The Stephen King Thread

[Ghostvirus]

Well I just finished Cell. This thing started off good, but it went down hil pretty quick. I can't believe.

Spoiler

You don't even find out if his son gets cured or not.:

 

[Whirlysplat]

Well I just finished Cell. This thing started off good, but it went down hil pretty quick. I can't believe.

Spoiler

You don't even find out if his son gets cured or not.:

Told you so..

 

[gap5ewl]

Misery the book is even more f-d up then Misery the movie

 

[Galactus]

Under the Dome
Posted: May 5, 2008, 10:32:55 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

In my interview with King earlier this year he talked about “a really long book” and this Sunday during the CSPAN2 airing of Writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King he revealed more about it.


In 1983, Stephen King began a book first titled “The Cannibals” which was also known as “Under the Dome”. This book remained unpublished and unfinished. According to Stephen King who appeared on CSPAN2 this evening on the program, “A writing Discussion with Stephen, Tabitha, and Owen King”, the book has come back to life. He read an excerpt from what promises to be a very long novel entitled “Under the Dome”. No publishing date was discussed. It looks like Stephen King is digging into his trunk of long abandoned novels and updating them like he did with Blaze. The short passage that King read dealt with the unexpected death of a small plane pilot and student. In recent interviews, Stephen King has mentioned that he is working on a very long book set in Maine. Stay posted for more updates…


Posted: May 5, 2008, 16:25:20 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

Here are more info about Under the Dome:


According to King at his reading on Book TV on C-SPAN 2 (taped back on the same day as the 3 Kings event), the long novel he's working on is... Under the Dome!

He said something along the lines of "I tried to write this 25 years ago...The idea stuck with me..." He again called it a very long novel. He then read the first few pages, about a woman getting a flying lesson and an old woodchuck walking along a road. The reading will be aired again on Saturday, May 17, at 8:00 AM if anyone is interested.

Here is what Rocky Wood wrote in SKUU about this manuscript:

The Cannibals is a novel of about 450 pages, rewritten in July to December 1981. Douglas Winter quotes King as saying that after writing It: "I worked on a book called The Cannibals * I had started it five years before, but it was called Under the Dome then. It didn' get finished either time."

The revision was written during the filming of Creepshow: I've gotten about four-hundred-and-fifty pages done and it is all about these people who are trapped in an apartment building. Worst thing I could think of. And I thought, wouldn't it be funny if they all ended up eating each other? It's very, very bizarre because it's all on one note. And who knows whether it will be published or not.'

 

[Galactus]

Under the Dome will be long
Posted: July 3, 2008, 00:24:39 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

According to King's MB moderator, the manuscript for Under the Dome is currently 1100 pages and may reach 1800 pages before he's finished.

And since the final three books in The Dark Tower series were 2500 pages in total in manuscript this is going to be a long book.

 

[lemmasaurus]

Read IT and then explain to me why

Spoiler

all of the twelve-year-olds have sex with the only girl at the end.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Read IT and then explain to me why

Spoiler

all of the twelve-year-olds have sex with the only girl at the end.

Because...

 

[Galactus]

Interview with Peter Straub where he among other things talks about "The Talisman 3"

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1850412,00.html

 

[amazingfantasy15]

Read IT and then explain to me why

Spoiler

all of the twelve-year-olds have sex with the only girl at the end.

I'm reading IT right now, just over halfway through, finding it pretty difficult to read, reminds me of Lord of the Rings, the detail it goes into.

 

[Silvermoth]

The Dark Tower series are some of the best books I've ever read in my life

 

[Eggyman]

'Salem's Lot is a good one too, Kaine.

Shows a lot of growth for being his second book. Carrie was the first book by King, and it's a good read - very short, and is filled with diary entries and articles as filler (he admitted that himself)

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Interview with Peter Straub where he among other things talks about "The Talisman 3"

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1850412,00.html

I hope they get on the ball with that. Tha Talisman and Black House were awesome but Black House left you hanging with the ending.

 

[Galactus]

Under the Dome out in 2009
Posted: November 13, 2008, 15:35:20 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

It is now official that Scribner will be publishing Steve's new novel, Under the Dome, in the fall of 2009!

