Stephen Kings Latest novel is a liberal wet dream

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Guarantee Rusty has this trash on preorder. It's right up his boomer ally.

[JustinCharge 2,397]

MAGA republican is currently the #1 dogwhistle to anger and motivate young voters.  You will see that everywhere up to election day.  its just getting started.

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3 minutes ago, JustinCharge said:

MAGA republican is currently the #1 dogwhistle to anger and motivate young voters.  You will see that everywhere up to election day.  its just getting started.

Anytime the right tries to unify the liberals and media will attack the movement. Alt Right, Maga Republicants etc...

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I like the Holly  character 

 

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4 minutes ago, TommyGavin said:

I like the Holly  character 

Does she get nekkid?

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19 minutes ago, EternalShinyAndChrome said:

Does she get nekkid?

Its a book. They are all nekkid if you read it that way. 

[The Real timschochet 6,769]

Stephen King is a liberal. If you don’t like him, don’t read him. 

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Love a lot of his older stuff but 11/23/62 was fantastic 

[jerryskids 6,799]

38 minutes ago, The Real timschochet said:

Stephen King is a liberal. If you don’t like him, don’t read him. 

I just started reading his memoir/writing book "On Writing" to help with my own memoir activities.  Interesting seeing how he got into writing -- basically he was sick for most of a year when he was young and was bored, so he read and wrote alot.  Then his Mom gave him a very positive reinforcement to one of his early stories.  It's amazing how something like that can shape a person's path.

Anyway, I've only gotten to his HS years but so far he seems like an enterprising capitalist.  I'll have to see if I can see signs of him deteriorating into a liberal. 

 

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52 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

I just started reading his memoir/writing book "On Writing" to help with my own memoir activities.  Interesting seeing how he got into writing -- basically he was sick for most of a year when he was young and was bored, so he read and wrote alot.  Then his Mom gave him a very positive reinforcement to one of his early stories.  It's amazing how something like that can shape a person's path.

Anyway, I've only gotten to his HS years but so far he seems like an enterprising capitalist.  I'll have to see if I can see signs of him deteriorating into a liberal. 

 

Capitalism and liberalism are not contradictory. I am a firm liberal and a firm capitalist. So, I would argue, are Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Donald Trump, AOC, and Bernie Sanders are clearly not capitalists based on their constant desires for interference in the marketplace. 

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1 hour ago, TommyGavin said:

Love a lot of his older stuff but 11/23/62 was fantastic 

Is that the prequel to 11/22/63?

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4 minutes ago, posty said:

Is that the prequel to 11/22/63?

Ha. That was drunk typing. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,442]

Great author as I have many of his novels. But most of endings sucked meteor shiot. Most of his movies were rewritten by screenwriters which made them better. Great starter but  bad endings. 

[kilroy69 1,251]

I stopped reading him years back after the last book of the gunslinger series. He is so egotistical he added himself as one of the characters in the poorly written book. After that I was done. Then he got hit by a car and seemed to have lost his mind. It really is too bad. He was one of my favorite authors. The dead zone was amazing to me. The drawing of the 3 still floats around in my brain. 

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Oh nos! Not 3 whole paragraphs out of 100s of pages.     Focking snowflakes.  

 

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8 hours ago, jerryskids said:

I just started reading his memoir/writing book "On Writing" to help with my own memoir activities.  Interesting seeing how he got into writing -- basically he was sick for most of a year when he was young and was bored, so he read and wrote alot.  Then his Mom gave him a very positive reinforcement to one of his early stories.  It's amazing how something like that can shape a person's path.

Anyway, I've only gotten to his HS years but so far he seems like an enterprising capitalist.  I'll have to see if I can see signs of him deteriorating into a liberal. 

 

Whoa, that's weird - I just started that last night.   I was planning on a bunch of King movies for Oct and I used to read a lot him in HS and college, but not much since so I thought that might give me inspiration on a novel to start with after reading this to see where his head was at.   I read most of the early stuff and tailed off after the Tommyknockers and haven't read much after that point.  

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Who cares?

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21 minutes ago, MDC said:

Who cares?

Evidently the righties are tired of politics being in their entertainment?  Of course unless it Sound of Freedom or Small Town country songs, or...

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I'm sure King is trembling in his loafers at the thought of losing out on all those MAGAmook book sales. 

