The Stephen King Thread - Part 1

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Sleeping Beauties; Book by Stephen and Owen

Posted: June 11, 2016, 08:09:40
Section: Book » Sleeping Beauties
On the Charleston stop on the End of Watch tour King mentioned how he and his son Owen have collaborated on a book set in a women’s prison in West Virginia. A first draft of that work has been finished which means we probably won’t see it until the fall of 2017 at the earliest. No info on what kind of book it is but the title will be Sleeping Beauties.

 

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Sleeping Beauties Out Next Year

Posted: June 14, 2016, 08:16:31
Section: Book » Sleeping Beauties
On Sunday during his stop in Louisville, Kentucky King revealed that the book Sleeping Beauties that he and Owen has written will be released next year.

 

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Looking forward to it.

 

[JewishHobbit]

Has anyone here read Cell? I'm looking for some book options for my book club. Many of us have read various King books, so I'm trying to find one none of us have read. Cell has always caught my eye. Curious what you guys think of it.

 

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I liked Cell but my friend really hated it. She didn't like the ending.

 

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Has anyone here read Cell? I'm looking for some book options for my book club. Many of us have read various King books, so I'm trying to find one none of us have read. Cell has always caught my eye. Curious what you guys think of it.

Decent book. But it's one of those novels that just feels like King is just having some fun without really have anything to say and the concept maybe might have worked better as a short story or a novella. The ending is kind of abrupt in a way you often see in short stories.

 

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New Book Scares King to Death

Posted: June 14, 2016, 23:36:59
Yesterday in Iowa King confirmed that he do have a book written, besides Sleeping Beauties that he’s written with Owen. He said he is done with a first draft of a book that is scaring him to death. No more info was given though.

He also said that The Talisman was due for a third book (don’t mean it will happen soon though) but didn’t reply to a questions about a new Dark Tower book.

 

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Early Photo of King

Posted: June 18, 2016, 16:24:20

Is this the earliest photo of King? It might. Stephen Spignesi will be talking about it later today!

This is one of the photos I'll be showing and talking about at my Stephen King lecture today. This was provided to me by Stephen King's brother Dave, for my "Stephen King Encyclopedia." Is this the earliest picture ever taken of Stephen King? Might be.

 

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Cookie Jar: New Story

Posted: June 21, 2016, 23:22:34
A new story by King is out. It's called Cookie Jar And you can read it here.

 

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Six Scary Stories With Intros by King

Posted: July 2, 2016, 00:06:56

Cemetery Dance and Hodder & Stoughton will release the book Six Scary Stories this fall. Hodder as an eBook on August 25 and Cemetery Dance as a hardcover and tradepaperback on October 31. Please note that King has written the intros to the stories but not the stories themself.

Six Scary Stories
selected and introduction by Stephen King

Featuring full color cover artwork by Vincent Chong

About the Book:
Number 1 bestselling writer Stephen King introduces and presents six gripping and chilling stories in this captivating anthology!

Stephen King discovered these stories when he judged a competition run by Hodder & Stoughton and the Guardian to celebrate publication of his own collection The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. He was so impressed with the entries that he recommended they be published together in one book, which Cemetery Dance Publications and Hodder & Stoughton are pleased to report has become a reality. The six stories are:

WILD SWIMMING by Elodie Harper
EAU-DE-ERIC by Manuela Saragosa
THE SPOTS by Paul Bassett Davies
THE UNPICKING by Michael Button
LA MORT DE L'AMANT by Stuart Johnstone
THE BEAR TRAP by Neil Hudson

 

[JewishHobbit]

I listened to Thinner (Richard Bachman) and Carrie this week while at work. Thinner was okay, but MAN was Carrie good. I wish I didn't know the prom stuff from vague recollections of the film. But still, very well done. I typically hate how King gives things away before they happen (deaths, events, etc.), but I like how he did it in Carrie.

 

[SpideyInATree]

Was able to finish Finders Keepers over the holiday weekend. It was decent enough and definitely not the worst King book out there. Though it seemed the book focused on the characters that WEREN'T the characters recurring throughout the series. The main character is supposed to be Bill Hodges and we don't get reintroduced to the character until almost halfway through the book.

 

[titansupes]

Finally started The Shining mid-last week, about half-way though. Danny's just--

Spoiler

-- encountered the old lady in Room 217.

