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The Long Walk is stephen king's most underrated story.
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:20 PM Author: Apoplectic stimulating area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40716439) |
Date: August 6th, 2020 5:30 PM Author: big cuckold hospital 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: big cuckold hospital 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: misanthropic rusted crackhouse 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: ebony exciting piazza 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: ebony exciting piazza 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: canary circlehead 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: orchid nubile foreskin partner 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: big cuckold hospital 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: big cuckold hospital 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: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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: coiffed silver indian lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40717862) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:25 PM Author: Vermilion Embarrassed To The Bone Set Gay Wizard (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40717871) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:27 PM Author: seedy bossy point 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: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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: Contagious charcoal heaven sound barrier revival was pretty good for a more recent novel
I like most of his short stories too |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM Author: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: canary circlehead 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: orchid nubile foreskin partner 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: Apoplectic stimulating area (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40718104) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM Author: big cuckold hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40718174) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM Author: coiffed silver indian lodge cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40717861) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:30 PM Author: Contagious charcoal heaven sound barrier 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: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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: Contagious charcoal heaven sound barrier 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: Contagious charcoal heaven sound barrier 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: Contagious charcoal heaven sound barrier 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: Apoplectic stimulating area 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: irradiated lake field what about the girl who loved tom gordon (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2,#40718124) |
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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM Author: Dark frozen meetinghouse place of business 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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