Steven King

[lynnifer21]

Anybody here read the Dark Tower Series? Or anything else Steven King for that matter? I absolutely adored the Dark Tower books.

[hitekredneck]

Anybody here read the Dark Tower Series? Or anything else Steven King for that matter? I absolutely adored the Dark Tower books.
i've read everything king has ever written....acouple i didn't care for, like rose madder and the girl who loved tom gordon, but as for the rest...awesome!

[lynnifer21]

have you seen the tv mini-series of the stand and read it? which did you prefer? i mean usually the book is always better then the movie...but in this case..i dn't know...i thought they did a good job representing the book. of couse the movie was WAAAAY more optimistic then the book...and a couple characters got switched around which kinda annoyed me.

as for dreamcatcher...i loved the book. when i 'tried' to watch the movie i was soooo upset and disapointed...wtf was that crap?

The Body was made into Stand By Me, which for a long time was one of my favorite movies...i say they did a fair job on that.

ok, just one more. Hearts in Atlantis....how the H E L L can you make a movie based on a book...then then do only the first section of the book, leaving the watcher of the movie not even understanding the full reason for the title of the book??!! sheesh.

i don't think they will ever do movies based on the dark tower...if they do, they will never get it even close, or even give it justice.

[tocrayzay]

lets hope they don't do the movies to dark tower and if they do THEY MUST STICK TO THE BOOK anything else would be a disgrace
and yeah I LOVED the Dark Tower Series

[hitekredneck]

the stand is probably my favorite king novel, and i do so love the dark tower series, tho i'm dissappointed that it's done...lol...but face it, the cjust can'tget the detail from the book across on the screen...whenever they make a movie based on a book, i can guarantee you it ain't gonna be nearly as good...

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the stand is probably my favorite king novel, and i do so love the dark tower series, tho i'm dissappointed that it's done...lol...but face it, the cjust can'tget the detail from the book across on the screen...whenever they make a movie based on a book, i can guarantee you it ain't gonna be nearly as good...

I think I have to disagree here. "The Green Mile" is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I also think steven king is a good writer.

[hitekredneck]

I think I have to disagree here. "The Green Mile" is one of the best movies I've ever seen, and I also think steven king is a good writer.

i'm not saying that they're bad movies, just not as good as the book...even the green mile, and i agree, it's one HELL of a good movie

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i'm not saying that they're bad movies, just not as good as the book...even the green mile, and i agree, it's one HELL of a good movie

Well, I haven't read the book, but if the movie is so good must the book be just incredible good!

[beelzebub]

i've read everything king has ever written....acouple i didn't care for, like rose madder and the girl who loved tom gordon, but as for the rest...awesome!

Have you read "The Collector"?

[yea_thats_right1]

i like steven king... but.... dean koontz is better!!!!!!

[hitekredneck]

i like steven king... but.... dean koontz is better!!!!!!

not reaqlly better, but different...sure like the moonlight bay series, and odd thomas kicks ass

[MrBirdy]

I know that you aint no supposed to judge no book by thems cover, but damn does "Everything's Eventual" have a good cover, and everything between is just as good!!

Sorry, i aint no literate

[freakazoid]

Anybody here read the Dark Tower Series? Or anything else Steven King for that matter? I absolutely adored the Dark Tower books.

He bores the hell out of me most of the time, but he did write a couple of things that I liked...

- The Langolers (spelling may be wrong)

- Shawshank Redemption (his best in my opinion)

[theicidal maniac]

I've always liked your comments, yea....until you compared Koontz ti King. I've read a lot of both, and Koontz is for 7th graders. King is an American Institution. Shawshank Redemption. Stand By Me. The Green Mile. The Shining...all EXCELLENT movies...all of them deviated from the book, but that's ok, that's why Stephen King is an author first...you get a choice.

[General Septem]

He bores the hell out of me most of the time, but he did write a couple of things that I liked...

- The Langolers (spelling may be wrong)

- Shawshank Redemption (his best in my opinion)

I liked both of those movies but I haven't read the books. I think the former is spelled Langoliers but I'm not sure either. :D

[yea_thats_right1]

I've always liked your comments, yea....until you compared Koontz ti King. I've read a lot of both, and Koontz is for 7th graders. King is an American Institution. Shawshank Redemption. Stand By Me. The Green Mile. The Shining...all EXCELLENT movies...all of them deviated from the book, but that's ok, that's why Stephen King is an author first...you get a choice.

'hangs head'... im sorry to dissapoint you...

[theicidal maniac]

'hangs head'... im sorry to dissapoint you...

LOL...I'm so sure, but thanks for feigning respect. Here, try a new author...Chuck Palahniuk...may I suggest "Choke" or "Fight Club"

[theicidal maniac]

I liked both of those movies but I haven't read the books. I think the former is spelled Langoliers but I'm not sure either. :D

Langoliers movie was just awful, but the short story appeared in "4 past midnight" which was a great story collection

[twisted_screams]

I love Stephen King, I am slowly collecting all his movies i have most of his books also. I actually liked the girl who loved Tom Gorden but then again all his stuff doesn't have to be scary for me to love it. I also have read the long walk and the running man both of which he wrote under the pen name Richard Bachman. I just bought The Green Mile today my old one was wearing out. I like how he gets into peoples heads. I also like the Langoliers but for some damn reason i have yet to find it on dvd. I am slowly getting my fiancee to liking him also

[freakazoid]

'hangs head'... im sorry to dissapoint you...

