It's too bad he doesn't know shit about visual mediums like television and film.
Even that wouldn't be a problem if he knew enough to stay away from TV and film. Well, and if whoever was responsible for Cujo hadn't changed the ending.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2004 5:52:50 am PST #1368 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
P.M. Marc - Mar 16, 2004 6:11:43 am PST #1369 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
When you read It for the first time at 12 y.o. you can't really forget a scene like that.
Waitwaitwait... are you younger than I thought you were?
You've just sprained something in my head.
Wolfram - Mar 16, 2004 6:27:23 am PST #1370 of 10002
Visilurking
Waitwaitwait... are you younger than I thought you were?
Hmmm, maybe I was 13. I'm 30, btw.
You've just sprained something in my head.
Well if you'd stop banging it against the monitor, dear...
P.M. Marc - Mar 16, 2004 6:38:38 am PST #1371 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
It came out in September of 86. I remember reading it in hardcover at 12/13.
For some reason, my brain had you fixed at 3-5 years older than me, rather than pretty much the same age.
The monitor is far. My head is strained from lack of sleep.
Wolfram - Mar 16, 2004 6:42:54 am PST #1372 of 10002
Visilurking
Pet Semetary was also my first King book. Then I read Cujo, Salem's Lot and Christine, and I read It in the hardcover as well so it must have been around Fall of 86. Though for some reason I have this notion that King comes out with all his books in October.
For some reason, my brain had you fixed at 3-5 years older than me, rather than pretty much the same age.
I get that a lot.
juliana - Mar 16, 2004 6:45:04 am PST #1373 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
I have this notion that King comes out with all his books in October.
Isn't that the "traditional" release date for Big Name Authors, so they can capitalize on the holiday season?
amych - Mar 16, 2004 6:48:17 am PST #1374 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
For some reason, my brain had you fixed at 3-5 years older than me, rather than pretty much the same age.
Hrrmph. All my pseuds are a buncha younguns.
Beverly - Mar 16, 2004 6:50:37 am PST #1375 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The first King I read was in a collection of shorts, Playboy's Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. And then I think I started with Night Shift, which contained, in addition to the title story, The Mangler and Grey Matter, which was probably one of the most hair-raising things I'd ever read to that date. Salem's Lot followed--there had been a short about The Lot in Night Shift, so I felt like I'd had a little introduction to the town. Then The Stand, Cujo. At that point, I realized I was really over King.
P.M. Marc - Mar 16, 2004 6:51:09 am PST #1376 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Though for some reason I have this notion that King comes out with all his books in October.
Verily, it is possible. I was just grabbing it from google, and I may have remembered the month wrong.
I get that a lot.
I think it's the having kids thing. As I don't, I tend to still assume people who do are older than me, which will come as a shock to my little brother and my niece's mother.
Wolfram - Mar 16, 2004 6:56:08 am PST #1377 of 10002
Visilurking
I think it's the having kids thing.
Probably. In my social circle, I have friends who are 10 and 15 years older with kids the same age as mine, and it tends to make me feel much older than I am.