December 8 Live Chat With King

Hey, this is pretty cool! From King's website:

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Stephen will be participating in a live UStream chat on December 8th at 7:00pm Est. See below for the latest details.

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A Conversation with Stephen King7:00 PM - 8:00 PM ETJoin bestselling author Stephen King in a live chat about his new book, FULL DARK, NO STARS. Tune in Wednesday, December 8th, 2010 - 7pm EST/4pm PST. RSVP to the event and join it live here: http://www.ustream.tv/simonandschuster

In Honor Of Cyber Monday

Happy Cyber Monday!

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It's no secret that Stephen King is generally a little hesitant when it comes to technology. So here's a few mentions of King's work that include technology either gone awry or just flat out used for evil.

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Cell

Trucks

The Mist

Firestarter

Maximum Overdrive

The Tommyknockers

Song Of Susannah

Wolves Of The Calla

UR

The Stand

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On a similar note, the book "The Science of Stephen King" looks interesting.

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By the way, if you haven't purchased Full Dark No Stars YET, then cyber Monday is a great day to get to it!

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. . . gotta go, my cell phone is ringing.

Stephen King Christmas ?

A question for all you constant readers: Can you think of christmas scenes in Stephen King books? At the moment, I can't think of much! Here's what I've got, though:

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Christine takes place largely during the period between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Denny's dad has a hobby of building old fashioned toys and giving them away.

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That's it! So help me out here.

King Dickens

Here is an interesting (if not old) discussion board on the topic of Stephen King and Charles Dickens. As noted many times before, this is a subject I find fascinating! In particular, the discussion board is looking at how they are treated in film.

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http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/archive/index.php/t-399302.html

King House Christmas Ornament

How would you feel to see your house hanging on the Christmas tree? Well, someone has made Stephen King's House a Christmas Ornament!

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Worth Point has this note with the item, "It was issued by Bryant's Gift Gallery (no longer in business) as a Bangor Centennial Commemorative ornament celebrating Bangor local historic landmarks, including 47 West Broadway, which is Stephen and Tabitha King's house. The ornament measures 3" tall and is laser-cut metal and is three-dimensional - the detail is just stunning! The bottom is marked 47 West Broadway Bangor, Maine 1854-1856."
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http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/stephen-king-house-bangor-maine-christmas-ornament

King's Favorite 2010 Movies

Michael Lee at examiner.com has an article on King's favorite films of the year. Lee writes, "although some of his choices may be questionable, it is certainly a fun thing to read."

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So here is the list:
10. Green Zone

9. Jackass 3D

8. Monsters

7. Splice

6. Kick-Ass

5. Takers

4. The Social Network

3. Inception

2. The Town

1. Let Me In
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Lee also notes, "Perhaps the most interesting choice, Takers, King had this to say, This satisfyingly complex cops-’n'-robbers movie features great performances … and the armored-car heist is the best action sequence I’ve seen this year. So there you have it, Stephen King’s top ten films of 2010. What are your top ten films of this year?

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Hey, I didn't see any of these movies! Which only means I didn't get out much this year. Of course, I'm going to the movies today to see tangled. That's what happens when you have little kids.
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http://www.examiner.com/movie-in-los-angeles/stephen-king-shares-his-top-10-films-of-2010

More Nods From THE SIMPSONS

Stephen King and the Simpsons have a special relationship. The other night I was watching an episode in which Bart's girlfriend for the episode was reading a vampire romance novel. Of course, Bart had to explain that vamps are supposed to be scary. Wonder where he learned that, eh!

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Now I know some of you will say, "Get real, the writers of the Simpsons are not watching Stephen King that closely." Well, I would simply ask -- did you see last nights episode of the Simpsons? Did you? Did you? DID YOU?!

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The Fool Monty:

Episode 503

11/21/2010

So, I don't have the attention span to recap an entire ADHD Simpson's episode; but bottom line -- Mr. Burns loses his memory and the town tortures him in a variety of ways. When he gets his memory back, he decides to punish Springfield. His plan is sweet revenge, Stephen King style. Literally!

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Mr. Burns, "Taking an idea I got from a Stephen King book, I'm going to cover this town with a dome!" Burns holds up a copy of Under The Dome. Burns laughs -- Mahahahah. Trailing his helicopter is a fleet of government choppers towing a huge dome with birds nesting on the top.

