The Shining

[epicor]

Stephen King in general. Discuss.

i only used 6 options as those were the main ones IMO, but he had like 40 movies/books so i wouldnt be able to list them all anyway.

1960 - People, Places, And Things - Volume 1 (limited edition with Chris Chelsey)
1964 - The Star Invaders (limited edition)
1974 - Carrie
1975 - Salem's Lot
1977 - The Shining
1978 - Night Shift (stories)
1978 - The Stand
1980 - Firestarter
1981 - Cujo
1981 - Danse Macabre (nonfiction about horror)
1981 - Roadwork
1982 - Creepshow (comic book, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
1982 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
1982 - Different Seasons (novellas)
1983 - Christine
1983 - Pet Sematary
1983 - Cycle of the Werewolf
1984 - The Talisman (written with Peter Straub)
1985 - Skeleton Crew (stories)
1985 - The Bachman Books (novel collection)
1986 - It
1987 - The Eyes of the Dragon
1987 - Misery
1987 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
1988 - The Tommyknockers
1988 - Nightmares in the Sky (Photo book with text)
1988 - Dark Visions
1989 - The Dark Half
1989 - Dolan's Cadillac (limited edition)
1989 - My Pretty Pony (limited edition)
1990 - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
1990 - Four Past Midnight (stories)
1991 - Needful Things
1991 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
1992 - Gerald's Game
1993 - Dolores Claiborne
1993 - Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories)
1994 - Insomnia
1995 - Rose Madder
1995 - Umney's Last Case
1996 - The Green Mile (originally published as a monthly serial consisting of six parts: The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse on the Mile, Coffey's Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey, and Coffey on the Mile)
1996 - Desperation
1997 - Six Stories (stories)
1997 - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
1998 - Bag of Bones
1999 - Storm of the Century
1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1999 - The New Lieutenant's Rap (limited edition)
1999 - Hearts in Atlantis
1999 - Blood and Smoke (audio book)
2000 - Riding the Bullet (electronically published novella)
2000 - The Plant(electronically published)
2000 - Secret Windows
2000 - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (nonfiction autobiography)
2000 - Dreamcatcher
2001 - Black House (written with Peter Straub)
2002 - From a Buick 8
2002 - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
2003 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (revised edition)
2003 - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
2004 - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
2004 - Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
2005 - The Colorado Kid
2006 - Cell
2006 - Lisey's Story
2008 - Duma Key
1979 - The Dead Zone

[holychicken]

I was looking at a back of a stephen king hard cover book outside of Boston and I see a picture of the author on the book. I look up and there is a guy who looks exactly like him looking at books on the other side of the rack.

"Are you Stephen King?" I say holding up the book and showing him the picture.

"Yup."

"Weird."

"Yup."

"Alright, later."

"OK."

And that is my claim to fame.

[Knocky]

It, for the pedo group sex scene. /lear

That being said....WTF is Gunslinger NOT up there in the polls?

[Daccus]

You forgot the Shining, it's in the topic title, but not in the poll.

I voted for It, I first watched part of it when I was 8 or 9 and was scared of clowns for a couple years.

My favorite movies from King are Shawshank, Stand by Me and The Green Mile. Favorite books would have to be The Green Mile and The Dark Tower.

[halcyonskys]

and i got complained at for not putting in enough seperate consoles in my poll.. lol. boy your really gonna get it.
:D

[epicor]

You forgot the Shining, it's in the topic title, but not in the poll.

I voted for It, I first watched part of it when I was 8 or 9 and was scared of clowns for a couple years.

My favorite movies from King are Shawshank, Stand by Me and The Green Mile. Favorite books would have to be The Green Mile and The Dark Tower.

wow how the hell did i manage that? fail on me.

[Marilyn]

dark tower saga + atlantis
movie would be shining

[Battle]

This has to be the worst poll I have ever seen. You dont really have any of his best work in there.

