Das Book: the very new reading thread

[dieblucasdie]

While generally I wouldn't give someone shit for liking King, I will give someone shit for liking *new* King.

[guanajuato]

i'm reading the new stephen king novel, "duma key". everyone give me shit now.

How is that so far? Any good?

[Andrew_TSKS]

blucas, i think i've said this on here before, but "lisey's story" was his best non-dark tower book since "gerald's game". it's one of my top 10 king books--and believe me, i was surprised too, but obviously he hasn't completely lost his talent.

milly, yeah, it's pretty good so far. only about 100 pages in, so i don't really know how it will fare as a whole, but so far i'm liking it.

and by the way, i read that bachman book from 1973 that he just finally put out, "blaze", just before i read this. although it wasn't as good as some of his early stuff, it was definitely a lot more like that stuff than anything he's done in a long time, so i would recommend it to people who dig the 70s-early 80s king stuff.

[das kranke Tier]

i read that bachman book from 1973 that he just finally put out, "blaze", just before i read this. although it wasn't as good as some of his early stuff, it was definitely a lot more like that stuff than anything he's done in a long time, so i would recommend it to people who dig the 70s-early 80s king stuff.

I'd kind of be interested in checking this out

[guanajuato]

blucas, i think i've said this on here before, but "lisey's story" was his best non-dark tower book since "gerald's game". it's one of my top 10 king books--and believe me, i was surprised too, but obviously he hasn't completely lost his talent.

andrew, i'm guessin' no matter how you sell king, you're not gonna find too many buyers on this board! i speak from experience!


i haven't found his last couple books too stimulating, but i'll pick this up.

[elpollodiablo]

Eli "McDouchebag" Roth is directing the adaptation of "Cell" y'know

[dieblucasdie]

It was pretty inevitable, really.

The thing about Stephen King is that most of his books are gripping for the first 200 pages; it's generally the last 200-600, when he starts to explain that the monster is like, an ageless god, or that the dude can't sleep because his aura is fucked-up, that make me want to visit tortures worthy of his increasingly far-fetched books upon him.

[das kranke Tier]

the dude can't sleep because his aura is fucked-up

Hey, I read that one...it was not good.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Yeah it was really engaging and creepy for the 200 and then it was like, wait what?  Go back to talking about midget doctors with rusty scissors

[Andrew_TSKS]

won't deny that "insomnia" isn't good. the character that shows up in the last book of the dark tower series isn't my favorite part of that book either. the thing i really like about king is his characters. the man's really good at characterization. i actually like his stories the best when the monster-type stuff is more in the background.

[guanajuato]

Eli "McDouchebag" Roth is directing the adaptation of "Cell" y'know

Roth had the best commercial in Grindhouse where the bad guy is sexxing up a turkey. Sort of equals out The Hostel movies.

[dieblucasdie]

dude could make the film of our generation and it wouldn't cancel out the hostel movies

but I'mna go out on a limb and say "Cell" isn't going to be the film of our generation

[guanajuato]

have you seen eli roth's 'commercial' in grindhouse?
if there's a film of our generation, it's the film of our generation.

[Andrew_TSKS]

i feel like "cell" might work as a movie, even though it kinda didn't as a book. i don't know about eli roth doing it, though.

blucas, you do realize that his character in "death proof" is named "douchebag" in the credits, right?

[elpollodiablo]

Pointing out the fact that he is a douchebag doesn't make him any less of a douchebag

Same w/r/t the fans of his "films" come to think of it

[Little Sixes Little Nines]

the hostel movies

Oh no. There isn't a sequel. NO!!!

[girl]

in other news, i'm still doing okay with my "read more books!" initiative, and am ploughing through Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig. it's pretty ok! so far there's some dudes in prison and the whole thing's told in dialogue/silent thought of the characters, and most of it's the one dude recounting the stories of movies he's seen to the other dude. i think it was written in the 70s and i'm reading a translation. it's certainly drawing me in so here's hoping it doesn't suddenly get lame or anything, and render this description redundant.

I always meant to read that book. Thanks for the reminder. There was a movie. I remember it being quite good. William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga--I think William Hurt won an Oscar. 

[Andrew_TSKS]

Pointing out the fact that he is a douchebag doesn't make him any less of a douchebag

not saying that, just thought that blucas might find it funny if he didn't know already.

the hostel movies

Oh no. There isn't a sequel. NO!!!

fraid so.

[davy]

i'm reading the new stephen king novel, "duma key". everyone give me shit now.

it's got a really, really, really lame cover?

like, teen-horror-novel lame.

(that's all i got.)

[rockmeamadeus]

dark tower was FLY, man. Personally I think the first one, the Gunslinger, is a fuckin broody post-apocalyptic masterpiece, and the rest are ok. Though the Wizard and Glass, wherein young Roland kicks ass and has sex, was pretty good.
fin.

[guanajuato]

yeah totally. wizard and glass was a high point in modern american fantasy. i think a lot of people were disappointed after that, but in his defense, he had nowhere to go but down.

[rockmeamadeus]

true that.

[Andrew_TSKS]

the rewritten version of the gunslinger definitely improves the overall quality of the book. but if you ask me, the first through fourth get progressively better. then the fifth is less good, the sixth bottoms out, and the seventh recovers a bit and is actually pretty good. no doubt wizard and glass is the best, though.

[rockmeamadeus]

rewritten version, what?
I loved the OG, didn't know there was a rewritten version.

[Andrew_TSKS]

yeah, he rewrote it when he did the last three volumes because he thought the original version, which he wrote as a teenager, was kinda crappy. here's what will really blow your mind, though--read the first version of the gunslinger, then read the entire series, then read the new version of the gunslinger. if you know how the series ends, i'm sure you can see what i mean.