No need to hang your head, all opinions welcomed and respected. http://forum.bullshit.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

[yea_thats_right1]

lol thanks i did that with sarcasm or at least it was intended with sarcasm :) i love dean koontz especially the odd thomas series.. hes an amazing writer and poet :)

[lynnifer21]

choke and fight club are both amazing books as well. def. good stuff.
as to the four past midnight collection...def. my fav. out of those was secret window, secret garden. and the movie...well it did deviate a bit...but was still a killer movie. but then i think i've only seen one johnny depp movie that i DIDN'T like...which was Pirates II. Freakin' brilliant movie tho. Langoliers movie was eh...kinda cheezy, but obviously the book was awesome.
dean koontz is pretty good...i like mr. murder and dragon tears, but never really got into him as much as king... I mean king is a goshdamn genius. the parallels of reality in the dark tower blew my mind, as well as the references to his other books...amazing amazing.

[theicidal maniac]

No need to hang your head, all opinions welcomed and respected. http://forum.bullshit.com/images/icons/icon14.gif

Oh yeah...that's what he says to the hot girl....what a sellout. Just cuz yea is superdooper and has got the bomb he all of a sudden respects her opinion.

[theicidal maniac]

choke and fight club are both amazing books as well. def. good stuff.
as to the four past midnight collection...def. my fav. out of those was secret window, secret garden. and the movie...well it did deviate a bit...but was still a killer movie. but then i think i've only seen one johnny depp movie that i DIDN'T like...which was Pirates II. Freakin' brilliant movie tho. Langoliers movie was eh...kinda cheezy, but obviously the book was awesome.
dean koontz is pretty good...i like mr. murder and dragon tears, but never really got into him as much as king... I mean king is a goshdamn genius. the parallels of reality in the dark tower blew my mind, as well as the references to his other books...amazing amazing.

You know when I watched secret Window the movie WAS EXACTLY...to EVERY TINY DETAIL, characters, scenery, set, mood...what I had imagined when I read the story 8 years before. They NAILED IT, for me.

[yea_thats_right1]

Oh yeah...that's what he says to the hot girl....what a sellout. Just cuz yea is superdooper and has got the bomb he all of a sudden respects her opinion.

im "superdooper"? and ive got the "bomb"? lmao what does that mean?

[who897]

im "superdooper"? and ive got the "bomb"? lmao what does that mean?

Ummm, perhaps you got that junk in the trunk...love the way you work it no diggity no doubt....honestly I have no clue.

[theicidal maniac]

im "superdooper"? and ive got the "bomb"? lmao what does that mean?

Well I heard somewhere that it means bomb-ass poonanner, although I myself would never say anything quite that crass.

And yes you ARE sooperdooper...I wish I was your friend

[lynnifer21]

You know when I watched secret Window the movie WAS EXACTLY...to EVERY TINY DETAIL, characters, scenery, set, mood...what I had imagined when I read the story 8 years before. They NAILED IT, for me.

Oh, I definitely agree with the majority of the movie being spot on exactly what I thought it should be. The deviation that I was referring to was the ending...movie and book are almost opposite endings. However, both equally good.

[yea_thats_right1]

Well I heard somewhere that it means bomb-ass poonanner, although I myself would never say anything quite that crass.

And yes you ARE sooperdooper...I wish I was your friend

lol... thanks then i guess :)

[Ender]

I used to love the Dark Tower books. I was at the book store the day "The Waste Land" came out, and every part after that. "Wizard And Glass" has to be my favorite entry, still. I thought he screwed some things up in it, such as Roland deciding to leave Susan before they killed her. Up to that point he'd been hinting that the death of Susan and the details of their story (which we didn't know until then) had a lot to do with him and the way he was and his desire to find the Tower and fix the world. It was Romance with a capital "R", and not in the Harlequin way. In the epic way. Then he kind of ruined that when Roland looked into the purple ball.

Anyway, it started going downhill with "Wolves Of The Calla", which I thought was mostly filler, largely predictable, and very out of character to how the series had been thus far. Roland dancing the commala? Jeez. Gimme a break. That was not the stone-cold bad-ass who'd gotten me so hooked on the books in the first place, the character was changing and I didn't like it. But even then I had faith, that despite it's small flaws so far Mr. King would finish it right.

Boy, was I friggin wrong. Parts six and seven saw the thing devolve completely into pure crap. The whole idea of Mordred was horrible, from conception to execution, he mishandled the whole thing. Up until "Wolves Of The Calla" the series had been leading to a final confrontation between Roland and Martin, that's five books spent going one direction. Then in the sixth book, the next to last, he introduces Mordred, who completely screwed up everything.

Roland had a deep history with Martin, involving Roland's mother, his father, Susan, just about everything stretching throughout his long life had had Martin looming in the shadows somewhere. They were destined to have a good old-fashioned showdown, a high-noon meeting between good and evil. And then poof, there's Mordred in part 6, who kills Martin, and is subsequently killed himself in a truly unimpressive and not at all interesting or suspenseful manner. Leaving us with the Crimson King. The big bad of big bads. Who Roland dispatches by...wait, Roland didn't do jack against him. He had some kid who had been introduced into the series in Part 7 do the job, by ERASING HIM (yes, I know about "Insomnia" but it doesn't count). Man, what crap.

I wasn't even all that upset with what Roland found when he finally entered the Tower. It was everything leading up to it that sucked. For the first four volumes I was completely enthralled, I loved those books and those characters like nothing else. Hell, I dreamed about them sometimes. Honestly. Mr. King laid the foundation for something awesome, and then capped it off with something awful. Sigh.

That turned out to be a bit longer of a first post than I'd intended. Anyway, I've read all his other crap too. Most of it's crap. My favorite has to be "The Dark Half". Although right up there are "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon", "The Dead Zone", "From A Buick 8", and "Thinner".

And one book of his that I thought definitely improved when translated to the big screen was "Needful Things". It was a much better on celluloid than on paper, mostly because the movie people took King's horrible ending and made it 100 times better.