Ambiguously Gendered Revenge of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Evilhalfling]

Me three. SK's books just aren't my kind of thing. Never got some people's fascination with his works. *shrug* To each his own.

I read a fair amout of his early works - They fell into a pattern: good build up with some frighting sceans/concepts, stupid climax then way to much declining action.

Lets see: It, Pet Cemetary, Shinning, Cujo, Dead Zone, Graveyard shift, Salems Lot, one post apocoplypse book ??, Firestarter, Carrie and Christene.
Wow 11, all pre 1993.

Recently I listened to Dreamcatcher (I ran out of book tapes)
Really, Really Bad. No redeaming features. The build up included Farts that smelled like bananas, a retarted kid in underware, no women, and no likeable characters.
Did I mention that he explained who the villian was in the prolog?

Oh as Im sure you know, he was also responsible for Stand by Me and the Shawshank Redemption. Shawshank was his best by far.

 

[Jdvn1]

I think that both would be sacrifices...

But not comparable.

 

[Jdvn1]

Not what I call a good analogy.

That's the point.

 

[Rystil Arden]

But not comparable.

Perhaps you think so, but it is clear that both are sacrifices, and that when we say sacrifice, we can immediately legitimately agree that they are so. Perhaps that's why DK and I both don't like the analogy

 

[Jdvn1]

Perhaps you think so, but it is clear that both are sacrifices, and that when we say sacrifice, we can immediately legitimately agree that they are so. Perhaps that's why DK and I both don't like the analogy

Well, Physics and Psychology are both sciences. When we say science, the dictionary legitimately agrees that they are both sciences. That you disagree with the dictionary strikes me as odd, though.

 

[megamania]

oh boy...A quick glance and I see Dark Helmet, mention of skin films and science. What is going on here?

 

[Darkness]

oh boy...A quick glance and I see Dark Helmet, mention of skin films and science. What is going on here?

Sheer madness.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Well, Physics and Psychology are both sciences. When we say science, the dictionary legitimately agrees that they are both sciences. That you disagree with the dictionary strikes me as odd, though.

The English dictionary is a funny thing, and its not a trustworthy source for very much. One interesting trait of our language is that our dictionaries (unlike the French in particular) is highly mutable and changes to fit what the masses think, even if it is wrong. One example would be words that are now listed with a complete mispronunciation as the most common one (err is properly pronounced "UHR", but the masses say "AYR", grimace is "gri-MAYS" but the masses say "GRI-muhs", etc)...

 

[Jdvn1]

oh boy...A quick glance and I see Dark Helmet, mention of skin films and science. What is going on here?

Put them in a bag, mix them up, and what do you get?

Some weird fanfic.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Sheer madness.

What else is new?