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10-05-2007, 07:20 PM
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| | | cujo
just started it. so far, so good.
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10-05-2007, 07:21 PM
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| | | it's ok. have you seen the movie?
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10-05-2007, 07:22 PM
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| | LOVE that book! One of my all time faves.....the movie is great too!  |
10-05-2007, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by kate425  it's ok. have you seen the movie? | i saw the movie a very long time ago..but never read the book. Quote:
Originally Posted by Meg LOVE that book! One of my all time faves.....the movie is great too! | got this at a library book sale about 6 months ago along with about 10 others. just getting around to this one. gotta love SK!!
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10-05-2007, 07:25 PM
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| | i  stephen king. amazing fiction author. i won't give away the ending then 
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10-05-2007, 07:25 PM
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| | I think that would have to be one of the books that has scared me the most...mostly b/c there's so little supernatural involved, it could happen! A rabid St. Bernard going apeshit would be a scary thing! 
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10-05-2007, 07:27 PM
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| | | it would be pretty scary! but i think that's why i didn't like this book, it felt too tame to me, if that makes sense.
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10-05-2007, 07:28 PM
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| | | I agree Kate....tame in a SK kind of way. I still love Misery. Great book and excellent movie. |
10-05-2007, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by kate425 i stephen king. amazing fiction author. i won't give away the ending then | better not!!  Quote:
Originally Posted by aswin I think that would have to be one of the books that has scared me the most...mostly b/c there's so little supernatural involved, it could happen! A rabid St. Bernard going apeshit would be a scary thing! | yeah, probably wouldn't have worked if he used a chihuahua huh i hate that the dog was so friendly in the beginning...i just got to the part where he got bit by the bat 
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10-05-2007, 07:30 PM
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| | | i am terrified of bats. there is one living in my mom's basement, and i'm always afraid it's going to bite me!
meg- misery is a great book/movie. my fav. is the stand, hands down.
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10-05-2007, 07:44 PM
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| | | the only time i see bats is at night around street lights. that's as close as i need to be.
Insomnia is a good one too!!
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10-05-2007, 07:45 PM
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| | | Insomnia, yes very good.
Thinner...... anyone, anyone? |
10-05-2007, 07:47 PM
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| | it was ok, but it reminded me of a story that you would tell at a slumber party or something 
and insomnia, did not like. it actually put me to sleep, ironically.
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10-05-2007, 07:51 PM
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| | | haven't read Thinner yet.
Dark Towers is way up there with The Stand. i hated when i finished the last book.
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10-05-2007, 08:01 PM
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| | | thinner is a quick one, read it after cujo!!
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10-05-2007, 08:08 PM
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that book is the reason why i'm ascared of clowns and balloons  |
10-05-2007, 08:10 PM
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| | | I love Stephen Kings books. Cujo was pretty good. I actually hated Insomnia though, I thought it was really boring. I'm trying to read all of his books excluding the dark towers series. I really enjoyed Needful Things and It.
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10-05-2007, 08:39 PM
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| | | But the good thing about the Dark Tower books is that you could just keep reading them over and over again LOL One book that I love(well, okay, two) is The Talisman, that he wrote w/Peter Straub, and the sequel The Black House. Not your typical SK fare, but still good!
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10-05-2007, 09:29 PM
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| | | the black house was hard to get into for me, but after i got going, it was great!!
kate-i'll be sure to read Thinner after this one. i have so many books that i have not even read. i tried to read the tommyknockers, but couldn't get into it. anyone?
i read the regulators not long ago....quick read and pretty good.
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10-06-2007, 02:54 PM
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| | Same here w/Tommyknockers, at least the first time I tried to read it. Then I waited a few years and tried again, and found it easier to read  Don't know why, but it worked. Actually, I was the same way with the Dark Tower books initially!
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10-07-2007, 03:21 PM
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| | | i loved the tommyknockers! try it again, it takes a bit to get into.
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10-07-2007, 05:51 PM
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| | i will after cujo and thinner
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10-08-2007, 03:54 AM
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| | I remember watching Cujo with my brothers when I was in grade 3, it was the first horror movie I saw. Then I read the book in grade 8 or something. I liked the book a lot better. Poor doggy |
10-13-2007, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by pacosdad the black house was hard to get into for me, but after i got going, it was great!!
kate-i'll be sure to read Thinner after this one. i have so many books that i have not even read. i tried to read the tommyknockers, but couldn't get into it. anyone?
i read the regulators not long ago....quick read and pretty good. | I'm with you Jesse, that was the one book of his I couldn't (and still can't) get into much.
I have every one of his books, even his first one, which was only in print a very short time.
Nearly all his books are favourites of mine, and all for different reasons. I like how he melds in characters and places from other novels and short stories into his more recent books.
I think my standouts are IT and The Stand (and not forgetting the Dark Tower series )
And of course the compilations of his very many and varied short stories.
whoo don't get me started on Stephen King. He Rocks
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10-15-2007, 12:40 PM
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| | | Cujo the book is soo much better than the movie IMO. The movie ending cops out (don't want to ruin it for Jesse.) The beginning starts out kind of slow, but the way he blends the turmoil of their relationship to the dog is brilliant. One of my favorite SK books.
Thinner was the first SK book I read and I didn't like it at the time...that was a long time ago so I may like it better now.
I don't care for most of the movie adaptations - most seem boring and don't give the books justice. 'Stand By Me' and 'The Green Mile' are my favorite movie adaptations.
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