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Stephen King ringtones
I'm waiting for the Stephen King vibration alerts myself.

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I, zombie
A woman in the U.S. has bought the right to name a character in the new Stephen King book for $25,100.

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I, psycho
Woman sues Stephen King, accuses him of basing crazy nurse in Misery on her. Because that's something you'd really want people to know about.

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Edited by author 05-09-2005 06:30 AM
Stephen King tells commencing students to stay in Maine

He then deploys several thousand hounds of Hell to make sure they do, prompting at least one observant graduate to comment as flames encircled the state, "I knew it."


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Stephen King a Hard Case
Well, this is a coup for the new noir publisher.

A new novel by Stephen King, to be published in October, will begin the second season of the Hard Case Crime line of noir thrillers, a series that is bringing back classics of the pulp paperback genre as well as publishing new pulp fiction. Mr. King's new novel, "The Colorado Kid," is the story of two newspaper reporters and their investigation of the death of a man on an island off Maine.

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Hey,
I had an online conversation with someone, and it went like this:

Him: ok, ok, i gotta run. thank you ma'am. Keep that rose
Me: (?)
Him: heh
Me: waaait...what?
Him: ght
Him: read more stephen king and youll find out
Me: alright then. at least name a title or something...with--and I'm just shooting in the wind here--something about said rose.
Him: maybe, its an allegory.
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What in the world is he referring to?!

Now batting for Team Underdog... Stephen King!

It's an age-old story: Man writes novel; man is rejected repeatedly; man writes novels and plays for 30 years supporting himself as a voice over actor; man auditions for Stephen King tv show; man is rejected yet again; man is signed to book deal two weeks after King endorses him in national column.

" 'The Memory of Running' is the best novel you won't read this year," King wrote in Entertainment Weekly. "So why can't you read it? Because— so far, at least— no publisher will touch it with a 10-foot pole."

The column worked like an expertly crafted provocation. Within two weeks of its publication, McLarty had his contract.

It's almost like it's not news... (It's funny to see the Post run even wire stories on literary matters. Though I suppose a quick keyword search would reveal the piece as suitable. It does contain the words, Danielle, Stephen, Steel, and King, after all.)



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Criminal sues Stephen King

Claims King ripped off The Green Mile. Because we all know King is so desperate for storylines that he's willing to risk his longstanding career to cop an idea.



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Bangor, Maine: Like, Horrorsville, man

Take a tour through Stephen King's hometown... "And if you look to your left you'll see the well that leads straight to Hell. And on your right is a limping Mr. King himself, leveling a shotgun at the bus window... Ladies and Gentlemen, as this isn't part of the planned tour, I'd like to take this opportunity to thank you for visiting Bangor, Maine and remind you that a significant part of your tour guide's remuneration comes from the generosity of folks like yourselves..."



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Overdose... Riiiight...

Stephen King, profiled.

King's head left a many-tentacled crack in the windscreen. He broke his right hip joint, four ribs and his right leg in nine places. His spine was damaged in eight places. "The accident gave me a real sense of mortality, a sense of hurry that I didn't have before. Not immediately, but about a year after the accident I was able to say: 'That guy nearly killed me.'" Smith died of an overdose 15 months later on September 21, King's birthday.

Hear that Bloom? 15 months... He can make it happen, Harry.



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Stephen King Set to Unleash All the Powers of Hell Upon ABC

Which is more than his failing series is doing, I hear.... (If you go to his site with a fast connection, you can get a virtual King to poke repeatedly in the eye. At least, I think that's what it's for...)



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Stephen King: Television Magnet

Though apparently with a polarity too much like this critic's. King's foray into television is Kingdom Hospital, where the all the patients are DOA and the prescription for television boredom is for another injection of HORROR HORROR HORRORRRRR! OooOoo! Rowr! Boo! Agh! Reuters' prognosis is much kinder.



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King's Ka-tet Set to Go Ka-plooie?

I read the Gunslinger** about twenty thousand years ago and really liked it. But my attention span is ONLY SO LONG!



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It Would Be Touching If It Wasn't So Petulant

The transcript of Stephen King's NBA speech. (LOL* Golden Rule Jones)



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Return of the King

Do you think the picture accompanying this article is on Bloom's dartboard?



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Okay, that explains the voice.

He should rest. The world would be a much less scary place without him.

Wait a second...

King Hospitalized with Pneumonia

He attended last weeks awards ceremony with it. Hopefully he passed it to Grisham.



