I have a suggestion or two.....What are we going to do with you?
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I have a suggestion or two.....What are we going to do with you?
I agree with you there. I found it lol funny when Roland held the druggist at gunpoint demanding Keflex and that is only one example where I laughed my head off.I have to disagree on this one. King is hilarious, I think (whether intentionally or by second nature or in interviews or on the page: he's funny) but I will say it all depends on what each reader finds funny. He writes characters he knows and they all make me laugh. There's the wise-cracking old timers, the loud mouth drunks, and many townsfolk that seem to have stepped out of Keillor's Lake Wobegone; Even his penchant for gross-out scenes and repulsive scenes can have ribald humor or riddled with winking sophomoric jokes.
His darker novels, like Pet Sematary, contain some humor, too, albeit black humor. Misery is another book that was a nail-biting thriller and quite serious but full of humor and surreal wackiness. I'm trying to think of a single book where he's not funny. Hmmm...Again, I think this is simply a case of the differences of what one thinks is funny.
I think you're right, for the most part. There are instances, though, where he's used exaggeration or turns of phrase in the narrative that are very funny, and can't be attributed to dialogue or character interaction. In a way, it reminds me of the storyteller hunkering next to the fire image that we evoke so often--those kinds of tale spinners often do the same thing to tell a story with action and pathos and humor so intertwined that we are engrossed on several emotional levels.I think you are all missing the point. RichardX admits there is humor in SK's books but it is generated by the characters' interaction and dialogue. SK doesn't intentionally write comedic books with funny premises, etc.
although the ending of Revival was pretty much loud-out-loud ludicrous!
I think you are all missing the point. RichardX admits there is humor in SK's books but it is generated by the characters' interaction and dialogue. SK doesn't intentionally write comedic books with funny premises, etc.
although the ending of Revival was pretty much loud-out-loud ludicrous!
Gary Pervier in Cujo was really funny, too. The fundraising feud in The Tommyknockers (heck, that whole book). Spidey already mentioned it, but 'Drunken Fireworks' had me on the floor. Muskrat mentioned Delores Claiborne's scenes with Vera Donovan, that's a good one. So many.'The Revenge Of Lard Ass Logan', anyone? I pretty near peed my pants laughing!
'The Revenge Of Lard Ass Logan', anyone? I pretty near peed my pants laughing!
Honk, peep in napkin to see anything interesting in the Shining by Watson. Broiler man.
Eddie, Eddie. Too many.
Left the sweet out of the cool aid. It was warm being nice, while Harold eyed her up for some movie to play in his head later?
Spatula in the head? Larry was was not fetched. Spatula in the head. Kippers.
Creeping up to the house in 'Salems Lot? Mark and Susan carrying sticks? Scared each other?
Had to laugh and laugh from the tension of the book.
What are you talking about? There are plenty of funny moments in King books, that scene in "The Shining" where Danny reads that ladies mind about wanting to get into the bellhop's pants? That's comedy gold right there.King's books often seem completely devoid of any humor. My impression is that humor plays an important bonding role between the characters in his books - often sharing some type of inside joke - but from the readers perspective there is rarely anything that comes across as intentionally humorous. Not a criticism but just an observation. King is obviously not a humorist like Richard Russo but I was trying to think of even a single instance where there is some type of humor directed to the reader. There might have been some more of that in MrM trilogy. I have seen him many times in person where he is very funny. So it stands in contrast to his books.
King's books often seem completely devoid of any humor. My impression is that humor plays an important bonding role between the characters in his books - often sharing some type of inside joke - but from the readers perspective there is rarely anything that comes across as intentionally humorous. Not a criticism but just an observation. King is obviously not a humorist like Richard Russo but I was trying to think of even a single instance where there is some type of humor directed to the reader. There might have been some more of that in MrM trilogy. I have seen him many times in person where he is very funny. So it stands in contrast to his books.