I'm late to the Stephen King conversation but this:
scared me more than all of the rest of his books combined. There's music that creeps me out just because I was listening to it when I was reading it. The kids stuck on the raft in the middle of the lake? The ship-wrecked surgeon slowly eating himself? The freaking mist? Uggghh.....still gives me shivers.
I loved that book when I was a teenager. I always remembered that story about the surgeon and how the diary he keeps turns into complete gibberish by the end. "The Raft" was awesome as well and the ONLY good thing about Creepshow II. I now need to track this book down so I can read it again.
I wouldn't be surprised if you are picturing me peeling a carrot with a staple gun.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers! « Reply #211 on Oct 17, 2011, 1:14pm »
Alright, after all your guys' talk about it, I'm heading into the Dark Tower. Wish me luck! I'm reading it on my iphone, so so far it's just given me a headache. Or that might be the hangover.
I'm also listening to Coraline by Neil Gaiman on my bike ride to work and reading a stack of Carl Hiassens I picked up at a garage sale for five bucks! The Hiassens are kind of like literary candy. So fun and not very filling. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites. I can't wait for the American Gods miniseries.
Also, just finished A Dance with Dragons yesterday and I'm already losing patience with waiting for the next one. I'm so glad I found the Game of Thrones subreddit for an outlet for all the geekiness I'm currently experiencing about those books. How did people last for the last five years?
Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers! « Reply #212 on Oct 17, 2011, 1:20pm »
Do yourself a favor and spend five bucks apiece on paperback copies of the Dark Tower books. 4500 pages is an awful lot to read on your iPhone. You are just going to love that story, though, it is ridiculously good.
Coraline is fantastic as well. Super spooky and lots of fun. Pretty decent film, too. It even has a They Might Be Giants song in it!
Alright, after all your guys' talk about it, I'm heading into the Dark Tower. Wish me luck! I'm reading it on my iphone, so so far it's just given me a headache. Or that might be the hangover.
I'm also listening to Coraline by Neil Gaiman on my bike ride to work and reading a stack of Carl Hiassens I picked up at a garage sale for five bucks! The Hiassens are kind of like literary candy. So fun and not very filling. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites. I can't wait for the American Gods miniseries.
Also, just finished A Dance with Dragons yesterday and I'm already losing patience with waiting for the next one. I'm so glad I found the Game of Thrones subreddit for an outlet for all the geekiness I'm currently experiencing about those books. How did people last for the last five years?
Holy shit I think I became a virgin again by reading this.
Alright, after all your guys' talk about it, I'm heading into the Dark Tower. Wish me luck! I'm reading it on my iphone, so so far it's just given me a headache. Or that might be the hangover.
I'm also listening to Coraline by Neil Gaiman on my bike ride to work and reading a stack of Carl Hiassens I picked up at a garage sale for five bucks! The Hiassens are kind of like literary candy. So fun and not very filling. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites. I can't wait for the American Gods miniseries.
Also, just finished A Dance with Dragons yesterday and I'm already losing patience with waiting for the next one. I'm so glad I found the Game of Thrones subreddit for an outlet for all the geekiness I'm currently experiencing about those books. How did people last for the last five years?
Holy shit I think I became a virgin again by reading this.
Some how this interaction really sums up why this board has the best people ever on it. I love every part of these two posts.
Alright, after all your guys' talk about it, I'm heading into the Dark Tower. Wish me luck! I'm reading it on my iphone, so so far it's just given me a headache. Or that might be the hangover.
I'm also listening to Coraline by Neil Gaiman on my bike ride to work and reading a stack of Carl Hiassens I picked up at a garage sale for five bucks! The Hiassens are kind of like literary candy. So fun and not very filling. Neil Gaiman is one of my favorites. I can't wait for the American Gods miniseries.
Also, just finished A Dance with Dragons yesterday and I'm already losing patience with waiting for the next one. I'm so glad I found the Game of Thrones subreddit for an outlet for all the geekiness I'm currently experiencing about those books. How did people last for the last five years?
Weenie, my screenname (handle?) is drewoftherushes, which is from the George Martin books. I'm one of those crazies who's been waiting five years for that to come out, and is currently waiting five more for the next one.
Can I make it so that I8 can't read that?
Anyway, you'll love Dark Tower too. Also the only Neil Gaiman I've ever read is American Gods, and I didn't really like it.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers! « Reply #216 on Oct 18, 2011, 10:03am »
There should be a nerd filter so the cool people read it as something about formula one racing.
Also, isn't that revirginization surgery super expensive? You'd think being post-gender i8 wouldn't have hymen remnants to stitch back together, but I guess he/she/they found a way!
Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers! « Reply #220 on Oct 21, 2011, 1:20pm »
After The Dark Tower and IT, I read Salem's Lot and now I'm down to the last 75 pages or so of Pet Sematary.
Pet Sematary is so relentlessly bleak that I'm thinking this Stephen King kick might need to end once Shocktober winds down; maybe move on to something a little more high-minded.
Also the only Neil Gaiman I've ever read is American Gods, and I didn't really like it.
Check out Good Omens which he wrote along with Terry Pratchett. I have friends who don't like Terry Pratchett, and don't like Neil Gaiman, but they like that novel. Personally I think it's brilliant.
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Re: Let's Talk Books, Fuckers! « Reply #224 on Jan 31, 2012, 10:07am »
Dubliners is the beginning and the end of the short story form. It makes every other short story ever written look drab in comparison. Every single word is imbued with meaning. "The Dead" is one of the best standalone pieces of literature ever, and my favorite story of all time.
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