The Stephen King Thread - Part 1

[DeGenerate10]

Finished The Running Man today. Really loved it. I'd say it's one of my favorite King books so far.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Just another 100 pages or so to go with Dr. Sleep

It's a gripping book. You don't want to put it down.

 

[squeekness]

Just another 100 pages or so to go with Dr. Sleep

It's a gripping book. You don't want to put it down.

I certainly ripped through mine. I think it took me only two days.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Bloody hell lol

I've had it for 4 weeks. Takes me an hour to read a chapter. I read it before I go to bed.

Then I've got The Shining after that

 

[Teelie]

I finally got around to finishing The 10 o'clock People and it was good. I was expecting a different ending but the one he left with obviously makes for a sequel (which is why Hollywood is adapting it). There are a lot of questions I have about what's going on there.

Spoiler

Who/what are the batmen? Are they alien? Supernatural? Natural but unknown before? How come only people who smoke just the right amount of cigarettes see them?
What is their ultimate goal?
Obviously their deaths turning them into smoke is a tie-in with the smokers but what causes them to literally vanish into thin air?
What does the rest of their body look like? We know their faces and that they apparently have taloned hands but what about the rest of them? Feet? Extra appendages? Tails? There are male and female ones so they at least have some kind of physical differences between the sexes.

It's probably the most interesting story I've read since the Salem's Lot-based trilogy.

 

[Victarion]

I finally got around to finishing The 10 o'clock People and it was good. I was expecting a different ending but the one he left with obviously makes for a sequel (which is why Hollywood is adapting it). There are a lot of questions I have about what's going on there.

Spoiler

Who/what are the batmen? Are they alien? Supernatural? Natural but unknown before? How come only people who smoke just the right amount of cigarettes see them?
What is their ultimate goal?
Obviously their deaths turning them into smoke is a tie-in with the smokers but what causes them to literally vanish into thin air?
What does the rest of their body look like? We know their faces and that they apparently have taloned hands but what about the rest of them? Feet? Extra appendages? Tails? There are male and female ones so they at least have some kind of physical differences between the sexes.

It's probably the most interesting story I've read since the Salem's Lot-based trilogy.

Which books are those?

 

[Teelie]

There are two short stories and Salem's Lot. The first short story, a sort of prequel is in Night Shift called Jerusalem's Lot. I haven't read Salem's Lot itself yet but I've seen the movies based on it, the third part of the trilogy, One for the Road is also in Night Shift.

 

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Anniversary Edition of Pet Sematary

Posted: January 26, 2014, 01:28:45

Here are two photos of the Anniversary Edition of Pet Sematary from PS Publishing.

 

[DeGenerate10]

I just finished The Dark Tower II: Drawing of the Three. Really enjoyed it more so than the first novel. The backstories of Odetta/Detta kinda drug on for a while but that's about the only complaint I had about the story.

 

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Joyland in paperback and eBook

Posted: January 27, 2014, 22:37:01
Section: Book » Joyland
Hard Case Crime announced today that they will be releasing Joyland as an eBook edition in April 2014 and a "mass market" paperback format on May 27, 2014.

 

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Description of Revival

Posted: January 31, 2014, 23:31:14
Section: Book » Revival

Here is a description of Revival that's being released later this year.

From master storyteller Stephen King comes Revival, a spectacularly dark and riveting novel about addiction, religion, fanaticism, and what might exist on the other side of life.

In a small New England town more than half a century ago, a boy is playing with his new toy soldiers in the dirt in front of his house when a shadow falls over him. He looks up to see a striking man, the new minister, Jamie learns later, who with his beautiful wife, will transform the church and the town. The men and boys are a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls, with the Reverend Jacobs — including Jamie’s sisters and mother. Then tragedy strikes, and this charismatic preacher curses God, and is banished from the shocked town.

Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from age 13, he plays in bands across the country, running from his own family tragedies, losing one job after another when his addictions get the better of him. Decades later, sober and living a decent life, he and Reverend Charles Jacobs meet again in a pact beyond even the Devil’s devising, and the many terrifying meanings of Revival are revealed.

