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Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:03 am
by Naked_Lunch
I taped the TV show.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:11 am
by Mandalorian FaLLouT GoD
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?
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:11 am
by Franz Schubert
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:22 am
by Redeye
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:26 am
by Franz Schubert
You forgot It.
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:44 am
by Redeye
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!
Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:46 am
by Redeye
Franz Schubert wrote:You forgot It.
yup.
I think that about wraps it up, though.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:33 am
by The Gaijin
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:10 am
by Spazmo
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:40 pm
by S4ur0n27
What about the Green Mile
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:58 pm
by Kashluk
Rigid?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:39 pm
by ApTyp
Would you prefer flaccid?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:37 pm
by S4ur0n27
Or frigid?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:55 pm
by A_M
Or both
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:57 pm
by ApTyp
No, it must be either rigid or flaccid, these words are antonyms
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:03 pm
by A_M
ApTyp wrote:No, it must be either rigid or flaccid, these words are antonyms
On DaC nothing is impossible
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:13 pm
by ApTyp
Hey! On this forum, we obey laws of thermodynamics, mister!
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:25 pm
by Cimmerian Nights
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:59 pm
by Kashluk
I think 90% of daccers have no idea what flaccid means, though.
Um, I prefer rigid. Whatever, keep it up, soldat
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 8:03 pm
by ApTyp