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Post by pimpinainteasy on Mar 11, 2018 7:06:11 GMT
75 pages into this monster. pretty good so far. anyone else like it?
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Post by dougb on Mar 11, 2018 14:14:31 GMT
Couldn't get into it, maybe too American for a non US audience, or perhaps it's just me. His tendency to overwrite everything just seems to get worse with age.
Always seen him as a great story teller and average writer who needs a bloody good editor to control him.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 11, 2018 14:33:53 GMT
Not his best work, but still quite good. A very interesting concept for a time travel story. But like many other King novels it goes on way too long.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Mar 13, 2018 1:31:32 GMT
I liked it, I'm a sucker for most varieties of time travel. It's been a while since I've read it and if I remember correctly I liked all of it except for the very end, the Dark Towerish supernatural ending.
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Post by poelzig on Mar 13, 2018 1:48:02 GMT
It was a decent late career SK book. I just picked up Joe Hill's latest and he's turning out to be as good a writer as his more famous father.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jan 30, 2019 9:50:30 GMT
I'm halfway through. It's a great concept that seems to be getting sidetracked for IT tie-ins and, worst of all, this boring high school drama in Texas. Who gives a rusty f**k about some jock playing Lennie in Of Mice and Men? And now this "romance", ugh. What virgin woman cums on the first go? I feel like I'm reading Stephen King's masturbation fantasies.
I get the main character has to pass the time somehow, but surely there are more interesting activities for a time traveler than directing a school play.
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Post by No_Socks_Here on Jan 30, 2019 10:52:47 GMT
11/22/63 - one of my all-time favorites.
I love reading SK novels. He describes his characters so vividly that they leap off the page at you. I remember all the happenings of the Kennedy murder like it was yesterday. I was sitting in Social Studies class in High School when it was announced over the intercom. 11/22/63 was a Friday and School let out early that day because of this terrible event. I remember going home right after lunch and watching on TV with my mom...both of us streaming tears as the story unfolded.
King's time-travel story about this suits me to a "T". I've read the book 3 times and plan another re-read soon.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Jan 30, 2019 19:50:01 GMT
I liked Danse Macabre--it was an interesting read--and I think King speaks well in non fiction essays etc. But I do not care for his fiction. I read Salem's Lot and beyond a few things that stick in the mind, it just didn't do anything for me. He also borrows a helluva a lot of ideas from old movies.
The Asphynx = The Green Mile
Visions of Death = The Dead Zone
etc.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 31, 2019 0:15:55 GMT
an all timer honestly.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 3, 2019 3:31:13 GMT
I just finished and was left a little disappointed. I signed up for a what-if scenario where JFK lived on, and didn't really get it until the last 100 pages of a 1000 page book. And that was just one chapter, largely informed by King's need to make everything supernatural. "Oh no, the world is tearing itself apart because it can't support all the timeline strings and blah blah blah!" F*ck that bullsh*t, I want to know more about America without the Civil Rights movement, Wallace as president, what happened to Nixon, etc. All that's brushed off in a few pages, while we got a whole subplot about some jock douchebag embarrassed about acting in a play? Meh.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Feb 6, 2019 22:25:28 GMT
I just finished and was left a little disappointed. I signed up for a what-if scenario where JFK lived on, and didn't really get it until the last 100 pages of a 1000 page book. And that was just one chapter, largely informed by King's need to make everything supernatural. "Oh no, the world is tearing itself apart because it can't support all the timeline strings and blah blah blah!" F*ck that bullsh*t, I want to know more about America without the Civil Rights movement, Wallace as president, what happened to Nixon, etc. All that's brushed off in a few pages, while we got a whole subplot about some jock douchebag embarrassed about acting in a play? Meh. The book wasn't about the destination, it was about the trip, in my humble op. Since you knew that time couldn't be changed or stay changed, the focus was more of "time doesn't want to be changed". The only thing that could be changed by Jake Epping's trip was Jake Epping.
Kudos to King's research. Not just the Assassination research (ask a conspiracy nut how they like "Lone Gunman" King, plug your ears first) but America in the last 60's-early 70's.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 6, 2019 22:56:57 GMT
I just finished and was left a little disappointed. I signed up for a what-if scenario where JFK lived on, and didn't really get it until the last 100 pages of a 1000 page book. And that was just one chapter, largely informed by King's need to make everything supernatural. "Oh no, the world is tearing itself apart because it can't support all the timeline strings and blah blah blah!" F*ck that bullsh*t, I want to know more about America without the Civil Rights movement, Wallace as president, what happened to Nixon, etc. All that's brushed off in a few pages, while we got a whole subplot about some jock douchebag embarrassed about acting in a play? Meh. The book wasn't about the destination, it was about the trip, in my humble op. Since you knew that time couldn't be changed or stay changed, the focus was more of "time doesn't want to be changed". The only thing that could be changed by Jake Epping's trip was Jake Epping.
Kudos to King's research. Not just the Assassination research (ask a conspiracy nut how they like "Lone Gunman" King, plug your ears first) but America in the last 60's-early 70's.
I realized that eventually, but still didn't care much for the trip. So much of interest can be done with time travel and what we got were high school plays, more high school plays, some weirdo with a broom, and a bunch of stuff that could take place in any small town in 2011 and not necessarily 1960. Epping himself was not a very interesting character, either. Biggest change he goes through is slightly apprehensive about murder to slightly less apprehensive about murder. What about that book he was writing? Imagine it getting published, him becoming an accomplished writer, and seeing how that effects the future. But no, we need pies in the face and more sex scenes with this 6 foot virgin goddess. The parts with Oswald were really good, though. Wish the whole book could have been like that, but the main character is pretty sure about Oswald the whole time. I subscribe to the Lone Gunman story myself, but it would have been a lot more interesting if Epping didn't and spent more time trying to narrow it down. Spying on Jack Ruby for instance, who is somehow only mentioned like once in the whole book. |
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