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[Brwn_eyes0511]

Originally Posted by dissention

Because I hotlinked? I can't see what it says because the pic already loaded and saved itself on my temporary internet files. What does it say?

It is blank...It will not load. I was joking around with you...saying THAT is what happens whenever you hotlink!

[SuzeQuze]

Originally Posted by dissention

"She's Come Undone" was so freaking good, I think I read it in two days. Dolores and her Mallomar's had me in stitches one minute and repulsed the next. Brilliant. It'll be a classic.

I read this quickly as well. Forgot about the Mallomars!

Originally Posted by dissention

Oh, but it was so gorgeous to read. She's a truly gifted writer. Definitely depressing as all get out, but Hamilton's writing is poetic. Did you see the movie? I twasn't as good as I thought it could have been, but Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore were GREAT in it.

The book was so depressing I really couldn't bring myself to watch the movie.

Originally Posted by dissention

I read "It" and came to the conclusion that King was a verbose hack after I finished it. He needs a good editor so badly that I spit in anger whenever I read anything by him. But he can write good fluff on occasion. Loved "The Tommyknockers," "Rose Madder," and "Dolores Claiborne." I think that's all I liked, though.

I could not get through "It", it lacked cohesion for me and it was just too out there. I did like "The Stand". "The Body" is the short story the movie Stand By Me was based on and that story is brilliant. Read it if you haven't. I read it as a teen and it stayed with me for months, it was some powerful stuff. I really like the movie "Dolores Claiborne" and the book too. That movie was perfectly cast. I think "Pet Sematary" may have been the last book of his I read. I just grew tired of his writing.

Originally Posted by dissention

Naturally. Hopefully you can get the vid to work.

I'll check it out at work on Mon. Shhh, don't tell the boss.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

The book was so depressing I really couldn't bring myself to watch the movie.

If it's ever on TV, watch it, if only for the performances. The first scene between Weaver and Moore after Moore's son drowns is brilliantly acted.

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I could not get through "It", it lacked cohesion for me and it was just too out there. I did like "The Stand". "The Body" is the short story the movie Stand By Me was based on and that story is brilliant. Read it if you haven't. I read it as a teen and it stayed with me for months, it was some powerful stuff. I really like the movie "Dolores Claiborne" and the book too. That movie was perfectly cast. I think "Pet Sematary" may have been the last book of his I read. I just grew tired of his writing.

"It" was a trip. I stopped reading it after the kiddie gangbang, I thought it was just absurd and devoid of any point. I finished it later on, but thought the ending was a huge letdown after reading over a thousand pages of drivel.

I have read "The Body" and really liked it, but there was another story in that collection called "Apt Pupil" that disturbed me for days. I don't know how to describe it; it truly gave me the willies. It was about a teen boy who discovers that his neighbor was a Nazi war criminal, and he blackmails the man into telling him all of the grisly details. The kid then starts living out his murderous tendencies by murdering homeless men. What a mind**** that was.

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

I'll check it out at work on Mon. Shhh, don't tell the boss.

Your secret's safe with moi.

[strandinthewind]

King's early work was fab. - The Shining is a great example of that. The Stand is as well. I like his stuff, but like everyone else, when you release too much of it, some pales in comparison a la Kujo - OY!

[dissention]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

King's early work was fab. - The Shining is a great example of that. The Stand is as well. I like his stuff, but like everyone else, when you release too much of it, some pales in comparison a la Kujo - OY!

See, I thought most of his early stuff was too unpolished and amateurish. It was only after he laid off the drugs and paid attention to what he was writing that I think he wrote some good stuff.

Cujo is ridiculously depressing. No wonder they changed the ending for the movie.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

See, I thought most of his early stuff was too unpolished and amateurish. It was only after he laid off the drugs and paid attention to what he was writing that I think he wrote some good stuff.

Cujo is ridiculously depressing. No wonder they changed the ending for the movie.

