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Stephen King: Fatal GOP Train Crash ‘Karma’
Breitbart ^ | 1 Feb 2018 | CHARLIE NASH

Posted on 02/01/2018 11:56:52 AM PST by Kazan

tephen King claimed this week’s fatal train crash, which was carrying Republican congressmen and killed one person, was “karma” in a post on Twitter, Thursday.

“A trainload of Republicans on their way to a pricey retreat hit a garbage truck. My friend Russ calls that karma,” King declared, receiving over 6,000 likes.

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To: RedMonqey

Well I don’t like his horror books at all. I liked the movie Christine and then read the book. Big difference, book was dull. Did he do the movie about this housing development built over a graveyard? I saw that one which was sorta okay.


61 posted on 02/01/2018 1:27:49 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Moonlighter; LouieFisk

Thanks, I must be mis-remembering. Maybe “Misery” was the inspiration for the van driver.


62 posted on 02/01/2018 1:49:41 PM PST by Wolfie
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To: SkyDancer
Did he do the movie about this housing development built over a graveyard? I saw that one which was sorta okay.

I believe you're referring to "Poltergeist" and no, it was not one of his scripts(unless he did it under an assumed name.)

Yeah, alot of background and character development gets lost in his book to movie deals. That's why I prefer to watch the movies then read the books the movie is based upon.

The worse "movie, then book" I ever experienced was "Dune" by Frank Herbert.

Eeeegads, was that a disaster!
63 posted on 02/01/2018 1:51:18 PM PST by RedMonqey (Rockets... Lottsa Rockets.)
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To: MoochPooch
King reminds me of Elton John.

I whole heartily agreed. Both were notable for their early successes and both lost that magical touch as they aged.

As the old vaudeville adage goes "Leave them wanting more".

Both ignored this age advice.
64 posted on 02/01/2018 1:58:10 PM PST by RedMonqey (Rockets... Lottsa Rockets.)
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To: RedMonqey
You're right about Dune - had to sit through it but my date paid for it and after, no Mickie-Dee's :)

Questa Verde I think was the name of the development.

65 posted on 02/01/2018 2:01:13 PM PST by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: RedMonqey
very good at his genre, which I describe as glorified comic books

That's a very accurate description. In addition to never writing with syntax or vocabulary above the grade school level, none of King's characters have any real depth. You just get one set of posterboard cutouts, overused tropes, and clichés after another.

The books certainly sell well, but that says nothing of their quality. Barack Obama sold well to voters, and the Kardashians seem to sell well to tv watchers.

66 posted on 02/01/2018 2:04:32 PM PST by ek_hornbeck
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...how’d that van feel?


67 posted on 02/01/2018 2:07:14 PM PST by novemberslady
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To: Mr. K
I think ‘The Stand’ was the last good one.

I agree.

I get the impression that once upon a time King was more conservative. His earlier books had some kind of moral voice.

68 posted on 02/01/2018 2:33:22 PM PST by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: MoochPooch

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>> “I get the impression that once upon a time King was more conservative.” <<

That’ll never fly!

My wife was one of his pupils when he was teaching, and she says he was always out of touch with reality.
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69 posted on 02/01/2018 2:37:23 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: cld51860

ET: How verbose was this script, Gene? Roger?
Ebert: Well, it was as wordy as a Stephen King book intro.
Siskel: Nothing is that wordy fat boy. War and Peace is a quick read next to one of those ...
Ebert: Bite my crank Gene. You’re dead.

Yes, the TV movie reeked. He can’t seem to break out of his niche market of `tards, Larpers and basement dwelling failures to launch.
And his opus magnum `The Gunslinger’ was a monumental movie fail. I don’t know why King’s movies blow-so-badly.
Oh yeah. It’s because the stories are stupid.
If you want to see a real stinker, watch `Desperation’.
More years than I care to remember I bought his books & car tapes because of a stressful job. Now, when trying to read his stuff, I find it’s not only baloney but I can’t help but think about that nearsighted weenie gnashing his buck-teeth and cursing president Trump.


70 posted on 02/01/2018 2:52:42 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all white armed conservatives)
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To: SkyDancer

Cuesta Verde

“Where Dreams Come True”

Where nightmares Come True.


71 posted on 02/01/2018 3:53:20 PM PST by RedMonqey (Rockets... Lottsa Rockets.)
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To: Vince Ferrer
Dunno about that. The nutcase Ed Deepneau in Insomnia was a Democrat, albeit allegedly pro-life, and Randall Flagg in The Stand seemed more of a barbaric collectivist like Saddam Hussein or Josef Stalin.
72 posted on 02/01/2018 4:03:55 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: RedMonqey

The Shining was actually made into a Jack Nicholson vehicle that wasn’t very faithful to the plot in 1980 and also a TV miniseries that was much more faithful. I like the miniseries better.


73 posted on 02/01/2018 4:06:46 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
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To: Kazan

“A trainload of Republicans on their way to a PRICEY retreat...”

Because Democrats hold their retreats at abandoned barracks, or off-season Bible campgrounds.


74 posted on 02/01/2018 4:20:37 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: Kazan

How does “karma” fit in to his narrative, considering that the train that crashed was carrying physicians who saved lives of victims?

And for an allegedly smart guy, he doesn’t understand karma. According to whatever religions karma is related to (Buddist? Hundu?) karma is what happens AFTER death in reincarnation, not getting paybacks — good or bad — later in life.


75 posted on 02/01/2018 4:25:08 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Carrie's mother
76 posted on 02/01/2018 7:41:37 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Kazan

Guess I’ll be cancelling my “Stephen King” tour I had booked for Maine this August. Any ideas for substitutions? I’ve been to Maine before many times but hubs has never been.


77 posted on 02/02/2018 2:54:30 AM PST by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: cld51860

Gerald’s Game was one of many boring wastes of trees by this hasbeen.


78 posted on 02/02/2018 7:36:13 AM PST by AmericanMermaid
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To: AbolishCSEU

I’m a John Sandford fan. His genre, though, is murder mysteries, not horror.


79 posted on 02/02/2018 11:28:51 AM PST by Kazan
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