Lenny, "It's been done."

Mr. Burns, "Really? You don't say." To Smithers, "Did you know about this?"

Smithers nods.

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I am not going to explain all the reasons this is funny; if you don't get it, just resign yourself to a lifetime of confusion as a cultural underling.

Keep Walking

Jonathan Comey at SouthCoastTODAY.com has a first person article abotu walking. His introduction is a lot of fun for Constant Readers. I'll quote the King portions and let you check out the whole article. It's worth the read.

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One of my favorite Stephen King pieces is "The Long Walk," one of his first, a near-future novella about a group of 100 boys who try to outlast each other in a walk from Maine to points unknown.
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The winner gets untold riches, the losers get shot. Like I said, it's a Stephen King thing.
What I liked best about the book was the way King described the feeling of walking — the sensations in your body, the feel of the outdoors, the intrusion of the elements, the inner monologue.

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I'm in the middle of my own version of a long walk, one that provides its own story arc every time I strap on my sub-elite sneakers and head out into my neighborhood to put one foot in front of the other.

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The story starts with me deciding that being 40 years old and overweight is not a good idea, and goes through a few notable twists and turns that are far from their conclusion. One of these plot sidebars is me, walking, every day now for two months, around my neighborhood.

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Read the entire article here: http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101121/LIFE/11210306/-1/rss01

The Wordslinger: Full Dark Review

I was trolling over at Andy Williamson's website, The Wordslinger. He's got some great Stephen King posts, and had a review of Full Dark No Stars that I really liked. Hey, anyone who got hooked on Stephen King via The Stand and The Shining has got my ear -- because that's pretty close to the path I took. Notice his mention of King as our "modern day Dickens." Yes!
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The review is reprinted in full with permission below. Check out Williamson's new book, and his website.
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The Wordslinger gives Full Dark No Stars a hefty A-.
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The Wordslinger Review:

Hello boys and girls. It’s time for another book review, and today’s book is by our favorite boogeyman, Stephen King. So grab some marshmallows, pull up a log, hunker up here by the campfire, and let’s begin, shall we?
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While I do not claim to be Stephen King’s “number one fan” (such an oogy title can only place one in a cockadoodie category of lying old dirty birdies), I DO fully admit to being somewhat obsessed with the man’s voluminous (to put it mildly) oeuvre. This has basically been true since I was a teenager and read, back to back, The Shining and The Stand. Since then, I have pretty much read ALL the King I could get my hands on, quite often on the first day a new novel is released. His new book is no exception.