Shawshank Redemption

[Killuminati]

Stephen King is incredibly overrated

[Jezrith]

Poll options not even close to his main works, no The Stand? No Dark Tower Series? Poll fails, but at least it does so epically, (seriously, "Secret Window"? pffft!)

[HomeStarRunner]

I picked Langoliers but if they were up there, The Stand and The Dark Tower series would far outweigh the available choices.

[Carbonlegend]

Shining

[hardboiled]

Maximum Overdrive.

Don't really like Stephen King that much.

[Slaker]

Your poll failed, where's the shinning?

[paade]

boring books tbh

[BlueElf]

The Stand (my #1 pick).

Storm of the Century (#2) was pretty decent IMO

[Razli]

I've only ever read Dreamcatcher, and watched the movie.

[Slaker]

I've only ever read Dreamcatcher, and watched the movie.

Dreamcatcher is the worst movie ever. Its god damn boring and doesn't even make sense.

[epicor]

just to be clear: I know my poll is the epicest fail of all epic failures to see the DFO OT forums. I am a poll failure and i accept the incoming flames without donning a fire suit of any kind.

/kneel
*offer hands for binding*

[HomeStarRunner]

Dreamcatcher is the worst movie ever. Its god damn boring and doesn't even make sense.

qft.

fact is, with the exception of The Stand and The Mist, all King movies are horrible parodies of his book.

It's unfortunate that so many are turned off of his works by the horrible way directors interpret his amazing works of literature.

[DocGonzo]

bah...King is tripe and a wanna be Lovecraft

[Razli]

Dreamcatcher is the worst movie ever. Its god damn boring and doesn't even make sense.

Indeed, never said I liked it. Book was defo better than the movie, and you are right, it didnt make sense. Specifically the ending.

[Jezrith]

bah...King is tripe and a wanna be Lovecraft

And what works exactly have you read by King?

[Battle]

Poll options not even close to his main works, no The Stand? No Dark Tower Series? Poll fails, but at least it does so epically, (seriously, "Secret Window"? pffft!)

Never read the book but Secret Window was a gawd awful movie. I had the whole thing figured out less than half way through the movie, but figured that I must be wrong because that was just way too simple of a plot for King.

[Barbarossa]

Stephen King books good.

Almost all movies made out of Stephen King books bad.

[HomeStarRunner]

Never read the book but Secret Window was a gawd awful movie. I had the whole thing figured out less than half way through the movie, but figured that I must be wrong because that was just way too simple of a plot for King.

It's a short story by King.

Good story and plot for how short it is. Making it into a movie was a fool's errand.

They added too much and the additions were terrible because it wasn't King doing them.

[BlueElf]

qft.

fact is, with the exception of The Stand and The Mist, all King movies are horrible parodies of his book.

It's unfortunate that so many are turned off of his works by the horrible way directors interpret his amazing works of literature.

I agree, however IMO, this is true of ALL books made to movies, not just King's.

The book is better than the movie 99% of the time.

[DocGonzo]

And what works exactly have you read by King?

everything up to and including Tommyknockers...and then read Needful Things after it came out

Needful Things was about the best...but it still was rather boring, imo

[Jezrith]

everything up to and including Tommyknockers...and then read Needful Things after it came out



Wait, so you read all of those books even though you though it was tripe? Self-flagellation much?


Needful Things was about the best...but it still was rather boring, imo


Better than It, The Stand, the Dark Tower books, and the Bachman Books? Yeah, I really can't take your opinion seriously at this point.

[gtechie]

The Stand and The Dark Tower series were his best that I've read. Actually... they were the best that I've ever read, period!

And I know a guy who used to live next door to Stephen King's brother. Stephen would visit periodically, and my friend said he's a weird guy. I don't have any specific stories, though. Just my friend's creepy feeling that he got around the author.

