Tag: Stephen King

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TV & Movies
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Binary System Podcast – Watch Party #7 – The Shining

It’s time yet again to Social Distance the heck out of this epidemic and watch a movie together while still staying in three different states: North Carolina, Florida, and California. Next up for the Tri-State Watch Party, we’re going with The Shining. (With multiple references to the Simpsons’ version too.) The Netflix Watch Party app ended

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: The Institute

The blue caretakers came for her in the night and they saw her no more. It’s two days until Halloween, and what’s more appropriate for the final week of Spooky Book Month than the latest Stephen King novel? Luke Ellis has what can only be described as the perfect life. At twelve years old he’s

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Books
Kathryn Adams

Review: Elevation

Hands on a clock, numbers on a bathroom scale, weren’t they only ways of trying to measure invisible forces that had visible effects? A feeble effort to corral some greater reality beyond what mere humans thought of as reality? Stephen King’s latest work is more of a modern-day fable than a novel.  It’s also a

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Review: IT

The Stephen king novel IT was released in 1986, followed by the famous 1990 miniseries that has since become a cult classic, mostly due to the chilling performance by Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. Overall the miniseries works as a TV movie based on a King novel even with the budgetary and technology restrictions

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BSP #60 – The Binary System Crapfest

You can listen to this episode on our Binary System Podcast channel at Anchor.fm! Happy Thanksgiving everybody! (Or, if you’re not celebrating Thanksgiving, happy Thursday.) Want to kill some time while the turkey’s baking? Need to while away the minutes in the car? Want to get away from the holiday cheer with some good old

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Review: Six Scary Stories

Stephen King’s last short-story collection came out a year ago. If past behavior predicts future performance then it could be as long as eight years before we get another one. Before anyone (like me) starts to despair, we’ve got a little something to tide us over while we wait. Part of the promotion for Stephen

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Review: The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Anyone who regularly reads my book reviews will know I love short story collections. Anthologies by many different authors are great; collections by one of my favorite authors are even better. And there are two authors who could make me run a marathon if they told me they had a new collection waiting for me

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