While King has referred to himself as “America’s schlockmeister,” he is infinitely more than that. With over 60 books published over the course of the last 36 years – bestsellers all – the man is a publishing phenomenon unto himself. Many readers understandably focus on the horrific themes in his stories rather than their humanity, but I would argue that said humanity is what makes his work so truly frightening. Such emotional involvement makes his tales infinitely scarier than they would be without it. He is, unquestionably, our modern-day Dickens.
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If King’s last book, Under the Dome, was a welcome return to the loooong form he honed with epic favorites like The Stand and IT, his latest, Full Dark, No Stars, is a return to the short form. These are not short stories – as previously collected in 1978’s Night Shift, 1985’s Skeleton Crew, 1993’s Nightmares and Dreamscapes, 2002’s Everything’s Eventual, and 2008's Just After Sunset. This collection of four novellas round out a trilogy which began with 1982’s Different Seasons (the collection that begat such film classics as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand by Me) and 1990’s Four Past Midnight. While this collection is not as good as the former, it is better than the latter. It is also the darkest work Uncle Stevie has published in awhile. Not quite as dark as if his alter ego Richard Bachman’s name was on the cover, but still quite black. And bleak. Hence the title.
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And yet, even these bloody (and bloody good) stories each have a moral center. In fact, the quartet of morality tales presented here plumb the depths of human psychology in ways heretofore … unplumbed. “I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger …” King writes. “How many unsuspected selves could a person have, hiding deep inside?” That question forms the core of this collection, and asks that we as readers attempt to answer it. “What would I do in a similar circumstance?”
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The first story, 1922, tells of a farmer who not only murders his shrewish wife, but enlists the help of his son to do the dirty deed – the method may seem “dirt cheap,” but there is, of course, a high price to pay down the road. Even if it is just madness. And rats. Lots of rats. Yes, homage is being paid here to Poe’s Tell-Tale Heart and The Cask of Amontillado, but when the teller is this talented, one cannot help but be grippingly entertained.
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Big Driver concerns a female mystery writer who, while driving home from a book signing, is raped and left for dead. While that unsavory event does make one cringe, there is still humanity to the prose. We are not made to identify with the perpetrator, but rather the victim. When she, Tessa, recovers, she must decide whether or not to call the police, or take matters into her own hands. That she picks the latter is not surprising – this is, after all, written by America’s schlockmeister. Nor is it surprising that Tessa’s revenge is as carefully plotted as one of her mystery novels. What is surprising is the emotional resonance such a dark tale imbues. Then again, this is our favorite Uncle Stevie telling the tale. Maybe it’s not so surprising after all.
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The shortest story here, A Fair Extension, regards a dying man who makes a deal with the devil for more life. The catch is, he must pick someone else to be the recipient of his cancerous bad fortune – someone he hates. This story reads, of course, like a Twilight Zone episode penned by Richard Matheson (never a bad thing), but the ending is way too abrupt and left me wanting.
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The final tale, A Good Marriage, regards a woman who discovers that her loving husband of over a quarter century has been keeping secrets, dark secrets, very dark secrets – he may, in fact, be a serial killer. The tale also posits that perhaps it really is impossible to fully know another person, even a spouse, and how scary is that?
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King himself has been married to his wife Tabitha for almost 40 years – lest one think after reading these tales that he has it out for his own marital partner. In fact, he dedicates this book: For Tabby, Still.
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At 63 years of age, King probably has more books behind him than ahead. But if Full Dark, No Stars is any indication, the man still knows not only how to how to get under our skin, but to make us grateful for such an invasion. If only by making us confront our own inner stranger.
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Full Dark, No Stars may be unabashed pulp fiction, but it is also psychologically rich. It may at times be gruesome, but it is also emotionally rewarding. Then again, I’ve come to expect nothing less from Uncle Stevie.
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So, there it is, boys and girls. Time to head back to your cabins with your reading materials. You should each have a copy of Full Dark, No Stars, and a flashlight with which to read it under the covers – which is somehow apt. Just don’t let your counselors catch you. And if they do catch you, perhaps this book will give you some creative ideas on how to deal with such meddlesome creatures. MWHAHAHAHAHA!!
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http://www.thewordslinger.com/index.php
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BROODING by Andy Williamson
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Check out Andy Williamson's novel, Brooding. This looks like a healthy mix of all out horror and spiritual warfare. I'll tell ya what, nothing is scarier than demons!
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The website describes the book, "Nicholas Goodfellow is not the Devil, but he knows him."
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When the high-ranking, aristocratic demon first spies his new mission - a five-year-old orphan named Tyler Davis - he is insulted. But when he sees that his former friend General Valiant, one of Heaven's mightiest warriors, has been charged with the boy's keep, he knows that something is afoot.
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Tyler knows nothing of these spiritual beings. As the tenderhearted lad grows up under the twisted rule of his dictatorial grandmother - experiencing physical, emotional, and religious abuse - he runs away at the age of sixteen, collapses on the highway, and is adopted by a benevolent gang of Colorado bikers known as The Brood.
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Within this family, made up of wounded souls like himself, Tyler first begins to trust, falls in love, and learns some very effective ways of shutting out the past. But running from demons, psychological or otherwise, is a tricky business - sooner or later they must be faced. As Tyler does so, he becomes aware of the spiritual battle going on around him - a bloody war for his soul which will leave none of The Brood unchanged.
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This very human story is about forgiveness, redemption, letting go of the past, and how God can offer beauty for ashes to the most brokenhearted soul.
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It is a story for the walking wounded. It is a story for us all.

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http://theheartlandchronicles.com/

Now that's a great gift!

My wife's brother and his wife were in town this week. They delivered my birthday gift; totally unexpected. What was it? A paperback copy of Stephen King As Richard Bachman. To my even greater surprise, the book was signed by the author, Michael Collins.

