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Post by wildknight on Mar 20, 2014 20:38:22 GMT -5
LOL "Gerald's Game" is terrible for that. Almost nothing actually happens in the book... it's just a bunch of lengthy exposition. Really, really subpar for King.
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 20, 2014 20:53:21 GMT -5
That's the point of that one though, right? It's just a woman chained to a bed with her thoughts? It's an interesting premise but I think I'd hate it for this reason.
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Post by wildknight on Mar 20, 2014 21:13:54 GMT -5
That's the point of that one though, right? It's just a woman chained to a bed with her thoughts? It's an interesting premise but I think I'd hate it for this reason. Her thoughts and some funky demon creatures from the "other side." 8) It's a terrible, terrible book. |
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Mar 20, 2014 22:13:08 GMT -5
Tommyknockers is another book pretty bad for extremely long descriptions. I love King's stories and morals behind them but he gets a bit long winded at times. Sometimes I just wish the books were mostly dialogue. That's my favorite part. I've never read Gerald's Game but I'll probably try it some day. I just now read the intro and first chapter of The Stand and it's pretty much how I remember it, I tried to read it about 3 1/2 years ago and got about halfway through. The adolescent parts are my favorite part of the "It" novel. Maybe it's because I can relate as I was bullied growing up and hung out with a bunch of others that were and we literally deemed ourselves "The Losers Club." But yea, I read that book my first year in high school and when I was finished it felt as if I had actually made friends with each and every pre-teen/teen in that book. I have yet to read another book where I felt as close to the characters.
Sorry if that spoils anything, I didn't mean too.
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 21, 2014 0:14:49 GMT -5
That's the point of that one though, right? It's just a woman chained to a bed with her thoughts? It's an interesting premise but I think I'd hate it for this reason. Her thoughts and some funky demon creatures from the "other side." 8) It's a terrible, terrible book. Oh. Well that's disappointing, I thought it was more or less straight psychological stuff. Kind of like a horror version of Johnny Got His Gun. The adolescent parts are my favorite part of the "It" novel. Maybe it's because I can relate as I was bullied growing up and hung out with a bunch of others that were and we literally deemed ourselves "The Losers Club." But yea, I read that book my first year in high school and when I was finished it felt as if I had actually made friends with each and every pre-teen/teen in that book. I have yet to read another book where I felt as close to the characters. Sorry if that spoils anything, I didn't mean too. Nah I know the whole story, just never filled in all the smaller details. I saw something of myself and all of my friends in the Loser's Club as well, I remember being in 6th grade when the miniseries aired and the next day at school I told my friends how the group could almost be us, something they pondered and agreed with. I was never bullied or an outcast but I've always been something of a loner and didn't hang with the "popular" kids so I could relate to some of the stuff in the story. |
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 21, 2014 0:19:18 GMT -5
PS: You weren't bullied growing up, in your old age you've become demented and projected the fact that YOU used to beat the hell out of Charlie when HE was growing up. That's one of the reasons why he left, he was sick of having to defend himself every time you got whacked out on one of those creamy candy mushrooms.
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Post by BaneTheDestroyer on Mar 21, 2014 0:31:59 GMT -5
PS: You weren't bullied growing up, in your old age you've become demented and projected the fact that YOU used to beat the hell out of Charlie when HE was growing up. That's one of the reasons why he left, he was sick of having to defend himself every time you got whacked out on one of those creamy candy mushrooms. You must not know that Charlie's an evil dictator...... |
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Post by miketheratguy on Mar 21, 2014 0:58:24 GMT -5
Yeah, dictating to no one but a bunch of disinterested Oompa-Loompas who allow him to think that anyone's actually paying attention to his pointless raving.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on Mar 21, 2014 5:59:10 GMT -5
somebody had to teach the boy a lesson. They never found out who the father was and the mother was whoring around every night and creating meth labs in the day. If there's any reason to blame anyone for what he's become it's his mother.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on May 14, 2014 9:07:14 GMT -5
So, slowly but surely I'm reading The Stand and I just reached book 2 and so far I really like it. It's not a whole lot different than the mini-series though except for more details(obviously) and more scenes of dialogue between the characters. The biggest difference was the character of Rita who really isn't that important but is in a good portion of the first book. It's seems in the mini-series they mixed the characters of Rita and Nadine Cross. In the book, I've not reached to the character of Nadine Cross yet, but the mini-series already had her in by this point playing out the parts that Rita had in the book. However, the Rita character dies in chapter 40? I think. Anyway, just an interesting observation. |
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Post by wildknight on May 14, 2014 9:16:10 GMT -5
So, slowly but surely I'm reading The Stand and I just reached book 2 and so far I really like it. It's not a whole lot different than the mini-series though except for more details(obviously) and more scenes of dialogue between the characters. I read the entire extended version of The Stand... and honestly, I would have been better off to just watch the mini-series. I mean, from a strictly neurological perspective, just about ANY reading is good for you, but yeah... Stephen King has a gift for using a lot of words to convey very little information. |
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on May 14, 2014 9:18:23 GMT -5
Ehh, I'm enjoying it so far but I agree with you on the last point, he can definitely go off on a tangent of useless description, and I'm reading the extended version as well.
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Post by charliebucketsgranpa on May 14, 2014 9:21:12 GMT -5
Actually I almost always prefer books anyway because you can make the characters (in your head) look the way you want them too and sound the way you want them too. I kind of look at books as extended versions of the movie (if there is a book of the movie). I'm pretty good at picturing things that are written, of course, the writer of the book can certainly help with that.
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