the interweaving from the 80's and the 50's

I enjoyed the dark tower when i was an edgy teenager, i remember reading it at school in between classes.
I forgot most of it but i still have fond memories of the whole thing.

>>87509644
Yea it's a shame. Duma Key was a solid ghost story that actually wasn't total shit, like most of King's post accident work.

>>87517544
>all that stuff about book 1
Exactly. It was a bleak and atmospheric journey. If that's not for you then fine but it did what it intended to do excellently.
You seem to have some REALLY weird taste but I'll ask you this: do you like all the modern urban stuff? If you do you MIGHT like the last book. If you like any level of fantasy or mystique from the series then Beyond the Keyhole is the last good instalment in the series.

>>87517353
does this apply to the green mile?
I agree with the artist one tho, I think he self inserts himself in his stories because his every day life is probably fucking boring.
Come to think it's escapism but he actually makes bank with it, it's genius.

I love the vastness King creates in his book.
My favorite example is The Stand. For the life of me, I cannot even remember the names of the main characters aside from Flagg. But there are a few pages in the book that describes a bunch of other character who survived the plague but died afterwards each in his own way. That's my favorite part of the book.

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>>87509504
Shining is only good because of Kubrick like others have said. If you stumble upon a movie based on his books that is actually decent, it's 100% the responsibility of the directors and screenwriters who managed to turn a turd into a diamond. All of the people who willed this Herculean task into fruition should get a special Oscar for the effort alone.

Stephen is a progressive liberal pedophile and, as it's written for most part, his work inherits his deviations and mental ailments.

He's a hack of the highest order, the pedo version of Paulo Coelho of the US and deserves nothing but scorn and the general disgust of the public. Knowing him, though, that might probably turn him on.

>>87517721
>do you like all the modern urban stuff?
nah not particularly. Honestly I'd struggle to pin down what I do like about the series, but there's something there that keeps me reading. Hopefully I don't hate it too much.

>>87509644

It was>>87509802
great until the fight to the death with the 2-inch standing doll. I also really liked Lisey's Story, but apparently I'm the only one.

>>87518365
>don't like the urban stuff
Good luck, pal. Just remember. When it's all over and you're angry you bothered to invest the time and emotion in it, there's still Through the Keyhole and it's just as good as books 1-3. It's the pallet cleanser that all long time readers deserved.

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>>87509504

if you enjoy anything from king you need to kill yourself and never breed. you have an iq under 100 and the human race does not need anymore of your kind.

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>>87509504
11.22.63 was great, both book and show

>>87518767
I like exactly two of his works, think he's a hack and have an IQ of 119. Do I still need to be kept from breeding?

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>>87509598
>tfw no possesed regenerating murderous psicopath haunted qt car gf

Pain

>>87518767
>having an average IQ is bad

did your mother spank you when you were a child?

>>87509504
Maximum Overdrive is trash-kino

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>>87519688

King that i've read:

>The Stand - One of my legit fave books despite it's flaws
>The Shining - Good but the movie is better
>It - Really good but could have done with a lot of trimming
>Different Seasons - Pretty good. Particularly Shawshank and Apt Pupil
>The Gunslinger - Really liked it
>The Drawing of the Three - Not as good as the first but still enjoyed it
>The Waste Lands - Struggled to get through it
>Wizards and Glass - Gave up on it

Where to next lads?

>>87519877
Stop there, you're the winner. Especially given you stopped at Wizards and Glass. If you want some Gunslinger in the tone off the first three read Through the Keyhole. Otherwise, give up on that hack.

>>87509504
Maybe you haven't been trained to read Stephen King since a young age

>>87519737
>the higher the education level
>the higher the IQ

... whoa...

>>87520107
That's not how IQ works, bruv.

>>87520186
It absolutely influences it. Don't be a moron.

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>>87509532

stephen king would be nothing without jack nicholsons performance in the shining

>>87510813
>/pol/ justice warriors
>'n-no u!'

>>87513818
we need a Tom Gordon movie, with Millie Bobby Brown.
I want to see her shit out diarrhea from her little butthole in the middle of a swamp!

>>87512853
Gundam is trash

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>>87519716
Ironically the thing King is most ashamed of is one his best works. For what it is, that movie is great. Never understood the hatred.

>>87520407
that is by far the most retarded celebrity quote regarding the Trump presidency. really? fucking haiti? why not somewhere that isn't a total shit hole?

>>87516933
I sincerely hope you're trolling. Dude's a complete fucking degenerate coward who espouses paganism and murdered his own bandmate and friend. Fuck that nordicist piece of shit, he discredits the entire anti-immigration nationalist movement with his retarded bullshit.

