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11-29-2012, 08:03 PM | Topic Starter | |
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'Under the Dome" coming to CBS summer '13
Hopefully the series won't fizzle out toward the end the way that the novel did...
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11-29-2012, 08:07 PM | #2 |
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I'd have preferred a 1 off series, but willing to see how they spin it.
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11-29-2012, 10:53 PM | #3 |
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Great book, decent ending but it seemed a little abrupt. You know? It just wasn't wrapped up like it should've been.
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I think it'd be hard to wrap something up with a bow, nice and neat... after you created this whole other world in your own mind. I mean, you'd kinda want it to continue. Hell of a writer though. There's a reason he's so well known. I've been reading his stuff since I was a kid. |
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I just got tired of dedicating hours to a book and then he'd spent 20 pages wrapping it up when earlier in the book he'd spend 30 pages sending a character to get a glass of milk. Maybe that's why I wasn't as annoyed the the Dark Tower series; he never really bothered trying to end them. The only times I've ever felt like he did a decent job ending stories is in his short story compilations. Otherwise I feel like he just gets tired of writing, kills some folks and calls it a day.
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A friend of mine tells me to read Under the Dome but I just can't. |
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06-24-2013, 08:00 AM | #9 | |
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Fortunately that's one of the things the TV series is changing. |
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06-24-2013, 08:29 AM | #10 | |
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PISSED...ME...OFF! crappy, stupid, far fetched, unrealistic reeruned story. I know I know....it's SK....it's supernatural....so how could you expect realism? I say no way in hell people behave and do the things they did in the book. it was just simply DUMB. and the ending.....ARE YOU KIDDING ME! so thank GOD they are supposed to change it for the TV version. but....even if they improve the ending....if they follow the book very closely, and often times the book gets the shaft like with the Jack Nicholson version of the shining, but if they follow the book closely, this is gonna suck imo. but it's SK....so my stupid ass is gonna sit there and watch it. PS - coolest SK quote I've ever come across. in his book 11/22/63 (a pretty good read) he describes our world as follows... A universe of horror and loss surrounding a single lighted stage where mortals dance in defiance of the dark.
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11-30-2012, 01:47 PM | #11 |
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Under the Dome's ending was okay. IT still has the worst Stephen King ending of all time.
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