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    From Stephen King:
    The Five isn't just Robert McCammon’s best novel in years; it’s his best novel ever. Terrifying, suspenseful, unputdownable, and full of rock and roll energy. It’s also uplifting, a book you’ll finish feeling better about your world, your friends, and your music. Here’s one you’ll beg friends to read.”



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    A good and a bad blurb in the same sentance:
    "Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that [Harry Potter author] Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and [Twilight author] Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good."
    — Stephen King

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    That one started an outrage among all the Sparklers in the world

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    do reviews count also....I read this and it had his endorsement or blurb on the cover of the book. (excellent book by the way and am looking forward to the other two and movie as well.)

    http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20223443,00.html


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    My favorite parts of the review are King's complaints:

    1) Deus ex machina (re: the silver parachutes) - Is he not the author of the Dark Tower series, into which he explicitly inserts himself and the term "deus ex machina" by providing Jake a key, and helping Susannah out with an anagram?

    2) He questions the originality of the televised violence theme, by pointing out that he wrote two books with that theme (and was it just me, or was Cell pretty much The Stand with zombis?)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robert Fulman View Post
    My favorite parts of the review are King's complaints:

    1) Deus ex machina (re: the silver parachutes) - Is he not the author of the Dark Tower series, into which he explicitly inserts himself and the term "deus ex machina" by providing Jake a key, and helping Susannah out with an anagram?

    2) He questions the originality of the televised violence theme, by pointing out that he wrote two books with that theme (and was it just me, or was Cell pretty much The Stand with zombis?)
    Actually, I would say Cell was just a reworking of George Romero's Land of the Dead, which I thought was terrible, by the way
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    Yeah, overall the Cell was a dropped call.

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    The Stand was , on the other hand, one of his best.

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    I think he meant Land of the Dead was terrible, not Cell. I liked Cell; not his best but a fun little ride just the same.

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    Stephen King on "Lord of the Flies", from the London Telegraph:
    I grew up in a small northern New England farming community where most of the roads were dirt, there were more cows than people, and the school was a single room heated by a woodstove. Kids who were bad didn’t get detention; they had to stay after school and either chop stovelengths or sprinkle lime in the privies.

    Of course there was no town library, but in the deserted Methodist parsonage about a quarter of a mile from the house where my brother David and I grew up, there was one room piled high with mouldering books, many of them the size of telephone directories. A good percentage of them were boys’ books of the sort our British cousins call “ripping yarns”. David and I were voracious readers, a habit we got from our mother, and we fell upon this trove like hungry men on a chicken dinner.

    There were dozens concerning the brilliant boy inventor Tom Swift (we used to joke that sooner or later we’d surely come across one titled Tom Swift and His Electric Grandmother); there were almost as many about a heroic Second World War RAF pilot named Dave Dawson (whose Spitfire was always “prop-clawing for altitude”). We fought the evil Scorpion with Don Winslow, detected with the Hardy Boys, roved with the Rover Boys.

    Eventually — around the time John Kennedy became president, I think — we came to feel something was missing. These stories were exciting enough, but something about them was… off. Part of it might have been the fact that most of the stories were set in the Twenties and Thirties, decades before my brother and I were born, but that was not the greater part of it. Something about those books was just wrong. The kids in them were wrong.

    There was no library, but in the early Sixties, the library came to us. Once a month a lumbering green van pulled up in front of our tiny school. Written on the side in large gold letters was State of Maine Bookmobile. The driver-librarian was a hefty lady who liked kids almost as much as she liked books, and she was always willing to make a suggestion. One day, after I’d spent 20 minutes pulling books from the shelves in the section marked Young Readers and then replacing them again, she asked me what sort of book I was looking for.

