The Books thread.

Naked_Lunch · Post by **Naked_Lunch** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:03 am

I taped the TV show.

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD · Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:11 am

Phil the Nuka-Cola Dude wrote:
Your opinion of books must be horrible because I've read atleast half of those books and I wouldn't call them the best of anything. Recycled toliet paper for the whole lot.
::Sigh:: Your taste in books is of lower quality then 99% of the posts here.

Come on now genius. Reading and loving anything by Stephen King instantly implies birth defects.
With the exception of the Dark Tower series which was started before his commercial success and absolute train wreck of following, shit induced novels.

We won't even get into the fact that I read Tom Clancy novels when I was 12.
His books are fine if you are either just starting to read or have ADHD.

So from that, I would assume that my taste in novels is of a much higher quality than your "wuzup nigga, i red a books" attitude.

Megatron wrote:
Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote:If we had compulsory military service, I would be dishonourably discharged within a week. Political correctness and such.
But I thought you were a tough guy? Are you saying you're just some redneck?

Someone wanna tell me why not being politically correct instantly means you are a redneck?

How bout everytime Megatron posts, we will refer to him as a dirty, pig fucking shav?

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:11 am

Mandy wrote:Reading and loving anything by Stephen King instantly implies birth defects.

Well, he comes up with some cool plots/premises... some of his books have fantastic movie adaptations.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:22 am

Franz Schubert wrote:
Mandy wrote:Reading and loving anything by Stephen King instantly implies birth defects.
Well, he comes up with some cool plots/premises... some of his books have fantastic movie adaptations.

The Running Man novella under his pen name Richard Bachman was way better than the film. Remake time? Even an indie could afford it, except for the end with the hero crashing an airliner into network headquarters.
But then there is the cost of rights...

A S.King c-punkish mini novel. Not too bad.(This was around 1979, too - so a double not-bad.)

I can't think of much else by him that I like.
The Stand had potential.
The Shining - oh, that. This redeems his crap.

Franz Schubert · Post by **Franz Schubert** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:26 am

You forgot It.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:44 am

Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD wrote: [snip]

Someone wanna tell me why not being politically correct instantly means you are a redneck?

How bout everytime Megatron posts, we will refer to him as a dirty, pig fucking shav?

He'll probably make it his sig.

Dirty, pig-fucking shav.
hee!

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:46 am

Franz Schubert wrote:You forgot It.

yup.

I think that about wraps it up, though.

The Gaijin · Post by **The Gaijin** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:33 am

Fuck Stephen King. Fuck Stephen King in his squinty eyed, ratty mouth.

What everyone's trying to grasp at her is that Stephen King is usually good at coming up with premises. He even manages to start a novel or two well off. But on a long enough timeline he ruins every idea he ever has. His cocaine addled brains go into OVERDRIVE and before you know it his post apocalyptic wasteland story is about THE DEVIL FIGHTING AN OLD BLACK WOMAN IN MONTANA.

Case and point: It. A good premise, some good writing, then by the end of the book nothing makes sense. The clown's just some fucking lights in the middle of nothingness, the universe was made from turtle vomit, oh and the plot hinges on a bunch of 12 year olds having a gangbang in the sewer. THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE A TOUCHING MOMENT. "Teach me to fly, Ben..." the stupid slut says before the fat kid pounds her with his meat balloon.

Fucking coke head.

Spazmo · Post by **Spazmo** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:10 am

Yeah, I felt that way about this miniseries he wrote, Storm of the Century. It was really great through most of the thing and had a really neat premise: a small community on an island off the coast of Maine is isolated by a huge blizzard while a supernatural evil dude keeps making people kill themselves and leave a message: "GIVE ME WHAT I WANT AND I'LL GO AWAY". But it ended really shittily. I gave it three rigid Kashluks out of five.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:40 pm

What about the Green Mile

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:58 pm

Rigid?

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:39 pm

Would you prefer flaccid?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:37 pm

Or frigid?

A_M · Post by **A_M** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:55 pm

Or both

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:57 pm

No, it must be either rigid or flaccid, these words are antonyms

A_M · Post by **A_M** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:03 pm

ApTyp wrote:No, it must be either rigid or flaccid, these words are antonyms

On DaC nothing is impossible

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:13 pm

Hey! On this forum, we obey laws of thermodynamics, mister!

Cimmerian Nights · Post by **Cimmerian Nights** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:25 pm

The Gaijin wrote:What everyone's trying to grasp at her is that Stephen King is usually good at coming up with premises.

I'll grant him that, but basically using himself (a writer from some sleepy New England town) as the main character is a tired device.

Great premises in the hands of a good filmaker - Carpenter, Cronenberg, Kubrik, Romero has made for some damn fine cinema though.

Anyway, King has already admitted that he's just a Richard Mattheson wannabe.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:59 pm

I think 90% of daccers have no idea what flaccid means, though.

Um, I prefer rigid. Whatever, keep it up, soldat

ApTyp · Post by **ApTyp** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:03 pm

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=flaccid

Little fuck.