 

[Eggyman]

Under the Dome out in 2009
Posted: November 13, 2008, 15:35:20 | Section: Book » Under the Dome

It is now official that Scribner will be publishing Steve's new novel, Under the Dome, in the fall of 2009!

Thanks man.

Also worth a mention is the collection of 12 short stories just released - Just After Sunset.

 

[lemmasaurus]

I prefer King's short stories by far. Try Everything's Eventual.

 

[Raiden]

I stopped reading King's novels after Needful Things, but the novels I like included IT, Misery, The Dark Tower, The Shining (not the movie), and his short story collection The Night Shift.

 

[Eggyman]

I prefer King's short stories by far. Try Everything's Eventual.

Everything's Eventual is my favourite collection of his short stories. 'Riding The Bullet' and 'The Road Virus Heads North' are brilliant.

 

[Ghostvirus]

The Dark Tower series are some of the best books I've ever read in my life

Woorrrdd.

 

[Bill]

Thanks man.

Also worth a mention is the collection of 12 short stories just released - Just After Sunset.

I've started on those now. So far so good.

 

[Galactus]

Mortality
Posted: November 23, 2008, 02:04:38 | Section: »

Seams King has a new novella done. This is what the moderator on the official board said about it:


Right now he's working on the edits for Under the Dome. He did finish a novella called Mortality but I don't think that's been sold for publication yet."

 

[SLVRSR4]

Read IT and then explain to me why

Spoiler

all of the twelve-year-olds have sex with the only girl at the end.

I'm rereading the book and it's because they need to become unified. They are lost in the sewer system and it is also a way to overcome the fact that they just fought something like Pennywise. I personally think it's because Stephen King is horny and knew he could make a bestseller with that in it.

 

[Bubonic]

****... as sad as this is, king is about as far as i got into literature before i had to buckle down for school and have to read the **** they assigned me.

i remember... recess, it would be me sitting on my own reading fear street, then by grade 9 i graduated to king, kept reading his stuff, then college, then university, so much crap to read that i haven't read any "recreational" literature.

 

[Metamorpho1977]

Read Carrie. That book almost never happened. He was living in an old beat up trailer when he wrote it. It was his first. I read an interview about it. He didn't really like it at first and threw it away. His wife dug it out of the trash and sent it in when he wasn't looking. A couple of weeks later, he got a check from the publisher for 25,000 dollars.

 

[taskmaster]

His last novel I finished was Pet Sematary. The book was amazing. Right now I'm reading his short story collection Night Shift, the stories I've read so far have been pretty good with my favorites being The Boogeyman and I Am The Doorway.

 

[Galactus]

A review of Throttle (the story King wrote with his son Joe Hill) from www.liljas-library.com

Throttle
Posted: November 28, 2008

Throttle is a collaboration between King and his son Joe Hill. Don’t ask me who wrote what though because the story is pretty seamless and it’s impossible (at least for me) to tell who wrote what…and that is a very good thing. They feel very compatible with each other and the result is a very tight story.

The story is influenced by Richard Matheson’s story Duel and will appear in the book He is Legend (out next year) that is released in honour to Matheson and his work. And if you have read Duel you will definitely recognize Matheson’s story in Throttle. In King and Hill’s version we get to meat a motorcycle gang with the name The Tribe. It’s lead by Vince and in the Tribe we also find his son and about six other bikers. When we join them they are on the way back from a meeting that has gone terrible wrong. Vince son Race has invested some money in a meth lab that has now burned to the ground. The money is gone and they where going to settle things with Dean Clarke, who’s responsible for this mess.

While they do so one thing leads to another and it all ends with them killing Clarke and his girlfriend. On their way back they stop at a gas station and while arguing about what to do next they notice a truck with the name Laughlin printed on its side. They don’t think much of it but later, while back on the road, the truck appears again, and this time it seams to be following them…

Throttle is a very good story. It’s intense, has well developed characters and a really good ending. Both King and Hill can take pride in writing what’s a really good story and an even better first time collaboration.

Lilja's final words about Throttle

I don’t think anyone is surprised that King and Hill managed to get a good story out of the collaboration and now I just hope they will collaborate again and this time on something longer.