Stephen King? He doesn't even know how to spell cemetery.

Misery Row.

I saw that when reading it, thought it was strange to have picked Westborough, but it does make sense, I guess. If you are driving down 495 from northern Maine, Westborough would be about 4 or 5 hours from where he started.

/lives in Westborough
//getting a kick

Petit_Merdeux: I could read it. The meat:

There, on page 833, he had to read and reread the paragraph at least four times before he could believe what he was seeing. There, in black and white, was a reference to his town - "Westborough" - the town he grew up in, and the town he now represents as a member of the Board of Selectmen, in the latest book by one of the most popular authors of our time.

Without spoiling any part of the book, a character decides to leave Maine, saying "I stopped for gas in a small Massachusetts town called Westborough, and decided it looked good enough for a man with no particular prospects and expectations from life."

That's not exactly a glowing recommendation for the town.

I wanna party with Stephen King. Him, and those other guys in his band. Not the girls. Fark them. Ok, maybe the girls too. They're probably pretty cool.

/got nuthin

Get off your arse King and finish up "Dr. Sleep" already!!

11/22/63 thread?

Given other responses ITT, apparently it's just me -- but I was really disappointed. I quite like and often defend King's books, but this one, well, it was more annoying to me than anything else. If you're going to use one of the biggest events in US history in a pseudo-non-fiction/alternate-history story, do more with it, dammit!

Perhaps I am just disappointed because it had a couple lazy-seeming plot devices and could have been much more imaginative in its investigation of time causality, relationships, history and its inevitability, etc. I could think of (and was hoping for) several different (and better) ways to expand / end / play with the foundation he set up, and I am in no way particularly imaginative. Instead, as I got closer and closer to the end, I thought more and more, "I'm gonna want to throw this book across the room at the end, aren't I?" And I was right.

(And then there's the whole "the end result of the Baby Boomers is as good as it could have been just the way it is! Yay, us!" moral to the tale that makes me want to stab someone, but perhaps that's best left to the Politics tab. And/or it is my own hypersensitivity axe to grind.)

Good enough book, I guess, compared to many, and certainly better than most other best-seller churned-out crap... but could have been so much more.

Then again, maybe I read too much PKDick / Vonnegut / etc (and nearly-zero "best seller of the moment" airport-books) and have too-high expectations?

Still, I have to wonder what his original ending / tale was like, before his son "helped", as noted in the afterwards.... I mean, come on! If you're going to base an entire book on "Let's Save JFK!" and incorporate supernatural elements, etc, DO MORE WITH IT! Maybe there'll be an extended-cut released later.

Similarly, the cameos from It seemed like an after-thought / distracting "why bother?" Maybe their distracting, expectation-building-but-ultimately-unimportant underutilization was a metaphor for the whole book?

But, yeah, I probably just hoped for too much. Alas.

Westboro has Harry's, a breakfast and fried clam joint, but other than that is a wide place in the road. Trust me, King did them a favor.

Back in the 70's I live in a small town in Maine called Jerusalem's Lot - I believe Mr King mentioned it in one of his books.

Bathia_Mapes: Petit_Merdeux: Bathia_Mapes: Which novel are they referencing?

An avid science fiction fan and loyal reader of Mr. King's works, Mr. Dodd wasted no time diving into Mr. King's latest book, " 11/22/63 ," about traveling through time and potentially altering the past.

I hadn't heard of this one. Although that is not surprising at the rate he turns out books.

That's his latest book. It's pretty good too.

Yeah, I just finished it yesterday. I thought it was great.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz... Call me when people start spelling Merrimac and pronouncing Haverhill correctly.

This is a late parrot: Bathia_Mapes: Petit_Merdeux: Bathia_Mapes: Which novel are they referencing?

An avid science fiction fan and loyal reader of Mr. King's works, Mr. Dodd wasted no time diving into Mr. King's latest book, " 11/22/63 ," about traveling through time and potentially altering the past.

I hadn't heard of this one. Although that is not surprising at the rate he turns out books.

That's his latest book. It's pretty good too.

Yeah, I just finished it yesterday. I thought it was great.

I enjoyed it for a good solid, fiction read with non-fiction involved. I think it allows leeway for inaccuracy or invention but uses a common event to bind readers. I liked this, I liked Under the Dome, I liked the Cell. So much so that I thought I'd go back and read a couple books I didn't initially like or just skipped. Gerald's Game still sucks balls and could not be finished! I've heard Farkers say Buick V-8 is good so I'll still give that a shot.

SK mentioned my town in the Gunslinger series.

Evidently this train is evil.



Go Topeka?

rudemix:

I enjoyed it for a good solid, fiction read with non-fiction involved. I think it allows leeway for inaccuracy or invention but uses a common event to bind readers. I liked this, I liked Under the Dome, I liked the Cell. So much so that I thought I'd go back and read a couple books I didn't initially like or just skipped. Gerald's Game still sucks balls and could not be finished! I've heard Farkers say Buick V-8 is good so I'll still give that a shot.

I've only started reading King recently. I always thought that I wouldn't care for them but, I find that I like them. Since Thanksgiving I've read: The Stand, Duma Key, Christine, Under the Dome. I plan to read Salem's Lot next.

On a side note, I caught the entire "Stand" mini-series one day on Syfy. About three or four days after finishing the book, that was without a doubt the worst mini-series ever.

soopey: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz... Call me when people start spelling Merrimac and pronouncing Haverhill correctly.