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Does Stephen King read Shakespeare? That's the question. I'm guessing he does, if only for the eye-gouging and ear-poisoning.

The Shining is a damn good read... but don't read it alone in a big old creaky house.

Should King have taken his shots from the National Book Award stage. Why not? Would a better writer have been more subtle and cutting? No doubt. Grisham as culture... that's a stretch.

I heard his speech on CBC radio. WHAT is up with that man's voice? He's the Michael Jackson of voices.

Shut Up and Enjoy Your Mansions, Dammit!

Lynn Coady speaks out on Stephen King’s speech at the NBA awards.



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Shakespeare, Faulkner, King

Some critics think Stephen King deserves his NBA award for his literary merit.



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Oops, sorry about that, folks. Must have had something to do with using key words more than once in one post.

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Perhaps not "social academic brownie points" so much as social academic brownies -- high on themselves, one might say, Mr. King.

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Those two posts make it seem as if you're hungry, Bookninja.

"What do you think?" King asked. "You get social academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture?"

Ah, Esteban. Can we go bowling sometime? I don't necessarily agree with you, but I love it when you get angry.

Evil must know a thing or two about "consumables"...

Man, the Google Spider sure jumped on Evil's one snooker post.

You Suck. No, You Suck.

The King controversy (scroll down a bit) continued at the National Book Award ceremony last night (login: bookninja, password: waaaa), but you gotta hand it to King for addressing the issue head on. Meanwhile, CNN reports on this in their nearest reasonable facsimile of a Books section: "Showbiz."



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I am so glad to post something new here just to cut off whatever the hell it was you freaks were just talking about.....

Fart

Waaaa!

Scat!

Dool-dool. Dool-dool.

Sorry. I just wanted to be on top. As usual.

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Janine, I go through binges of reviewing and then stop for a while to rest. It's a completely different examination for me. Reviewing is about your peers and what's happening now in writing. When I'm not reviewing I read contemporary books too but I'm far more likely to head to a secondhand bookstore. When I read for myself I'm learning; when I'm reviewing I'm applying what I've learnt.

I hate Steve Davis. He spends about twenty years playing snooker professionally, then turns to nineball and quickly establishes himself as one of the top players in the world while continuing to use his smaller tipped snooker cue, a tool that should put him at distinct disadvantage because the smaller tip makes it difficult to transfer spin to the bigger cue ball.

Damn him anyway.

I hate Iain Banks. He writes a book in three months and then takes the rest of the year off.

Hate hate hate.

Grendel is one of my favourite books of all time. Such a brilliant, overlooked piece of work. And the rendering of Beowulf as some sort of weird myth come to life -- almost a living symbol -- well, I still get goosebumps.

So smart.

Good to see Iain Banks' name in that article. Now there's a guy who -- like King, when he's on -- can tell a story, whether he's writing with or without the M. So can Neil Gaiman. So could Chekhov.

Janine, depends on how good the book is. The other day I decided to re-read John Gardner's Grendel.... despite my jaundiced critical/editorial eye, I cooed and gurgled with glee through the whole book.

Janine, I think it does make it hard to simply enjoy. Which is one reason why I don't review fiction, generally. Then again, if the book's really good, you'll enjoy it no matter how critically you're looking at it. I tend to read poetry books I'm reviewing (at least) twice before sitting down to the typewriter. I read it once, aloud, more or less acritically, but on the lookout for glaring flaws. Then I read it thru more closely, making notes. I think it does make me a better reader, in so far as it forces me to appreciate the book on multiple levels, whereas on a quick once-thru only gives me enough to form a vague opinion about the book's surface merits.

For those of you looking for good stories married to beautiful writing and intellectual acuity: Umberto Eco and Jose Saramago are two of my present-day faves. Anyone read Baudolino or The Cave yet? I haven't got to them.

Question for those of you who read 'professionally', reviewing, editing, what have you - does it make you a better reader, or just a more grumpy one? Is it harder to just kick back and enjoy reading?

Edited by author 11-18-2003 11:28 AM
To clarify, I don't link solemnity with "good" literature. I love David Sedaris (at least Naked and those bloody hysterical Christmas stories), Stuart Ross, Darbyshire, and others who have incorporated humour and seeming "lightness" into their work. I also like action, a la Pyper, King, and Gibson. My point is that all of these provide me with something more than just a brain candy lollipop to suck on. I think of it as a good chewy toffee, rather than a Jolly Rancher, you know?