Fangoria Review of Full Dark No Stars

Trevor Parker posted a pretty insightful review at Fangoria.com. I'm reading Full Dark right now, and must say that I think the book is much more energetically dark than most reviews are giving it credit for. Parker's review is generally positive, giving King high marks for his writing and story telling. Ultimately he grades the book very high.

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Classic King?

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Parker complains about King's recent writing style, calling it an attempt at being "important." In particular he notes "Lisey's Story." Parker also tosses the Colorado Kid under the bus. He then suggests that King returned to his older story telling technique in Under The Dome.

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I pretty much agree with his assessments. I found both Lisey's Story and Colorado Kid difficult. But I have Lisey's Story in particular on my "return to" list. But then, I have sometimes found "classic King" difficult as well. When was the last time you gave Tommyknockers a test drive, eh!

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Parker writes, "If not quite the quality of classic King, the lineup in FULL DARK, NO STARS at least chews over his familiar themes." This seems to be the direction most reviews of Full Dark No Stars is taking.

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I think the stories are better than "classic King." Has anyone read classic King lately? I just finished Christine, Shawshank, The Mist and The Dark Half. I enjoyed all of them. But Full Dark No Stars is better. The writing is stronger, the horror is better, and overall it is darker.

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Here's a great line, "this is King the way we like him best: focused, lean and very, very mean." I wholeheartedly agree!

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Cover Gripes

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Parker gives a surprising amount of space to complain about Full Dark No Star's cover. He says the lady clutching her head looks like an ad for headache medicine! In fact, he calls it "bland" "neutral" "shame" and ultimately "Unacceptable."

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I liked the cover! I think it draws interest in a simple way. It beats the snot out of Insomnia, Desperation, Black House and The Dark Half.

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http://www.fangoria.com/index.php?id=2669:full-dark-no-stars-book-review&option=com_content&catid=53:book-reviews&Itemid=180

Could King pave way for Potter

ign.com has a very interesting article discussing what a Harry Potter comic series would look like. Of course, there are a lot of references to how the King novels were adapted to a workable format in comic books. The Jesse Schedeen writes, "Several other popular series of fantasy novels are finding great success in the realm of comics, such as The Wizard of Oz and The Dark Tower. Why can't Harry Potter join them?"
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The article goes on to examine how the comics are constructed; cutting to the core of how a story is told in visual format.
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http://comics.ign.com/articles/113/1135338p1.html

Sulking At Amazon

This is from the stranger.com's post, "Holding Stephen King Hostage." Paul Constant describes what is called a"Falling Stars Campaign."
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They're at it again: Kindle users are giving Stephen King's new book Full Dark, No Stars bad reviews on Amazon. But unlike past protests, they're not complaining about the lack of Kindle version. Instead, they're complaining that the hardcover price is cheaper than the Kindle edition by about fifty cents."
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Did you catch the last line? Fifty cents. 0.50
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Really? People are giving this great book a bad rating because they need to sulky pout over fifty cents. Well, "about" fifty cents... so maybe seventy five cents.
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I don't own a copy of either versions (Scribner or Kindle) but am patiently waiting for Cemetery Dance to publish their illustrated version. It was more than fifty cents above the Scribner hardcover. In the meantime, I am joyfully listening to my CD's.
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http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2010/11/17/today-in-amazon-holding-stephen-king-hostage-making-movies

Sorry Right Number

DVD talk has a very informative review of the final season of Tales From The Darkside. Of course, this is important to the S.K. universe since the series was inspired by Creepshow.

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Disk two contains an episode written by Stephen King, "Sorry right number." The article summarizes, "a woman named Katie gets a bizarre phone call warning her that her husband is going to die - he's still around, however, and appears to be fine. She ignores it, but then something happens, he doesn't make it to the hospital, and he does die. Later, Katie gets a phone call from herself, which adds to her confusion."

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Sorry Right Number also appears in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. It is interesting that the story is printed as a teleplay, not a story. King also did this with Storm of the Century. I'm sure there's a lot to learn reading King scripts, but I always miss his sharp narration.

