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I'm sure Stephen King thought the same about the guy who drove a truck over him.
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I'm sure Stephen King thought the same about the guy who drove a truck over him.
Of course I'd be angry, you'd have to be a saint not to be, especially in the immediate aftermath of the incident. My point is I'd be slow to act on that anger in public when I discovered my 'adversary' was living in a trailer on disability benefit and possibly had cognitive difficulties. Despite my massive injuries and long recuperation time, I'd hope I'd be the bigger person and let it go. Especially when I'm a multi-millionaire author known throughout the world.
But really, unless anyone of us finds ourselves in that exact situation we're just hypothesising. I'm happy to agree to disagree.
we can agree to disagree, and I get the whole cognitive thing....at the same time there is the whole "why the fuck did this dude still have a license?" issue. I don't know what you saw, all I saw was what was in On Writing, and I'd have probably shown more anger than he did (in there) over a single busted leg. So, if King did go really pissy later, I can get both the "hell, I'd be pissed too" and also the "don't bash a mentally retarded guy" sides of the argument, but in On Writing at least, I thought he kept his shit pretty locked down.....mine wmight have gone stratospheric.
My point is I'd be slow to act on that anger in public when I discovered my 'adversary' was living in a trailer on disability benefit and possibly had cognitive difficulties.
Despite my massive injuries and long recuperation time, I'd hope I'd be the bigger person and let it go. Especially when I'm a multi-millionaire author known throughout the world.
Where I come from, running people over is wrong.
No, you're getting confused with the 100 yard dash to vomit on a policeman.I thought it was a national sport?
No, you're getting confused with the 100 yard dash to vomit on a policeman.
No, you're getting confused with the 100 yard dash to vomit on a policeman.
Nosmo King? Geddit?
*sigh* Anyhoo...
This is inspired by the Books You've Thrown Across the Room with Force thread in the Novels forum, and the conversation about Stephen King which began around about this page.
I've only read a handful of King books -- Rose Madder, Bag of Bones, Dreamcatcher and a few others, and I wouldn't call myself a mad keen King afficionado.
Those who are more familiar than I with his work have referenced a difference between his 'too stoned to remember writing this shit, 'cause man, I was off my tits' books and his 'clean and sober' works.
I was just wondering what yous guys thought about this. Is there a difference between the two Kings? Do you think the drink and drugs made his books better or worse? Had no effect?
For those who see a difference, what exactly would you say that difference is? Were his books darker back then? More psychological now?
Which of his books would you say best illustrate this difference, if there is one?
Uh, yeah. I totally just got the Nosmo thing. Did I mention I'm naturally blonde?
It's fascinating to me that Bryan Smith (the guy who hit King) died on King's birthday. How very Twilight Zone.
I read three SK novels. The Stand, ending really really annoyed me, It, ending really really annoyed me, and the Green Mile, ending really really annoyed me.
After that I gave up.
I used to be quite the SK fangirl and ready to cut bitches across cyberspace about him.
The magical Negro mess in "The Green Mile" and "Shawshank Redemption" movies quite annoyed me.
Red in Shawshank didn't really strike me as a Magical Negro character, though.
In the book he wasn't black. Was he? I'm doubting my memory now....
He wasn't, as I recall. Wasn't he a redheaded Irishman? Hence the nickname.