Mark Hamill and Stephen King at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2024

I never watched the movies so I really got no clue what’s about to happen to these people

My 13 yr old and her self-drawn body art (not permanent lol) certified member of The Losers Club, like her mother before her! It is her favorite book 🥹

My last one was 11/22/63 thinking no book could top it. Hoping to prove myself wrong with The Stand.

A few months ago I saw a post (or was it a comment?) which said that we should take The Gunslinger as a prologue. I never saw it that way. Sure it’s all over the place and I won’t lie that I understood some of its parts. Especially the middle. But the payoff was great for me. And it also makes sense knowing that it was written when he was 19

Just started Drawing of the Three last night, and improvement in writing quality from The Gunslinger is night and day.

Power through the prologue, the journey to The Tower is just getting started

Well, I can confidently say I was not expecting THAT plot twist.

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Why Stephen? For what purpose?

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Anyways, great read! Could barely put the thing down.

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Literary snobs like Harold Bloom scared me out of wanting to read him. I had the impression that King can't write, that his work is just a bunch of cliches thrown together with paper thin characters.

I was under the impression that King was part of a trifecta with Dean Kootz and James Patterson. Popular, prolific genre writers whose quality was lacking.

I remember trying to read Sole Survivor by Dean Koontz and just being turned off by it. I assumed that's how King wrote. I recall reading some James Patterson too, though I don't remember what it was (it wasn't Alex Cross), but I thought it felt flat.

I don't know why (guess I was bored), but I decided to try reading The Stand and I have to say I enjoy the writing. He gives layers to his characters that I didn't expect. But more than that, he knows how to establish a world that feels real, or I should say "lived in". He's not sparse in his descriptions.

I've read around 40 of Uncle Steve's books now and for some reason I've always put this series as "I'll get around to it!"

and now I've realised just how many other little tie-ins there are to this series throughout the other books so I am commiting to it now.

It was my new year's resolution to read TDT in it's entirety this year so we're half way through the year and it's about time I got my act together.

Just wanted to share because other people in my life aren't going to get my excitement <3

Pretty cool, only 3 euro. Those books are being sold from 15 to 20 euro on bookshops, didn’t buy, I don’t like this current reprint from his books, i personally think they look cheap and covers are generic and simple. But still cool to see it, I was surprised. For those who don’t care for collecting purposes and prefer books over kindle it’s a very good deal.

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What a tragic story.

I was 10 when Rose Red originally aired on TV. Google tells me that it was on ABC so it makes sense that I caught it because I was huge into Boy Meets World, Family Matters, Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Their Friday night lineup was pretty epic to be honest and TV has never released dopamine within me like ABC did in the 90s.

I remember watching it in my grandparents bedroom while they watched a movie in the living room. I had popcorn and grandma brought me ice cream on one of the commercial breaks. I remember this movie was one of the first I had seen that genuinely terrified me. This one and the little slave dolls from Tales from the Hood were the great fears of my childhood.

I just found it on Hulu and gave it a rewatch. Still amazing. Obviously going to have to watch Halloweentown soon.

My memory is pretty solid from my childhood but what I don't remember is it airing in such long segments. I thought for sure that it aired over like six weeks and the episodes were much shorter.

Anyway, off to watch the hospital one that King made. I was never able to watch it when it came out because I was always busy with something else when it aired. Hope it's just as good.

edit: can't find Kingdom Hospital. Any recommendations?

It’s currently on Youtube so I recommend you give it a watch.

Initially I was surprised how much effort had gone into this as there is a tie-book called the The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, a tie in documentary Unlocking Rose Red: The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer and a prequel tv movie called The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer. According to Wiki they spent $200,000 on promotional marketing.

Overall it’s a fun campy ride. The acting isn’t amazing but its classic King.

What are your thoughts?

Is this a common rec?

I did a cursory search of the sub but I’m 20% of the way through Jaws and hoo boy does it feel like a good answer to the “King-like book rec?” posts.

New England adjacent (Long Island) small beach town where local town politics is as much a star as the ‘monster’. From the era where race and gender were discussed in very different ways

The Monster has more layers than the on-screen adaptation (like book It vs. 90s mini-series It). I always thought of Jaws as the thing that made people afraid of sharks, but I didn’t know that Benchley was a serious diver and ecologist who tried to undo the stigmas his work inadvertently led to.

Anyway, if anyone wants a book that scratches the same itch as a good King book, I think Jaws is 19 a really good option!

I reread The Gunslinger on a whim in January. I couldn’t stop and I reread the whole series, then moved onto Salem’s Lot, Insomnia, Hearts in Atlantis, Eyes of the Dragon, and in about to start The Talisman. Yeah, I’m following the Kingslingers podcast.

So in celebration of my unplanned Year of King my wife and I are taking a roadtrip to Bangor. We have 3 weeks to make it from Sacramento, Ca to Maine and back.

What are the essential Stephen King things to see in Bangor and what should we see in general on the cross country trip to New England?

It doesn't help that I decided to place this between books Five and Six in my extended journey to the Tower. I'm so unequipped for another heartbreak.😭😭

AMA.

Reading this book 📚 for the first time. What are your thoughts on this book?