Stephen King, the guiltiest of pleasures.

[DCEPTCN]

Really, it's not a thing that you openly admit...readin g King and all. For some reason I always end up with another of his books. Don't get me wrong, it's once every year or two- but I've read Camus, I've read Steinbeck, etc., etc. and have enjoyed far higher-brow literature than gore-rags. Still, there always seems to be a reason to return. When I was kid in Boulder, Colorado I thought it was funny that a building not far from my house got blown up in 'The Stand'...and 'The Shining' seemed to almost be about the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park (King lived in Boulder in 1974). Then, I got a chuckle the first time (and the next million times thereafter) I passed through his home town of Bangor, Maine. I remember living in Ruth, Nevada and my buddy Josh (born and raised there) told me that King was writing a book inspired by Ruth. I laughed knowing that he was mistaken or lying. Then 'Desperation' and it's companion novel 'The Regulators' came out and I was shocked as shit. I couldn't believe it. The original cover of the first-printing hardcover (a copy of which I've been hard pressed to find as of late) was a painting of the Liberty Club bar in Ruth with a little black truck out front.....that truck was a Syclone that had a license plate reading 'DEBDUB'. No one but a Ruth local would've known that, 'cause no one but a Ruth local would know that Deb and Dub were ALWAYS at that bar, lol. It was a long time that I spent pissed off having had my secret little ghost town discovered by outsiders....n ot that the average person who read that book would actually ever GO to Ruth or anything, but I still was less than pleased. I even found admission later to what I (obviously) already knew:

http://www.stephenking.com/pages/Works/Desperation/inspiration.php

(snarls)

But then again I go reading another of his books last night. I originally bought 'From A Buick 8' about a year or so ago. Naturally, I had to check out a book about an evil Buick locked away in a shed out back. Y'know, there are people out there who are crazy enough to stalk a popular figure like King if they noticed that many similarities between hid books and thier life....but I get a little laugh.

I had to relay this quote from the book to you guys- I thought it struck home:

"His interest in the Buick was likely to continue, but with each passing year that interest would look more and more like what it really was- ordinary police work. Stakeout and surveillance, writing reports (in journals his wife would later burn), cleaning up the occasional mess when the Buick gave birth to another monstrosity which would struggle briefly and then die. Oh, and living through the occasional sleepless night. But they came with the territory, didn't they?"  

[Recklessrob]

When I was at the Hopkinton fair this past Labor Day weekend, I swear
I saw him there watching the demo derby.I didn't bother mentioning it,
because I didn't think anyone here was into his stuff. I pointed him out
to my buddy Carl, and he agreed that it looked like him. He was accompanied by a
rather attractive blonde (that first got my attention) and an older guy.
They stood out a little because they were dressed a little to well for
the derby as though they probably have never been to it before. They
have a water truck wet down the arena fairly well to make a nice mud base
that most of the cars will spin into the crowd. This year the left a buch of horse
crap out there too ! Alot of people bring plastic bags as though they're
going to see Gallagher. I didn't take his picture or approach him, so that he could
enjoy the show like everybody else. Besides, if it wasn't him, I'd have felt like an ass.

[sun dog]

I had a hardback "Christine" I held on to for years, until it suddenly disappeared...
 
 
Coincidence?.......I think so!

[TSM Girl]

When I was at the Hopkinton fair this past Labor Day weekend, I swear
I saw him there watching the demo derby.I didn't bother mentioning it,
because I didn't think anyone here was into his stuff. I pointed him out
to my buddy Carl, and he agreed that it looked like him. He was accompanied by a
rather attractive blonde (that first got my attention) and an older guy.
They stood out a little because they were dressed a little to well for
the derby as though they probably have never been to it before. They
have a water truck wet down the arena fairly well to make a nice mud base
that most of the cars will spin into the crowd. This year the left a buch of horse
crap out there too ! Alot of people bring plastic bags as though they're
going to see Gallagher. I didn't take his picture or approach him, so that he could
enjoy the show like everybody else. Besides, if it wasn't him, I'd have felt like an ass.

Doesn't he live out there? I thought he lived out in the New England states..

[TSM Girl]

I had a hardback "Christine" I held on to for years, until it suddenly disappeared...
 
 
Coincidence?.......I think so!

Christine, is one of my Favorites..... I thought the movie was ok, but when I read the book, you can not compare!  The book is AWSOME!

[granitestategn]

I think he lives, or used to live, around Bridgeton, ME. That's where he was hit by a car while bicycling and spent a bunch of time in intensive care. Some friends our ours have a house up there and said he donated several million to build the whole new wing on the hosital in appreciation of not letting him croak. It's a nice looking hospital addition.

[TSM Girl]

I remember when he did get hit, it was a few years ago I remember them (news) said that he was pretty banged up.

[SuperSix]

I was addicted to Stephen King when I was younger, I consider The Stand to be one of the best fiction novels ever written, I think I've read it 3 times. I think I stopped reading half way through the Dark Tower series. I think I lost my imagination.  

Long live Larry Underwood!

[TSM Girl]

Another thing I thought about this.....I wish that they would not make any more movies that are about his book.....the movies seem to me "Cheesy" and the books are so much better in My H.O...

[Racer X]

Cripes, I won't even read a post that is more than twelve sentences much less a whole book?

[DCEPTCN]

Um, everybody in the world knows that he lives in Bangor. Duh.

[Racer X]

Bangor? I hardly know her!



ba-dum-dum

[DCEPTCN]

Bangor? I hardly know her!



ba-dum-dum

Although I'm hip to the quip, it's pronounced Bang-GOR.

[Recklessrob]

Bangor? I hardly know her!



ba-dum-dum

Although I'm hip to the quip, it's pronounced Bang-GOR.

Thats "Tipper's" job !  :rofl;

[granitestategn]

Um, everybody in the world knows that he lives in Bangor. Duh.

Must have been visiting friends when he got his ass run over. Bridgeton's a looong way from Bangor. Oh, and ya cahnt get theyuh from heah.