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The Long Walk is stephen king's most underrated story.
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:20 PM Author: Balding ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716439) |
Date: August 6th, 2020 5:30 PM Author: cracking primrose puppy school cafeteria Long walk and Rage are his two best stories period
Road work is good too. Running man is the best known but the worst of that group. |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:31 PM Author: Balding ticket booth you think columbine shooters read Rage? it was my first thought when hearing of the school shootings. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716512) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:32 PM Author: cracking primrose puppy school cafeteria Sure thought so at the time. King was tapped into something there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716520) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:58 PM Author: 180 poppy forum potus Several school shooters before them did.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(King_novel) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:56 PM Author: Vivacious Turquoise Theater Stage what is road work about? i can't remember. running man wasn't great. |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:57 PM Author: Balding ticket booth long walk?
a bunch of kids, like hundreds walk down us1 from maine. they have to keep a 4 mph pace or after 2 warnings soldiers shoot them dead. the winner, the last guy walking, gets a billion dollars. it follow mainly the point of view of one contestant. |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM Author: Vivacious Turquoise Theater Stage i know the long walk. road work was the 4th story. i don't remember what it is about. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716629) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:01 PM Author: Balding ticket booth i have that collection. maybe i'll reread it. i don't recall that story at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716635) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM Author: effete tattoo road work is a guy who joined a construction crew to bury a mobster who murdered his wife. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716738) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:44 PM Author: aromatic chapel No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717975) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:15 PM Author: cracking primrose puppy school cafeteria Cr. Road work is a guy whose house is getting eminent domain pwned and he loses it, loses his marriage, goes nuts, buys an armory, and blows shit up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718170) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM Author: Balding ticket booth that sounds awesome. i need to reread his shit. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718175) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:28 PM Author: cracking primrose puppy school cafeteria My copy is falling apart. I keep it permanently in the shitter and reread parts rather frequently (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718225) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:36 PM Author: greedy rehab king was still an angry populist back then (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716551) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:38 PM Author: Balding ticket booth i don't know what that means or how that story reflects that. you had to walk 4 mph or you got shot. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716557) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:39 PM Author: greedy rehab it was a subtextual theme in most of his early writings...went away sometime in the 1980s...now he is pure establishment (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716562) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM Author: laughsome hideous personal credit line (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717862) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:25 PM Author: Diverse Lake Stead Pistol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717871) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:27 PM Author: metal soul-stirring doctorate twinkling uncleanness sometimes textual. there's a rant in the Shining about the CIA from some random extra when the black guy is on the plane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717882) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:52 PM Author: greedy rehab or the entire short story, the mangler, set in a laundry...king worked in a laundry...that story was populist as hell (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718014) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:59 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy galvanic hell revival was pretty good for a more recent novel
I like most of his short stories too |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM Author: Balding ticket booth i think the most recent novel i read of his was like salem's lot in hs. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716630) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM Author: effete tattoo doobs was the antagonist of the long walk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40716743) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:46 PM Author: aromatic chapel Not flame... bad guy was a creepy skinny wierdo named "Stebbins" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717977) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:03 PM Author: Balding ticket booth (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718104) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM Author: cracking primrose puppy school cafeteria (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718174) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM Author: laughsome hideous personal credit line cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717861) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:30 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy galvanic hell did you like dolan's cadillac? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40717895) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:02 PM Author: greedy rehab The running man was his most populist work...
here is my ranking of his books and short story collections, best at the top:
'Salem's Lot Pet Sematary Night Shift Different Seasons The Dead Zone The Running Man Firestarter Cujo Christine The Stand Misery It Carrie Skeleton Crew Nightmares & Dreamscapes Thinner
The Shining The Long Walk Roadwork Rage The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger The Talisman The Eyes of the Dragon The Tommyknockers |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM Author: Balding ticket booth what about Apt Pupil? a prestigious athlete stanford bound and blackmailing a nazi war criminal. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718111) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM Author: greedy rehab i didn't really get that as all that much populist...maybe a little...well, the reason i bring this up is because i found king to be a pretty populist writer in his first years...he grew up super poor (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718114) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:05 PM Author: Balding ticket booth i don't care about that stuff. i meant ranking the story (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718119) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM Author: greedy rehab oh, great stuff...all those early shorts and novellas were top notch...only a very few of his books were ever better than his early short stories (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718133) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy galvanic hell i think it was Berkeley. also i think it was in different seasons which he listed (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718116) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM Author: Balding ticket booth yeah maybe. i remember he called his girlfriends tits "balls of meat" and he kills homeless bums. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718125) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy galvanic hell it's the best story in different seasons IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718131) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:09 PM Author: Balding ticket booth fuck. at the time i think it wasn't as exciting it wasn't all action, but after gong through college and shit looking back the story is more horrific and fucked up it passed the test of time well. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718144) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:10 PM Author: Bat-shit-crazy galvanic hell similar feeling about last rung on the ladder by SK (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718151) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:12 PM Author: Balding ticket booth never read that. just saw it's from night shift time and about suicide. that's gotta be fucking sick. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718157) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM Author: Aquamarine deer antler what about the girl who loved tom gordon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718124) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM Author: greedy rehab don't remember that one, but i think i read it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2#40718136) |
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