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Old 03-03-2011, 05:02 PM   Topic Starter
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Stephen King's next...
This seems odd. Which for King is saying something.
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11/22/63

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas,
President Kennedy died, and the world changed.

If you had the chance to change history, would you?
Would the consequences be worth it?

Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students—a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunning’s father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk.

Not much later, Jake’s friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane—and insanely possible—mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake’s new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jake’s life—a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
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Old 03-03-2011, 09:42 PM   #2
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Old 03-04-2011, 11:36 AM   #5
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That IS odd. Most of his stories take place in Castle Rock.
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Old 03-05-2011, 12:21 AM   #6
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Old 03-05-2011, 02:14 AM   #7
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Interesting premise. I haven't read a Stephen King book since the ending of It offended the hell out of me, but if this gets good reviews I might give it a shot.

Does King still take a great 500 page book and make it 1,000 pages long?
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Interesting premise. I haven't read a Stephen King book since the ending of It offended the hell out of me, but if this gets good reviews I might give it a shot.

Does King still take a great 500 page book and make it 1,000 pages long?
Pretty much.

His last that I read was Under the Dome, which was his best book in years until he completely ruined it in the last hundred pages.
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Pretty much.

His last that I read was Under the Dome, which was his best book in years until he completely ruined it in the last hundred pages.
A pretty good summary, actually.
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Old 03-05-2011, 09:05 AM   #10
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Does King still take a great 500 page book and make it 1,000 pages long?
Yep, most of his books end somewhere along the lines of "and the bad guy was hit by a car that fell from the sky with the family haunted by his memories. The End".

It''s like he gets sick of writing and all of a sudden says "**** it, I'm done writing this bitch!". He's the reason I haven't read fiction in 10+ years. Well, that and there's a whole lot of cool true stories out there to be read.
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Yep, most of his books end somewhere along the lines of "and the bad guy was hit by a car that fell from the sky with the family haunted by his memories. The End".

It''s like he gets sick of writing and all of a sudden says "**** it, I'm done writing this bitch!". He's the reason I haven't read fiction in 10+ years. Well, that and there's a whole lot of cool true stories out there to be read.
So many of his books tend to focus on a group of regular guys taking on something so evil and powerful that they shouldn't have a change in hell of defeating it, yet somehow they do. Sometimes the ending makes sense and works; sometimes it doesn't. I liked Needful Things, until the end where the hero won by doing.... magic tricks. Really? MAGIC TRICKS? Give me a ****ing break. And the end of IT - seriously, gangbanging an 11 year old girl? Dude.....

His endgame sucks about as bad as mine does when I'm playing chess.
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I like his short stories better than when he tries to go Epic.
Have to agree with this. Survivor Type is is one short, instant, fireball of pure emotion (for me as a reader). One of my all time favorites.
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Have to agree with this. Survivor Type is is one short, instant, fireball of pure emotion (for me as a reader). One of my all time favorites.
That was gross and wrong, written back when King still had his full power.
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That was gross and wrong, written back when King still had his full power.
And yet the character was so ****ing deadpan it was brilliant. You're right, that was King being King. If people wanted him to have an editor to keep him from being "too crazy" back then, this story would never have been published.
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