03-15-2003, 07:30 PM | #21 |
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I have read The Tommyknockers, the uncut version of The Stand, 'Salems Lot, and Insomnia. Does anyone else here think that King is a Tolkien fan? Like on page 91 of The Stand, he makes a large reference to FOTR. Later....
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03-15-2003, 11:47 PM | #22 |
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I think you answered your own question.
Is that the part where the girl (the prengant one) is thinking about how she always hopes that when she opens the door to her father's workshop that she'll be entering Bag End and meet up with Bilbo getting ready for his eleventy first birthday party? There's also another reference when a woman says "the path goes ever on and on", and when asked where she got it from she comments on Tolkien. Even though it's "the ROAD goes ever on and on".
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03-19-2003, 04:48 PM | #23 |
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Has anyone read DreamCatcher? I read it a few weeks ago, and it was really good. The movie is supposed to be really bad, though.
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04-21-2003, 07:59 PM | #25 | |
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Originally posted by Estel13
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You are right, King is a massive Tolkein fan. This site has info on all the references to LOTR in King's books. http://castlerocknet.com/insideview/14/focus.htm
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04-21-2003, 11:28 PM | #26 |
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That is a great link. I never really drew so many parallels between LotR and The Stand, but now that I think about them, they're there. How very cool.
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04-27-2003, 04:52 PM | #27 |
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Not to mention all the parallels between Dark Tower and LOTR.
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04-30-2003, 07:15 PM | #28 |
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I haven't read any of his books, but I've seen his house. It's kinda creepy, with bats and stuff on the gates....
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07-29-2003, 01:07 AM | #29 |
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I would read his books, but my parents are so "god" involved to let me do alot of the things that I want to.
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07-31-2003, 12:59 PM | #30 |
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Squirrel Bit, I know how you feel! My mum had the whole collection of Stephen King, including The Stand First Edition, my dad came back from TDY in Saudi Arabia, and he had "changed" So what he did was made my mum sell all her Stephen King books for a quarter of the price of what they were worth, because they werent "Godly". Well, now theyre divorced and Im recollecting the Stephen King Books, and Movies
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08-09-2003, 02:59 PM | #31 |
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I love Stephen King, I've been reading him since I was ten, and I don't know which book is my favorite...It's either Carrie, Cujo, The Black House, The Eyes of The Dragon, or Christine.
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08-11-2003, 06:25 PM | #32 |
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I was just at a Type O Negative concert on Saturday and one of the dudes standing next to me looked just like Stephen King!
Of course, after about a minute of staring at him I assured myself it wasn't really him as he didn't look exactly the same (what would he be doing in Milwaukee at a goth-metal concert anyway?). I never got up the courage to ask the guy, though. I think that could have been hilarious. |
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Well, you know Stephen King is a huge classic rock fan and even played in a band with some other writers. Maybe he was passing through Milwaukee and decided to expand his rock horizons. Or maybe not.
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08-12-2003, 03:39 PM | #34 |
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Yes, that's why AC/DC did the soundtrack for Maximum Overdrive. He is a heavy metal fan, so you never know!
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10-19-2003, 03:04 PM | #36 | |
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Re: Re: Re: Stephen King
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I'm reading a lot of other books at the moment so beginning on an unifinished series doesn't apeal to me. The same thing applies to Wheel of time which is finally finished now with the tenth part (will begin on that one when I have time). Kindest Regards, Grey_Wolf Last edited by Grey_Wolf : 10-19-2003 at 03:06 PM. |
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06-02-2004, 04:39 PM | #37 |
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I have read only a few books by King.
It, Misery, Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, Hearts in Atlantis, Dead Zone and currently reading Needful Things. Of these Dead Zone and Pet Sematary were good satisfying reads, Hearts in Atlantis as a whole was an excellent excellent book, [The Queen Scenes, The scenes with Carol and Bobby are among my all-time favorite passages] while Misery was sort of oakish, not as bad as Salem's Lot, but nowhere near any of the others I have read. It, of all his works, is my favorite. Great, great, great book. Stephen King is often overcomercialized which tends to reduce his literary value; he is an excellent writer and he knows how to captivate his audience and more importantly to hold their attention throughtout the story. And he creates some of the best children characters I have ever read. [It and HIA case in point] After I finish Needful Things, [Which at page six doesn't seem anything special] or give it up, I am goin to either start 'Four Past Mid-night' or 'The Long Walk', written as Bachman. Hmm, is the Dark Tower series any good? [I think I probably came across a couple of references in HIA, where someone mentioned beams and towers......
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I read the first Dark (Dork ) Tower book - gunslinger - and I found it to be terrible read, personally. Main character wasn't engaging at all.
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Stephen King
So anyone here into Stephen King?
I'm currently reading his The Tommyknockers and I find it interesting. Discuss Stephen King here... |
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wow. is he, or isn't he one of the best horror writers around. what's the scariest book you've read so far? mines 'Misery' because when Annie sticks that cross into the policemans back repeatidly, and then runs him over on a lawnmower *shudders*.
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