Stephen King Book • Page 82

fair enough lmao, it is a lot of book but it's also maybe his masterpiece and one of my favourites ever

 

Ugh, I’m really done with these characters. King is my fav of all time but these characters need a break

 

I really think they are some of his worst characters which feels bad to say, but it’s true. I can’t get the stench of Holly out of my head.

 

Interesting. I was unaware of the Holly and crew hate

 

I was good with it through the Mr Mercedes Trilogy and the side quest in outsider, but Holly felt more like a drag so I think I just need a break from the characters. It’s all in perspective though. I enjoyed Holly but my standards for King are pretty high.

 

Yeah I get that. I like them, but a lot of his newer stuff has involved them so I don’t blame people for wanting a break

 

I'd prefer a break from them after Holly which is no good.

 

just finished IT again, man those last two chapters hit like nothing else I've ever read. absolute gutpunch

 

Carrie is a pretty short book to warrant a full season of TV, but if Flanagan needs to do that to get his Dark Tower adaptation off the ground, I guess I'll take it.

 

That’s truly the only reason.

 

Flannagans achilles heel are teens, see Midnight Club. Always will give him a try but it feels really pointless.

 

ahoulda given Mike Salem's Lot instead, this is a strange choice

 

I love Flannagan and all, but do we really need another Carrie adaptation?

 

unless I'm reading the announcement wrong it seems like he's showrunning/producing this not writing and directing, hopefully because he's busy making Dark Tower already

 

he already made a better version with Midnight Mass

 

this is true but I still want him to do Salem's lol

 

I know dumbasses would lose their shit at this, but Carrie has major queer subtext that many queer fans have picked up on . Would be cool if they made that more obligatory in this adaptation.

Kimberly Pierce's 2013 adaptation went the "Carrie as a queer metaphor" route to an extant, hope this one goes even further.

 

I feel this. I enjoyed the Mr Mercedes trilogy, but then these characters took over the 2nd half of another story (which is also where that story fell flat), and then Holly was so frustratingly annoying.

I hold out hope that I hated Holly more for the Covid element and not the characters, but ugh. If I wasn’t on a plane with nothing to do I probably wouldn’t have finished Holly

 

Pet Sematary was a tough one. Good, not my favorite King. I really thought that the evil Gage stuff would take up more of the book based off what I knew about the story. I was shocked to see how long it took to get to. The dead son stuff had me skimming pages quickly, haha

 

I imagine that one will hit way different if I ever have children.

 

Having a child has definitely altered what I can watch or read.

There’s some heinous stuff in Salem’s Lot involving a baby that crushed my soul when I re-read it this year.

 

OG Pet Sem is probably one of the best King adaptations because it's just 80s cheese enough to take the edges off that incredibly fucked up story, but it's still faithful enough to be scary (the Zelda scenes eughh)

I only tried reading that book once years ago and had to DNF it. well written ofc but it's so unrelentingly grim

 

I read that was his goal, to make a story so terrifying that people wouldn't be able to finish it.