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Post by wireman on Aug 5, 2020 16:00:01 GMT
We are discussing Autopsy Room 4 from the book Everything's Eventual
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Post by Wicked Esther on Aug 5, 2020 16:14:12 GMT
I actually enjoyed this story more the second time around. I guess I was able to notice more of the details when I knew how things would turn out and didn't have to worry about Howard so much.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 17:52:08 GMT
This is how you write. I actually, while reading the story, felt like i was laying on the table just waiting for knife and/or saw penetrating my skin. Very effective little story.
The only thing is thats it a pity that SK couldn't find a real snake to cause such effects. But thats a minor detail and if you want to invent a snake as an author you can, of course, do that.
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Post by Wicked Esther on Aug 5, 2020 17:55:22 GMT
The only thing is thats it a pity that SK couldn't find a real snake to cause such effects. But thats a minor detail and if you want to invent a snake as an author you can, of course, do that.I like that the snake is a little tip of the hat to Agatha Christie's 'African boomslang'. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2020 18:19:43 GMT
The only thing is thats it a pity that SK couldn't find a real snake to cause such effects. But thats a minor detail and if you want to invent a snake as an author you can, of course, do that.I like that the snake is a little tip of the hat to Agatha Christie's 'African boomslang'. |
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Post by wolf on Aug 5, 2020 18:56:51 GMT
I read this one a long time ago.
Managed to download the story!
Thank you morgan and neesy! I found about the download by reading y'all's posts.
.....I know I'm late here, but I'll try to make time to read it very soon, and join the discussion.
Hope that's okay with everyone. 🙂
Thanks!
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Post by wireman on Aug 5, 2020 22:31:36 GMT
This is how you write. I actually, while reading the story, felt like i was laying on the table just waiting for knife and/or saw penetrating my skin. Very effective little story.
The only thing is thats it a pity that SK couldn't find a real snake to cause such effects. But thats a minor detail and if you want to invent a snake as an author you can, of course, do that. Yes, it's impressive. The premature burial type story has been done many times before but Stephen can still create an engrossing tale from this old idea.
The descriptions of the tools and what they were planning on doing is horrifying.
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Post by edwardjohn on Aug 5, 2020 22:32:59 GMT
Great story. 
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Post by wireman on Aug 5, 2020 22:34:22 GMT
Did anyone notice my joke in the last thread when I gave notice for the next story?
Tomorrow we will discuss the touching story, Autopsy Room 4 by Stephen King from the book Everything's Eventual
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Post by spideyman on Aug 5, 2020 23:54:07 GMT
Always better the second time around. Still gives me creeps, even knowing the ending. Description, character development all there. The wordslinger just grabs his constant reader and doesn't let go.
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Post by wireman on Aug 6, 2020 15:26:45 GMT
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
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Post by neesy on Aug 6, 2020 18:14:06 GMT
I like that the snake is a little tip of the hat to Agatha Christie's 'African boomslang'. "Boomslang actually means treesnake (Boom for german baum which means Tree and Slang for German Schlange which means snake"
Schlange means snake? I have heard of the word {Spoiler}
schlong {Spoiler}
but I don't think they meant snake in that regard
Yes - I did enjoy this story quite a bit! I like that he added a bit of humor as well (with the doctor and her hand etc)
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
Okie Dokie - and yes I did notice your joke (in the last thread)  
Our nearest library is now open for pickups and drop offs so I don't have to drive all the way across the river any more. The West Kildonan branch is within walking distance of my house. Time to order that Everything's Eventual book
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Post by Wicked Esther on Aug 6, 2020 18:16:33 GMT
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
Nice. Are we gonna read through the whole book? It'll be close to Thanksgiving by the time we read all the stories, at one per week....and that's alright with me.  |
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Post by edwardjohn on Aug 6, 2020 18:38:22 GMT
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
Here is another horrible student film version of it.
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Post by neesy on Aug 6, 2020 18:45:43 GMT
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
Here is another horrible student film version of it.
He won the World Fantasy Award - Short Fiction in 1995 plus the O. Henry award for best short fiction
- I'm looking forward to reading it!
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"The Man in the Black Suit" is a horror short story by American writer Stephen King. It was originally published in the October 31, 1994 issue of The New Yorker magazine. In 1995, it won the World Fantasy Award and the O. Henry Award for Best Short Fiction.
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Post by edwardjohn on Aug 6, 2020 18:46:59 GMT
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
Here is another horrible student film version of it.
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Post by Wicked Esther on Aug 6, 2020 18:51:46 GMT
I do actually own Everything Eventual, and The Man in the Black Suit is a great story, I believe it won an award as well? Harold Frank, a famous literary critic, hated the fact that Steve won it, everyone to their own opinion I guess, I would have voted for the Peter Straub story, but I suspect that Mr Frank disliked Peter Straub as much as he disliked King. Has anyone checked out The Man in the Black Suit short film?
I don't want to get too far off topic here, but I get a kick out of the short film adaptations--even the bad ones! I always look for 'em on Youtube. I posted a short film of The Moving Finger (somewhere...), and I've been watching the Nightmares & Dreamscapes episodes which also contain stories from other collections . Even if I don't always like the film adaptations, I like to compare them to the written words. |
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Post by wireman on Aug 6, 2020 19:21:01 GMT
Next Wednesday, we will discuss The Man In The Black Suit from Everything's Eventual. Be there, aloha.
Nice. Are we gonna read through the whole book? It'll be close to Thanksgiving by the time we read all the stories, at one per week....and that's alright with me.  |
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Post by wireman on Aug 7, 2020 12:46:30 GMT
I have a suggestion for when we are finished with Everything's Eventual.
Peter Straub has a book of short stories called Interior Darkness that I would like to know if you would be interested in reading.
None of these stories are available online anywhere that I can find so it would either require buying the book or getting it at the library. We have a ways to go before we finish with Everything's Eventual so you have time to check to see if you can get it at your local library. There's always the chance this book will show up sometime in the future on Amazon's daily deal for $1.99 too. Anyway, I'm throwing this out there for some feedback. I don't want to put something up that we have to buy unless everyone's on board. Let me know what you think.
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Post by spideyman on Aug 7, 2020 13:14:42 GMT
I have a suggestion for when we are finished with Everything's Eventual.
Peter Straub has a book of short stories called Interior Darkness that I would like to know if you would be interested in reading.
None of these stories are available online anywhere that I can find so it would either require buying the book or getting it at the library. We have a ways to go before we finish with Everything's Eventual so you have time to check to see if you can get it at your local library. There's always the chance this book will show up sometime in the future on Amazon's daily deal for $1.99 too. Anyway, I'm throwing this out there for some feedback. I don't want to put something up that we have to buy unless everyone's on board. Let me know what you think.
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