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EIRE1994
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I read a recent Stephen King book and it contained sex outside of marriage…would it be sinful to not read this book but read other books by him which do not have such things in them?
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Scottgun
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And the Bible…
The presence of sinful behavior in literature is not enough to disqualify it as morally acceptable reading. Now, if the SK novel in question glamorized fornication or gave an overall lesson that fornication is good, that’s different.
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Sailor_Kenshin
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There’s another thread with just about the same subject from the same OP. To quote myself from that thread:
"I stopped being able to read King after ‘From A Buick 8.’ It’s not that I recall anything ‘bad’ from that book. To the contrary, it was a tour-de-force.
But other authors claimed my interest, and I’d never been able to finish ‘The Stand,’ and never read ‘It.’
My squick factor is getting sensitized, evidently."
"I stopped being able to read King after ‘From A Buick 8.’ It’s not that I recall anything ‘bad’ from that book. To the contrary, it was a tour-de-force.
But other authors claimed my interest, and I’d never been able to finish ‘The Stand,’ and never read ‘It.’
My squick factor is getting sensitized, evidently."
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Johann_du_Toit
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It’s not sinful as long as you don’t read it for the wrong intentions i.e to deliberately seek out sinful passages and for the sole purpose of reading said sinful passages.
meltzerboy
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Characters sin in all kinds of works of fiction and non-fiction. If that were the sole criterion for whether these works should be read, we wouldn’t be able to read very much of anything. Nonetheless, I don’t think a steady diet of only Stephen King books and others of that genre is the healthiest for the mind or the soul.
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jonathan_hili
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Stephen King’s novels are great if you want to freak yourself out - which can be fun!
They don’t really contain much in the way of Christian themes, e.g. charity (as in self-giving love), redemption, decent moral standards… but I like them regardless.
The Stand is great, though I was a bit disappointed by It. I’d recommend some of his short stories though as they rock.
They don’t really contain much in the way of Christian themes, e.g. charity (as in self-giving love), redemption, decent moral standards… but I like them regardless.
The Stand is great, though I was a bit disappointed by It. I’d recommend some of his short stories though as they rock.
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Or the Bible…
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thomasf
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I am a HUGE fan of Stephen King’s books. I read the Dark Tower series at least once a year. Great books. Love The Stand. Loved 11-22-63. Love a lot of his books.
I am not such a fan of Stephen King the man. His early works are clearly better overall. His recent works are peppered with his liberal ideas and biases. I could not stand Under the Dome, it was nonstop conservative/republican bashing. It’s hard for me to read his recent works because they are so full of that liberal bias and nonsense.
Read his works with caution. If you don’t like killing or death or sex don’t read the books. A lot of creepy stuff goes on his books, and you gotta believe he’s got some crazy ideas in his heads with the stuff he writes.
I will caution this. The book IT has some very unsettling scenes in it, and I couldn’t read those parts. I won’t get into it, but it was pretty gross.
A lot of his fiction has a heavy theme of good vs evil, but it’s not very christian-esque. If anything, he has become anti-christian.
I am not such a fan of Stephen King the man. His early works are clearly better overall. His recent works are peppered with his liberal ideas and biases. I could not stand Under the Dome, it was nonstop conservative/republican bashing. It’s hard for me to read his recent works because they are so full of that liberal bias and nonsense.
Read his works with caution. If you don’t like killing or death or sex don’t read the books. A lot of creepy stuff goes on his books, and you gotta believe he’s got some crazy ideas in his heads with the stuff he writes.
I will caution this. The book IT has some very unsettling scenes in it, and I couldn’t read those parts. I won’t get into it, but it was pretty gross.
A lot of his fiction has a heavy theme of good vs evil, but it’s not very christian-esque. If anything, he has become anti-christian.
meltzerboy
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Unsettling scenes in Stephen King’s IT? That’s putting it mildly. The movie was almost as unsettling.
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DlandFan06
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If you that is sinful to read than you probably shouldn’t read the other stuff. I’m not saying that everyone shouldn’t read his book, I’m just saying that since he has a problem with that material then he personally should not read Stephen King’s other works.
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thomasf
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Yes, it is. But I didn’t want to go into that here. Movie was tame and lame.
Incidentally, I was once told I was thwarting the author’s intentions on writing the book by skipping those parts of the story when I read it.
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Sailor_Kenshin
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Heh. I didn’t want to be the first to say it, but I’m glad you did.
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Gordon_Sims
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We must not have read the same book. I thought Under the Dome was 1500 pages of pro-liberal, rabidly maniacal anti-conservative preaching peppered with just a hint of the most ridiculous, flimsy excuse for a “plot” that Stephen King has ever come up with. The conservative caricatures in the book (none of them had enough substance to be called characters) were far worse than if Al Gore & Al Franken spent a drunken weekend trying to out-do each other on coming up with cartoonish conservative stereotypes. The only conservative good guy is conservative in name only, and every other page or so one of the liberal characters (like the female atheist pastor) makes a remark like, “Wow, I can’t believe she’s a Republican!” The ending was so idiotically ridiculous and contrived that if they ever make it into a movie, I don’t see how it could ever make a profit if they didn’t scrap it entirely. He truly needs to have his author card taken away from him after coming up with such tripe. And this is coming from a lifelong Stephen King fan who regularly rereads The Stand and his earlier short story collections. I just can’t stand the liberal proselytizer he’s become. (And for the record, I really scaled back on my true feelings in the interest of keeping this as charitable as possible.)
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KingJohn
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“They float, georgie. They all float”
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SamH
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To be honest reading anything he’s written in the last 20 years should be punishment enough.
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SamH
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I agree The Stand was great, but I haven’t read a King book I’ve liked that was published after 1988 or so. The Tommy Knockers was the tipping point. After that it’s been all down hill. I can’t believe I forced myself to read “From a Buick 8” expecting it to be a new “Christine”. Not even for a dollar at the discount bin.
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thomasf
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You just said what I wrote, with more words, and agreed with me.
You are aware they are making that book into a tv series, right? Coming this summer on CBS.
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thomasf
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The Tommy Knockers was horrible. I couldn’t make it through 3 chapters. But I did like Buick 8.
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Kithrus
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Do I need to explain plot device to everyone again?
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