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

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Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
Long walk and Rage are his two best stories period Road w...
razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm
  08/06/20
you think columbine shooters read Rage? it was my first thou...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
Sure thought so at the time. King was tapped into something ...
razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm
  08/06/20
Several school shooters before them did. https://en.m.wi...
Transparent Trip Corner
  08/06/20
what is road work about? i can't remember. running man wasn...
Bateful factory reset button international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
long walk? a bunch of kids, like hundreds walk down us1 f...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
i know the long walk. road work was the 4th story. i don't r...
Bateful factory reset button international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
i have that collection. maybe i'll reread it. i don't recall...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
road work is a guy who joined a construction crew to bury a ...
Gay concupiscible sex offender
  08/06/20
No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac"
Violent Beady-eyed Liquid Oxygen Potus
  08/06/20
Cr. Road work is a guy whose house is getting eminent domain...
razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm
  08/06/20
that sounds awesome. i need to reread his shit.
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
My copy is falling apart. I keep it permanently in the shitt...
razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm
  08/06/20
king was still an angry populist back then
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
i don't know what that means or how that story reflects that...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
it was a subtextual theme in most of his early writings...we...
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
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henna son of senegal school cafeteria
  08/06/20
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cowardly institution
  08/06/20
sometimes textual. there's a rant in the Shining about the C...
Crusty startling property
  08/06/20
or the entire short story, the mangler, set in a laundry...k...
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
revival was pretty good for a more recent novel I like mo...
180 rigor lodge
  08/06/20
i think the most recent novel i read of his was like salem's...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
doobs was the antagonist of the long walk.
Gay concupiscible sex offender
  08/06/20
Not flame... bad guy was a creepy skinny wierdo named "...
Violent Beady-eyed Liquid Oxygen Potus
  08/06/20
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Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
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razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm
  08/06/20
cr
henna son of senegal school cafeteria
  08/06/20
did you like dolan's cadillac?
180 rigor lodge
  08/06/20
The running man was his most populist work... here is my ...
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
what about Apt Pupil? a prestigious athlete stanford bound a...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
i didn't really get that as all that much populist...maybe a...
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
i don't care about that stuff. i meant ranking the story
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
oh, great stuff...all those early shorts and novellas were t...
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
i think it was Berkeley. also i think it was in different se...
180 rigor lodge
  08/06/20
yeah maybe. i remember he called his girlfriends tits "...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
it's the best story in different seasons IMO
180 rigor lodge
  08/06/20
fuck. at the time i think it wasn't as exciting it wasn't al...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
similar feeling about last rung on the ladder by SK
180 rigor lodge
  08/06/20
never read that. just saw it's from night shift time and abo...
Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency
  08/06/20
what about the girl who loved tom gordon
Comical flickering milk address
  08/06/20
don't remember that one, but i think i read it
electric very tactful hospital mood
  08/06/20
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:20 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:30 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716502)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:31 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716512)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:32 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716520)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:58 PM
Author: Transparent Trip Corner

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: Bateful factory reset button international law enforcement agency

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

running man wasn't great.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716612)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:57 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716618)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM
Author: Bateful factory reset button international law enforcement agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716629)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:01 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716635)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM
Author: Gay concupiscible sex offender

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716738)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: Violent Beady-eyed Liquid Oxygen Potus

No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40717975)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:15 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm

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: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40718225)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:36 PM
Author: electric very tactful hospital mood

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: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: electric very tactful hospital mood

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: henna son of senegal school cafeteria



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:25 PM
Author: cowardly institution



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:27 PM
Author: Crusty startling property

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40717882)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:52 PM
Author: electric very tactful hospital mood

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40718014)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:59 PM
Author: 180 rigor lodge

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: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40716630)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM
Author: Gay concupiscible sex offender

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: Violent Beady-eyed Liquid Oxygen Potus

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40717977)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:03 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM
Author: razzle-dazzle naked house pisswyrm



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM
Author: henna son of senegal school cafeteria

cr

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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:30 PM
Author: 180 rigor lodge

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: electric very tactful hospital mood

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40718101)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: electric very tactful hospital mood

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: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: electric very tactful hospital mood

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: 180 rigor lodge

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2)#40718116)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: 180 rigor lodge

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: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: 180 rigor lodge

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: Exhilarant Whorehouse National Security Agency

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: Comical flickering milk address

what about the girl who loved tom gordon

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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM
Author: electric very tactful hospital mood

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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