>>87519737
>social scientists that high

Almost fell for the bait. Good job.. It's subtle

>>87509504
he looks like a pedofphile

I like him

But he's not alt right so based kekistani José forbids me to speak of him

Shadilay

>>87521629

Probably is. There's a part in the IT book where a little girl has sex with the group of boys

>>87521315
>Paganism
>Bad
t. follower of some hebrew religion

Once he described his work as high trash which is a fair thing to judge it by

>some celebrity criticizes whatever daddy darling the alt-right is currently throating
>/pol/ tantrums
So predictable, lads.

>>87509504
His short story books are genuinely really good. Some of his well known books got the reputation they do for good reasons and the Stand is great. Some movie adaptations are kino. Other than that, no he's just got lucky that him being black out drunk or high on cocaine years ago had interesting ideas.

>>87519877
>>87519938
Nah he's gotta at least read Night Shift and Skeleton Crew. The Dead Zone as quality, too. Stop right there though

A direct adaptation of Running Man would be great. I can pretty much imagine the finale. After flipping the bird last time and the plane crash, the audience would just see the smoking and burning tower in the horizon filling the city with smoke and debris: "... and it rained fire twenty blocks away."

You just hear the 9/11 ambience as people scream and scatter away. The scene fades to black and the credits roll without any music.

Nothing against the Arnie Running Man, it's cheesy 80s fun but yeah, we need a proper version.

>>87509635
Watching this now, it's a bit different from the books just from the start

>>87510384
Speak in English you shitskin mong

>>87522463
>
can i get a rundown on the rnning man
never read it

>>87510384

> Cemetery

It's Sematary

>>87512786
'greed

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pic related, great fucking movie

inb4 conformist

>>87515723
I'm only about 100 pages deep into the book and this sounds dead wrong.

>>87509504
Sure. Shawshank, Carrie, Misery, Pet Cemetery, Green Mile, Apt Pupil, etc

>>87519877
Misery

the dead zone

>>87509504


He has some good stuff, but has put out way more shit.

>>87509504
He has good ideas, masturbates to those ideas through his writing until he realizes he can't keep writing forever and I guess hands his endings off for some random idiot in the street to finish resulting is garbage

His best work are his less serious short stories, Lawnmower Man, the Tiger in the boy's bathroom, lake monster and the Boogeyman are all fun reads.

>>87515962
every side thinks that about people they disagree with

>>87516977
King is a carnival man, entertainer and buffoon. What a hypocrite

>>87515962
Youre a faggot. Kys

>>87516902
Isn't it something his publisher sells in a compilation of stories?

>>87516896
I really hate that retard Raimi for apologizing for this scene. It's really hot and one of the reasons his dumb Evil Dead series is so popular in the first place.

>>87517305
Yup. nu-4chan cringes at King also for being "too edgy" I want off this ride.

>>87518767
I guess your favorite director Kubrick needs to kill himself. ;)

>>87509504

His short stories are the best. His novels tend to shit the bed more often than not.

>>87519877
The Long Walk
Needful Things
Desperation
The Dead Zone

I...I didn't know so many movies I like were written by him...

hes a cuck

No talent libshit.

>>87529387
he is too edgy.. most of his shit is cringy as fuck

>>87509504
4chan would love him if he was a conservative republican

>>87524434
I just remembered I still can't spell cemetery.

>>87509504
I liked some of his short stories but I think he's extremely overrated. He's like the male J.K Rowling, only difference is Rowling doesn't take up 20 pages for useless back stories on secondary characters like King does and she also does self insert like he does.

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>for years all sorts of people called King a racist
>now racists hate him

>>87509504
only normies and the mentally disabled

>>87529990
You'd have to be a fucking idiot to call King a racist. The guy goes out of his way to point out racism in his novels.

That blows my mind people actually called him racist.

>>87530124
In a Sophia Lillis thread some fag whined about King saying nigger with his narrator voice in The Stand. That's the ilk that posts here now.

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>>87509504
Damn i love the King. It's all about the way he writes, because when my brother asked me how the kids "killed this spider", when i told him one of them used his inhaler pretending it was acid he said "uh" with a "what a shitty book" look on his face.

But again, it's all about the way he writes. That's the charm imo.

>>87509504
>GO FLOAT YOURSELF
If this elderly lesbian had a heart attack I'd laugh

>>87517353
that's not true at all

>>87531020
Can you explain to me what's wrong with telling the POTUS to kill himself? It's not like Ron Paul got elected.

>>87530295
yes, I'm sure that was totally a sincere post friendo
enjoying your first day on the 'chan? :^)

>>87509504
His tears every time trump does anything.

whats his best book?

