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So on the Kingcast they will ask of their guests their Stephen King origin story...mine was seeing this at the floor of an older neighbor that I looked up to--I was most likely nine or ten:

 

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To be followed by Night Shift.  I was a little scared of trying the novels because I had seen Cujo on TV, and my Mom had shared that the book does not have a happy ending.  

It would be a few years but I think my real affinity began with the 1990 update of The Stand, after which I tore through most of what King had published in the 80's besides the Dark Tower books, which I didn't get going on until I was an adult (and I still haven't read Tommyknockers or the Dark Half).  

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Finished The Long Walk. Really enjoyed it - but the ending left me pretty meh. I've heard the ending is different in the movie but don't know how - not sure if I wanna watch it or not. 

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On 10/21/2025 at 10:59 AM, SimonBolivar said:

I didn't care much for The Long Walk. There was only so many pages of walking that I could take.

I'm about halfway through Under the Dome for the first time and damn it's good. 

 

9 hours ago, Doc Sam Beckett said:

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What’s funny is that Under the Dome came out during a bit of a post-accident fallow period for King, and I recall a lot of reviews championing it as a return to form.  
 

I like to imagine it as King’s version of Lost, which he clearly loved and wrote about in his EW column.  

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1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Not a fan?  I thought it was great.

I believe his post accident work is better than before his accident, but two that I never really cared for are Lisey's Story and Under the Dome. Lisey's I didn't finish, and it might be time to give it another go, but Dome I feel like the idea was great, but the execution wasn't. 

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On 10/30/2025 at 10:21 AM, TwiceHorn said:

The good thing about Long Walk, to me, is that it involves adolescent/young male characters, which King writes extraordinarily well, imo.

 I think his newer stuff like Billy Summers shows he's lost a bit of it when writing young characters. He did a great job with The Long Walk, but of course he was a kid when he wrote it.

 

Finished Under the Dome and loved it. I like a big, epic, cast of characters.

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On 10/30/2025 at 10:45 AM, Doc Sam Beckett said:

I believe his post accident work is better than before his accident, but two that I never really cared for are Lisey's Story and Under the Dome. Lisey's I didn't finish, and it might be time to give it another go, but Dome I feel like the idea was great, but the execution wasn't. 

I didn't like Lisey's Story either.  

I loved Duma Key.  I've read it three times.  One of his better post-accident novels, in my opinion.

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22 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

 I think his newer stuff like Billy Summers shows he's lost a bit of it when writing young characters. He did a great job with The Long Walk, but of course he was a kid when he wrote it.

It's even more noticeable in Fairy Tale, which he tries to resolve by writing that the lead character is a bit of an old soul and enjoys boomer media.  

I'm waiting for the next book in which he tries to update his "gee whiz" 1950's vernacular to modern times by having the kids repeat "6, 7" incessantly.  

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