Ayuh, he's a fine example of Americana. Don't nobody else got the balls to say nigger several times a book for no good reason. Speaks to me and my chambray shirts, he does.Ayuh, s'good author.
>>25160433TRUUUUMP TRUMP TRUMP TRUUUUUMP TACO! HAHA
>>25160433>say nigger several times a book How has he not been cancelled? Do marxusts not read?
>>25160433it's a toss up between him and colbert who's the larger leftist cuck.
>>25161174that's a picture of stephen king, not faulkner
His library is pretty low IQ
>>25160433He is so brave...
>>25161174>do marxists not readThey mostly read contemporary pop psych and girl fiction. Hardcore marxists might read contemporary pop history like Jakarta Method
Who's the right wing version of King? Is there an author who vice signals as obnoxiously as King virtue signals?
>>25162220Nick Land
>>25160433I do, but only because I don't believe in censorship, not because I'm based. Surprised nobody has been talking about Lauren Ashley Mastrosa being convicted for her cringy abdl book. It sets a dangerous precedent. Now you can get prison time for writing edgy shit. That's bad.
>>25162219I've known several women who read that book and they were all progressive liberal bernie types
>>25160433Has this guy ever decided to slow down and write something decent for a change? He looks like a denizen of Whoville by the way.
>>25160433Did you all know that Gunslinger and dinner plate rhyme?
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>>25162995I've left this picture open for ten minutes and it's still loading
>>25162972Kek
>>25162972>shelves are 100% slop Never.
>>25160433Everyone said nigger back in the 70s. Now King pretends like he's Mr. Innocent, racking up good boy points on Twitter. He's a giant pussy.
>>25163189This comment inspired me to look at his shelf. Holy shit.
>>2516318999% slop, 1% baseballs
>>25160433Boy if he stands with Ukraine so much maybe he should go over and fight with themThese fuckers literally destroyed the Ukraine. Because they wanted their dumb gay marvel movie narrative.
His books are like fast food meal: OK if you just want a quick fix, but they're nothing of substance>>25161174The biggest Marxist I know is also one of the biggest King fans.I'm still trying to make sense.
>>25160433I finished Salem's Lot and it was alright, I'm starting 11/22/63 and honestly it's way more enjoyable than the vampire book
I've read everything he's ever published publicly. AMA
>>25166100What's his most underrated work?What's his most disturbing concept?When did his talent peak?What's his best scene?
>>25166103>(...)Underrated, probably Hearts in Atlantis Most disturbing concept, Pennywise. Pennywise is really an analogy for pedophilia. Actual pedo shit not ehebe shit. It's not even that hidden.His peak was in the late 70s, early 80s, but some of his later stuff holds up. They're almost all short storiesBest scene is from the Shining: Room 217. Alternatively, the Zelda stuff from Pet Semetary
>>25166111Interesting answers. For me, the Jaunt is the scariest concept, but Pennywise would probably number two or three. What do you think he "forgot" that lead to his decline from his peak?
>>25166118I'm not sure. He needs an editor to tell him no, though. Tommyknockers had an interesting premise but it was a slog from beginning to the end LONGER THAN YOU THINK, DAD! LONGER THAN YOU THINK!
>>25166100Favorite Dark Tower book?
>>25166137The Drawing of the Three. Yours? Wolves of the Calla is up there
>>25166123kek
>>251661501, 2 or 5 for me
>>25166123I agree. Though, to his credit, it's kind of annoying how fun his "sloggy" section is can be. The Uncut Stand was half a million words, yet I love it partly for its sheer audacious length. The man was born to tell stories.
>>25166100Favorite King movie adaptations? I can only remember Misery and The Shining as standing out.
>>25166103NAYRT but The Long Walk is his most underrated, or it was until they made the movie at least.>>25166111>Pennywise is really an analogy for pedophilia.Then why is he defeated by an act of pedophilia?
>>25166188NTA but King's point is that pedo shit is inherently self-destructive.
>>25166195That doesn't seem to fully explain why the children have a gangbang in the sewers.
>>25166200It causes them to bond together, basically,, which helps them defeat Pennywise later. They're fighting pedo fire with pedo fire.
>>25166160The unabridged Stand is better then the original imo by a country mile
>>25166166Shawshank Redemption is probably the most accurate. The Shining is probably the scariest. I like the IT movies ok but they could have done a better job I think. This might catch me some flack but IT does not hold up well soon upon rereading. 1408 was decent. The Mist was done well. In the movie Cujo, the kid lives at the end but I think they should have went with the book ending. Kids are a fungible resource. The original Children of the Corn has some eerie vibes when the couple is in the abandoned town. CotC creeped me out as a kid. Apt pupil in no way captures just how unhinged the story is but it's ok to good in parts. The Dead Zone is excellent imo. I think it holds up well. Hearts in Atlantis was not a great adaptation but it does capture a bit of the melancholy of the book so it's special to me. If you think Stand By Me was good, you should read the story it's based on (The Body.) Lardass' pie eating story is something else. Twelve year old me could relate. I wasn't big but I was bullied a lot. Turns out I can fight like a demon but at the time, I hated violence. I've hurt a lot of people. Silver Bullet is great. The book is awesome, illustrated by BERNIE WRIGHTSON. I always thought his stuff was amazing.