>>87509504
I started reading King's books around 13, whenmy mom bought Salem's Lot. I liked it, so I kept reading his books, as they came out. It became just a habit - he'd release a book a year at least, so I'd get it for xmas or birthday.

Then, in my 20's, I discovered I'd outgrown him, because i'd discovered better authors. And, i discovered, horror really isn't my genre. (I started reading Richard Straub...now there's a guy that can fucking write. Ghost Story and Shadowlands blows anything King ever did out of the water)

I have pleasant memories of reading his books, but I can't reread them now. Most of them, after The Stand were just bland potboilers that he just cranked out at will. I gave up for good with Insomnia, that one just dragged on and on and on and on...

>>87509504
Yes, he writeum good bookum. Some bad bookum too but since he's so prolific that's to be expected, but mostly good bookum.

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>>87509504
Maximum Overdrive is one of my most watched movies of all time. I love that movie.

>>87531170
it'd be nice if people were unbiased. No one said for Obama to kill himself until now

>>87534060
>praise Peter Straub
>can't get his name right
Dude's a great author, but he can't have made that much of an impression on you.

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>>87534106
It really is bitter sweet

>>87510541
>Are there any writers that don't have retarded political opinions?
Mark Helprin, one of my favorite authors:

Mark Helprin (born June 28, 1947) is an American novelist, journalist, conservative commentator, Senior Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. While Helprin's fictional works straddle a number of disparate genres and styles, he has stated that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend".[1]
(I dimly recall he was unofficially involved with Bush's "1000 points of light" speech.)
His writing is amazing. There are passages in A Winter's Tale that are some of the best writing I've ever encountered. His books are fantastic - Soldier Of The Great War, Refiner's Fire, Notes From an Antproof Case, Freddy and Fedricka. His books don't have a conservative slant, necessarily, but his politics are definitely right. I don't even agree with him, politically, all of the time - but he can write like a motherfucker.

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Whats up 8 year old anon??
SORRY YOUR PARENTS LET YOU WATCH THIS FILM! HERE WE ARE DESTROYING YOUR CHILDHOOD

>>87510821
Talisman would have to be a tv series, it's too long for a movie. And yes, it's a great book, but because Straub helped write it. Straub is a fantastic author - King fans, sadly rarely look into his other books, I know a lot of people who have read Talisman, but have never read Ghost Story, or Floating Dragon, or Shadowlands, Straub's best books.

>/lit/ still circlejerking over this little boy rapist

Get the fuck out and take a shower you disgusting subhumans.

>>87513612
Heinlein was a Libertarian, fuckhead. He wrote about it at length. The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress is all about Libertarianism.

>>87534512
>>/lit/ still circlejerking over this little boy rapist
...what

>>87514872
Really? Who exactly were Lovecraft and Stoker copying in their work? C'mon, you ran your mouth, back it up.

But, wait - you can't, because you don't know shit. Stoker literally invented the modern vampire with Dracula, and it wasn't based on anything - he took scraps of mythology from eastern europe.

Lovecraft invented a genre. Nobody wrote about what he did, because he fucking invented it all. He was influenced by Poe, but he wasn't writing fucking fanfiction.
Stop talking about writing. You don't know shit about it, and you're just barfing stuff you read elsewhere but don't really understand onto the page. You named two of the most influential, iconic and original authors as fanfic writers? Get the fuck out of here, you dumb fucking cunt. Just leave. Don't come back.

>>87517084
It wasn't a novel, it was a short story, and it has nothing to do with the movie. The short story is excellent, but if you're expecting the movie, you'll be disapointed.

>>87534945
*novella

>>87534441
The Koko/Mystery/The Throat trilogy was some interesting shit.

Lovecraft is and has always been better than this fuckhead.

>>87518949
/o/ dream

>>87535008
They were good, but not his best. Ghost Story is his best - that book is fucking amazing. The movie tried. It really did. It tried hard, and it's a good movie, but the book is just a classic.
Shadowlands is my favorite book, and I think it would make a fantastic movie, if done right.

>>87535008
Did you read the Blue Rose short story? The only Straub story more disturbing that is The Juniper Tree.

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The skeleton crew is pretty much all his good shit in one book
>a murderous chad who cucks beta's
>the mist
>jaunt
>the story about the witch grandma
>the cursed monkey
then again, i'm not some thin skinned right wing beta who gets triggered by every left wing micro aggression

>>87535266
Bunny Is Good Bread is one of the biggest mind fucks ever written.

>>87535364
which collection is that in?

>>87535466
The Juniper Tree.