I have this notion that King comes out with all his books in October.
Isn't that the "traditional" release date for Big Name Authors, so they can capitalize on the holiday season?
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juliana - Mar 16, 2004 6:45:04 am PST #1373 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
amych - Mar 16, 2004 6:48:17 am PST #1374 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
For some reason, my brain had you fixed at 3-5 years older than me, rather than pretty much the same age.
Hrrmph. All my pseuds are a buncha younguns.
Beverly - Mar 16, 2004 6:50:37 am PST #1375 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
The first King I read was in a collection of shorts, Playboy's Tales of Horror and the Supernatural. And then I think I started with Night Shift, which contained, in addition to the title story, The Mangler and Grey Matter, which was probably one of the most hair-raising things I'd ever read to that date. Salem's Lot followed--there had been a short about The Lot in Night Shift, so I felt like I'd had a little introduction to the town. Then The Stand, Cujo. At that point, I realized I was really over King.
P.M. Marc - Mar 16, 2004 6:51:09 am PST #1376 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Though for some reason I have this notion that King comes out with all his books in October.
Verily, it is possible. I was just grabbing it from google, and I may have remembered the month wrong.
I get that a lot.
I think it's the having kids thing. As I don't, I tend to still assume people who do are older than me, which will come as a shock to my little brother and my niece's mother.
Wolfram - Mar 16, 2004 6:56:08 am PST #1377 of 10002
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I think it's the having kids thing.
Probably. In my social circle, I have friends who are 10 and 15 years older with kids the same age as mine, and it tends to make me feel much older than I am.
juliana - Mar 16, 2004 7:41:57 am PST #1378 of 10002
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Grey Matter
Which one was this?
My favorite King short story is The Mist. Creeeeeee-py.
Beverly - Mar 16, 2004 7:46:00 am PST #1379 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Grey Matter was the old guys in the town one over from The Lot, sitting around the stove at the store in the wintertime. High school boy came by every day to buy beer for his old man, who had been laid up with some work-related injury. The kid started spending a lot of time away from home. Nobody ever saw the dad, he just sat wrapped in a blanket in front of the teevee day in, day out, every now and then shuffling out the kitchen to get another beer from the fridge.
One day he got a batch of bad beer....
Katerina Bee - Mar 16, 2004 7:50:37 am PST #1380 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
Well, and if whoever was responsible for Cujo hadn't changed the ending.
Verily. Another funny Stephen King rant is about how when Hollywood buys your book, they just want to tell you what's wrong with it, how to re-do it, and how about replacing the little old lady character with Lou Gossett, Jr., because he's available, and really marketable right now.
So: never judge a book by its movie.
Dana - Mar 16, 2004 9:40:52 am PST #1381 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
How did Cujo actually end?
Signed, "Flinched Her Way Through the Movie, Because Rabid Dogs Are Scary"
Fred Pete - Mar 16, 2004 9:49:48 am PST #1382 of 10002
Ann, that's a ferret.
Dana, in the book, the boy dies.