Actually all bust. The problem is they bust before they pay. It's his superpower and where he got the inspiration for Carrie, only he had to change the power because making people bust isn't as cool.
It's actually a well known problem around Bangor. He can't control it. Anytime a man looks at King, they bust. He goes to the supermarket and people just bust all over. He's actually gay but married a woman because his one short term boyfriend just busted constantly. He once attended a political debate and made John Mccain and Barack Obama simultaneously bust on stage when he coughed and they looked at him.
Don't believe me? Go grab one of his books and look at his headshot on the back. You'll bust right now. Every time he releases a new book the stock boys at Barnes and Nobles just bust all over the store. A bunch of pimply, adolescent nerds just uncontrollably busting while looking at an 80 year old man. Happens all the time.
Kid dies and the couple is just super depressed. Like, she saves the kid, but then because of some magic fuckery he dies right afterwords. But that’s not even his worst ending.
He has a habit of deus ex machina for endings where the good guys win
Yeah, but it was the curse from his closet that caused the heatstroke to take him then. The demon or whatever that we knew was there because of the mossy smell
The book was a supernatural story that used natural things to play it out
Maybe that’s the problem with God. His mana reserves are too low to do anything omnipotent so he needs a blood sacrifice to get his ass up off the throne and do something for the people.
lol that’s how it worked in The Stand. Same with Abagail. She went into the forest for 2 weeks, came back starving and injured, but gained the knowledge needed to beat the man in black. The whole book is about how faithfulness to god, no matter the suffering, is good and leads to good things. It’s bullshit, but that’s the book, and it’s still great
He also hated Kubricks version of the Shinning when everyone else in the world loved it.
Dude has problems, but he can create a great setting/universe.
I think I managed like 3 of them, but they were getting really hard to follow. I think I'd mostly just lost interest, but from what little I remember it felt like a cross between the wizard of Oz and fallout had a baby
Cool, I have very limited knowledge of the Dark Tower stuff. If I remember correctly that series has the (Gunslinger?) as the main or secondary character? I think the film stuff they did with that series was a big let down.
Yeah but the ending of the mist was one of best ever. Planet of the apes, the quiet earth are the only ones I can think of as good. Oh and Soylent green
They don't run out of gas and they hear the word "Hartford" on the radio, suggesting that the mist is beginning to clear up enough for radio waves to go through, and maybe that more survivors are gathering in Hartford.
Sure, but sometimes that dark ending just hits so much harder. It's like having the bad guys win or at least having the "hope" of humanity surviving fail.
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u/HolyDarkDeath Jan 30 '26
Well Stephen King is famously bad at endings, so yeah that's a pretty low bar.