Cujo is only S.King book I’ve ever started. I had to give up quickly.
I don’t know why I started it. I really don’t like horror.
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Yeah, it’s a terrifying book… King is a solid writer, though.
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I haven’t read a lot of his books (he has so many). I really enjoyed the Dark Tower series.
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Oh, yes. I did read one of his short stories that was science fiction. I forget the name. It was about using a transporter to go to Mars. You had to be anesthetized because of what happened during the trip.
It was still horrific.
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I read Carrie as a teenager and didn’t know anything about King. I thought it was scary enough, and I wished that Itoo could fling things around just by thinking about it. I remember trying a few others later, but by then, they weren’t my kind of thing. I prefer deeper characterization, for one thing, and plots about things that seem impossible to me, like monster dogs or ghosts or yes, telekinesis, just seem silly now.
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I should really read that book some time. I’ve read most of King’s horror stuff at this point (haven’t gotten to the Dark Tower stuff) and have been filling in the gaps the past few years, but for some reason “rabid dog” just never held the same spark of interest for me as “haunted car” or “alien murder clown”. I actually totally forgot it’s considered one of his classics. Maybe next Halloween season…
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Gaaaahhhhhh!!!
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The Stand is tequited reading, man!
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I have read that one and some of his other ones, I’ve just read relatively few considering the number of books he’s written.
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“ A 2022 state report cited by the Post-Dispatch revealed that just 5 percent of contract spending for services went to minority-owned firms, while only 4 percent went to businesses owned by women.”
I - and many others- have been warning about court cases leading to the eliminating of these programs for years. It’s coming now.
A couple of percentage of these opportunities the majority of people pay taxes for is too much for some people.
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Looks like money laundering to me.
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Now I’m kinda suspicious of the real Olivet-Nazarene university just down the road. Maybe this fake college system is stealing their name to add an air of legitimacy.
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They don’t look to be associated with these organizations.
But I don’t think I like them either.
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Financial crash coming soon?
As bad as 2008, or…worse?
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Ah, herein lies a subtlety in the observation. The answer the machine is giving is: “I don’t know”. The uncertainty is so high, that it says it can’t make a move that meets the criteria it has been given for an acceptably low risk outcome.
That doesn’t say the markets are going to be bad, or good. Just that for all its analytic prowess, it doesn’t know.
As a human, you have the “is that a False Sabretooth Tiger there in the dark?” reaction. That’s the safer response (there’s evidence they used to eat us) but tends to be pessimistic.
Buffet always said not to bet against 
. As I said to a colleague in 2017, the country is wildly economically productive, rich in resources, and full of relatively well educated people with, on the whole, good intentions. I predicted that the coming years would be tough, but that would come through it a better place.
I still believe that.
I’m still glad I live in 
… for now…
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You probably have other things to do, but Different Seasons was a solid collection of four mostly non-supernatural novellas. (He slips in one non-horror but uncanny story at the end.) Not certain how you’d compare/judge the characterizations, but it’s probably some of his stronger work in that area. ‘Twas the source for the films Shawshank Redemption, Stand by Me, and Apt Pupil.
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Good to know, thank you!
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Probably.
https://boingboing.net/2018/11/28/dreamtime-of-scammy-llcs.html
Probing a mysterious network of dropshippers, evangelicals, crapgadgets, and semi-vacant Manhattan department stores
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