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Old 10-15-2017, 04:33 PM   #231 (permalink)
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These days a lot of keyboards have a special key for turning letters into capitals.

i wanted to get a little extra attention by being cryptic
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Old 10-15-2017, 04:34 PM   #232 (permalink)
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The Shining and Carrie both have good endings.
Nah. I like the idea of her losing her mind, and it had a creepy vibe, but the kernel of the story clearly did not go past the prom scene, and King just winged it from there.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 10-15-2017, 04:38 PM   #233 (permalink)
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She blew a bunch of **** up iirc.
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Old 10-15-2017, 04:40 PM   #234 (permalink)
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Not quite the same when it's in a book.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 10-15-2017, 05:48 PM   #235 (permalink)
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Fair enough. He's pretty formulaic. What don't you like?
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It's very plain and he puts so much time into boring and irrelevant details.
On the nose. On. The. ****ing. Nose. Spot on. I started reading Salem's Lot for Karen, the guy took like thirty pages or something to introduce one character, or concept. I don't remember which but damn it was boring.

Another author who does this, but who I like, is Stephen Donaldson. My brother has a phrase: "Donaldson has to describe every blade of grass on the journey." It's not far from the truth. I do a lot of exposition and setting up with my own work, but I try to check it when it looks like it might be getting boring (which is never, of course!)

I just don't get King. He's dined out on Carrie, The Shining and Salem's Lot, maybe Pet Semetary and a few others for decades now, but most of the stuff he writes seems to be pretty standard grade, yet you'll meet many people who will tell you "Oh all I read is Stephen King." In some ways, he's both cornered the market on, and simultaneously ruined, the horror novel genre. Give me Barker any day.
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Old 10-17-2017, 10:37 AM   #236 (permalink)
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Old 10-17-2017, 10:40 AM   #238 (permalink)
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