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Seven of the top ten books of all time are by Ayn Rand or L. Ron Hubbard... who knew?
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You have got to respect a movie that will just make up a whole mythology for a character after like 9 movies.
Also I'm not sure how people feel about FvJ but I adore that movies attention to detail.
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Wouldn't you have posted that before fuzzball did?
But on the off chance that someone who wants to read them but hasn't does read this thread
you know
it takes, like,
ten seconds to do
If you haven't seen it/read it/heard it ten years after release, live with the fact that it'll probably get spoiled somewhere/somehow?
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
And that is a great crime indeed.
The film does such an earnest and decently acted job of presenting the source material that you can only beg for death while you watch these poor fucks hang themselves with the rope King gave them.
It is brilliant as a horror movie because the real horror is you, the audience member, writhing through every illogical character decision, every masturbatory exercise in illuminating, poorly, the human condition. Toothpick addiction. Bro cabin bromance. The animals know. Government secrets! Shit monsters!
And at the end, just when you think you can't take anymore, fucking Duddits.
It is a masterpiece; it provides horror not by the story itself, but by presenting the audience with something so atrocious it ruins everyone involved in the film including Stephen King himself. This movie, like any masterpiece of horror, desecrates your childhood and haunts your memory forever. Desperate to forget what you have seen, but unable to do so, the movie (and the book) get locked away in your mind in a little library where secrets are kept safe.
10/10 a masterpiece
got more chains than the snow patrol every one razor thin like an insect stripper pole
Yeah, but at the same time, there's not a lot of effort involved in putting stuff in spoiler tags. It's nice to just minimise that chance of being spoilered for people who haven't had the chance to cosume all media made up until 2002.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
Freddy versus Jason really delivered
I thought it was great
You know what? I can live with that slim chance. I'm pretty goddamn certain no one here is going to read through both Thomas Covenant trilogies if they haven't already. I wouldn't be surprised if someone decided to start reading it just to prove me wrong, but I'm also pretty certain they'd just give up by the second book.
In the amount of time it took you to make that post you could have spoilered your previous post
like
is this really something you want to take a stand on or whatever
it's a tiny, tiny expenditure of effort on your part
it's the smallest of deals for you
okay dude
Wern't they called weasels? Butt weasels? Shit weasels?
I'm pretty sure S. King woke up one morning with "shit weasels" sizzling on his brain pan and then wrote a book around those two words
Yeah. And really, a lot of the stories in here feel kinda like suicide notes. Then again, any time an artist takes their own life, it's easy to go searching for signs in their previous work. There's probably some freshman film theory kid currently writing a paper about Tony Scott slipping cries for help into Top Gun.
Another Pilgrim is probably my favorite story of this collection, thus far, but I'm almost through the title story and it's really hitting at some of my fears re: consciousness and the nature of reality, in a manner much more grounded (and thus, terrifying) than a lot of the speculative fiction that attempts to explore the same stuff.
Hey dude if you haven't read every popular book in existence why are you even in a thread about popular book?
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It's just a click of the mouse to use spoiler tags. It's also just a click of the mouse to buy the book.
"If you don't know who Kendra is, I'm officially not speaking to you."
one was the big sleep, been reading it over the past couple of days. id seen the film a wee while back and i dunno if maybe i was just primed to expect a fairly blistering pace but it really does bomb along. marlowe's interesting, i mean the work hes nominally hired to do (which is what youd expect to be the heart of the plot in detective fiction) is pretty much done by about the halfway point, he only really keeps going because he feels sentimental about the dignity of the old man that hires him in the first place. feels like theres this perpetual tension between the cynicism of how folk mostly conduct themselves and these flashes of sentiment. the misogyny and homophobia are a bit much tho
Quit bitching and just hug it out.
All of you.
We were talking about the Thomas Covenant series by Stephen Donaldson. That hardly counts as popular.
Decided I'm going to reread the Harry Potter series instead. Those ones are good.
are we really talking bad about jason x arguably the greatest friday the 13th movie ever to be set in space
i remember that being a thing and a half when i was in third grade
The Stephen King one? I rarely have anything bad to say about King's novels.
I saw the movie-version of Never Let Me Go on an airplane and I liked it, if only because I thought it was going to be a coming-of-age story about some kids living in a boarding school and I was totally surprised by what the story was actually about.