King's eBook -- Riding the Bullet

[Blofeld]

Of course I would spend $2.50 to read King. But get it free here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/promotions/stephen-king/stephen-king.html/ref=gw_m_col_4/103-2796613-1954259

Now you just have to wait for the server to become available again....

[grendel]

DAMN DAMN DAMN!

And to think you beat me to it!

[Blofeld]

Now if I could just get everything set up right. Consistent error message on the download attempt.

Help line is unhelpful. They tell me I just need to reset my proxy ... but don't know what settings I need, or where to find them.

Hm. Any ideas?

[Johnny Butane]

Well, I was able to get the reader, but I can't get the damn story. Too much traffic, I guess

[Blofeld]

Got it! Who-hooo!
Haven't read it yet. I'm taking it to the beach! YEAH! Summer reading! Wait--it's not even spring yet. and it's an eBook. Can't print it--publisher won't allow printing. oh. have to read it on my computer. don't have a laptop. man.

deflate

[Blofeld]

Story is pretty good. Gotta great middle! Creepy. Eerie. Nice predicament for the protagonist. Like the resolution, but it's a kinder, gentler King -- deeply philosophical. Nice. Worth the time & effort.

Would've paid twice what I did for it. Wait -- spent nothing...uh ... still would pay twice that!

[Johnny Butane]

I've noticed that King's been doing that a lot lately, which is fine. I loved 'Hearts In Atlantis' and 'Bag of Bones'. I just hope he pulls no punches with the next Dark Tower book, which had better be out before I retire.

[Blofeld]

Yes, Johnny, King seems to be getting more "thoughtful" as his career ages. And it's a good thing. List your favorite King books, and I would venture to say that they fall into his early career, or late career. He had a spate of novels there in the middle that disappointed. But even bad King is good King -- if you follow my drift.

The next Dark Tower will be out summer of 3905.

[DJEvil]

Oh, good. I'll still be around about then.

[Johnny Butane]

Does anyone else find the Dark Tower books as an almost religous experience? Or is it just me?

Does anyone else agree that they're easily the best things he's written? I need some verification, here.

[Blofeld]

I do like Dark Tower considerably. I don't think it's his best, however. The Drawing of the Three and Wastelands were fantastic. Was a bit disappointed with Wizards and Glass.

I think my favorite King tends to be his shorter work -- The Mist, The Body, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Green Mile, The Shining, Firestarter, The Dead Zone, The Dark Half, Bag of Bones.

[Blofeld]

Johnny -- have you read the Dark Tower novella in Silverberg's (edited) Legends? It's fun. Definitely deserves to be a seperate piece from the novels.

[Johnny Butane]

(drooling and panicking frantically) What are you talking about? What is it? What book? What's it about? OH GOD TELL ME!

[Johnny Butane]

Oh, Christ. I just found it on Amazon.com. Thank you, Blofeld. I take back all the nasty things I said about you and your mother at the booth. You are a hero, a savior, a prince among men.

[Blofeld]

Read it fast, Johnny. I'm gonna kill you.

[Johnny Butane]

I'm confused but I can accept death, I guess.

[DJEvil]

I think over in the Reader's Ideas Forum, you can find my ideal cast for the movies of The Dark Tower series. I loved all of them. The first one was only mildly interesting, but from there, it felt like I was getting a backrub from Shawnee Smith while rewinding DVDs. Heaven, I kid you not.

[Johnny Butane]

I can't find it. It's not all midgets again, is it DJ? Tell me where it is.

[DJEvil]

Hell, I can't either. I bet I know what happened. Brian's computer crashed a while back, and it wiped out some of the stuff in there . I'll just have to redo the damn thing. *sigh*

[Brian Koukol]

How long ago did you post it, deej?

[DJEvil]

Few months ago. No idea how long ago, really.