BookFinder.com has released a list of the 100 most desired out-of-print books of 2013. Topping the list was Madonna’s 1992 erotic coffee table book, “Sex,” and two titles from New England author and Red Sox fan Stephen King (above). No. 2 on the list is “Rage,” in which King writes under the name Richard Bachman. No. 3 is “My Pretty Pony,” King’s 1989 short story that was published as part of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s artist and writer series. No. 4 on the list also has local ties. It’s “The Harvard Classics,’’ an anthology edited by former Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, cousin of T. S. Eliot.
SOURCE: bostonglobe.com
Add to their list: The mist audio book.
2 questions:
1. What King out of print books do you own?
2. What king out of prints are you on the hunt for?
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Guns
From King's website, stephenking.com
Stephen has written an essay discussing his thoughts on the gun control/gun rights issue facing the U.S., available now as a Kindle Single through Amazon.com.
“I think the issue of an America awash in guns is one every citizen has to think about,” said King. “If this helps provoke constructive debate, I’ve done my job. Once I finished writing ‘Guns’ I wanted it published quickly, and Kindle Singles provided an excellent fit.”
King is donating all profits to the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.From Amazon: In a pulls-no-punches essay intended to provoke rational discussion, Stephen King sets down his thoughts about gun violence in America. Anger and grief in the wake of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School are palpable in this urgent piece of writing, but no less remarkable are King’s keen thoughtfulness and composure as he explores the contours of the gun-control issue and constructs his argument for what can and should be done.
King begins the essay by taking is down a the well known path of what happens when there is a mass shooting. King moves quickly from crime to the need for gun control to the NRA's opposition -- and concluding with a repeat of the cycle of violence.
In the second section, King discusses his book, RAGE, which I read recently. He documents case by case instances when his book was directly cited as part of a violent crime. Scary stuff. After a 1997 shooting, King writes, "That was enough for me, even though at the time, the Loukaitis and Carneal shootings were the only Rage-related ones of which I was aware. I asked my publishers to pull the novel from publication." King points out the difficulty in this, since it required pulling the story from the Bachman collection of books.
It had been reported that King apologized for writing Rage. No Sir, King insists. He writes,
I never did and never would. It took more than one slim novel to cause Cox, Pierce, Loukaitis, and Carneal to do what they did. These were unhappy boys with deep psychological problems, boys who were bullied at school and bruised at home by parental neglect or outright abuse.King notes he pulled the novel with regret. Not because it was great literature, but because " it contained a nasty glowing center of truth that was more accessible to me as an adolescent. Adults do not forget the horrors and shamings of their childhood, but those feelings tend to lose their immediacy" I find that incredibly insightful.
There's a lot more in the essay -- and it's REALLY good!
The Essay is laid out as follows:
1. The Shake
2. Rage
3. Drunks in a Barroom
4. Culture of Violence
5. From my cold dead hands. (No, Moses did not say that!)
6. No Solutions, Reasonable Measures
Epilogue
Purchase the essay HERE.
RAGE article by James Smythe
I’m LOVING Stephen King enthusiast James Smythe’s articles as he rereads King’s works in chronological order. This week is particularly good – RAGE.
Smythe points out that Rage is the only King novel you can’t buy in a local bookstore. That’s because King had it pulled from publication. He chronicles some copy-cat events, including 14-year old Michael Carneal’s December 1997 rampage.
Smythe writes:
Carneal wasn't the first: Jeffrey Lyne Cox held a class of students hostage at gunpoint in 1988, inspired by the novel; Dustin L Pierce did the same in 1989, down to the detail of imprisoning his algebra class; in 1996, Barry Loukaitis killed his algebra teacher and two others, before holding the rest of the class to ransom. At his trial, Loukaitis even said that he tried to model his life after Decker. All three had read the book, and they were young and impressionable. (Crucially, though less sensationally, they were also all bullied and tormented at school.)Smythe makes personal connections to the novel, discussing his own struggle with being bullied. He concludes by telling us,
“In the best possible way, I hate Rage: I hate it because I hate Decker, and he is the book in its entirety.”The full article is great! Check it out HERE.
RAGE tops the 5 Hit Books Hollywood Will Never Film
Jef withonef has a great article titled at Houston Pres, “5 Hit Books Hollywood Will Never Film.” (HERE) Each entry includes an explanation of “Why we want it”, “Why it’s a bad idea” and “How about instead we film.”
My favorite non-King entry is House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. That book was crazy! Footnotes that went nowhere, text that went around the page in mathematical circles – or something.
Jef’s list includes:
5. J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
4. Neil Gaiman, Sandman
3. Mark Z. Danielewski. House of Leaves
2. Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
1. Stephen King, Rage
So why does Rage get top position?
Jef writes:
Rage was the first book that King published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym, and follows a deranged high school student that holds his class hostage at gunpoint while forcing them to endure a round of psychological discussions that seriously unhinges them all. It's a violent look at the pressures of youth that so often lead people to brutal violenceJef than explains why this is one really bad idea. If you’ve read the book and the newspaper you know why it’s a bad idea! (what’s a newspaper? Does anyone still get one of those?)
So, what books do you think Hollywood would never film?
In the King world, I’ve already suggested that Gerald’s Game would probably never make it to screen. And it’s starting to feel like the Dark Tower will never get made! The Talisman? How about the rest of Hearts in Atlantis?
King book among most sought after
The Christian Science Monitor has an article titled, "Top 100 most sought-after out-of-print books in 2010." #9 is Rage. I have a copy of this (the paperback). Of course, it was also published in The Bachman Books. However, after a series of school shootings, King asked his publisher not to print the book anymore. Imagine a book banned by Stephen King himself!
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I'm not sure how bookfinder came up with their list, but I can think of several more "sought after" King books. Not to deny at all that Rage is worth the hunt! But here are a few more. . .
1. The Stand leatherbound.
2. A true first edition salem's Lot (with misspelling on dust cover)
3. A copy of The Plant.
4. First edition Gunslinger.
5. First edition Carrie.
6. Audio of The Mist read by Frank Muller.
7. From A Buick 8, Cemetery Dance
8. Salem's Lot deluxe lettered edition.
9. My Pretty Poney, Whitney Museum
10. Six Stories, Philtrum Press
.The full article is here: http://www.bookfinder.com/books/bookfinder_report_2010/
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