Good news for Kindle readers -- My book, Stephen King, A Face Among The Masters, is FREE this weekend on Kindle through Amazon.com.
February 6, 2015 -- February 8, 2015
Here's a link to the book: amazon.com/Stephen-King-Face-Among-Masters-ebook
" Gardner makes what could have been an ordinary book about a writer a true pleasure to read."
--Sandra Scholes, SF Site Reviews
"In short, readers both familiar and unfamiliar with Stephen King's novels will find a motherlode of interesting information inside the pages of Brighton David Gardner's insightful and illuminating treatise. I can't recommend it enough"
--Shawn Lawton
Why do authors give books away?
1. Because we believe that if you like the content, you'll give the book a positive review.
2. It gives us exposure to a wider audience through the Amazon publicity machine.
3. It's fun to give stuff away. Really -- authors just want to be read. (Though that check from Amazon is nice.)
"Gardner's book makes a persuasive case for why I should want a similar knowledge level about the rest, though. That is not a minor achievement; I tend toward grumpiness when somebody is trying to convince me to be interested in something that I'm not already interested in. Gardner pulls it off effortlessly.
Elsewhere, A Face Among the Masters also makes a case for reading King as a "dark theologian," and this section confirms what I already suspected: that a weighty book dealing with King's themes of Christianity (and religion/spirituality in general) is way overdue. Gardner here catapults himself to the upper echelons of the list of people who seem well-suited to the writing of just such a book."
--Bryant Burnette
You know, it just occurred to me.
ReplyDeleteI already own a copy of your book, Reverend. The question I have though is whether or not you've ever considered adding a chapter regarding "Revival" and what this may add (if anything) to King's oeuvre?
ChrisC
I think if I were to add material, it would be in three areas:
ReplyDelete1. A discussion of Mark Twain's influence on King.
2. Insights on Revival in the Dark Theologian chapter. Though I'm not sure King added a lot of new information about his own views in Revival itself. But the surrounding interviews he did showed a significant shift in his thinking.
3. The influence of The Stand on modern culture.
For what it's worth, I still see no significant shift from his earlier views, especially when you factor in passages of On Writing (which was published way back in 1999) that echo what he says in Revival interviews.
DeleteAlso, he reviewed a Jerry Lee Lewis bio where he pretty much seems tacitly acknowledge religious views similar The Killer.
ChrisC
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