Nerdy Slice Of Life!

[theweaselking]

Me: "Nerd thought: Assuming Raven failed and the Reckoners were never released, all of Stephen King's work[1] fits in Deadlands."

torrain: "...HAH! Randall Flagg and Sunlight Gardner and the creepy little town Jack had to go through in the Talisman and Derry and It and..."

Me: "And the heroes doing a little bit of magic themselves. Little Danny Torrance, learning how to deal with the manitous and keep them from riding him. The kids from It, and their rituals.
And, y'know, the occasional vampire infestation."

torrain: "Those things happen.
...the Shop."

me: "Castle Rock has a Fear Level, and things can tell."


[1]: We do not speak of The D**k T***r in our house.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Dick Tater?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Dirk Toker?

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Dock Taper

[andrewducker]

I love it!

[thornae.livejournal.com]

Are we including or discounting the Bachman Variations in this little mental exercise?


Because I could possibly see a couple of those working, thematically if not mechanically.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Thinner would fit in perfectly. The Long Walk and The Running Man, not so much - they are, like Those Books That We Do Not Speak Of, not set in a presumably-normal earth.

[canid-anubis.livejournal.com]

It is funny, I was going to ask this on Twitter later, and you might be just the person/people to ask:

I am late to the D**k T***r game (On a side note, I am half way through Dr. Sleep and enjoying it) but having just finished book two of D**k T***r, I am curious if it is worth riding the series all the way out.

In more than a few King books, I have waded through 100 pages here or there to make it through to the other side and felt it was worth it. With a few, I just gave up. Are the next 5 books of D**k T***r worth the ride to get there?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I can't stand them and think they're terrible and unreadable, like "From A Buick 8" but even more self-indulgent and dull.

[canid-anubis.livejournal.com]

Good to hear. I'm sure I'll get a cliff notes version of the entire run someday, but it just seems that it meanders far too long for my tastes. I've been getting the impression that those who have read the run wear that acheivment like a badge of honor as they know it was a trial to have done so.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

I quite like the short story I have met set in the world, but I just put the first novel down two-thirds of the way through and could not pick it back up. (Disclaimer: was about sixteen at the time--note that age hadn't slowed me down on any of his other books. I met King through Christine and Carrie when I was twelve.)

Other things I have put down with the same feeling, and have enjoyed when I picked up: Game of Thrones and Carnivale (yes, the TV show, not a book. Seriously, I look at that series and have no idea why I dropped it after the first episode for the better part of a year. I must have been sick).

People I know and generally think are sensible have quite enjoyed all the books; I never get any "Oh, god, I slogged through that series despite the terrible drag of book X" feel when I hear them mention it, the way I generally hear people talk about three late-middle books of the Wheel of Time.

Mind, the only Stephen King novel-or-collection I haven't read, outside of the D**k T***r ones, is 11/22/63 and The Plant. The only one I found an deeply unpalatable slog was Tales from a Buick 8, although I did find Everything's Eventual, Cell, Ur, and Duma Key to have a bit of flat senselessness. (Felt he'd finally definitely come back with Just After Sunset, and am still very fond of "N.") If you generally find yourself feeling like you're wading, you might just not enjoy his stuff as much as I do, and should calibrate accordingly.

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

The Duck... Tower? Tower full of ducks? Quack quack.

[falconwarrior.livejournal.com]

Wait I got it, The Duck Tamer! That makes so much more sense than tower.