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[wfudkn]

Do you ever have ringer stinger but you can't remember eating spicy food in the previous couple days? That happened to me earlier this week. It was disconcerting to say the least.

shit man, sounds like butt cancer to me. RIP mako.

 

[RJKarl]

Do you ever have ringer stinger but you can't remember eating spicy food in the previous couple days? That happened to me earlier this week. It was disconcerting to say the least.

Hurry up...get your Cologuard and shit in the box.

 

[Donkey Deac Doug]

Plama is an all time white. He even tops it off with an Asian girlfriend. Literally the best of all the whites.

King of the Whites.

 

[Donkey Deac Doug]

some folks use "ze" for the non-gendered third person pronoun

but it's also defs the case that "they" is a singular third person pronoun

This pronoun thing smells like a fad. Like pogs. In like, 2040, we'll laugh about how pronouns were a thing, but there will still be that one super weird Ze that obsesses about it and every time you see Zim, Ze wants to tell you all about all the pronouns Ze has.

 

[TownieDeac]

What's your fave thing that you've read so far?

The Stand is still the best.

I really loved The Long Walk. The Bachman Books are terrific all around, save maybe Thinner. Running Man is really fantastic.

Top 5 works probably goes:

The Stand
The Long Walk
It
Salem's Lot
The Body

 

[KickballDeac]

Mako, is Desperation/The Regulators worth reading? If so does the order matter? I think that's the only pair of his from the 90s I haven't read.

 

[JamesSokolove]

Didn't Palma have to get married after losing a bet to his girlfriend or some shit like that?

 

[mako1331]

Mako, is Desperation/The Regulators worth reading? If so does the order matter? I think that's the only pair of his from the 90s I haven't read.

It's been probably over 15 years since I've read them, but I remember really enjoying them. They're absolutely brutal if I remember correctly, and I read The Regulators first but I'm not sure that the order matters. I'd say go for it. Townie is ruining my reading life right now because he's making me want to reread King books I read as a high schooler and in college to see how I feel about it now. I'm making myself alternate between a King book and a non King book so I don't spend the rest of my life reading the same books over and over again, although I'd honestly probably be happy doing that.

 

[mako1331]

The Stand is still the best.

I really loved The Long Walk. The Bachman Books are terrific all around, save maybe Thinner. Running Man is really fantastic.

Top 5 works probably goes:

The Stand
The Long Walk
It
Salem's Lot
The Body

That's almost identical to mine. I know we've talked about it, but man I love The Long Walk.

 

[YoungBuck95]

somebody explain the appeal of a chopped salad please. isn't a salad already in a bite size form? do you really need the greens to be smaller than how small a piece of baby spinach already is?

 

[TownieDeac]

i too alternate between king books and non-king books

 

[BarcaDeac]

how long does it take you to read a book, townie? seems like you're posting every other day having finished several books.

 

[TownieDeac]

I know we've talked about it, but man I love The Long Walk.

So good. I think more than anything else he wrote, even the ones that turned into movies, it creates such a vivid mental picture in your head as you read. It's like a much, much better Hunger Games. So much of the backstory of the contest is left to imagination. Just outstanding.

I could also potentially replace Salem's Lot with Needful Things. Needful Things I kept thinking he was writing himself into a corner with the amount of plot lines he had going and the guy pulling the strings at the center of it just kept getting more and more compelling.

 

[Shooshmoo]

somebody explain the appeal of a chopped salad please. isn't a salad already in a bite size form? do you really need the greens to be smaller than how small a piece of baby spinach already is?

The appeal of a proper chopped salad is that it is not good for you because it has bacon, pasta, and gorgonzola in it and is delicious. The Portillos chopped salad is incredible.

https://www.chelseasmessyapron.com/portillos-chopped-salad/

 

[TownieDeac]

how long does it take you to read a book, townie? seems like you're posting every other day having finished several books.

i'm not a particularly fast reader but i do read for several hours per day, usually before and after work (and often during). during the week 2-300 pages per day, and maybe double that on the weekend.

 

[mako1331]

i'm not a particularly fast reader but i do read for several hours per day, usually before and after work (and often during). during the week 2-300 pages per day, and maybe double that on the weekend.

I envy your reading time. I try to knock out a couple hours a day on weekends, but I’m lucky if I can squeeze in 30 minutes during the week. That’s a nice benefit of waking up so early on the weekends. I usually have around 45 minutes to myself to read before anyone else gets up, and when the two year old gets up she just wants to snuggle and watch Peppa Pig so I can grab another 30-45 during that frame.

 

[TownieDeac]

my son just turned 5 months old today, so he still sleeps half the day, which helps a lot

 

[wakephan09]

Secret Window, Secret Garden sucked, mako! It sucked. It was like he ran out of steam and didn't want to write an ending. Oh well. On to The Library Policeman, which sounds like a Canadian daytime drama that wakephan09 would watch.

Oh shit, I'd read the shit out of that book. Used a photo of a library police office on a syllabus one time

 

[scooter84]

The Stand is still the best.

I really loved The Long Walk. The Bachman Books are terrific all around, save maybe Thinner. Running Man is really fantastic.

Top 5 works probably goes:

The Stand
The Long Walk
It
Salem's Lot
The Body

Good list. Was the Dead Zone a short story? It has been a long time but I remember enjoying that one. And Firestarter was actually pretty good.

I am not sure what is so compelling about The Stand but I don't think he has ever done anything better.

 

[scooter84]

somebody explain the appeal of a chopped salad please. isn't a salad already in a bite size form? do you really need the greens to be smaller than how small a piece of baby spinach already is?

Really? I think a chopped salad is so much better than a regular salad. Depending on the type of lettuce you can get huge pieces that you have to cut up or maneuver awkwardly into your maw. Also, the chopping process mixes up the ingredients so much better. One of my favorite salads anywhere, ironically, is Bad Daddy's Burger Bar - you can pick exactly the ingredients you want so you don't have to eat around anything and it is all chopped and mixed up...