King imbues this spectacularly rich and dark novel with everything he knows about music, addiction, and religious fanaticism, and every nightmare we ever had about death. This is a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.

 

[Great Mind(s)]

I only read The Dark Tower series and it was one of the best times of my life. The Gunslinger is a little slow to start with but the next book is like night and day different.

 

[DeGenerate10]

I'm close to halfway finished with The Wastelands. I love it. So far it's my favorite of the three Dark Tower novels I've read.

 

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Who's the most significant historical figure?

Posted: February 3, 2014, 09:05:05
Top 50 literary figures

1 William Shakespeare (4)
2 Charles Dickens (33)
3 Mark Twain (53)
4 Edgar Allan Poe (54)
5 Voltaire (64)
6 Oscar Wilde (77)
7 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (88)
8 Dante Alighieri (96)
9 Lewis Carroll (118)
10 Henry David Thoreau (131)
11 Jane Austen (139)
12 Samuel Johnson (141)
13 Homer (152)
14 Lord Byron (158)
15 Walt Whitman (160)
16 John Milton (165)
17 Geoffrey Chaucer (173)
18 Virgil (177)
19 William Wordsworth (182)
20 Stephen King (191)

Read the full list here.

 

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Revival Confirmed For November 11

Posted: February 12, 2014, 23:06:19
Section: Book » Revival
King's official site has now confirmed that the release date for Revival in both the US and UK will be November 11.

 

[Teelie]

I really need to catch up on my reading. I haven't read anything since early-mid January.

 

[DeGenerate10]

I've been listening to It today. From the few hours I've listened I'm really liking it. So far I think it might be his creepiest novel.

 

[squeekness]

I'm finishing up NOS4A2 from Joe Hill right. Great read! But funny how he several times referenced dear ole dad -- Mid-World, Shawshank and even the True Knot. Must be nice not having to ask permission for that.

 

[Rodrigo90]

Having read DS and currently reading The Shining, I must say, it's a like a totally different world considering lol

 

[OcStat]

I've been listening to It today. From the few hours I've listened I'm really liking it. So far I think it might be his creepiest novel.

I read It for the first time in October, the only scary book I've read since Goosebumps in elementary school. That books downright terrifying! The first Derry Interlude was creepy as hell! The ending is so bizarre I feel like I have to read it again, but I don't want to venture back into that nightmare for a good long while, haha.

I read the Shining after, and it was a good book, but after It I feel like anything else will feel tame. Except the Exorcist, I bought that book a few years back and have been to scared to even read it.

 

[DeGenerate10]

I read the Shining after, and it was a good book, but after It I feel like anything else will feel tame. Except the Exorcist, I bought that book a few years back and have been to scared to even read it.

The Exorcist is one of the creepiest books you could read

 

[Marvolo]

I read It for the first time in October, the only scary book I've read since Goosebumps in elementary school. That books downright terrifying! The first Derry Interlude was creepy as hell! The ending is so bizarre I feel like I have to read it again, but I don't want to venture back into that nightmare for a good long while, haha.

I read the Shining after, and it was a good book, but after It I feel like anything else will feel tame. Except the Exorcist, I bought that book a few years back and have been to scared to even read it.

The Exorcist didn't scare me at all, but it's a very good story. It will draw you in, and hook you.

 

[DeGenerate10]

I'm really getting frustrated with It. I'm listening to the audiobook and it seems like he's be going on for ours about a backstory that seems like it doesn't really matter. The one I'm referring to is the story that Mike's dad told. The Dick Hallorann cameo was pretty awesome. I just feel like the story would be so much better if he had left some of this stuff out. It feels so distracting from the story.

 

[Sawyer]

I can't guarantee that there isn't stuff in there that can easily be cut in the long run, because that was one long ass book, but I can say that it get's better.

 

[Marvolo]

I'm really getting frustrated with It. I'm listening to the audiobook and it seems like he's be going on for ours about a backstory that seems like it doesn't really matter. The one I'm referring to is the story that Mike's dad told. The Dick Hallorann cameo was pretty awesome. I just feel like the story would be so much better if he had left some of this stuff out. It feels so distracting from the story.

Which book is this?