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If any of you happen to live nearby come snatch these before they’re gone, I would get em myself but bookshelf full, though of sharing it here.

Yorba Linda library, CA friends of the library

So i just snagged the brown omnibus of the dark tower and i know there is a green copy for the gunslinger. I was wondering if anyone could tell me if they are different. Should i get the green omnibus also? Also when i was trying to look it up online i think i saw there is another one ? I found something that said there are 3 total omnibus for the dark tower but the brown one comes with two and im pretty sure the green one comes with two so i don’t know what im missing. Does anyone know how many in total they are and what i’m missing? Thank you!!

This one in the long walk. Might have to start keeping track now.

Am currently reading this book, honestly before i started reading it, i thought it was boring or something and i started having second thoughts about reading "Misery by Stephen King". Am loving this book. Tell me, wat do u think abt it?

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I read a Stephen King book many many years ago (I’m now doing the whole catalogue start to present) but cannot remember which it was. All I remember was at the start there was reference to a suburban family home and a young boy who may have been playing with toys in his living room while the TV was on. Then another scene where there was someone staying in a hotel - maybe a writer? I may not be narrowing down as these are common themes I think, or I may be out of my mind or just dreaming!!!! Can anyone help?? Edit: Does Thinner or Insomnia start like this? For some reason these are in my mind

My Dad is a diehard King fan who is nearly impossible to shop for. He expressed that he wants a replica of the pig doorstop that is used to kill Annie at the end of Misery. I can't find it to save my life and i was hoping that someone here might have gone on a similar search at one point and could point me in the right direction. Any guidance or help would be appreciated!

Currently reading nightmares and dreamscapes and came across this amazing word, as someone who grew up in a small town in the south I 9 out of 10 times know the backwater town phrases King uses, but this is my first time ever hearing of flapdoodle

Punny!!

I just finished Christine and I loved it but did anyone else find the end of Arnie and Dennis’s friendship to be sadder than you expected? I found it really sad it caught me by surprise

I was 9 and pulled this out of a box of books my aunt had at our garage sale. I sat down on the toilet and read the entire thing, when I went to stand up I fell over because my leg had given up the ghost. I've been a King junkie ever since.

I know I can’t be the only one who wishes they had learned to dance when younger thanks to King’s beautifully worded dancing scenes. I actually have a bunch of Glenn Miller records somewhere due to wishful thinking but I have 2 left feet.

It won’t accept my perfectly valid word.

I’m rewatching The Green Mile, which is an amazing movie. No complaints at all.

But…

The scenes where we first meet Mr Jingles just don’t work. See, I used to work at the prison where the movie was filmed and a mouse just wouldn’t garner much attention there. That place was overrun with animals.

Mice, rats, possums, raccoons… and cats. So many cats. The cats walked with confidence around that place. The older convicts looked after them. Occasionally some young punk inmate who was new to the facility would kick a cat, and you’d come to work the next day and that guy would have two black eyes.

There were policies against feeding any of the animals, but nobody obeyed them. First off, the “vermin” would actually eat the nasty food, so let them. Also, if you were on a tower for a shift it was mind-numbingly boring so you’d toss out some of your chow just to watch the rodents and marsupials come out and eat it.

So a mouse wouldn’t be a big deal. It would probably eat some CO’s scraps and then avoid the cats on its way back to its hole.

But, it’s a great movie. And I read the books in serial form when they were being doled out. Absolute classic of a tale in whatever form. And Mr Jingles was a small but major component of it.

I watched the movie for the first time a few days ago, it is probably one of my new favorite movies. That entire time, I couldn't keep my eyes off the screen. There were also multiple times in the film, where I would get emotional and the end made me sob. Did this make anyone else emotional?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been a fan of Stephen King for a while now and The Shining is still the best book I’ve ever read. I’m getting out of a bit of a King phase to branch out into other genres including fantasy.

I’ve discovered some popular series such as Mistborn, First Law trilogy and the gentleman bastards trilogy, but perhaps I’m overlooking the Dark Tower series?

I’m curious to hear everyone’s unbiased opinion on King as a fantasy writer. The world building, the character development, the fantastical elements, the magic system. How does King’s series compare to the likes of some of the top modern fantasy authors today in his Dark Tower series?

Thanks for any feedback!

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While working on research I stumbled upon this acronym for "Great American Novel". We know that The Dark Tower is sort of a conceptual metaphor for the reading experience and literature itself, so... is it possible that King acronymed his "god like creature" that speaks to him as Gan because of that? I mean, it makes sense that he, at some point in his career, felt compelled to write such a novel. Maybe it was that drive that kept him going even after he found his space as the writer he is today.

I'm sure this has been asked before, but as much as I love King, it feels like he takes up like 70% of every book store's horror section and I'm very interested in branching out. Please list your recommendations here. Thanks!

I’m a huge fan of Stephen King but haven’t read a book in over a year. I’m looking to get back into reading, so would be grateful if someone could recommend me a book to try next!

Books I have read:

• The Shining
• The Green Mile
• The Stand
• 11/22/63
• Pet Semetary
• Carrie
• The Institute
• Firestarter
• Doctor Sleep
• Salem’s Lot
• Cujo
• IT
• Misery

Favourites: The Stand, 11/22/63, Green Mile Least favourites: Cujo and Firestarter