longer than you think! it's longer than you think!

[brianmanahan]

so i just read "the jaunt" by stephen king.

such a crazy, creepy sci-fi story.

Spoiler

the thought of my mind being forced to exist by itself over the equivalent of billions of years only to emerge back into reality at the point where it left, but long after it has consumed itself in the midst of infinite nothingness... dang

 

[Jeraden]

I remember reading that as a teenager... From Skeleton Crew or whatever I think the name of the book of short stories was. That's the one short story from it that always stuck with me. Really good stuff!

 

[brianmanahan]

I remember reading that as a teenager... From Skeleton Crew or whatever I think the name of the book of short stories was. That's the one short story from it that always stuck with me. Really good stuff!

yep it is in skeleton crew. i don't think i can take more than one story every few days, or it'll do me in!

 

[brianmanahan]

i just watched a sensory deprivation chamber youtube video and it reminded me of this short story.

that chamber seems like it'd be bad enough just in 1 hour. but to be locked in it for millions of hours....

 

[OverVolt]

Stephen King does a couple of themes over and over again I've noticed now.

Body snatching, not being in control of your self, inanimate objects having a mind of their own and killing people, etc.

 

[kranky]

Stephen King does a couple of themes over and over again I've noticed now.

Body snatching, not being in control of your self, inanimate objects having a mind of their own and killing people, etc.

He probably figures if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

 

[CraKaJaX]

Stephen King does a couple of themes over and over again I've noticed now.

Body snatching, not being in control of your self, inanimate objects having a mind of their own and killing people, etc.

It sure as hell worked out for him. I enjoy his stuff.

 

[BxgJ]

yep it is in skeleton crew. i don't think i can take more than one story every few days, or it'll do me in!

Have you read the one about the guy stranded on the island yet?

 

[MongGrel]

I vaguely remember that one.

Skeleton crew was one of his better collections in the old days when he was worth reading.

After that he did just get into a pattern, some of the early stuff the best.

There is some old Harlan Ellison out there would really be worth reading if you'd go there.

 

[MongGrel]

Harlan Ellison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Ellison

I'll recommend one, but there are so many.

Deathbird Stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deathbird_Stories

http://www.amazon.com/Deathbird-Sto...=1445002502&sr=8-1&keywords=Deathbird+Stories

Hemingway is great too if you never read any if the short stories.

I actually need another copy of this, I wore my old paperback one out over the years. It was before this one even.


The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition Paperback – August 3, 1998

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Shor...UTF8&qid=1445002588&sr=1-3&keywords=hemingway

 

[chitwood]

Yep the Jaunt is one of my favorites.

Also from Skeleton Crew that is great -

The Mist
The Raft

The Mist was made into a movie with Tom Jane that I thought was awful.
The Raft... brrr. Well written and freaky.

 

[notposting]

I vaguely remember that one.

Skeleton crew was one of his better collections in the old days when he was worth reading.

After that he did just get into a pattern, some of the early stuff the best.

There is some old Harlan Ellison out there would really be worth reading if you'd go there.

His older short stories were great.

The island one had the doctor and his heroin, and not a lot of food. "How badly does the patient want to survive?" I liked the little chomping teeth, the raft in the lake, and the longer ones (novella's, I suppose) were always pretty sweet.

Even going through most of the 90's wasn't bad. Don't think I've really picked anything of his up since I closed Dark Tower 7 and regretted reading the last 3 of that series ever after.

I just live in a world where I'm still waiting on a sequel to Wizard & Glass, a sequel to the first Matrix movie, and wondering if George Lucas will ever do the rumored prequels or sequels to Episodes 4, 5, and 6.

 

[MongGrel]

Yep the Jaunt is one of my favorites.

Also from Skeleton Crew that is great -

The Mist
The Raft

The Mist was made into a movie with Tom Jane that I thought was awful.
The Raft... brrr. Well written and freaky.

I wasn't going to go there, but I actually liked The Mist movie, I thought the ending was really more dramatic then the book. Just me I guess, a lot of people didn't like the movie, I did I guess.

The Raft is a head game for sure.

Just remembering "Nona" used to give me nightmares for awhile to be honest, because my second wife was a King fan and the "Do you Love" thing came to haunt me a bit after the divorce. She used to say it a bit as a joke prior to that even.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nona_%28short_story%29

 

[Mayne]

so i just read "the jaunt" by stephen king.

such a crazy, creepy sci-fi story.

Spoiler

the thought of my mind being forced to exist by itself over the equivalent of billions of years only to emerge back into reality at the point where it left, but long after it has consumed itself in the midst of infinite nothingness... dang

You don't know how many decades I've been thinking of this story and who wrote it. Thank you for finally putting my mind at rest. One of my favourite stories.

 

[wabbitslayer]

I have been telling my wife this for many years but she refuses to believe me.