did you read Stephen King as a kid?

[redbreegull]

let me know when you get the wall done, we can play punk bingo

[redbreegull]

I'm gonna guess that behind you was actually just the free space

[Elphenor]

It was Suicide's s/t btw

[Elphenor]

you just disappoint me rbg because otherwise I like you just fine enjoy reading most your posts

[redbreegull]

college doesn't last forever man

[Elphenor]

you trying to lecture me on maturity though

[Elphenor]

when you get out of college you have to go back to liking the stuff you liked as a teenager forever

[buzzard]

It's easy enough to admit that King is a good storyteller with a vast imagination, but he's certainly no master of the language and I don't believe I've ever felt particularly impressed by any one sentence he's crafted.

The Harry Potter books are pure garbage, on the other hand. Has anybody ever read any of the one and a half books she did that aren't about a child wizard succeeding in various pursuits?

[Elphenor]

thought that was a popular opinion actually on both accounts

the best thing to happen for that series was the movie deal

[redbreegull]

by popular opinion I assume you mean people you know because it's pretty obvious the real popular opinion is not that harry potter sucks

[redbreegull]

also the movies wtf that is truly inexplicable

I don't even know how the movies are comprehensible to people who haven't read the books

[buzzard]

It's too tempting to assume that redbreegull was a huge fan of The Da Vinci Code. That being said, he couldn't be more correct that the Elphenor selfie-posturing was a complete and utter disgrace.

Taking sides ain't always easy.

[redbreegull]

I tried to read the prequel to DaVinci code when I was in like 7th grade or whenever the movie came out cause everyone was all about it but it was too bad. I got to the second chapter and there was some passage about a woman descending air stairs as she exited a plane, and Brown was going on about her slender figure and small breasts and I was just like puhhhh leeeeeeaaaaaaze

[redbreegull]

[crabshack]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

Stephen King also has a book about writing in which he talks about his own life and career as a writer twisted together with a lot of advice and encouragement for up-and-comers, and I would actually really recommend it to anyone interested in writing fiction or otherwise.

King is "typecast" as a horror writer but that's a super limited perspective on him. I mean I'm not saying he's a great writer, but he does have a lot to offer in the same kind of way as J.K. Rowling or other good pop writers, and shouldn't just be written off because of whatever stigma is there

This is a great book. Love hearing about him going on all nighters, blacking out, and waking up with tampons stuck in his nose to stop the blood flow from all the coke he did.

trashcan full of beer cans and ciggy butts.

[redbreegull]

stephen king LOVES harry potter btw

[crabshack]

if "on writing" was a rock bio it would be in my top 5

[crabshack]

Originally Posted by LaBelle

I read a couple Stephen King books around 12, 13. But what really got to me back then was reading Frankenstein and Interview With The Vampire, those really stuck with me.

Also I loved Jack London's Call of the Wild, I had to read it for 8th grade and loved it a lot.

Frankenstein, Dracula, and Invisible Man for me.

Those books are incredible.

That original black and white version of Invisible Man is my favorite "scary" movie of all time.

[redbreegull]

you guys are smart, Frankenstein would have been beyond my 12-year-old mind. Tolkien was life back then.

[crabshack]

Wal-Mart used to sell classics 2 for $1

[ohnoitsbonnie]

I saw a stephen king book on the subway tracks at 53rd street while waiting for the downtown E and for two weeks I'd take pics of it and report in to my friends and family about its condition

[LaBelle]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

you guys are smart, Frankenstein would have been beyond my 12-year-old mind. Tolkien was life back then.

Not gonna sit here and tell you I had a very deep and refined understanding of those books at that age.
Basically they scared the crap out of me.

[FoolofaTook]

Originally Posted by redbreegull

This is great. I approve.

[KR155Y]

I started reading Stephen King when I was 12. Pet Sematary was the first book I read. Been reading his books ever since then.

[FoolofaTook]

Are you a reader that is male or a reader that is female?

If you are a male plz disregard the following courtship.

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by buzzard

It's too tempting to assume that redbreegull was a huge fan of The Da Vinci Code. That being said, he couldn't be more correct that the Elphenor selfie-posturing was a complete and utter disgrace.

Taking sides ain't always easy.

It wasn't about posturing it was me being proud of decorating my wall

I didn't even pick obscure krautrock albums

[Elphenor]

Parents just don't understand

[Elphenor]

Originally Posted by crabshack

Frankenstein, Dracula, and Invisible Man for me.

Those books are incredible.

That original black and white version of Invisible Man is my favorite "scary" movie of all time.

I read Invisible Man and it was so good

Actually reading Dracula right now

[yo soy el mejor]

over xmas break i'm going to finish homage to catalonia. any other recommendations like such as that book? i like my books a little "dull" with lots of detail.

[FoolofaTook]

Dracula is ok, frankenstein is good,, anything by hg wells is excellent.