Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 11:13 am
The Fourhour Workweek.
Holy fuck what a book.
Holy fuck what a book.
The series was better,hellboy wrote:The Stand is still one of my favorite books of all time. It's worth it.
What series?The Boss wrote:The series was better,hellboy wrote:The Stand is still one of my favorite books of all time. It's worth it.
Sorry The story was much bettwrhellboy wrote:What series?The Boss wrote:The series was better,hellboy wrote:The Stand is still one of my favorite books of all time. It's worth it.
Sorry, I still don't understand. The story/series/something was much better than what (The Stand I presume)?The Boss wrote:Sorry The story was much bettwrhellboy wrote:What series?The Boss wrote:
The series was better,
Did you like The Family Corleone?N.Y.H.C. wrote:just finished "the Talisman", fucking excellent book. I have "Dr. Sleep" on the way.. currently reading Mario Puzo's lost Godfather prequel screenplay (turned into a novel, posthumously) "The Family Corleone", it's an easy read especially if you're a Godfather freak like me.
Yeah, you are now my favourite FE member.UndKeineZwEier wrote:Stephen King's books would be a lot better if he actually planned out an ending before he started writing. It's annoying how many of his books end with the main characters using some sort of bullshit magic to solve their problems. Even the books that don't have a deus-ex machina event generally have unsatisfying endings. Duma Key is the perfect example of a good book that really falls apart at the end.
He could also use an editor, someone to trim some of the fat off of some of these books. 11/22/63 really did not need that weird "time hobo" subplot.
I feel like there was another complaint I wanted to add, but I don't remember what it was.
Anyways, The Talisman is probably one of the better books he's written. Probably because it was co-written by Peter Straub. Really solid modern fantasy adventure book. Really enjoyed it.
I just remembered my other complaint.
Black House was alright, but had too much Stephen King in it. It wasn't as much fun as The Talisman. It didn't help that it had to be tied into The Dark Tower. That's my third complaint about Stephen King, he has to fucking tie everything into the Dark Tower lore. I don't want to have to read 7 other books to understand this one book that is a sequel to another book that wasn't related at all to those other 7 books.
Anyways I've read a couple of Peter Straub books and they're pretty good. At least Ghost Story is, I don't really remember much of the other one. Lost Boy, Lost Girl was the other one and I do remember thinking it was pretty good, but it's been a few years. I revisited Ghost Story last year and that one holds up, so I'd assume Lost Boy, Lost Girl does as well.
Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?The Boss wrote:Helljoy: I remember read "THE STAND" as a series of extremely short novellas. Thus, the "series" was better.
I don't remember anything, to be honest. Sorry for the confusion.
Nah, brother, seriously:hellboy wrote:Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?The Boss wrote:Helljoy: I remember read "THE STAND" as a series of extremely short novellas. Thus, the "series" was better.
I don't remember anything, to be honest. Sorry for the confusion.
Not so much a case of not believing you (though I can't find anything by searching on Google). More that I'm trying to get more info so that I can find them, as I expect they'd be something I'd enjoy reading.The Boss wrote:Nah, brother, seriously:hellboy wrote:
Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?
I bought this "package" from a second hand book store: It was seven (?) VERY thin novellas of "THE STAND".
I'm starting to get that this was something incredibly unique, so I get why you don't believe me.
Oh, really? Sorry, I read you all wrong, then.hellboy wrote:Not so much a case of not believing you (though I can't find anything by searching on Google). More that I'm trying to get more info so that I can find them, as I expect they'd be something I'd enjoy reading.The Boss wrote:Nah, brother, seriously:hellboy wrote:
Yeah, not sure what you're talking about still. There are no novellas for The Stand as far as I can tell. Maybe you're thinking of Stand By Me?
I bought this "package" from a second hand book store: It was seven (?) VERY thin novellas of "THE STAND".
I'm starting to get that this was something incredibly unique, so I get why you don't believe me.
Yes. As I said, they were, as far as I could tell, the actual chapters - broken up into novellas.hellboy wrote:They were actual stories, not graphic novels?
it's just fun. I've been doing that lately. whatevers fun. life's been crazy. need to just sit back and be entertained sometimes I guess. I haven't read anything thought provoking in a while actually.The Boss wrote:Ugh, people who read King.
And think that reading him is worth it.
Just, ugh.
I'm happy you read that one. It was very interesting. It would make a good movie.hellboy wrote:I tend to read before bed so really thought provoking stuff is a little counteractive. Stephen King stuff is fine in that regards, though I don't really like his horror stuff so I'm no fanboi.
His recent book with time travel and JFK was interesting