Under the Dome - Stephen King (1 Viewer)

[SaintsFanInLA]

Despseration & Regulators are linked like Delores Claiborne and Gerald's game are linked, only the former is MUCH more closely related. King liked to reference or cross reference his characters from one book to another.

I forgot which King novel I was reading, perhaps Pet Semetary but one of the characters caught a brief glimpse of Pennywise the killer clown in a storm drain.

My favorite from Koontz is Dragon Tears. Just the thoughts of tic-toc actually existing weirded me out for awhile after reading that book.

I read Dragon Tears, I don t remember tic toc, I remember the Tick Tock man in Wizards and Glass and the Dark Tower series.

 

[kcirdor]

did you read the Regulators??? he wrote it under Richard Bachman

it's a different story about the same evil entity

can tak

no, not yet. its been years since I've read Desperation, but I always wanted to read Regulators since i knew it was supposed to be similar. I have read the set of shorter novels he released in a set as The Bachman books

The Desperation movie was a little cheesy but i liked it anyway since I enjoyed the book as much as I had.

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

King wrote a story called the 10 O'clock People and it seemed like They Live was a DIRECT rip off of this story. I can't remember if he wrote it under Richard Bachman or not.

 

[BRSaintfan]

I am 230 pages into "Under the Dome" and I think I'm calling it quits.

I just don't care about the characters or the story. It's boring

I thought "It" was far and away his best. You really got to know the characters.

"The Shining" was creepy as **** and even then you cared about the characters.

"The Cell" - the first 60% was great 28-days-later-ish but then tanked a little over halfway through when people started levitating.

 

[KardiacKat]

I remember as a teenager loving Pet Sematary. After that I love Misery and think it is one of the best adaptations to screen of his books.

I think even the most diehard King fans agree that it takes more than 15 minutes to crank out a decent novel.

 

[seandroog]

I haven't read King since highschool. His stuff just doesn't appeal to me.

 

[Taurus]

To be sure, he's put out some classics of American literature and created iconic characters who'll live forever, but it's been a couple decades since Stephen has done anything I'm all that thrilled about.

 

[PayOrPlay]

"Some of the names have been changed to protect my Royalties".

Nice turn of phrase there!

 

[Optimus Prime]

if you were a fan of the book, it's becoming a show on Showtime. I'd be interested in this. I really enjoyed the book. Curious what TV would do with it.
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Brian K. Vaughan is adapting the Stephen King novel Under the Dome for Showtime. Deadline reported the news, revealing Vaughan -- the creator of the comic books Y: The Last Man, Ex Machina and Runaways -- will write Under the Dome, which revolves around a town in Maine which suddenly becomes cut off from the rest of the world when a force field surrounds it.........

Brian K. Vaughan Adapting Stephen King Novel - TV News at IGN

 

[Sarcastic]

Last Stephen King novel I read was Buick something.

What a rip-off. Crap starts coming out of the trunk of an old Buick. 300 pages of that nonsense.

King's been mailing it in almost as long as I've been alive.

Koontz was a nice change for a while, but sadly he's gone the way of the King. Same drivel with a heartwarming ending.

 

[NYCsaint]

Going to his talk next weekend. Not a huge fan but curious to see him speak. Next book sounds sketchy- time travel to prevent the kenedy assassination I gather?

 

[antipop]

Last Stephen King novel I read was Buick something.

What a rip-off. Crap starts coming out of the trunk of an old Buick. 300 pages of that nonsense.

King's been mailing it in almost as long as I've been alive.

Koontz was a nice change for a while, but sadly he's gone the way of the King. Same drivel with a heartwarming ending.

I enjoyed From a Buick 8

 

[Sarcastic]

I enjoyed From a Buick 8

He wrote a story a long time ago (I think in Nightmares and Dreamscapes) about a random finger that appeared out of a guy's sink and haunted him.

He explained that by saying that it's fun to write a storyy with no explanation...just pure screw-with-your-head schtick, for the sake of itself.

It was a good story, I liked it.

But Buick 8 was that 10-page story for 300 pages...it outlived its welcome in my mind.

 

[antipop]

He wrote a story a long time ago (I think in Nightmares and Dreamscapes) about a random finger that appeared out of a guy's sink and haunted him.

He explained that by saying that it's fun to write a storyy with no explanation...just pure screw-with-your-head schtick, for the sake of itself.

It was a good story, I liked it.

But Buick 8 was that 10-page story for 300 pages...it outlived its welcome in my mind.

i might be getting my SK stories mixed up but isn't the "man in black" a recurring character in his works??

which finger was it again??



not to mention that he used the same evil entity in Desperation and The Regulators(he wrote this one under Richard Bachman)...both were good reads IMO

tak?