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

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stubborn azn
  08/06/20
Long walk and Rage are his two best stories period Road w...
chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath
  08/06/20
you think columbine shooters read Rage? it was my first thou...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
Sure thought so at the time. King was tapped into something ...
chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath
  08/06/20
Several school shooters before them did. https://en.m.wi...
Indigo diverse mexican
  08/06/20
what is road work about? i can't remember. running man wasn...
Glittery Chapel
  08/06/20
long walk? a bunch of kids, like hundreds walk down us1 f...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
i know the long walk. road work was the 4th story. i don't r...
Glittery Chapel
  08/06/20
i have that collection. maybe i'll reread it. i don't recall...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
road work is a guy who joined a construction crew to bury a ...
Hot black woman
  08/06/20
No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac"
histrionic point cuck
  08/06/20
Cr. Road work is a guy whose house is getting eminent domain...
chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath
  08/06/20
that sounds awesome. i need to reread his shit.
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
My copy is falling apart. I keep it permanently in the shitt...
chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath
  08/06/20
king was still an angry populist back then
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
i don't know what that means or how that story reflects that...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
it was a subtextual theme in most of his early writings...we...
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
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razzmatazz principal's office
  08/06/20
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Godawful irate codepig
  08/06/20
sometimes textual. there's a rant in the Shining about the C...
Gay Appetizing Tanning Salon People Who Are Hurt
  08/06/20
or the entire short story, the mangler, set in a laundry...k...
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
revival was pretty good for a more recent novel I like mo...
Useless national international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
i think the most recent novel i read of his was like salem's...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
doobs was the antagonist of the long walk.
Hot black woman
  08/06/20
Not flame... bad guy was a creepy skinny wierdo named "...
histrionic point cuck
  08/06/20
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stubborn azn
  08/06/20
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chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath
  08/06/20
cr
razzmatazz principal's office
  08/06/20
did you like dolan's cadillac?
Useless national international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
The running man was his most populist work... here is my ...
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
what about Apt Pupil? a prestigious athlete stanford bound a...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
i didn't really get that as all that much populist...maybe a...
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
i don't care about that stuff. i meant ranking the story
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
oh, great stuff...all those early shorts and novellas were t...
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
i think it was Berkeley. also i think it was in different se...
Useless national international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
yeah maybe. i remember he called his girlfriends tits "...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
it's the best story in different seasons IMO
Useless national international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
fuck. at the time i think it wasn't as exciting it wasn't al...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
similar feeling about last rung on the ladder by SK
Useless national international law enforcement agency
  08/06/20
never read that. just saw it's from night shift time and abo...
stubborn azn
  08/06/20
what about the girl who loved tom gordon
slippery house
  08/06/20
don't remember that one, but i think i read it
high-end vivacious pit
  08/06/20
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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:20 PM
Author: stubborn azn



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:30 PM
Author: chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath

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=2Ã#40716502)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:31 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40716512)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:32 PM
Author: chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath

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

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:58 PM
Author: Indigo diverse mexican

Several school shooters before them did.

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

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2Ã#40718062)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:56 PM
Author: Glittery Chapel

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=2Ã#40716612)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:57 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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: Glittery Chapel

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=2Ã#40716629)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:01 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40716635)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM
Author: Hot black woman

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=2Ã#40716738)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:44 PM
Author: histrionic point cuck

No, that's "Dolan's Cadillac"

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:15 PM
Author: chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath

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=2Ã#40718170)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM
Author: stubborn azn

that sounds awesome. i need to reread his shit.

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:28 PM
Author: chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath

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=2Ã#40718225)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:36 PM
Author: high-end vivacious pit

king was still an angry populist back then

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:38 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40716557)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:39 PM
Author: high-end vivacious pit

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=2Ã#40716562)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM
Author: razzmatazz principal's office



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:25 PM
Author: Godawful irate codepig



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:27 PM
Author: Gay Appetizing Tanning Salon People Who Are Hurt

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: high-end vivacious pit

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=2Ã#40718014)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 5:59 PM
Author: Useless national international law enforcement agency

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=2Ã#40716628)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:00 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40716630)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 6:23 PM
Author: Hot black woman

doobs was the antagonist of the long walk.

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:46 PM
Author: histrionic point cuck

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

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:03 PM
Author: stubborn azn



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:16 PM
Author: chest-beating charcoal weed whacker public bath



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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:24 PM
Author: razzmatazz principal's office

cr

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Date: August 6th, 2020 10:30 PM
Author: Useless national international law enforcement agency

did you like dolan's cadillac?

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:02 PM
Author: high-end vivacious pit

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=2Ã#40718101)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40718111)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: high-end vivacious pit

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=2Ã#40718114)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:05 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM
Author: high-end vivacious pit

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=2Ã#40718133)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:04 PM
Author: Useless national international law enforcement agency

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=2Ã#40718116)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40718125)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: Useless national international law enforcement agency

it's the best story in different seasons IMO

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:09 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40718144)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:10 PM
Author: Useless national international law enforcement agency

similar feeling about last rung on the ladder by SK

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



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:12 PM
Author: stubborn azn

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=2Ã#40718157)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:06 PM
Author: slippery house

what about the girl who loved tom gordon

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4598879&forum_id=2Ã#40718124)



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Date: August 6th, 2020 11:07 PM
Author: high-end vivacious pit

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

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



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




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