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The Long Walk is stephen king's most underrated story.

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charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
Long walk and Rage are his two best stories period Road w...
Shivering crystalline office goal in life
  08/06/20
you think columbine shooters read Rage? it was my first thou...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
Sure thought so at the time. King was tapped into something ...
Shivering crystalline office goal in life
  08/06/20
Several school shooters before them did. https://en.m.wi...
Hyperactive brunch french chef
  08/06/20
what is road work about? i can't remember. running man wasn...
rambunctious boyish step-uncle's house prole
  08/06/20
long walk? a bunch of kids, like hundreds walk down us1 f...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
i know the long walk. road work was the 4th story. i don't r...
rambunctious boyish step-uncle's house prole
  08/06/20
i have that collection. maybe i'll reread it. i don't recall...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
road work is a guy who joined a construction crew to bury a ...
thriller cuckoldry
  08/06/20
No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac"
autistic church sweet tailpipe
  08/06/20
Cr. Road work is a guy whose house is getting eminent domain...
Shivering crystalline office goal in life
  08/06/20
that sounds awesome. i need to reread his shit.
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
My copy is falling apart. I keep it permanently in the shitt...
Shivering crystalline office goal in life
  08/06/20
king was still an angry populist back then
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
i don't know what that means or how that story reflects that...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
it was a subtextual theme in most of his early writings...we...
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
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nudist market kitty cat
  08/06/20
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Spectacular effete ratface digit ratio
  08/06/20
sometimes textual. there's a rant in the Shining about the C...
floppy vengeful dog poop resort
  08/06/20
or the entire short story, the mangler, set in a laundry...k...
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
revival was pretty good for a more recent novel I like mo...
Insane Theater Stage
  08/06/20
i think the most recent novel i read of his was like salem's...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
doobs was the antagonist of the long walk.
thriller cuckoldry
  08/06/20
Not flame... bad guy was a creepy skinny wierdo named "...
autistic church sweet tailpipe
  08/06/20
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charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
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Shivering crystalline office goal in life
  08/06/20
cr
nudist market kitty cat
  08/06/20
did you like dolan's cadillac?
Insane Theater Stage
  08/06/20
The running man was his most populist work... here is my ...
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
what about Apt Pupil? a prestigious athlete stanford bound a...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
i didn't really get that as all that much populist...maybe a...
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
i don't care about that stuff. i meant ranking the story
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
oh, great stuff...all those early shorts and novellas were t...
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
i think it was Berkeley. also i think it was in different se...
Insane Theater Stage
  08/06/20
yeah maybe. i remember he called his girlfriends tits "...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
it's the best story in different seasons IMO
Insane Theater Stage
  08/06/20
fuck. at the time i think it wasn't as exciting it wasn't al...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
similar feeling about last rung on the ladder by SK
Insane Theater Stage
  08/06/20
never read that. just saw it's from night shift time and abo...
charcoal exciting trust fund round eye
  08/06/20
what about the girl who loved tom gordon
Excitant Abnormal State
  08/06/20
don't remember that one, but i think i read it
sticky twinkling trailer park
  08/06/20
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:20 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:30 PM
Author: Shivering crystalline office goal in life

Long walk and Rage are his two best stories period

Road work is good too. Running man is the best known but the worst of that group.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:31 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

you think columbine shooters read Rage? it was my first thought when hearing of the school shootings.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:32 PM
Author: Shivering crystalline office goal in life

Sure thought so at the time. King was tapped into something there.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:58 PM
Author: Hyperactive brunch french chef

Several school shooters before them did.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rage_(King_novel)

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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:56 PM
Author: rambunctious boyish step-uncle's house prole

what is road work about? i can't remember.

running man wasn't great.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:57 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

long walk?