[Hardcore troubadour 15,438]

I read many of his books in the 80’s. Loved Christine and how he would have a quote from a rock song at the beginning of every chapter. I never detected any politics in his writings. Maybe it was subtle. But it appears his TDS has warped his mind some more and now that he has his wealth he can preach and not worry about it. Which makes him a punk. 

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8 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Great author as I have many of his novels. But most of endings sucked meteor shiot. Most of his movies were rewritten by screenwriters which made them better. Great starter but  bad endings. 

Agreed. It is one of my favorite books, but the ending is garbage. I read all of his earlier books through his cocaine addiction phase, which I think ended around the time of Tommyknockers. Haven't liked him nearly as much since. Everything up to It was great.

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He's no Richard Bachman

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Tims probably really excited to talk about this one at his wife's book club 

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26 minutes ago, Fnord said:

I'm sure King is trembling in his loafers at the thought of losing out on all those MAGAmook book sales. 

Wait, they can read?

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I heard the new Dan Brown book has a character who believes in climate change!  

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9 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Great author as I have many of his novels. But most of endings sucked meteor shiot. Most of his movies were rewritten by screenwriters which made them better. Great starter but  bad endings. 

He’s actually a poor writer.  He has no sense of pacing, weak on character development and clubs the reader over the head with terrible efforts at foreshadowing.  He’s done nothing experimental and his books are totally formulaic.  

I was a young reader and picked up my first King novel at age 12 because my mother believed he was so awesome. I read 5 of his books by age 18.  His collection of short stories under the pen name Bachman was probably his best and he should have stuck with short stories.   The best novel he produced was The Talisman, which was co-authored by Peter Straub.  I consider King a hack who writes pablum pulp.

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46 minutes ago, MDC said:

I heard the new Dan Brown book has a character who believes in climate change!  

Makes sense, it's fiction, is it not?

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11 hours ago, The Real timschochet said:

Capitalism and liberalism are not contradictory. I am a firm liberal and a firm capitalist. So, I would argue, are Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, and Nancy Pelosi. Donald Trump, AOC, and Bernie Sanders are clearly not capitalists based on their constant desires for interference in the marketplace. 

Funny, after I posted it I actually thought that you might come here and say exactly this.  I probably should have gone back and changed it to Leftist, since King's take has more of the religious zealotry typical of the sickness of Leftism.   

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1 hour ago, Fnord said:

I'm sure King is trembling in his loafers at the thought of losing out on all those MAGAmook book sales. 

You should advise Anheuser Busch on how to handle their Bud Light situation.   

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13 hours ago, jerryskids said:

I just started reading his memoir/writing book "On Writing" to help with my own memoir activities.  Interesting seeing how he got into writing -- basically he was sick for most of a year when he was young and was bored, so he read and wrote alot.  Then his Mom gave him a very positive reinforcement to one of his early stories.  It's amazing how something like that can shape a person's path.

Anyway, I've only gotten to his HS years but so far he seems like an enterprising capitalist.  I'll have to see if I can see signs of him deteriorating into a liberal. 

 

I read that as well, great book.  

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34 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

Funny, after I posted it I actually thought that you might come here and say exactly this.  I probably should have gone back and changed it to Leftist, since King's take has more of the religious zealotry typical of the sickness of Leftism.   

He’s not a leftist. Many of his books argue against collectivism of all sorts. 

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59 minutes ago, jerryskids said:

You should advise Anheuser Busch on how to handle their Bud Light situation.   

MAGAmooks drink plenty of beer. How many of them read anything more substantial that the latest conservative meme on Twitter or the chyron on Newsmax? Maybe a short propaganda piece on Breitbart?

Let's face it: as a whole that demographic ain't exactly the target audience for long form fiction. Unless you count books by Bill O'Reilly. 

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Woketards commenting on books is kinda funny considering the filth they push on kids in the school library.  

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3 hours ago, MLCKAA said:

He’s actually a poor writer.  He has no sense of pacing, weak on character development and clubs the reader over the head with terrible efforts at foreshadowing.  He’s done nothing experimental and his books are totally formulaic.  

I was a young reader and picked up my first King novel at age 12 because my mother believed he was so awesome. I read 5 of his books by age 18.  His collection of short stories under the pen name Bachman was probably his best and he should have stuck with short stories.   The best novel he produced was The Talisman, which was co-authored by Peter Straub.  I consider King a hack who writes pablum pulp.

 I agree on both. The Long Walk short story was a great read.The Talisman was very long but a great novel. I read a lot also when I was young.