Posted on 08/13/2022 2:19:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
ROTFL! Oh man....
Just for a second, I was taken in.
Just for a second, I was taken in.
It does, in fact, make perfect sense. RIP ya S King basta.
Years ago I used to enjoy his books not knowing anything about his lunatic lib views until he took an open shot at W Bush in one......that was the last dollar that jackass ever made off of me.
Switched to Dean Koontz and never looked back.
I think when that van ran over king it gave him dain bramage.
Could make for an interesting lawsuit.
Half wit honey badger with dyslexia!! ROFL
Gotta love the Bee. Their satire is the best!
Comparing Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to King’s “true to the book” version of the film adequately describes my problem with Steven King.
Way overrated. He has written a few good books and thats it.
“His Twitter Account Is Being Run By A Mentally Ill, Glue-Sniffing Parrot With Tourette’s”
that’s complete BS: his twitter account is being run by a Mentally Ill, Glue-Sniffing Parrot With Tourette’s that knows how to use a word processor ...
The book is almost always better than the movie...and like alot of writers and musicians the older stuff is also almost always better.
His, "On Writing," is an excellent guide for aspiring writers and is interspersed with autobiographical snippets about different events relevant to his inspiration, dealings with publishers, etc.
I always found it odd that even though he's a looney radical leftist, his protagonists often exhibit pretty conservative/libertarian thoughts and actions.
The whole Dark Tower/Gunslinger series is replete with warnings and admonitions to a world that, "forgot the face of their fathers," i.e. disconnected from their history and traditions. One of the characters in, "Cell," (King's early post-Katrina work) virtually makes the case for the Second Amendment.
In, "On Writing," he says when he writes he goes into a zone and the story plays like a movie in this mind and he doesn't so much create as he records.
The book is almost always better than the movie...and like alot of writers and musicians the older stuff is also almost always better.
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True. Some writers reach a peak, then their work fades. One writer I can think of like that is Tom Wolfe. He hit his peak with books like Right Stuff and Bonfire of the Vanities, then his later books began to feel a bit repetitious. Not bad, by any means, but just not as fresh.
Suing the Bee ... would probably fail and he would look worse publicly than Meritless Garland or Potato Head Wray wearing Melania”s dresses.
He was already brain-damaged. The van incident just removed his filter.
I live about ten minutes away from his place in Bangor. When he’s here, and not at his place in Florida, he can often be seen driving around town (yes, it’s that small). Once, a few years ago, I encountered him at an intersection driving what can only be described as a small “deuce and a half”, and wearing what can only be described as something straight out of Che Guavara’s, or Castro’s closet. He saw me laughing at him as he glared, and turned the corner in front of me until I flipped him off with a big grin, and a wink. ;)
The title is everything you need.
Lordy how I love The Bee
This must have been the same macaw that flicked off all the W keys from the White House computers back in Jan 2001. Wasn’t it the Clinton Newsprint or Cracker Czar back then?
I never especially liked King because he was unrelentingly depressing. Oh, and he hated people like me as a group. That also tends to rub me the wrong way.
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