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Anything written by Stephen King after the mid 1980s

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He was loads better at writing when he was addicted to cocaine

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Never heard that. You read his Bachman short stories? Compelling. They no longer print "Rage" at his request.

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He got sober sometime in the late 80's, it seems like he started trying in '87, but shit takes work, and you don't always succeed on your first attempt.

Regardless, look at , and all the shit he wrote before getting sober, and everything he wrote afterwards.

While, as a horror aficionado, I never thought he was the best writer, the shit he wrote on coke is generally regarded as way better than the shit he wrote after he got sober.

You read his Bachman short stories?

No, never heard of them. Worth a read?

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I read: The Shining, Carrie, The Stand, and Pet Cemetary. All pretty good. His short stories, and the Bachman books finishe my S King phase. But, he wrote The Green Mile & Shawshank Redemption. Both good movies.

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While The Stand was good overall, it was his longest and most tedious book to date at the time. His writing got too long-winded for many. Concur that The Green Mile and Shawshank were good movies, but there's no way I'd entertain reading them.

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Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was one of his better books and is worth reading. The earlier Gunslinger books too, before he went off the leftist deep end with the race mixing and other garbage. He was on board the woke train as it was leaving the station.

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I just watched Green Mile last night in my current 90s movie binge. Any suggestions

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Shawshank was not a long read

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I think those were all written while he was coked outta his gord, except for The Green Mile

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Twilight novels and Handmaid's Tale. Twilight single-handedly wrecked the entire both the entire vampire and werewolf genres at the same time and for all time. Handmaid's Tale only got popular because of that garbage TV series. I've read it and it's terrible. Atwood cannot write for shit.

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Do you use that name online so men don't bother you lol?

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Never read either of those, but I did watch part of the first season of Handmaid's Tale when it first came out, with my liberal female roommate (who was a great friend and a smart person, just retardedly liberal).

It was 2017, right after Trump got elected for the first time, and I remember watching a pretty brutal scene with her, where they , and she told me how scary it was, and how she thought that it would soon happen in this country, due to the takeover by white nationalists.

I pointed out that this shit actually happens everyday, it is just all done in Africa and the Middle East.

She got real mad at me, but couldn't actually express why.

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The supposed plot of Christian Nationalist to turn women into slaves was always a kike propaganda program. I've never heard a single kike complain about the plight of women in muzzie countries.

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The supposed plot of Christian Nationalist to turn women into slaves was always a kike propaganda program. I've never heard a single kike complain about the plight of women in muzzie countries.

Yeah, that is something that really pissed me off during that timeframe, when every liberal in Philadelphia felt justified in just hating straight white males and supporting any brown person no matter what. My roommate wasn't a Kike tho, she was just a retard suburbanite from the suburbs of North Jersey

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The movie was worse than the book.

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I read Handmaid's Tale before it became that stupid movie.

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You know what were decent books but absolutely fuck that cuck piece of shit? GoT Series, that fat lazy bitch will die before he ever finishes the book. Money went to his head then he started regurgitating liberal talking points like a tard.

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Anything by Ayn Rand. Only liked by pseudointellectual blowhards.

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Atlas Shrugged is a fantastic premise....just awful in its execution. She drones on for chapters with what could be accomplished in a paragraph....

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What's books?

But seriously I recall starting to read that Dan Brown one everyone loved. Felt like RL Stein meets the Templars. Tried to show my friend Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, which is pretty much a dramatized prophecy of the coming of Dan Brown. He found it to complex. Who knows?

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Oh yeah, that Dan Brown one. I had to read most popular stuff that came out back in the day since I was a librarian and people would ask me about the popular stuff. That one was terrrrriiiibble.

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Librarian always seemed an odd job. Never considered that post of it.

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I left because it is weird. I didn't mind the job itself, it was the managers and some god-awful expectations. I read stupid fast, so it wasn't too big a deal to read the best sellers at night. I did it for 12 years. I don't miss it. I kinda wonder if I was just a librarian because everyone expected that of me.

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since I was a librarian

You ever write?

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Nope. I have no decent stories in me.

