The Stephen King Thread

[Galactus]

The Cannibals
Posted: September 15, 2009, 15:18:02

Cannibals excerpt is now out on King's official site. You can download it as a PDF

http://www.stephenking.com/library/unpublished/cannibals_the.html

 

[Sawyer]

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One of the few good parts of the miniseries.

 

[SsM]

I think it should have just been a LOTR type thing..

 

[Sawyer]

I think it should have just been a LOTR type thing..

I'd definitely love to see something like a two part, six hour long big screen event.

Seeing The Stand on the big screen would blow my mind.

 

[pixeltastic]

has anyone mentioned gerald's game? loved that book.

 

[squeekness]

It was good. It lets you know just what can happen if you are silly enough to play with handcuffs.

 

[lzzy]

Anyone get Under the Dome? It was ridiculously cheap, half price (£10 instead of £20 for the hardcover).

 

[squeekness]

I keep looking at it as I walk by in the stores. It's 30% off right now... I really should pick it up.

 

[lzzy]

I bought it, but have a few other books to read first. Not read a King book since The Stand a while ago

 

[squeekness]

Wow, that's an oldie but goodie. I have them all but yeah, I've got at least another 10 books on my shelf to read first.

 

[lzzy]

I got halfway through Salems Lot and stopped, then picked up something else. Should get back to that too. Got some reading schedule!!

 

[squeekness]

It's hard to find the time, especially when it seems like King's latest books are all so huge. I feel like I never have time.

 

[lzzy]

I have to read for college too, have 4 boks to read, and bought 3 new ones for lesiure yesterday. I think I have some sort of novel fetish.. strange...

 

[squeekness]

I love to read and there is nothing better than a nice bargain book. Most of the books on my "to read" shelf I picked up cheap.

 

[Sava]

i just finished The Shining...WOW!

never seen the movie but i really dont see them doing half the things King does in the book. Loved it from start to finish. I'm going to start on Cell today, hope its good.

 

[squeekness]

The Cell was all right, I just thought the end was a little shaky, like he had a great idea to start with, but wasn't sure how to finish it. You'll have to let us know what you think.

 

[Sawyer]

Just finished 'Salem's Lot.

My reaction =

 

[Sava]

The Cell was all right, I just thought the end was a little shaky, like he had a great idea to start with, but wasn't sure how to finish it. You'll have to let us know what you think.

i'm like 30 or 40 pages in and DAMN!!!

i love the way this thing starts, out of nowhere, people just go nuts and start killing each other

 

[squeekness]

Kinda cool, eh? Makes ya want to throw yer phone away.

 

[Sava]

with out giving away too much, does he explain what "the Pulse" is?

 

[squeekness]

Yes.

 

[squeekness]

Started reading Under The Dome. I'm just about a quarter of the way through and it's just so yummy. I can see I won't be getting much else done this weekend.

 

[SsM]

I'm like.. ten pages in :P

 

[squeekness]

It's great, isn't it! You'll be up all night reading it.

 

[[A]]

Last night at Toronto's packed Canon Theatre, fans of Stephen King were treated to a 15-minute reading from the author's new novel, Under the Dome, and nearly an hour's worth of typically funny anecdotes and keen observations during an on-stage interview with director David Cronenberg. Then King dropped a fan bombshell on the crowd by casually describing a novel idea he began working on last summer. Seems King was wondering whatever happened to Danny Torrance of The Shining, who when readers last saw him was recovering from his ordeal at the Overlook Hotel at a resort in Maine with fellow survivors Wendy Torrance and chef Dick Halloran (who dies in the Kubrick film version). King remarked that though he ended his 1977 novel on a positive note, the Overlook was bound to have left young Danny with a lifetime's worth of emotional scars. What Danny made of those traumatic experiences, and with the psychic powers that saved him from his father at the Overlook, is a question that King believes might make a damn fine sequel.

So what would a sequel to one of King's most beloved novels look like? In King's still tentative plan for the novel, Danny is now 40 years old and living in upstate New York, where he works as the equivalent of an orderly at a hospice for the terminally ill. Danny's real job is to visit with patients who are just about to pass on to the other side, and to help them make that journey with the aid of his mysterious powers. Danny also has a sideline in betting on the horses, a trick he learned from his buddy Dick Hallorann.

The title for King's proposed sequel? Doctor Sleep.

Perhaps sensing that he'd let the cat out of the plot bag a little early, King then told Cronenberg and the audience that he wasn't completely committed to the new novel, going so far as to say, "Maybe if I keep talking about it I won't have to write it."

http://books.torontoist.com/2009/11/stephen-king-planning-possible-sequel-to-the-shining/