Here is his Bibliography (stars next to the ones I liked and thought were good)

1974 Carrie **
1975 'Salem's Lot ** scary scary
1977 Rage (as Richard Bachman)
1977 The Shining ** his most brilliant IMO and made glorious by Kubrick
1978 Night Shift (stories) **
1978 The Stand **
1979 The Dead Zone **
1979 The Long Walk (as Richard Bachman)
1980 Firestarter
1981 Cujo
1981 Danse Macabre (nonfiction about horror)
1981 Road Work (as Richard Bachman)
1982 Creepshow (comic book, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
1982 The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
1982 Different Seasons (novellas)
1982 The Running Man (as Richard Bachman)
1983 Christine
1983 Pet Sematary **
1983 Cycle of the Werewolf (illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
1984 The Talisman (written with Peter Straub)
1984 Thinner (as Richard Bachman)
1985 Skeleton Crew (stories)
1985 The Bachman Books (novel collection)
1986 It
1987 The Eyes of the Dragon
1987 Misery **
1987 The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
1988 The Tommyknockers **
1988 Nightmares in the Sky (gargoyle photo book with text by King; photos by f-stop fitzgerald)
1989 The Dark Half
1989 Dolan's Cadillac (limited edition)
1989 My Pretty Pony (limited edition)
1990 The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition **
1990 Four Past Midnight (stories)
1991 Needful Things ** but a little silly
1991 The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
1992 Gerald's Game
1993 Dolores Claiborne ** greatness made glorious by Bates - a high ridin' bitch
1993 Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories)
1994 Insomnia
1995 Rose Madder
1995 Umney's Last Case
1996 The Green Mile (originally published as a monthly serial consisting of six parts: The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse on the Mile, Coffey's Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey, and Coffey on the Mile) **
1996 Desperation
1996 The Regulators (as Richard Bachman)
1997 Six Stories (stories)
1997 The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
1998 Bag of Bones **
1999 Storm of the Century **
1999 The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1999 The New Lieutenant's Rap (limited edition)
1999 Hearts in Atlantis **
1999 Blood and Smoke (audio book)
2000 Riding the Bullet (electronically published novella)
2000 The Plant (electronically published) Stephen King (Publishing of 'The Plant')
2000 Secret Windows
2000 On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (nonfiction and autobiography)
2001 Dreamcatcher ** awful movie though
2001 Black House (sequel to The Talisman; written with Peter Straub)
2002 From a Buick 8
2002 Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales (stories)
2003 The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (revised version)
2003 The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
2004 The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
2004 The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
2004 Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
2005 The Colorado Kid, published in October by Hard Case Crime
2006 Cell, to be released in February
2006 Lisey's Story, to be released in November
Short fiction by Stephen King

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_king#Bibliography

anyway - my $0.02

[dissention]

Out of all of those, the only ones I liked were:

Carrie (entertaining, if a bit too crudely written)
Different Seasons
Misery
The Tommyknockers
Gerald's Game (even if it was disgusting tripe)
Rose Madder
Desperation
Hearts In Atlantis

I suppose I'm not much of a King fan.

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by dissention

Out of all of those, the only ones I liked were:

Carrie (entertaining, if a bit too crudely written)
Different Seasons
Misery
The Tommyknockers
Gerald's Game (even if it was disgusting tripe)
Rose Madder
Desperation
Hearts In Atlantis

I suppose I'm not much of a King fan.

Jis stuff was okay - but none of it was the great American novel, yet it was not as formulaic (sp.?) as say Frisham or Rice in her later works - though her earlier ones like The Witching Hour were spellbinding.

To his credit, SK moved in and out of horror and drama with ease - a la The Shining and Delores C.

[dissention]

Originally Posted by SuzeQuze

You can also usually see the after the show clips on her Website. I don't get Oxygen. I bet you money you can and will stand her to get a glimpse of your hottie.

I'm watching it now (I set my VCR for it and for Letterman last night because he was on it ) and the two women who got to ask questions are making so little sense that I'm falling out of my chair as I watch it. This **** is hysterical. And Oprah is talking about how she had throw out her boots after walking through the Superdome in an attempt to compare it to his stories about being in Rwanda. Good cripes, she's insane.