a bunch of kids, like hundreds walk down us1 from maine. they have to keep a 4 mph pace or after 2 warnings soldiers shoot them dead. the winner, the last guy walking, gets a billion dollars. it follow mainly the point of view of one contestant.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM
Author: rambunctious boyish step-uncle's house prole

i know the long walk. road work was the 4th story. i don't remember what it is about.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:01 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

i have that collection. maybe i'll reread it. i don't recall that story at all.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM
Author: thriller cuckoldry

road work is a guy who joined a construction crew to bury a mobster who murdered his wife.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: autistic church sweet tailpipe

No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac"

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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:15 PM
Author: Shivering crystalline office goal in life

Cr. Road work is a guy whose house is getting eminent domain pwned and he loses it, loses his marriage, goes nuts, buys an armory, and blows shit up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718170)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

that sounds awesome. i need to reread his shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718175)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:28 PM
Author: Shivering crystalline office goal in life

My copy is falling apart. I keep it permanently in the shitter and reread parts rather frequently

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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:36 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

king was still an angry populist back then

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40716551)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:38 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

i don't know what that means or how that story reflects that. you had to walk 4 mph or you got shot.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40716557)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:39 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

it was a subtextual theme in most of his early writings...went away sometime in the 1980s...now he is pure establishment

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40716562)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM
Author: nudist market kitty cat



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:25 PM
Author: Spectacular effete ratface digit ratio



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:27 PM
Author: floppy vengeful dog poop resort

sometimes textual. there's a rant in the Shining about the CIA from some random extra when the black guy is on the plane

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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:52 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

or the entire short story, the mangler, set in a laundry...king worked in a laundry...that story was populist as hell

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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:59 PM
Author: Insane Theater Stage

revival was pretty good for a more recent novel

I like most of his short stories too

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40716628)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

i think the most recent novel i read of his was like salem's lot in hs.

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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM
Author: thriller cuckoldry

doobs was the antagonist of the long walk.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40716743)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:46 PM
Author: autistic church sweet tailpipe

Not flame... bad guy was a creepy skinny wierdo named "Stebbins"

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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:03 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM
Author: Shivering crystalline office goal in life



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM
Author: nudist market kitty cat

cr

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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:30 PM
Author: Insane Theater Stage

did you like dolan's cadillac?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40717895)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:02 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

The running man was his most populist work...

here is my ranking of his books and short story collections, best at the top:

'Salem's Lot

Pet Sematary

Night Shift

Different Seasons

The Dead Zone

The Running Man

Firestarter

Cujo

Christine

The Stand

Misery

It

Carrie

Skeleton Crew

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

Thinner

The Shining

The Long Walk

Roadwork

Rage

The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger

The Talisman

The Eyes of the Dragon

The Tommyknockers

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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

what about Apt Pupil? a prestigious athlete stanford bound and blackmailing a nazi war criminal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718111)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

i didn't really get that as all that much populist...maybe a little...well, the reason i bring this up is because i found king to be a pretty populist writer in his first years...he grew up super poor

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718114)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:05 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

i don't care about that stuff. i meant ranking the story

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718119)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

oh, great stuff...all those early shorts and novellas were top notch...only a very few of his books were ever better than his early short stories

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718133)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: Insane Theater Stage

i think it was Berkeley. also i think it was in different seasons which he listed

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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

yeah maybe. i remember he called his girlfriends tits "balls of meat" and he kills homeless bums.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718125)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: Insane Theater Stage

it's the best story in different seasons IMO

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718131)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

fuck. at the time i think it wasn't as exciting it wasn't all action, but after gong through college and shit looking back the story is more horrific and fucked up it passed the test of time well.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718144)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:10 PM
Author: Insane Theater Stage

similar feeling about last rung on the ladder by SK

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718151)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:12 PM
Author: charcoal exciting trust fund round eye

never read that. just saw it's from night shift time and about suicide. that's gotta be fucking sick.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718157)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: Excitant Abnormal State

what about the girl who loved tom gordon

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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM
Author: sticky twinkling trailer park

don't remember that one, but i think i read it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2!#40718136)



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Date: September 13th, 2025 7:55 PM
Author: ;..........,,,...,,.;.,,...,,,;.;.




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