I saw a Canadian flag on someone's porch over the summer and I took a picture because I'd never seen that before.

Agreed. You can’t read The Stand and then claim King is pulp garbage.

Right, because America is. But, we hold our polite, clean Northern little brother in the highest esteem.

I love King and have read nearly everything he has written, but he’s not in the same class as the other authors on my list. And yes, I agree listing Brown was wrong, I was just trying to quickly think of popular contemporary authors.

canada elected doug ford

A national shame and embarrassment to be sure.

Peak King is Dark Tower, not the Stand. Not that The Stand wasn’t a fun read.

Edit: Then he turns around and cranks out a turd like “Cell.”

Never read that series. I’ve meant to forever.

He is a very unique talent and not just a story teller, as he is often dismissed as. On Writing illustrates how seriously he takes the craft.

I wait 20 seconds for the Trump thread to load and get a goddamn author derail. GTFO I want indictments!

Im such a King fan ive read Cell twice, lmao

Let’s get this back on track, Suzzer. Somehow, since you brought up, this thread and others have taken longer to load for me. What’s the deal? It wasn’t like that when you first complained.

14.4 baud modem itt.

And Danse Macabre shows just how much he reveres horror in all mediums. On Writing is great for those who are interested in writing as a craft but as a horror nerd I prefer Danse Macabre

People in the future will remember King only because of Kubrick.

My homegirl Shirley Jackson is immortal.

Those are pretty lol metrics for a lot of reasons. Look up high impact papers in journals and get back to me.

Now that's commitment!

in all honesty, I didn't hate Cell but get why people did. Its clear King isn't comfortable with the zombie genre. There is a reason it took him so long to write one, and to try to tie it into a commentary on phone usage and the disconnection of society from each other due to tech advancement was an interesting choice. I think the main problem was he tried to create a reason behind what had happened. Zombie fiction has always been about society changing, but the best examples of it tend not to have an underlying reason behind the zombification.

For a guy who wrote so much about Ka and Destiny in The Dark Tower, King seems to have a real tough time allowing the explanation for something to be "I don't know."

Either complain to your ISP or get a new computer

The high point of her career is a short story that would have been a mediocre Twilight Zone episode.

And SK appropriated it for a pretty memorable scene in the Dark Tower.

Clovis slowly realizing AIF isn't American was an unexpected highlight today

The location wasn't enough to give it away I guess.

This is ridiculously simple. Companies advertise to sell stuff. If the place they choose to present their ads bothers enough people to protest and/or take action by boycotting them then they get to decide if they want to continue to run the ads in those places.

There is no alternative timeline or fix for people boycotting advertisers. In fact it’s one of the only weapons consumers of all goods have. More importantly as the actual content being sold between tv networks and advertising agencies it is one of only two options. The boycott is effective for those who never did or already stopped viewing the content itself.

The pearl clutching is ridiculous by these yamrods.

People are free to boycott businesses for pretty much any reason they want. I won’t ever eat at a Chipotle again after getting deathly sick in 2 out of 3 visits. Do I actively promote this or try to dissuade others? Not really. But I could if I so desired.

To be honest I am a bit boggled that people have a take that they find boycotts to be distasteful. Of course when they are being done by people whose entire business is based on advertising revenue it is lol.

You forget that right wing boycotts involve destroying products you already own to likely buy them again in the future. So businesses like those boycotts very much. Very, very, very much.

He’s not a writer like Vonnegut or Robbins.

But he is the greatest story teller of our time.


+1 to Dan Brown hate

Da Vinci code was fun.

Inferno might be the worst book
I’ve ever read.