I have no idea if I'm making them sound appealing or not in my summary/commentary bits. It's easier to make jokes or pick on the silly parts than it is to effectively describe the parts that work and are creepy. But on the other hand, a friend of mine who is a big King reader from way back had completely different opinions from me on a good quarter of these stories, so tastes really must vary.
I don't know, but I found myself far more interested in the non-horror ones. So it probably is just my taste that has shifted.
I came down on the side of being against it! I was just trying to weigh the arguments, because seriously, smoking, man, I tell you what. But no, even though I don't want it around me I don't think you should be able to force a person to quit or take draconian measures like that. It's just ... the sheer brutal effectiveness of it is impressive.
Yeah, but you came down on the side of being against it after having said some really bizarrely positive things about it.
I don't think I've ever heard of someone named Henry being called Harry. You say Harry is short for Henry, but ... they're both the same number of letters. But man, I just Googled it and apparently it's a thing on your side of the pond at least. You guys need to brush up on the concept of shortening names.
"Short for" doesn't mean it actually has to be shorter. The Russians and Poles are specialists in having short versions of names that are actually longer than the original. The point is that it's a cuter-sounding, less formal version of the name - some people keep using it for all their life, others only as a child. Surely you didn't think that prince Harry of the UK had actually been baptized as "Harry"? In much the same way that Cheney wasn't baptized "Dick", Clinton wasn't baptized "Bill", and so on. If anything I think the Americans at least do this kind of thing at least as often as the British.
Nate reads Stephen King, Book 5: Night Shift
- 14/03/2012 04:18:33 AM
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Final Thoughts
- 14/03/2012 04:30:45 AM
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So many awful movies made from these stories.
- 14/03/2012 07:24:39 PM
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I remember a few of these.
- 15/03/2012 01:08:31 AM
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I had read it once before too, long ago.
- 15/03/2012 08:58:22 PM
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I've read a lot of King short stories, but these don't seem familiar.
- 15/03/2012 10:20:53 PM
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I'm only fascist on weekends.
- 16/03/2012 03:57:21 AM
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Re: I'm only fascist on weekends.
- 16/03/2012 08:23:27 PM
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