A hard one to pin down, indeed, "good" being such a capricious mistress. I wouldn't find story good if it wasn't thought provoking in some way, but is brain candy always a bad thing? Easy to get mired in self-important solemnity. Laughter makes us human. Don't understand the guilty pleasure concept, meself...hedonism is underrated.

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Point taken, Dreamer. For me, it isn't actually just about story. It's about being awakened. Ripping good plot means nothing to me if it doesn't engage and expand my mind in some way. Best is a combination of idea and story, something I don’t see too often. This is why I still covet the old days when I had time to read good sci fi. Gibson, Dick, LeGuin, Butler, Brunner, even David Brin and Larry Niven to some extent (the plot here really often is nothing more than a slow moving action movie, but the ideas are fantastic).

I can't recall too many mainstream lit works that have had the same haunting effect -- keeping me thinking for days. Atwood's Oryx and Crake got me thinking, even though I think it fatally flawed in certain ways. And after page 100 or so it's just one big chase scene (freaking riveting though). Coetzee always makes me think (if you haven't you really HAVE to read Waiting for the Barbarians -- J Bennett turned me on to this and I've never looked back -- speaking of which, Aussie David Malouf's Remembering Babylon has images and scenes that are seared into my brain like a brand) as does Marquez, but there are few others I can point to to keep me "awake" in this regard.

I guess my point is, there are plenty of page turners with great stories that will keep you up at night, but not too many that nudge your brain enough to keep you truly awake.

Y'know, I've long pondered the "good literature" question. And while the existence of bad literature is undeniable, good is a more slippery slope. Which is more powerful, for example: a work of acrobatic imagination that holds readers hostage into the small hours of the night, or one that feels more like a bowl of granola, gaining a grudging appreciation (mostly along the aren't-I-clever-for-getting-through-it lines) along with a "thank god that's over" sigh?

Good is about connection, that tapping into a groundwater that creates a greater cosmic swell, bridging nations and cultures. You can find examples of that in "literary" as well as genre fiction; a flash of gold on a paper cover really has nothing to do with it.

If we're here, it's because we have an abiding affection for story and the evocative power of words in whatever form or combination. Story, good story, is enough.

Does this Guy Strike You as a Member of that ULA Group?

This defense of King is the literary equivalent of George Bush's election platform (link on loan from Bookslut).


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Opus, my red ass.

He rewrote The Gunslinger. Perhaps the best writing he ever did -- the only book of the Dark Tower "opus" worth reading. And he fucks with it. Oh well. I imagine the original version will always be available.

Hmmm, still leaves Carrie, The Shining, 'Salem's Lot, The Dead Zone, The Long Walk, Different Seasons, and quite a few short stories in the collections Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, and Everything's Eventual as works of his which should be read. The Stand -- the uncut version -- and Bag of Bones are on the borderline.

Not bad.

Stephen King's Opus

His words, not ours.



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manpoon? mmm. that's nice. biggun is it? i know a gay. he says bigguns are nice. Hey! I bet they got a enlarge your weiner ad in that big bag over there. Lemme try: Hey, Millassclass, what can I do about my micro-dink? It even makes me laugh, sometimes. That oughtta do it. Bring on the savage machines!

Now cut it out, MCL, or I'm cutting the brake cables on your Volvo.

I think the most telling thing here is that the ads haven't shifted from sci fi...........

I think poon isn't enough, really. Try poontang? And if you want love, I mean really want love, have I got a meat man for you. Uh, this is getting wierd,no?

ahhh.mmmm. now this is a discussion i like. poon. cherry poon. or how about foodstuffs? cherry pie. yes. or furniture. cherry pine. cherry wood. or beatin up people. cherry beach. or sportsy. don cherry. what's it say now? what's it say? middleclassleesse. i think i love you. we're online, aren't we? cherry moon. what's it say now?

still not working. I wonder how it works? pornography?

twat

see if this changes ads: family family family family family

Just wondering if the ads change if we change topic. What about this King quote " a personal family life". As opposed to an impersonal family life. I sometimes think my family life is a little too personal, as in, close the bathroom door, I need my privacy. Also, the idea of King teaching writing to eight graders is a little scary too say the least; does he want to get personal with them as well?

Um.... Hello? This is GOOD, right!?

Stephen King breaks the news.




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You'd Think They're All Writers or Something

Steven Almond takes on Harold Bloom for taking on Stephen King.




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That is fuckin creepy! I hadn't noticed until you pointed it out. Google is like a giant spider...