>>25166200The cope I've seen from him is usually "it was on Coke, and it's just a work of fiction anyway, it's not that deep"
>>25166188That's not what defeated him and it was only done to cement their memories-and it worked. I don't know if kid on kid action is pedophilia but I'm interested in why you think so. Do you often think about kids having sex? How many times a day, 1,2,3 times a day? More? How long have you been having these thoughts of kids having sex? Anything you want to tell us?
>>25166200It's not a fucking gangbang. You're just repeating memes on what you've heard about it, not the truth. Fucking bad faith argument and you're a faggot for doing so
>>25166517I mean the boys all take turns having sex with the one female member of the group. "gangbang" is hardly an unfair way to describe it
>>25166137I know a lot of people hate it, but on my most recent re-read I found myself really enjoying Wizard and Glass (except for the bizarre ending lol)
>>25166548That's a train. Gangbang is everyone going at it simultaneously. I see your point but I just hate how it's characterized as this fuck frenzy going on. It's not even that bad, the boys are tender and even a little bit shy with her, considering all of them are virgins. It lasts like a page long? Wow. This place is like a little old granny with her panties in a wad over every slightly risque thing. They will laude Lolita to the moon and back, a whole ass book about a man fucking a kid but God forbid a group of kids bond over a traumatic and gruesome experience.
>>25166549Men, that ending had me stuck for years. I think I waited 10 years until the next book? Tbf he had that accident in the interim iirc
>>25166566Wow, what an eloquent defense. That's very moving. Please face the wall.
>>25166567Yeah it's a shit ending, made even more shit by what I think are the book's strengths--it's really the longest stretch where we get to see what Roland's fantasy world is actually like, without being actively polluted by modern-day characters from other worlds and pop-culture references. (The Wind Through the Keyhole has some of that too). It's sort of like getting a taste of what King would be like as a more traditional fantasy writer, and honestly he's pretty good at that, IMO. But then there's the weird-ass, totally unnecessary ending that is basically nothing but one gigantic, forced pop culture reference.
>>25166570You should try crying about it
>>25166566I mean I agree with you, the passage is not really full of lurid physical descriptions or anything, but it does describe Bev's state of mind during the ordeal. I think I get what King was going for: Bev was constantly tormented by the pedophilic fantasies of her (step-dad, I want to say? It's been a while since I read it) and others have read IT as a big metaphor for pedophilia as well. So it would be like, the ultimate triumph is reclaiming sex as a positive experience, since innocence itself cannot be reclaimed after what they went through. But you have to admit this is not "slightly risque". This is a bunch of kids having sex.
>>25166566>That's a train. Gangbang is everyone going at it simultaneously.Damn I guess it's really wholesome and deep after all.
>>25160433even if i didn't know he was a Mainer i'd clock him by how he's agingwhat do we all look like this when we're old? he doesn't have a drop of frog blood in him but he could be mistaken for my memere before she died
>>25166566>my pornographic terms of art are a matter of the highest importanceDamn, this is a new level of pedantry.
Hail Bandera
>>25166602You lost, tranny.
>>25166606It was her real dad. I read this as a teenager even it first came out and it didn't go over my head. Just shows what kind intellectual wasteland lit has become. Everyone has a knee-jerk reaction to everything. It's tiring. There's no nuance, just memes. Boring shit
>>25166621I didn't say that. Just that's it's not a gangbang. You should know the difference
>>25166624We're the same 800 people replicated over and over again, just in new configurations
>>25166673>it's very important for me to be pedantic about child group sexPRIORITIES
>>25166649I'm not sorry you can't understand it. That's on you
>>25162220Dan Simmons (RIP) inserts a lot of right-wing stuff in his later works. Check out Flashback for example, it's kino.
>>25166655>Anon started thinking about trannies or of the clear blue skyTelling
>>25166678>I can't be corrected because my ego is more important than being right
>>25166566>That's a train. Gangbang is everyone going at it simultaneously…It's not even that bad, the boys are tender and even a little bit shy with her, Cool
>>25166683>t. Guy who attaches such importance to being right that he's prepared to quibble obscure pornographic terminology
>>25165091>The biggest Marxist I knowStop using Karl Marx name as a synonym for progressivism, globohomo, cultural leftism, Trotskyism, and the likes. Marx has nothing to do with this. When Marx said that he wasn't a Marxist, he wasn't ironic, it wasn't a jest. He was serious.
>>25167238Like it. Don't. I have no ego in this argument so I didn't care. Do whatever you want with that information
>>25167246when I spoke to him last, the guy I'm talking about said he was an "ardent Marxist".What you wrote may hold true in general, but not in my example
>>25163311>>25163428He also has the Stephen King Trivia Book for some reason.
>>25167831Probably minutiae. When you've written as many books as he has, you probably forget the small details
>>25166549I was told by friends that that was the best book in the series. I didn't get the hype, it really felt like the most safe, conventional book of them all. I definitely remember liking books 5 and 6 more
>>25168777Nice trips, checked, wrecked, etcMost SK fans on lit (all 3 of us lol) think it's the weakest book. I really liked it when I read it the first time but as far as the series goes, it might be the weakest entry. It doesn't hold up well, like most of SK's stuff
>>25160433>no Shadow of the TorturerLame.
>>25162169As are his books. As is he...
