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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 5:33:51 GMT
Last year and these first few months of 2017 I've really been on a SK kick. Anyone that reads a few of his books knows that his dialogue between characters and his characters' internal monologues can be, well, out of touch to put it nicely. Does this ever bother anyone? I sometimes find myself chuckling at something weirdly worded but it has never bothered me before.
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 5:43:11 GMT
The way I've put it is I like his ideas, but I don't care for his language. Not just the actual language but how he has to go into every disgusting detail about somebody's bodily functions, etc. We get it already.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 6:10:46 GMT
The way I've put it is I like his ideas, but I don't care for his language. Not just the actual language but how he has to go into every disgusting detail about somebody's bodily functions, etc. We get it already. I have to admit I love his attention to every disgusting detail. It was the only way I managed to get through reading Dreamcatcher which was just not a page turner, in my opinion. I just finished 'Four Past Midnight' and the last story is 'The Sun Dog'. One of the main characters is a 15 year old teenager. For the first few pages you aren't told his age and I thought he was only around ten from the way he was talking and acting. I still love his work but I'm ready to start something new from a different author. |
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 6:13:58 GMT
Apparently I'm missing something on how to use quotes, I do it and my message is jumbled in with what I'm quoting, how do you do it right?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 6:44:55 GMT
On the right side of the post you'd like to quote there is a button saying "Quote". Click that. Obviously you've tried this but maybe it isn't showing up for you?
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Post by novastar6 on Feb 20, 2017 6:47:21 GMT
Well the quote button shows, but I wasn't seeing any place to put my message outside of the quoted message. But I think I'm figuring it out now.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2017 6:52:23 GMT
Well the quote button shows, but I wasn't seeing any place to put my message outside of the quoted message. But I think I'm figuring it out now. It should direct you to a new page and the quote will already be set up in a 'create post' setup. I hope you figure it out  |
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 20, 2017 13:14:58 GMT
Last year and these first few months of 2017 I've really been on a SK kick. Anyone that reads a few of his books knows that his dialogue between characters and his characters' internal monologues can be, well, out of touch to put it nicely. Does this ever bother anyone? I sometimes find myself chuckling at something weirdly worded but it has never bothered me before. king compared his books to hamburgers. his small town characters are gloriously over the top. and nearly everyone is ultra verbose and talks in similies. i dont mind it at all. i find his books to be very very entertaining. |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Feb 20, 2017 23:14:52 GMT
The way I've put it is I like his ideas, but I don't care for his language. Not just the actual language but how he has to go into every disgusting detail about somebody's bodily functions, etc. We get it already. How about when he writes a sex scene? I could have gone the rest of my life without learning that Ben Hanscomb had a thick hog, and been happy for it. Of course, I'm referring to the underage sewer orgy from It, a scene which I'm gonna go ahead and predict will not be in the new film adaptation. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2017 3:36:46 GMT
I've read an interview with SK somewhere, and a long time ago about how his methods of writing come about. He will literally sit and type and type and type, a hundred or more pages all just "thinking out loud" and will just let his mind wander. He just puts down what's going on in his head and after he amasses a stack of papers he'll go through them and pick out a page here and a page there, and say there's a story here, and there's a story there.
So all of his writing really begins with a train of thought. He doesn't have something already in mind in most cases. I thought that was a unique way of writing and he can certainly afford the paper and the typing ribbon or ink.
I wish I knew where I read that at, but it was quite interesting to read how he went about honing his skill.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 3, 2019 3:44:22 GMT
One thing that annoys me, both in dialogue and his prose, is the constant use of sayings and adages. It's like he has some kind of quota to meet so he squeezes in as many as he can.
It's so prevalent that his main character gets busted as a time traveler in 12/22/63 because they can't stop saying post-60s sayings.
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