And yeah, A Canticle for Leibowitz is a great book; so too The Sheep Look Up by John Brunner.

Anyone else find it creepy that the (unavoidable, sorry) google adds to the left are 'reading' our posts and tailoring the adds to the discussion? Ew.

I read every King up to "It"... I was disappointed with the end. A big spider? Come on. It was the first time I thought, hey, this guy might not be so brilliant as prolific. I remember thinking critically about the book, a feat for a redneck boy from Bradford (you have to realize the handicaps I grew up with...)

But I must say, King is what had me reading in my teen years. I never sank so low as Koontz, or worse still, VC Andrews (who long after her death gives new definition to the term ghost writer). While King was a cut above the fantasy novel of the day, he was a step or two below the scifi novel. I was lucky in that department -- the quality of scifi was so good back then that for every Orson Scott Card or David Brin I read, I stumbled across 'Left Hand of Darkness' or 'Canticle for Leibowitz' or 'Neuromancer' or even, yes, 'The Handmaid's Tale' ... Can you imagine a yokel from Bradford reading either The Left Hand of Darkness or The Handmaid's Tale by accident? It was like a smack in the mouth. And the point here is that King never once smacked me in the mouth. Readers never stumbled into something bigger through King. Never ever. At least not up until 'It.'

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I quite like -Bag of Bones-, mostly for the end. I don't know if it's the best King to cut your teeth on because I don't know how successfully some of the supernatural element plays in it. But I did really like the self-reflexive elements. What I found with some of his writing from, say, the mid 90's on, is that the supernatural element of the book gets in the way of the rest of the story, whereas in his early books it plays better. I have a soft spot for -The Stand-; I think it's a plain old 'good read'. But I read that first in high school, so my fondness for it is partly nostalgic. As serious lit, I dunno. -Delores Claiborne- is another of my favorites. I think the voice of the novel is well done, and this is one of a trio of King books that do a particularly good job of giving authentic sounding voices to women who are victimized by real men, and the supernatural element is really dialed down. As for the classic, early period King books that Ebo refers to, I haven't re-read any of them as an adult, so I have more trouble knowing what I'd think of them from the perspective of a more experienced reader. The three I listed are ones I've read in the last 5 years, and enjoyed. I'll think on it a bit more for you though.

Janine, Ebo,

As King readers, which book of his would you most recommend, as a work of serious literature, to those of us who've never read the man's books, but who are curious?

I also read lots of King in high school. I was already a reader, but he was my bridge to 'adult' books. He also taught me to slow down, because I read really quickly up til that point, and I found I had to take a bit more time (in parts of the books anyway) to catch details. I'll even admit I still enjoy reading him. Some books are definately better than others, but I do agree that there is variety in his work, that it's not just the same book over and over with different names and different monsters.
In -Danse Macabre-, a non-fiction book King wrote about horror, he talks a lot about the way in which horror and fantasy are about society and manifestations/projections of fears and anxieties (-Invasion of the Body Snatchers- is about fear of Communism, etc) so it's something he is concious of as a writer. At the same time, I don't think he crafts his stories as allegories; I think it all just comes out in the wash.
I really don't know how to judge his books as 'serious' literature because it's such a slippery concept, but I do think that one of the reasons that his books are popular is because they are easy to read. I don't mean that in a critical way, rather the reverse. It think he does a very good job of carrying readers along in the story without us noticing how he's doing it. In -On Writing- he talks about the basic toolbox a writer should have. Top shelf - Vocab, grammar, elements of style (He's a big fan Strunk & white). Second level - narrative, description, dialogue. He doesn't worry about plot, figures it'll come out of the story as the story comes. (Whether that's a strength or weakness is up for debate. I'm not so big on plot myself, so I don't mind.) But my point is that he writes with a critical awareness of how the formal elements of a story work on readers, and that these elements should work together to guide the reader through the story. For the most part, he's not wanting the reader to notice these things what's holding the story together, but he's certainly aware of it. I think (though I'd have to spend a lot more time looking through my King collection than I'm willing to do at this moment) that if you look through his work, you'll find that some of his later work is a bit riskier, at least complared to average popular fiction. I'm thinking particularly of -Bag of Bones-, and the questions that are posed at the end of the book about responsibility the author has to both characters and audience. It knocked me on my ass, to be honest, because with King I find I'm usually quite immersed in the diogetic world (that's probably the draw of the books) and it was surprising to have him call me out of it in such an interesting way.
I can't believe I delurked to post on King!