Really enjoying it so far, and it's suitably creepy, in spite of much of the punch being taken out of it due to having seen the movie two or three times.

 

[Victarion]

Yeah, seeing the movie is what kept me away from it. But I was surprised to find that it didn't detract all that much.

Speculation for the third Talisman novel. Spoilers for The Dark Tower. Don't open unless you've read all seven Dark Tower novels.

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I'm wondering if the Talisman 3 won't also bring a conclusion to Roland's final journey. Since Parkus said he thought Jack and the others in the Territories would have a role to play in the journey.

 

[Roose Bolton]

We need that damn book soon. Black House was fantastic

 

[titansupes]

Yeah, seeing the movie is what kept me away from it. But I was surprised to find that it didn't detract all that much.

Finished it last night and I agree, it doesn't really detract. It's a very different beast in a lot of ways-- (I'm probably saying nothing new here, since I'm significantly late to the party) I find a lot more depth and coherence to each of the characters, and their deteriorating bond as a family unit, and as much as I love the movie and it's take on Jack and the hotel, I also thoroughly enjoyed this more overtly supernatural version (though the movie obviously has it's own unsettling version of this). I also enjoyed the Tony reveal, maybe even prefer it.

The one extremely annoying thing-- There's a big misprint in my copy. Halfway through one of the chapters toward the end, it repeats half an earlier chapter, then picks up where things should be later... very frustrating.

So, Doctor Sleep-- Worthwhile?

 

[Victarion]

I haven't read Doc Sleep, but based on the jacket synopsis, King doesn't fall into the trap of rewriting the first book in his series. It does sound like a different beast entirely than the first novel. Thinking about it, I'm reminded of The Talisman --> Black House; BH is the second in the Jack Sawyer novel series, but its very different in genre and tone than TT.

The Tower junkie in me wonders where the Territories exist in relation to the rest of Mid-World. I'm aware that the pavilion Jack visits in Black House is near Eluria. I've also entertained the notion that the Territories exist on all levels of the Tower as a buffer between our world's many incarnations and the many incarnations of Mid-World.

Spoilers for The Talisman

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I take the black hotel from this novel as a replica of the Tower, same as the Rose on the Keystone Earth. King describes it very similar, and no doubt the mythos he's spun around the Dark Tower are a refinement of the concepts he played with in The Talisman with the black hotel.

 

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Cookie Jar Included in Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Posted: August 10, 2016, 11:08:21
Section: Book » The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

On October 18, 2016 the paperback edition of The Bazaar of Bad Dreams is released in paperback and on the back cover it's now revealed that it will also contain King's shortstory Cookie Jar.

 

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One More Mr Mercedes Book?

Posted: September 24, 2016, 16:49:35
Beeng interviewed Live on Facebook for the National Book Festival King said the following about a book his working on now.

There is one in the process now that deals with one of the characters from the Mr Mercedes trilogy that's outright scary.

Watch the interview here.

 

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Sounds great. I loved those books.

 

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King & Straub To Start Talisman 3 Next Year?

Posted: September 26, 2016, 13:43:12
Section: Book » The Talisman 3

At the National Book Festival King was asked about the third Talisman book and gave this answer.

With any luck we’ll start the third one in February next year. We know just what it’s supposed to be.

Sleeping Beauties Will Be Long & Released in 2017

Posted: September 26, 2016, 09:27:32
Section: Book » Sleeping Beauties King confirmed (at the Library of Congress speech) that the book Sleeping Beauties that he has written with his son Owen will be released next year and that it’s a long book.

 

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Holly Gibney IS Back

Posted: September 29, 2016, 08:59:33
Section: Book » The Holly Gibney Book
Here is an interview with King from the 2016 National Book Festival where he confirms that Holly Gibney from The Bill Hodges Trilogy is back. King has said earlier that one of the characters would return and now she is. King is working on the book now but we don’t know anything about a release date…yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9EKh-lrvgU

 

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I was hoping it was her. I liked her a lot in the books.

 

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The Dark Tower Book Set

Posted: October 10, 2016, 13:14:28

Complete Dark Tower set to be released on December 6. Pre-order here.

 

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Stephen King’s First Children’s Book Coming in November
http://www.comingsoon.net/horror/ne...st-childrens-book-coming-in-november#/slide/1