Gettin' wasted again out here in Haverhill,
Waitin' for my trial date for assault.
Some people say, I'm the one to blame....
...but I know,
It's the state's damn fault.

I grew up in Westborough. I've known it to be spelled both ways.

Northborough is north of it, yet Southborough is east. There is no Eastborough.

Jake Havechek: soopey: ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzz... Call me when people start spelling Merrimac and pronouncing Haverhill correctly.

Merrimac is in MA. Merrimack is in NH. The river uses a K as well, so Massholes must be illiterate.

I live two towns north of Haverhill, so I know what you mean. Try living in Billerica some time; that one always throws the non-natives!

hogans: The river uses a K as well, so Massholes must be illiterate.


Least we're not inbred goat bangers.

Quick! Someone tell him where Co-op city actually is so we don't have to suffer through Eddie Dean not being from Prime Earth Rose World # 17 or something.

Jake Havechek: hogans: The river uses a K as well, so Massholes must be illiterate.


Least we're not inbred goat bangers.

That would be Haverhill, NH.

xanadian: Bathia_Mapes: Petit_Merdeux: Bathia_Mapes: Which novel are they referencing?

An avid science fiction fan and loyal reader of Mr. King's works, Mr. Dodd wasted no time diving into Mr. King's latest book, " 11/22/63 ," about traveling through time and potentially altering the past.

I hadn't heard of this one. Although that is not surprising at the rate he turns out books.

That's his latest book. It's pretty good too.

I'm still waiting for the one about the lamp monster...

"Mmm, that's so fresh, too. Any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity?"

When Michael went to Winnipeg on "The Office" it was on the front page of the paper.

Best In The World: "Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly." - Sergio Aragones

Steven King is the dopest writer in da game today. He's america's original horror author. I don't read alot a books but when I do read books I read Kings books. U eva read CELL? It's about your cellphone turning your shiat into a zombie it's literally true. U see ppl all the time looking at thurrr phone and not paying attention while they drive a car or walk down the block. I seen ppl walk into poles while txting. I seen ppl get injured on the treadmill at da gym when they fly off cuz they was too busy trying to update Facebook & brag about how they was on a mill. Well, here's ur new status update: my ass just hit the gym floor. Funny you neva see that on FB.

oh for the love of god.

This is a late parrot: rudemix:

I enjoyed it for a good solid, fiction read with non-fiction involved. I think it allows leeway for inaccuracy or invention but uses a common event to bind readers. I liked this, I liked Under the Dome, I liked the Cell. So much so that I thought I'd go back and read a couple books I didn't initially like or just skipped. Gerald's Game still sucks balls and could not be finished! I've heard Farkers say Buick V-8 is good so I'll still give that a shot.

I've only started reading King recently. I always thought that I wouldn't care for them but, I find that I like them. Since Thanksgiving I've read: The Stand, Duma Key, Christine, Under the Dome. I plan to read Salem's Lot next.

On a side note, I caught the entire "Stand" mini-series one day on Syfy. About three or four days after finishing the book, that was without a doubt the worst mini-series ever.

Oh man...you must have been full of high hope after reading the Stand and then finding it on SyFy to watch. Talk about a buzzkill of a mini-series. It needs a Showtime/HBO redux.

frepnog: oh for the love of god.

Strangely enough, I agree with your post.

Drove me crazy, though. Mostly because I couldn't decide if it was intentional (which seems weird) or accidental (which seems weirder in a book so thoroughly researched).

Sometimes authors will do this to say that it isn't the actual town, but a fictional town inspired by the actual one, in a similar geographic location in the fictional universe. Otherwise they get people pointing out minor inconsistencies or wanting royalties because 'the author used the town drug store for the setting and since I own the town drug store, you owe me royalties. Also the end display couldn't possibly have had that brand of soda on it because we've never carried it.' type thing. So it is kind of a cover-your-ass/avoid the tards thing.

Like in Cell, he gets Boston geography backasswards, which is odd since King goes to a lot of Red Sox games.

karnal: Back in the 70's I live in a small town in Maine called Jerusalem's Lot - I believe Mr King mentioned it in one of his books.

that town sucks.

//slurp slurp slashies


haven't read a king book since tommyknockers. he started to bore me but mentions my place of birth in a couple books. what of it?

Best In The World: "Anyone can write a story based on the kind of horror where you see a guy in car and then there's the bad guy in the back seat. It's infantile to rely on that for telling a story. That's like going to bed and thinking there's a monster under your bed. It's silly." - Sergio Aragones

Steven King is the dopest writer in da game today. He's america's original horror author. I don't read alot a books but when I do read books I read Kings books. U eva read CELL? It's about your cellphone turning your shiat into a zombie it's literally true. U see ppl all the time looking at thurrr phone and not paying attention while they drive a car or walk down the block. I seen ppl walk into poles while txting. I seen ppl get injured on the treadmill at da gym when they fly off cuz they was too busy trying to update Facebook & brag about how they was on a mill. Well, here's ur new status update: my ass just hit the gym floor. Funny you neva see that on FB.

WORD

I'm on page 500 or so in 11/22/63. I'm trying to read without letting my brain try to figure out what's going on or what the twist is going to be. It's a pretty good book so far.

So. Did 'Uncle Stevie' find a way to insult Christians/conservatives/Nixon in this overlylong/badly-in-need-of-an-editor book the way he always does?

What a hack.
Granted a very rich, drug addticted hack but still a hack.