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DVD talk review is here: http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/45534/tales-from-the-darkside-final-season/

You can get the final season of Tales from the Darkside at Amazon for $28.99. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003VJTGMU/dvdtalk

You can get Sorry Right Number as an audio book here: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Sorry-Right-Number/Stephen-King/9780743598255

Full Dark Journal 2: 1922

I just finished reading 1922. I liked it a lot.

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1922 is the kind of story King would never write just for reviews. It's the kind of thing that gets written just to please one's self, and the constant reader. But it won't win you a lot of friends among the literary snobs. They might still see him as nothing more than the literary equivalent of a big mac. Of course, the constant reader has learned that the meat in a Stephen King big mac is rat meat.

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This story has a lot of rats. Note the picture above; you can't say you weren't clued in. Lots of them. Disgusting, nasty, horrible, biting, rats. Aggressive little devils. And the queen of the rats rules her minions to do her bidding. It's really quite brilliant, if not disgusting. I'm trying hard not to give away too much, except that this is truly the stuff King fans love; and have been wanting for quite a little while.

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The story plays out like a Shakespeare tragedy. Or, perhaps even more importantly, it is a longer version of Poe's Tell Tale Heart.

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I do not know why the book is titled Full Dark No Stars; but I will venture an opinion having read just one of the four novella's. The book is brutally dark. This is not just a dark story, it is so dark that there is not even starlight. Total blackness. Hopelessness. No redemption what so ever.

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Regarding the all important "hundred acres" (no, it's not a Winnie The Pooh reference), the story is very much about the little man verses big business. In that way it's like a Bachman novel. Roadwork and the Running Man.

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Anyway, here's the bottom line; if you get paid to review books, don't bother with this one. If you read books for the joy of a good story; and if you read King because you love his sick, twisted stories -- then you should rush out and read 1922.

Prolific King Producer Dino De Laurentiis Dies

Producer Dino De Laurentiis died in his Beverly Hills home this Wednesday. He brought 500 films to the big screen. Five hundred! I don't know if I've watched that many films.

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Among his many films were several Stephen King adaptations such as:

“The Dead Zone,”

“Cat’s Eye,"

"Firestarter,"

"Silver Bullet,"

"Sometimes They come Back"

“Maximum Overdrive.”

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He also produced the Thomas Harris movies; Man hunter, Red Dragon, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising.

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LINKS:

http://www.wtkr.com/news/sns-ap-nc--obit-dinodelaurentiis-nc,0,682179.story

http://hollywoodindustry.digitalmedianet.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=1256569

http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/11/11/dino-de-laurentiis-dead/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_De_Laurentiis

Full Dark Journal 1: The Journey Begins

I got an audio copy of Full Dark No Stars yesterday. Of course, I immediately started listening. I also had to stop the tape until my daughter was asleep because. . . it's a Stephen King book.

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One frustration

A frustration with the audio book is that the stories are not labeled on the CD's. This means you cannot listen to the novella's in the order that you want. Not a big deal when it's short stories, you just trudge through. But in this case, you have to listen to entire Novella's! A little frustrating.

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1922

The book starts with a story titled 1922. It is grim. Delightfully grim! The story is wonderful, dark and well told.

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So far a likable character has not appeared. The narrator, Wilfred James, has a wonderful way of explaining his actions as that of almost a different person. "I believe there is another man inside every man, a stranger . . ." Of course, the good man is himself... but the bad man who does the naughty things, that man is another man living inside him. I realize that sounds really lame when I write it, but King plays this well enough that it would have pleased Robert L. Stevenson.

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The stories are all stories of revenge... I think. Told in the first person, at least 1922 -- it is reminiscent of Poe. Thus far, I can say confidently that this stuff is raw horror. Honestly, it's the reason most of us read King.

Bangor Daily News: Full Dark No Stars

picture: http://bdnimages.sprintout.com/uploads/original/1289174591_98b3.jpg

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Here's a great short article on Full Dark No Stars. It includes the trailers for each short story, a synopsis and some brief comments. Writer Dale McGarrigle gives a cautionary note that the stories are "relentlessly grim..." Which for some dark reason just thrills me! But this is the same guy who gave us Cujo, Rage, and Cell.
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McGarrigle concludes, "“Full Dark, No Stars” is four bite-size servings of King. These stories may not suit everyone’s taste, but they are filling."
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http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Living/FULL-DARK-NO-STARS-review,158123

Full Dark No Stars heads into sunlight

Reviews are popping up everywhere. Along with them, Dread Central posted news that a third trailer has been released on youtube. All very nice! I can hardly wait.