[Jangang]

Stephen King is teh Suckage! I'd like to pinch a loaf in his eye just so he can experience what I did when I tried to read the garbage he calls Novels. :bang:

[DocGonzo]

Wait, so you read all of those books even though you though it was tripe? Self-flagellation much?



Better than It, The Stand, the Dark Tower books, and the Bachman Books? Yeah, I really can't take your opinion seriously at this point.

i was pretty young as those came out originally...and was reading most anything i could lay my hands on, forming my early opinions

the Stand was bloated, i found it wanting from leaving dangling ends i wanted to see followed up, but were ignored...the metaphor was ok, i thought the way the ending was wrought felt forced...too quickly done and not fitting with the rest

the Dark Tower books...i know many are fans, but things like the Elric books worked better for me

on and on... Needful Things had all the drama and Story of bloated pieces like the Stand or It...yet conveyed them in the tighter medium of a short...thus, to me was a better accomplishment

enjoyment form reading, outside of purely objective criteria involved in the craft itself, are completely subjective... i find King wanting on that level...while appreciating the craft of what he does...your mileage may vary

as to your opinion of my literary taste...you appear to have confused me with someone who gives an aerial fornication bisecting a rotating pastry for what you think...

nuff said?

[Jezrith]

as to your opinion of my literary taste...you appear to have confused me with someone who gives an aerial fornication bisecting a rotating pastry for what you think...


Not confused in the slightest, just pointing out the irrelevancy of your opinion based upon the data you provided. Kind of like how I might point out the irrelevancy of someone's opinion of music based upon that person liking Miley Cyrus. I don't assume this will change their opinion of anything, nor it is an attempt to do so, it's just that I can now feel comfortable safely ignoring that opinion.


nuff said?


Not quite, I have to add in the fact that your attempt to look witty and sophisticated, only made you look goofy and sad. Seriously you can do better than "aerial fornication" come on, man.

[Suitepee]

IT was a good book to read. That and Insomnia.

[Viluin]

It was by far the best. Although it wasn't my favorite, because it traumatized the fuck out of me when I was a little boy.

But it's okay, I turned out all right!

[MinusInnocence]

l2poll, fucking noob. The Shining isn't even a choice.

EDIT: Sorry, someone else already beat me to it. I'm still angry I can't vote for it though.

[kyrilius]

The Shining, you fail.

[Ozzy Wrong]

Stephen King is incredibly overrated

I've been meaning to ask... Is there anything you do like?

[Viluin]

I've been meaning to ask... Is there anything you do like?

Men.

[epicor]

Men.

Vil, we already knew that as per my sig. Thanks for the reminder though.:ninja:

[DocGonzo]

Not confused in the slightest, just pointing out the irrelevancy of your opinion based upon the data you provided. Kind of like how I might point out the irrelevancy of someone's opinion of music based upon that person liking Miley Cyrus. I don't assume this will change their opinion of anything, nor it is an attempt to do so, it's just that I can now feel comfortable safely ignoring that opinion.



Not quite, I have to add in the fact that your attempt to look witty and sophisticated, only made you look goofy and sad. Seriously you can do better than "aerial fornication" come on, man.

pointing out irrelevancy? you are kidding right...or was the irony of you giving an opinion on an opinion's relevance intentional?

doubt it...

you asked how much of his work i had read, i listed it...a decent sampling by any account...i find his characters one, sometimes 2 dimensional and that he doesn't step over the line to explore deeper nuances of the themes he writes about ....at least not enough for my taste....while also stating that i can understand his appeal and have full Respect for his Craft in the art form

you have yet to explain, in any way...what disqualifies my opinions more or less than any other...except that you appear not to agree with it...

which is fair enough...as i stated previously, this is mostly a subjective matter of taste

as for the sniping at the end... silly of me to have gotten extrovert in a literature thread when telling you to take a flying fuck through a rolling donut, but what the hell....

so, add something to the conversation besides ill tempered whining, or get the fuck off my nuts....kk?

tnx