I have read King. In fact, if it weren't for King, I probably would never have become a reader. I read his novels all through high-school and continued to read them afterwards. As i got older I started reading other stuff, but for me, it all started with Stephen King. I think there are a lot of people like me, who read books, who love books, and who take books seriously, and who do so because of Stephen King. I'll be the first to admit that a lot of what he has written doesn't measure up to the standards that Zane is talking about in his article. But I also think that people forget that a lot of King's work does measure up to those standards. At least I think it does. I mean mostly a lot of King's early work now. I think books like Carrie, Christine, Rage and Cujo are works of serious literature that do more than just try to be scary, they make profound statements about American society. If King had kept up this pace, or stopped writing before his output started to look like an assembly line, I think people would think of his writing a lot differently. Anyone else think this?

All questions of King's merits aside, I think Zane has a point: the sun under which King is basking is controlled by a switch.

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Okay, I'll out myself. I've never read a book by Stephen King, not one. I only know the Stephen King that Hollywood has given us. Still, I can't figure out what all the hullabaloo is over. Do Harold Bloom and J. Peder Zane (Peder?) think this award is being handed out willy-nilly by a buncha freakin morons? (Maybe they do!) It seems to me that they're both suffering from some kind of recto-cranial inversion. And Zane asking him to decline the award, that's just being a jerk. So the guy writes pulp novels...so did Dickens. What of it? Jonathan Lethem's new book is about people with superpowers, and all the smart people seem to like it. Has King made a contribution to American letters? Sure he has. And he's taken enough guff from literary snobs over the years to last a lifetime, not to mention he got smucked by a truck a few years back (Maximum Overdrive?) for chrissakes. Give the poor guy his moment in the legitimate sun.

Hey Bloom, Are You inZane? Or is Zane in You?

If you listen close, you can actually hear the pressure in Bloom's ass crushing a piece of coal into a diamond. Also, apparent Bloomite (another mineral that can be squeezed into a diamond) Zane asks King to decline his crown. Meanwhile, the Friscan's (they love being called that) are sweet as pie.




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The scariest moment of my life is still when my father went outside my bedroom window (age 11) after I had read Salem's Lot and knocked, going, "Geordie... open the window..." Sadist.

It still gives me goosebumps to think of how frightened I was.

It reminds me a little of the Oprah books. Authors say if a title becomes an Oprah book, sales go through the roof, but the next non-Oprah selection does about the same as they did before, so Oprah readers buy Oprah selections without it translating into following an author or even reading outside what the big O selects, necessarily.

And King readers are probably King readers. All this doesn't mean King hasn't shown some skill in giving his audience what they want, and if he's used his position to set up permanent funding for libraries and books, that's pretty cool.

Bloom cares about literature, and Stephen King cares about writing. So of course Bloom is a wanker because literature is pretentious. By definition. It's great the King has been a writer with a mass audience (and I don't mind him getting this award), but how much of that audience goes on to read anything more substantial - and I do mean more sustantial.

Bloom seems like a wanker, but they help portray him that way, calling him the "self-appointed custodian of the literary canon."

My reaction is mixed on this. I'm a little disturbed at the idea of rewarding a writer in any way for writing stuff that "translates" well into films - doesn't that in some way defeat the purpose of writing?

At the same time, I think he has written novels that strike a nerve, even it might be the same few nerves over and over. I've actually only read The Shining, which did increase my heart rate, and happen to now be reading Different Seasons, mostly becasue of the Shawshank Redemption story, which is quite good. You have to give the man credit for simply having a story and telling it. I find now I'm less patient with poetic novels that begin with a page long description of lake Ontario. I start saying write some dialogue! Make something happen!

Is that a bad thing? Do we no longer have the patience to luxuriate in literature? Well, I'm not so sure it's that simple. If you read The Great Gatsby, it's a novel that simply moves from A to Z without stopping every second to describe someone's shoes as little brown turtles, or some such thing. The moon was like a drum, and he wanted to beat it... wait, forget I said that.

Stephen King Receives Lifetime Achievement Award for "Continuance of Disembowelments Under Extreme Circumstances"

After which it will be revealed that for several years Mr. King has been wearing his skull OUTSIDE his skin (login: bookninja, password: waaaa) and none of you suckers noticed. (P.S. Would somebody please take the cork out of Harold Bloom's ass, or would that cause his ears to touch?)




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Is it Just Me, or is Stephen King Starting to Look Like Stephen Hawking?

King's new column takes aim at our national heritage: the Dion sing-tuplet.



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