Absalom, Absalom! is truly phenomenal, but it’s genuinely one of the most challenging novels I’ve ever read, but I would argue that it’s form is completely purposeful. I’m not someone who is ever gonna say “you need to like the thing I like” though, so I really do get it.

To me, Faulkner might as well be a poet, and his language really carries me through the long sentences.

or they'll ask "what do you think of this" or "I didn't like that one thing I got last time." Brother, I didn't like that they decided to make a knife that kills It in Welcome to Derry, but you don't wanna talk about that shit so let's leave each other alone.

(i haven't seen the newest one yet)

Interesting to see them dip into Doctor Sleep territory last week too with Dick's lockbox

the kitchen says middle america but the rest is screaming russian ingenuity

Had a very brief thought about "what if Sluggo did grow up to be a detective?" which was immediately followed by "yeah dude, that's Columbo"

Tarr, Hranitzky, and Krasznahorkai do really incredible film work together. If you haven't seen it, Satantango is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

is that Werckmeister Harmonies?

I've argued that The Turin Horse is cosmic horror

That is generally just so much more interesting to me than the weird piecemealing and in your face easter eggs. Welcome to Derry almost reminds me of the Dark Tower movie because it's like 'yeah we're doing our own thing, but we're gonna keep reminding you of the stuff we're explicitly not doing'

That's something I really need to revisit cuz when I did watch it, I had pretty much read no King, so I had no frame of reference for a lot of it. I definitely think that choosing to tell Pangborn & Polly Chalmers love story outside of the context of Needful Things could still be interesting.

I finally watched this heap of bananas of a show and while I have many notes, that indigenous flashback story makes it all worth it. That was legit.

If we're gonna do that, then Battle Royale is just a rip-off of The Long Walk.