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[challenge entry] Must have bindun....

.....much much much better.

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(b0rk3d Jokes are better than technique!, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:22, archived)
# hate clowns, love that film
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:23, archived)
# Yeah fucking clowns with their big shoes and buckets of glitter!
(I helped save b3ta! Mu Dinofiddler, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:34, archived)
# it's not the shoes and glitter
it's the clothes and the faces
*shudders*
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:35, archived)
# one day i am going to stay up all night
and fill your house with pottery clowns and be dressed as one out side the window (giving me a head start with the running)ans watch you face and spazzing out on them before running for my life
(I helped save b3ta! rollingcabbage is still alive, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:03, archived)
# you'd better fucking run
because if i catch you, i'll do a graham on you, without the breathing hole
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:04, archived)
# Clowns, meh
now glitter, that shit is something to be afraid of
(Omicron 2 years gone in a flash, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:36, archived)
# He got hanged
I saw a documentary on it
(b0rk3d Jokes are better than technique!, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:40, archived)
# i did enjoy watching that
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:44, archived)
# great film up till the stupid giant spider thing
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:44, archived)
# yep
the book was a pain in the arse, you could skip 400 pages and still not really miss anything
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:46, archived)
# quite possibly my favourite book
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:14, archived)
# i've read it twice
both times during hospital stays. it helps to pass the time, but i'd much rather read a terry pratchett
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:16, archived)
# last time i was in hospital
i'd have struggled to lift even a terry pratchett. i read through all the artemis fowl books and then half of les miserables on my ebook reader before i could carry anything that weighed more than about 20g. "it" would have murdered me.

i've probably read it five or six times. i mean, the story's fine though the climax is a bit poo just like almost all stephen king books, but i like how he built the characters and their interactions. same reason that unlike almost everyone else who ever read it, i really enjoyed cujo. see also "wizard and glass", one of the few of his books with a good climax to it.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:19, archived)
# i love cujo
but his later stuff just became a bit samey. have you read eyes of the dragon? it's a great story and the artwork is excellent
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:35, archived)
# oh yeah
that's a brilliant book.

i did stop reading new stephen king novels, years back, around about the time of bag of bones which was simply boring. (though, to be fair, some of his early stuff was also dull as piss. he hit a good spell in the late 70s till the early 90s i think.) i'll still buy his short stories, though. they're as hit and miss as his novels, but there's so many more of them. and he writes stupid things like "the moving finger", one of the few things to actually inspire me to start writing again.

which reminds me. i should buy the newest collection.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:38, archived)
# totally agree with the 70's bit
carrie is another one of my favourites, there's a weird simplicity to it that i just adore
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:44, archived)
# i never actually really liked carrie
but i only read it once, and i was about 17 at the time. i'll try it again at some point. i actually really like the way he was roughly mid 80s, so about when he was writing the dark half, shawshank/the body, it, four past midnight, the running man and so on. after that except for wizard and glass which i absolutely love i think he never topped the 80s stuff.

pure personal opinion, of course.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:52, archived)
# very true
i stopped reading after gerald's game.
got a detention at the age of 7 or 8 for taking carrie into school
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 21:56, archived)
# never read gerald's game
insomnia helped end it all for me. there's good things about it, i'll admit, but overall -- well, it's just rubbish, isn't it? you've got one utterly flimsy character, a woman who's meant to be smart and strong and brave but is just a dismal squawking "OH RALPH DON'T BE SO HORRIBLE!" nobody, and a guy who's meant to be strong and brave and true and a hero and the ultimate good guy and he's just an irritating aggressive dickhead stomping around like a little baby.

ugh.

i believe i tried a few more novels after that - and obviously "bag of bones" but i'd say insomnia was the sign it was all going sour.

except the dark tower series, which certainly went... odd... and never quite beat wizard and glass, but it stayed better. until the very end when roland reaches the field outside the tower. when it's just, well, SHIT.

"hearts in atlantis" was fucking brilliant, mind. he can still do good novellas.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 22:00, archived)
# didn't read bag of bones
but i did manage to find a couple of the dark castle books in the library, which i did enjoy. i like his short stories, the mist was good enough to make me want to watch the film, although i haven't as yet.
(I helped save b3ta! Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 22:03, archived)
# I wouldn't read Bag of Bones if I were you
but go through the whole Dark Tower series. It does get a bit weird but books 2, 3, 4 and 5 (and particularly 4) are sterling work. His short stories have always been his best. I need to see the Mist too -- that one was written as a 50s B movie you should watch at a drive-in. If they've kept that kind of feel then it could be really rather entertaining.
(I helped save b3ta! boris the spider, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 22:50, archived)
# Ambivalent about both clowns and Stephen King.
But this is ok.
(I helped save b3ta! 4Q just lurking, Fri 12 Mar 2010, 20:25, archived)