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Walter Oobleck

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As long as Wally & the Beaver take a moment to pause and reflect and talk about a story, yes, conversations will happen about Stephen King and more importantly his stories. Wasn't that a question that was raised in the latest? I think it was. What's more important, the writer or the story? Or maybe they are called Beavis & Butthead, Professor Bottlegreen and her charges. Is there a requirement that the conversation take place in rooms off the hollow halls of higher education? Look at the list on page one, almost every story has a movie either big screen or television and what worked in the past is always and forevermore fair game for those looking to score their next paycheck. Roll back the calendar seventy-five years and take a look at who was writing stories, or for that matter, who was reading them. Maybe the question should be, will people still be reading seventy-five years from now? What with all those wanting to shape-change our children.
 

prufrock21

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No doubt in my mind Mr. King's work will be considered "classic" at some point. It is that good. I compare him to Edgar Allan Poe.
Too bad Mr. King no longer writes poetry. Imagine The Dark Tower 1 written with the cadences of "The Raven." The mere thought boggles the mind and inflames the imagination.
 

chief4db

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I was talking to my friend today about this thread I put up and he made a good point. As we were talking he said that I'm trying to get the word out how good king is to people who don't know bc I came from that group. I have stated that I just started reading him a few years ago when I was around 39. I remember when I thought of King, I thought of the movies and didn't really consider reading him. My friend said the best way to get people to read king is to bring up the movie It. To people who just saw the movie they will say the clown killing people. But the book is over 1000 pages. Common sense says it can't be 1000 pages of horror . There has to be more in there. A lot more. That might get their curiosity going. And if the first book they read is It they will be a constant reader in record time
 

GNTLGNT

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I was talking to my friend today about this thread I put up and he made a good point. As we were talking he said that I'm trying to get the word out how good king is to people who don't know bc I came from that group. I have stated that I just started reading him a few years ago when I was around 39. I remember when I thought of King, I thought of the movies and didn't really consider reading him. My friend said the best way to get people to read king is to bring up the movie It. To people who just saw the movie they will say the clown killing people. But the book is over 1000 pages. Common sense says it can't be 1000 pages of horror . There has to be more in there. A lot more. That might get their curiosity going. And if the first book they read is It they will be a constant reader in record time
...which is true, BUT-a grand worth of pages might shoo them off...better to start with something easier to digest...a literary appetizer...
 
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Nomik

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I was talking to my friend today about this thread I put up and he made a good point. As we were talking he said that I'm trying to get the word out how good king is to people who don't know bc I came from that group. I have stated that I just started reading him a few years ago when I was around 39. I remember when I thought of King, I thought of the movies and didn't really consider reading him. My friend said the best way to get people to read king is to bring up the movie It. To people who just saw the movie they will say the clown killing people. But the book is over 1000 pages. Common sense says it can't be 1000 pages of horror . There has to be more in there. A lot more. That might get their curiosity going. And if the first book they read is It they will be a constant reader in record time
Good point! You are lucky to have a friend . .who has an interest! In my experience, the words "I was reading this thread the other day", or "someone mentioned something about that in a thread on a message board I belong to", . .conversation stoppers.:rofl:
 
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doowopgirl

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For someone who's made us ponder the potential for bad things to reach a hand into the "everyday", he'll be remembered. His "what-ifs" are very much "could-beeeees" if things align enough. :eek:
I don't think anyone else has been as unforgivingly consistent in that regard.
The Stand immediately springs to mind when you say the could bees
 

Kurben

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I think he will also be remembered for his way of catching the horrible in an ordinary persons life and make it so real. Like the girl that lose herself in the woods in TGTLTG or The Body or Misery or Geralds Game. Doesnt have to be supernatural to be horrible. The horror in our everydaylife.
 

Nomik

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I was thinking Trucks myself. With those little vacuum-drone things motoring around the house when we're sleeping, I shiver to think what could happen if someone decides to hack into them. My midnight pee could be mee last.
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:rofl: Did you write that with a Scottish accent?!
The Stand immediately springs to mind when you say the could bees
I think he will also be remembered for his way of catching the horrible in an ordinary persons life and make it so real. Like the girl that lose herself in the woods in TGTLTG or The Body or Misery or Geralds Game. Doesnt have to be supernatural to be horrible. The horror in our everydaylife.
Is it wrong that I fantasize about the pulse happening on a larger scale? Rhetorical. It's wrong.:D
 

Kingunlucky

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Yes, I think so.

Most of all The Stand and probably several others in particular. Not to mention he's influenced a lot of authors now and writers and writers still to come.
 
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