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So here are the necessary links to get yourself ready for a serious reading frenzy this coming week.

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Third trailer: http://www.dreadcentral.com/news/40785/third-official-trailer-stephen-kings-full-dark-no-stars

Here's a rather cranky review. You know, you should read cranky reviews of King sometimes, just to remember how messed up critics are. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8111101/Full-Dark-No-stars-by-Stephen-King-review.html

The peninsulaqatar is much kinder to King's latest offering. After musing about the possibility of another set of four novels in another 20 years or so, the review dives in with almost gleeful joy. "These are stories of retribution and complicity: of crimes that seem inevitable, of ways that we justify the world to ourselves and ourselves to the world. Powerful, and each in its own way profoundly nasty." Ah, we all hope so! http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/saturday-editions/131592-stories-of-retribution-and-complicity.html

Comparing It To Different Seasons:

All the reviewers cannot help but hearken back to Different Season's and Four Past Midnight. Often they come away feeling Full Dark No Stars is a lesser work. But I would suggest that at least in the case of Different Seasons, the stories have gotten better with time. First, many of us have been endeared to them because of great audio performances by the likes of Frank Muller. Then they were brought to life before the camera. As I recently read Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, I came away thinking the movie made the story better. The stories get better with age.

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Comparisons To Four Past Midnight

Four Past Midnight is getting a lot of lumps these days. I do not think it has necessarily aged as well as Different Season's has. The reason? Same as above. But instead of getting better with age, Hollywood has caused some of these stories to spoil in our minds. In particular, The langoliers is a great novel that is painful to watch on screen. But, as King has pointed out, no matter what they do in the movie, the book is still there to read. The story is not hurt one bit.

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I once heard someone complain that The Sun Dog showed King's obsessive editing. I read that story as a teen, and loved it. I gulped it down. It was literally a page turner for me. And being young, I wasn't paying attention to how the story was crafted, how the meal was cooked, I was just enjoying the meal. I liked it a lot. I came away saying, "This thing is just like a Twilight Zone!" In fact, it might be worthy of one of those hour long Twilight Zone's!

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I do think that the story Secret Window was made better on screen. It was sweetened. Some seeming loose ends were tied up.

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My point in all that is simply to suggest that anyone reviewing a book before it's even been released to the public might judge it too quickly. Give a book time to settle into our culture.

IT inspired fashion

Photo Julie Keefer - State Hornet

There are some interesting things taking place in Sacramento -- and some of them aren't one bit related to Jerry Brown's re-election as California's new governor. I really liked this story in The State Hornet about student fashion designers.
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The articles author, Miriam Arghandiwal, notes that the fashion show serves as an opportunity for student designers to showcase their work and gain recognition. Each designer was able to create their own themed designs.
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I liked the outfit (above) inspired by Stephen King's "IT." This is especially fitting, since proceeds go to WEAVE inc. -- a charity supporting women who are victims of domestic violence or sexual assault. Of course, IT's primary sub-theme is domestic violence.
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Full article here: http://www.statehornet.com/features/students-design-and-model-clothes-in-their-shot-on-the-runway-1.1746465

UR pays off

Writers blog has this quote from King's interview with the Wall Street Journal. "I didn't do "Ur" for money. I did it because it was interesting. I'm fairly prolific. It took three days, and I've made about $80,000. You can't get that for short fiction from Playboy or anybody else. It's ridiculous."
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Of course, UR's publication method had its own advantages for the reader. For isntance, we didn't have to go out and buy a magazine we didn't want! It gave instant access in a retainable form.
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I just realized I have this story on audible but haven't listened to it!
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http://www.writerswrite.com/blog/1103101
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The full article is great. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304173704575578241730802982.html?mod=WSJ_LifeStyle_Lifestyle_5&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

‘N’ Animated Online Series Video

You can watch the entire N series here:

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http://www.simonandschuster.com/specials/stephen-king-nishere/

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http://www.webtvhub.com/watch-stephen-kings-n-animated-online-series-video-episode-one/