Except that by that point he will most likely be dead, too.
True, but Ivanka could carry on the Trump legacy, and then there'll be hell toupée.
At the mention of you know who...one word: G-R-O-A-NNNNN.
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Except that by that point he will most likely be dead, too.
True, but Ivanka could carry on the Trump legacy, and then there'll be hell toupée.
But, perhaps because I am old school...I like the feel of a paper book in my hands. Someone gave me an e-reader for Christmas a couple of years ago. I hate to sound so unappreciative, but they may as well had given me a fruitcake that had been re-gifted a dozen times.
............then there'll be hell toupée.
Well, she is the hair apparent, right?Ouch!
Well, she is the hair apparent, right?
True, but she does have the chutzpah to overcomb any obstacle thrown her way.Well obviously, you don't need to be Sherlock Combs to work that out.
Well obviously, you don't need to be Sherlock Combs to work that out.
Why not laugh at something that one has no control over? We're all gonna die at some point, right? Can't stop the inevitable.Reading the Bazaar of Bad Dreams and each story has a short introduction by SK. At the end of the intro to Premium Harmony, SK said this: "The humor here is black, but in my opinion, that's often the best kind. Because-dig it-when it comes to death, what can you do but laugh?"
Does anyone else find this a bit disconcerting?
Still have not read The Long Walk yet, but The Body was pretty good. Have you read 'Stationary Bike' yet?I thought 'The Body' and 'The Long Walk' were very average.
Still have not read The Long Walk yet, but The Body was pretty good. Have you read 'Stationary Bike' yet?
Read the Long Walk. It is storytelling at it's best.
(I was exhausted, drained , my feet hurt and went a little bit crazy with them all while reading.)
I was the same with the body. I think I built my hopes a little too high because I loved Stand By Me so much. I prefer the film myself.I thought 'The Body' and 'The Long Walk' were very average.
Indeed.
I developed a bad habit of just dropping pants and pooping while walking down country roads.
While I like his older novels myself, I think with his newer works he is actually creating more believable characters- he shows us all of their individual flaws and strengths and he doesn't really have to take us far down a dark hole to show us what these 'people' are like. His stories have changed, he no longer gives us the vampires, psychics, werewolves, etc. Now, the monsters are human and they are worse than the others for the simple fact that they are human. Just like us. I do think that the 'hey, keep reading, now look at this, and this, and this!!!!!' feel has been gone from his newer novels, at least for me, there's no longer this underlying 'push' from King to read more, more, more of the tale. There's no other author that I've read that can show me a mostly fully developed character in a paragraph or even a few sentences like Steve can. He is a master at that.I confess that I like S.K. earlier works a whole lot better and the newer stuff.....gosh that's sounds so gruff, sorry. I hope the seasoned veterans here will know what I'm talking about when I say this, there used to be a part of S.K. stories like a vein that went much deeper, never mind cross referencing characters from one book to the next (I really like that too). But it seems like those creative veins are weaker now or altogether gone. In his newer works the characters seem to stay right on top, I miss when S.K. would take the reader/character down a dark hole into the deepest parts of their secret/past/younger lives, and then let you up for some air. Like Lisey's Story, when Scott takes you back in time when he was a child, his childhood was a dark and scary place (brother in the basement), but then S.K. lets you gasp for air in Scott's present life. The Dark Tower Series, each one of the characters have real sustenance, where they come from, where they've been etc. Pet Sematary when Jud takes you back in time and tells the reader/doctor how his dog died and came back, or how the neighbor man buried his son who was killed in the war up there and he came back....those deep veins carry some pretty scary stuff! I could make example after example, sometimes it's like S.K. has written a story inside of a story...probably I'm not explaining myself very well, and maybe it's because the older books are some of my personal favorites, or maybe I've changed over the years....has anyone else noticed this?