Stephen King Book • Page 9

How did The Gingerbread Girl fare on audiobook? I've never listened to one but I feel like that story would translate really well

 

I believe they are adapting Mr mercedes into a television series right now.

 

Yeah it was good, I should probably relisten cuz I think I tuned out some but it was definitely enjoyable.

Yeah I saw that but it doesn't sound like its gonna air until 2018?

I just felt like the writing was very movie-esque and would make a great action thriller film.

 

Geralds Game coming to Netflix, Mike still directing! Hooray!

 

It's been a long time coming

 

Yeah and it being on Netflix is the best possible news because Flanagan's not going to have to worry about pandering to a wide audience. Sounds like Hush saved the day.

 

So how does the Mr. Mercedes trilogy stack up against others in SK's legacy? Do hardcore fans like it or is it still too early to tell?

Also has he said anything about more of the "hard-boiled" mystery type books?

 

I watched The Mist for the first time today. I've never really been a fan of King's ending, but I certainly like it better than Darabont's.

 

I wouldn't consider myself a hardcore fan, but I really enjoyed the entire trilogy. It prompted me to start reading king again after not doing so for a year or so. Since finishing the trilogy I finished salems lot, and I'm now wrapping up It.

 

That was the most tense movie I've ever seen. I thought I was gonna faint.

 

Been reading some of his short stories from The Bazaar of Bad Dreams. Really entertaining and it's a nice change up from spending 20 minutes watching a show to spending 20 minutes reading a short story. Gonna try and read The Stand pretty soon.

 

If someone likes Stephen King than me they're probably super annoying, haha. It was an excellent trilogy, I believe all of us in here really enjoyed it and all the reviews I remember reading were good. It is not something I would recommend to someone if they asked me for a King rec though. Unless I knew specifically that they hated horror and only liked detective thrillers. He's at the top of his game when it comes to characters though.

Check out Colorado Kid...That was meant to resemble the paperback-only mystery novels of yesteryear. Dolores Claiborne maybe but that's stretching the genre specifications.

And Yes, Hush was amazing, so goddamn tense. If you haven't seen Oculus from Flanagan I recommend that one too. I remember when I first saw it I thought Stephen King could have written this which is great now that he's actually connected to King.

 

Ha, Oh man, that's one of my favorite endings ever. An absolutely perfect end to a horror story imo. I remember even King being like, yeah Darabont knew how to end my shit

 

Picked up The Bazaar of Bad Dreams for $1 today. Adding it to the already huge pile of Stephen King books I have/need to read.

 

Damn, that's a steal, it hasn't even been out a year yet.

 

Yep! Found a nice copy at the book store at the local library. Inside it was $1.50 to rent it for a week since it's still on the "new" shelves. So most definitely a steal.

 

Yeah, I would assume Anton Yelchin dying threw a bit of a wrench into the works.

 

It’s Official: There’s Going To Be A WIZARD AND GLASS TV Series

 

Perfect. Exactly what I was hoping they'd do.

 

Stephen King to launch his newest book at the University of Maine Nov. 7

The 373-page “Hearts in Suspension,” published by the University of Maine Press, a division of UMaine’s Fogler Library, marks the 50th anniversary of King’s enrollment at UMaine — fall 1966. In the years that followed, the escalating Vietnam War and social unrest nationwide, especially on college and university campuses, had “a profound impact on students of the period and deeply influenced King’s development as a writer and a man,” according to the publisher on the book’s dust jacket.

The volume includes a reprint of “Hearts in Atlantis,” which tracks the “awakenings and heartbreak” of his fictional counterpart, Peter Riley, during his first year at UMaine. The novella is accompanied by King’s new essay, “Five to One, One in Five,” in which he reflects on his undergraduate years, creating “a revealing portrait of the artist as (a) young man and a ground-level tableau of this highly charged time.”

Along with photographs and documents of this era at UMaine are four installments of King’s student newspaper column, “King’s Garbage Truck.” The columns, reprinted for the first time, are described by the publisher as “lively examples of King’s damn-the-torpedoes style.” The entertaining and shrewd youthful perceptions “more than hint at a talent about to take its place in the American literary landscape.”

 

I am heavily invested in this. Hearts In Atlantis is my favorite piece of work from King.

 

Sounds interesting. I loved King's writing during the Vietnam era. I caught a few minutes of the Hearts in Atlantis film on tv the other day, it looked pretty good, I've never actually seen it. Was surprised, happy, then sad all within a few seconds when I saw young Anton Yelchin.

 

Yeah, the movie isn't bad. I still haven't read the novella (or any of his novellas/short stories at that). One day.

 

The best story in the collection is the one called Hearts in Atlantis which I believe has nothing to do with the movie (the movie is based on Low Men in Yellow Coats). Really not a horror story at all, it's actually about the card game of Hearts. One of my favorites.

 

Yep. The Hearts in Atlantis short story is only tangentially connected to Low Men in Yellow Coats because it features the Carol character and also mentions Bobby.

That entire book, and I stand by this, is one of the best things King has written. It genuinely means a lot to me. The movie glosses right over the supernatural elements because it was attempting to be a standalone story so having anything connected to the Dark Tower wouldn't make sense to general audiences. That being said, I still have a special place in my heart for the film as well. The cinematography alone is gorgeous.