oyster Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I just realized this. I finished 'Duma Key' this morning and boy let me tell you. Mother fucker can't fucking write himself out of a fucking paper bag. What a fucking queer. What a cocksucker. I mean the fucking god damn beginning and early middle of his books are always so good it's like 'why did I think this guy was a bad writer' then all of a sudden some stupid fucking shit just comes out of nowhere "oh it's a ghost ship oh gee I'm being strangled by a zombie oh look there's Wireman with a funny one liner before he kills the zombie" I mean what the fuck guys? Seriously? Seriously? Fuck. I was actually sitting in study hall when that fucking bullshit starts and I was fucking rolling my fucking eyes I mean what the fuck is this shit guys? Guys? Fuck Stephen fucking King. Fuck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Demon nights was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I know man... King is shite. However I thought 'It' was quite good... I was 14 when I read that though. And even then I though the ending was a load of cheesy bullshit (giant space spiderz and turtles m8). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyster Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Some of his books are pure genius, yeah. He's a great author actually. For the first half of his books at least. What a shitty author. God. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I just realized this. I finished 'Duma Key' this morning and boy let me tell you. Mother fucker can't fucking write himself out of a fucking paper bag. What a fucking queer. What a cocksucker. I mean the fucking god damn beginning and early middle of his books are always so good it's like 'why did I think this guy was a bad writer' then all of a sudden some stupid fucking shit just comes out of nowhere "oh it's a ghost ship oh gee I'm being strangled by a zombie oh look there's Wireman with a funny one liner before he kills the zombie" I mean what the fuck guys? Seriously? Seriously? Fuck. I was actually sitting in study hall when that fucking bullshit starts and I was fucking rolling my fucking eyes I mean what the fuck is this shit guys? Guys? Fuck Stephen fucking King. Fuck. I love King, but I agree about Duma Key. It starts alright, some of it in the middle is quite good. Then it reaches the end and I actually just started skimming pages. Very dull and generic. This said, I think he may have something interesting cooked up for his next. "Under the Dome" is like 1,000 pages and the premise sounds fun. hes been working on it for 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funkaholic Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I loved misery and the shining, it is good for the first half but the second was very bad, fell apart and i was unsucked from the it world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 salems lot is so epically good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyster Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 I think King's problem is in what he considers his strong point. If you read his book about writing, he talks about how he never pre-plots his books, he just starts writing and let's the story's work themselves out. Well this is probably why his endings always suck so bad, are always so 'deux ex machina'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Moss Acid Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 richard bachman.. not a bum note in all of his RB books! read it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenton Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 The Regulators (1996) is fucking shit. Haven't read the latest Bachman though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I think King's problem is in what he considers his strong point. If you read his book about writing, he talks about how he never pre-plots his books, he just starts writing and let's the story's work themselves out. Well this is probably why his endings always suck so bad, are always so 'deux ex machina'. Yup. One of the most irritating things he said was that outlining is for hacks. No, writing and hoping you have some idea of where it may go but not really knowing is for hacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I think King's problem is in what he considers his strong point. If you read his book about writing, he talks about how he never pre-plots his books, he just starts writing and let's the story's work themselves out. Well this is probably why his endings always suck so bad, are always so 'deux ex machina'. Yup. One of the most irritating things he said was that outlining is for hacks. No, writing and hoping you have some idea of where it may go but not really knowing is for hacks This imo. Quite a foolish thing to think youre a genius and able to create a masterpiece by just sitting down for 2 weeks and writing along like Goethe did with Werther..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capsaicin Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I liked The Shining and The Stand, but those are the only novels of his i've read I read the Gunslinger, too. That one was good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest assegai Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 reminds me of this... http://tubearoo.com/articles/64215/Best_of_Family_Guy.html ffw to 3:30 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyster Posted May 10, 2009 Author Share Posted May 10, 2009 Yeah actually 1-3 of the Dark Tower series are good sense the whole Dark Tower series is supposed to be one book, it's like reading three books Stephen King's beginnings where his imagination is really a driving power behind the books, before he tries to wrap everything up really cheaply and stupidly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 could be worse, you could be reading james herbert or dean r koontz in a deserted X lies a Y. when troubled [protagonist], an exceptionally talented P, moves in due to B, he discovers Z and A happens. [protagonist] discovers he's [unlikely macguffin] and must rediscover his hidden Q to save the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Drahken Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 lamp monster Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my usernames always really suck Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 No, writing and hoping you have some idea of where it may go but not really knowing is for hacks Most stories by Bradbury, Ellison, Vonnegut, and other typewriter weenies are written on that kind of stream-of-consciousness, unplanned writing, and they're not hacks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sneaksta303 Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 f u pod. F everyone in this thread apparently, except for Chris Moss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaini Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 No, writing and hoping you have some idea of where it may go but not really knowing is for hacks Most stories by Bradbury, Ellison, Vonnegut, and other typewriter weenies are written on that kind of stream-of-consciousness, unplanned writing, and they're not hacks. philip k dick is awesome, and wrote his best stuff in an amphetamine-fuelled three year not-having-any-idea-of-where-it-may-go-but-really-knowing binge of hacktasticness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mr Salads Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Yeah actually 1-3 of the Dark Tower series are good sense the whole Dark Tower series is supposed to be one book, it's like reading three books Stephen King's beginnings where his imagination is really a driving power behind the books, before he tries to wrap everything up really cheaply and stupidly. You mean 1-4. It peaked with 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest abusivegeorge Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 Philip K Dick is fucking brilliant so too is Kurt Vonnegut. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thehauntingsoul Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 dark tower is fucking outstanding. I loved all of them, all the way to the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YEK Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 my roommate is a huge fan. infact King is probably all he reads.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marf Posted May 10, 2009 Share Posted May 10, 2009 I liked the movies Misery, The Shining, and dead zone though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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