The uncut version is the one with "Happy crappy"! God, I love that book. I should read it again.
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Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Amy - Jan 10, 2011 10:27:02 am PST #13481 of 28282
Because books.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2011 10:28:15 am PST #13482 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The original version didn't have "happy crappy" everywhere? Huh!
Amy - Jan 10, 2011 10:32:21 am PST #13483 of 28282
Because books.
I'm pretty sure in the edited version there was no Trashcan Man or any of that, yeah.
sj - Jan 10, 2011 10:32:23 am PST #13484 of 28282
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I hadn't read any King in years and years until I downloaded his newest quartet of novellas onto the Kindle. I liked two of the stories very much.
Which was this? I read his recent baseball story, Blockade Billy , which I really loved and then downloaded Ur on my Kindle, which I also enjoyed. So, I decided to start at the beginning. I read Carrie last year and TCG gave me Salem's Lot for Christmas which I also loved.
Polter-Cow - Jan 10, 2011 10:33:37 am PST #13485 of 28282
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm pretty sure in the edited version there was no Trashcan Man or any of that, yeah.
NO Trashcan Man?? I thought the uncut version just expanded his role. Man, how can you have that book without Trashcan Man? Isn't he kind of pivotal?? MY LIFE FOR YOOOOOU.
zuisa - Jan 10, 2011 10:35:03 am PST #13486 of 28282
call me jacki; zuisa is an internet nick from ancient times =)
I LOVE The Stand. I read it in high school and I remember it taking forever. There were also so many characters I had to make lists to keep them all straight! But I remember enjoying it a ton. I always mean to read more Stephen King; I've liked everything of his that I have read.
Amy - Jan 10, 2011 10:35:34 am PST #13487 of 28282
Because books.
I can't remember! I know something from that section of the book was cut, because a friend read the edited version and S. and I kept saying "happy crappy" and he had no idea what we were talking about.
It's been a long time since I've read my uncut edition, though.
Connie Neil - Jan 10, 2011 10:36:40 am PST #13488 of 28282
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Salem's Lot made me terrified of my bedroom closet, for some reason. Possibly I was flashing on the kid waiting for dark and hearing the footsteps on the stairs.
I was reading a story about a Little League team in Maine in The New Yorker several years ago, and a couple of phrases struck me as familiar. I checked the byline and, yep, Stephen King, writing about the year his son's team made it to State. The bit about "Some obscure author from Bangor threw out the first pitch, then the game was on," was very nice.
javachik - Jan 10, 2011 10:43:01 am PST #13489 of 28282
Our wings are not tired.
Which was this? I read his recent baseball story, Blockade Billy , which I really loved and then downloaded Ur on my Kindle, which I also enjoyed. So, I decided to start at the beginning. I read Carrie last year and TCG gave me Salem's Lot for Christmas which I also loved.
Full Moon, No Stars
Consuela - Jan 10, 2011 10:44:18 am PST #13490 of 28282
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I've only read the original edit of The Stand, and IIRC, there was a Trashcan Man.
Life is too short for me to find time to read an even longer version of a novel that gave me weeks of quasi-PTSD every time I heard anyone cough...
I consider King to be valedictorian of the first graduating class of the "Too Popular to Edit" school of novelists. Other alum include Anne Rice and JK Rowling. I look with disfavor on this development: nobody is above editing.