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I know this pain. I've felt like this has gotten accelerated since the 90s. Back then they made movies etc for US audiences so you'd find things like unique colloquialisms etc in scripts. Books did the same thing. People now write for international audiences and are made for the lowest common denominator and easier translation. I feel like half the modern movie book adaptations are made from books w/ Goosebumps tier shit writing.

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There are those rare events where they try to sound more intelligent, but it just sounds like the pages of a thesaurus.

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Dan Brown is the Q-Anon of semi-historical conspiracy fiction

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He's pretty good, like a gluten free, low sodium triscuit.

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Hunger Games... it's written at like a 5th grade (white kid) reading level. The books also full of typos, even the editor didn't give a shit. Same with the Dexter novels. Idiotically dumb and poorly written. Just watch the Dexter series or the Hunger Games movies in either of those cases.

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I actually really enjoyed reading The Hunger Games.

Yeah, it is written at a 5th grade level, but that doesn't make it intrinsically bad.

I feel like you the type of Nigger who picks up a copy of See Spot Run and writes an Amazon review complaining about the author's simplistic prose and lack of character development.

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I actually really enjoyed reading The Hunger Games.

People like you always do :P

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People like you

Say what you were thinking, bitch.

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Some young adult novels are actually really good. I read The Giver by Lowis Lowry and was suprised by her not so veiled warnings against totalitarian/authoritarianism.

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The Giver was good. My 4th grade brain was not ready for those feels.

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Another one that people have listed that have a great premise, but terrible execution. I made it through them, but the teenage angst arc the dominated much of the story was way over the top.

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Catcher In The Fucking Rye. What a dumb fucking book essentially about nothing.

Oh and a long the same lines: To Kill a Mockingbird

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Jane eyre. The guy in the story is mean to Jane throughout the whole book then finally settles for her when he ends up disabled. Maybe he’s using her to get a free caretaker. Crappy love story. Get a life, Jane.

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Never read it, but to be honest, outside of Mary Shelley, I can't think of a single 'serious' female literary author I have enjoyed.

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The Catcher in the Rye was terrible. I read it once when I was an angsty teenager and liked it, but an attempted reread as an adult was just unbearable.

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And faggy English teachers will tell you "That's the point!"

I hated it even as a teenager. I hated it so much I still hate it now. Terrible meandering writing, bad dialogue, and completely unlikeable characters.

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My teenage years were really broken and chaotic, so it resonated with me then. Now that I have my shit together it just read like the whining of a spoiled brat.

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Crime and Punishment. Started reading it. Didn't like it. It's stupid.

The Idiot is far superior, but underrated work of Dostoyevsky.

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I rarely agree with your opinion, but the copy of The Idiot my grandmother gave me is one of my favorite possessions

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What did she mean by this?

Jokes aside, he really put humanity on display in that book.

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She had an incredible book collection, and she was probably one of the most intelligent women I have ever known.

She was, to my knowledge, one of the few women in the country to graduate with an advanced degree in biology at the time. Never did anything with it, but instead was a dutiful wife to my grandfather.

She smoked a lot, drank a lot, read a lot, and was a classical liberal who was unrepentant about her feelings towards 'The White Man's Burden'.

She loved people of all races, but wasn't apologetic with her estimations of non-whites and their intelligence.

I remember a dinnertime conversation we had about her travels when I was a child, with my father and my step-mother.

She spoke of something silly an Argentinian had done, I can't remember what, but I do remember her saying:

But he was an Argentine, so it wasn't like he was intrinsically stupid, like the Brazilians

And I remember my Ultra-Liberal Academic step-mother getting super defensive about that, saying that Brazilians were not intrinsically stupid.

Just a funny memory. But I do really miss that lady.

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The Idiot was good? I wanted to try it, but it was so hard to get through Crime and Punishment, I have avoided him since finishing it.

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It's a lot better and realistic book.

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Crime and Punishment has some really exhausting parts for sure.

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The characters, especially the main one are unrealistic and illogical. That's what put me off.

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The Enders Game novels by Orson Scott Card suck. How he got a nebula and hugo award out of those I have no idea.

Also: Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land. Starts awesome and then fritters off into some deranged fuck fest. Heinlein turned into a dirty old man and his late novels showed it.

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