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    I thought about it, then asked a question — perhaps by accident, perhaps as a result of divine intervention — that unlocked the rest of my life. “Do you have any stories about how kids really are?”
    She thought about it, then went to the section of the Bookmobile marked Adult Fiction, and pulled out a slim hardcover volume. “Try this, Stevie,” she said. “And if anyone asks, tell them you found it yourself. Otherwise, I might get into trouble.”
    Imagine my surprise (shock might be closer) when, half a century after that visit to the Bookmobile parked in the dusty yard of the Methodist Corners School, I downloaded the audio version of Lord of the Flies and heard William Golding articulating, in the charmingly casual introduction to his brilliant reading, exactly what had been troubling me. “One day I was sitting one side of the fireplace, and my wife was sitting on the other, and I suddenly said to her, 'Wouldn’t it be a good idea to write a story about some boys on an island, showing how they would really behave, being boys and not little saints as they usually are in children’s books.’ And she said, 'That’s a first-class idea! You write it!’ So I went ahead and wrote it.”
    I had read adult novels before, or what passed for them (the room of water-dampened books in the Methodist parsonage was full of Hercule Poirots and Miss Marples as well as Tom Swifts), but nothing that had been written about children, for adults. I was thus unprepared for what I found between the covers of Lord of the Flies: a perfect understanding of the sort of beings my friends and I were at 12 or 13, untouched by the usual soft soap and deodorant. Could we be good? Yes. Could we be kind? Yes again. Could we, at the turn of a moment, become little monsters? Indeed we could. And did. At least twice a day and far more frequently on summer vacations, when we were often left to our own devices.
    Golding harnessed his unsentimental view of boyhood to a story of adventure and swiftly mounting suspense. To the 12-year-old boy I was, the idea of roaming an uninhabited tropical island without parental supervision at first seemed liberating, almost heavenly. By the time the boy with the birthmark on his face (the first little ’un to raise the possibility of a beast on the island) disappeared, my sense of liberation had become tinged with unease. And by the time the badly ill — and perhaps visionary — Simon confronts the severed and fly-blown head of the sow, which has been stuck on a pole, I was in terror. “The half-shut eyes were dim with the infinite cynicism of adult life,” Golding writes. “They assured Simon that everything was a bad business.” That line resonated with me then, and continues to resonate all these years later. I used it as one of the epigrams to my book of interrelated novellas, Hearts in Atlantis.
    It was, so far as I can remember, the first book with hands — strong ones that reached out of the pages and seized me by the throat. It said to me, “This is not just entertainment; it’s life or death.”
    Lord of the Flies wasn’t a bit like the boys’ books in the parsonage; in fact, it rendered those books obsolete. In the parsonage books, the Hardy Boys might get tied up, but you knew they’d get free. A German Messerschmitt might get on Dave Dawson’s tail, but you knew he’d get away (by putting his Spitfire in prop-clawing mode, no doubt).
    By the time I reached the last 70 pages of Lord of the Flies, I understood not only that some of the boys might die, but some would die. It was inevitable. I only hoped it wouldn’t be Ralph, with whom I identified so passionately that I was in a cold sweat as I turned the pages. No teacher needed to tell me that Ralph embodied the values of civilisation and that Jack’s embrace of savagery and sacrifice represented the ease with which those values could be swept away; it was evident even to a child. Especially to a child who had witnessed (and participated in) many acts of casual schoolyard bullying. My relief at the last-minute intervention of the adult world was immense, although I was angry at the naval officer’s almost offhand dismissal of the ragtag survivors (“I should have thought that a pack of British boys… would have been able to put up a better show…”).
    I stayed angry about that until I remembered — this was weeks later, but I still thought about the book every day — that the boys were on the island in the first place because a bunch of idiotic adults had started a nuclear war. And years later (by then I was on my fourth or fifth reading of the novel), I came across an edition with an afterword by Golding. In it he said (I’m paraphrasing): “The adults save the children… but who will save the adults?”
    To me, Lord of the Flies has always represented what novels are for; what makes them indispensable. Should we expect to be entertained when we read a story? Of course. An act of the imagination that doesn’t entertain is a poor act indeed. But there should be more. A successful novel should erase the boundary line between writer and reader, so they can unite. When that happens, the novel becomes a part of life – the main course, not the dessert. A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life, make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog. In the best novels, the writer’s imagination becomes the reader’s reality. It glows, incandescent and furious. I’ve been espousing these ideas for most of my life as a writer, and not without being criticised for them. If the novel is strictly about emotion and imagination, the most potent of these criticisms go, then analysis is swept away and discussion of the book becomes irrelevant.
    I agree that “This blew me away” is pretty much of a non-starter when it comes to class discussion of a novel (or a short story, or a poem), but I would argue it’s still the beating heart of fiction. “This blew me away” is what every reader wants to say when he closes a book, isn’t it? And isn’t it exactly the sort of experience most writers want to provide?
    Nor does a visceral, emotional reaction to a novel preclude analysis. I finished the last half of Lord of the Flies in a single afternoon, my eyes wide, my heart pounding, not thinking, just inhaling. But I’ve been thinking about it ever since, for 50 years and more. My rule of thumb as a writer and a reader – largely formed by Lord of the Flies – is feel it first, think about it later. Analyse all you want, but first dig the experience.
    What I keep coming back to is Golding saying, “Wouldn’t it be a good idea to write a story about some boys… showing how they would really behave?”
    It was a good idea. A very good idea that produced a very good novel, one as exciting, relevant, and thought-provoking now as it was when Golding published it in 1954.
    • This is an edited version of the introduction to Lord of the Flies (Faber), republished to celebrate William Golding’s centenary. To order for £7.99 (plus 99p p&p), go to books.telegraph.co.uk

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    I loved LORD OF THE FLIES when one of my teachers assigned it back in high school. SK's commentary makes me want to read it again.

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    Green River Killer by Jeff Jensen and Jonathan Case :

    "Terrific. It's got the scariest opening sequence I've read in years, and the novel as a whole makes compelling stay-up-late reading. Great, creepy stuff."
    -Stephen King, New York Times best-selling author of The Dark Tower and The Stand


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    Not exactly an endorsement within the pages of the book, but king has guest reviewed The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan for Amazon.com:

    http://www.amazon.com/Night-Eternal-...8786193&sr=8-1


    Amazon Guest Review: Stephen King on The Night Eternal

    Stephen King is the author of more than 50 books, all of them worldwide best-sellers. Among his most recent are the Dark Tower novels, Cell, From a Buick 8, Everything's Eventual, Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and Bag of Bones. He is the recipient of the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.

    The Strain trilogy opened with an authentic wow moment: a Boeing 777 arrives at JFK airport with all but four of the passengers dead in their seats. The flashlight beams of the first responders “registered dully in the dead jewels of their open eyes.” Not much later these corpses begin to rise from their morgue slabs, and a plague of blood-hungry predators overwhelms New York. The first hundred pages of The Strain is a sustained exercise in terror that held this reader in spellbound delight, because del Toro and Hogan write with crisp authenticity about both the fantastical (vampires) and the completely real (New York City, with all its odd nooks and crannies).

    What began in The Strain comes to a sublimely satisfying conclusion in The Night Eternal. Del Toro and Hogan have taken Dracula, the greatest vampire tale of them all, and deftly turned it inside out. In Stoker’s novel, Bloodsucker Zero arrives in England on a sailing ship called the Demeter. As with the Regis Air 777, the Demeter is a ghost ship when it reaches port, the eponymous Count having snacked his way across the ocean. The difference is that Dracula is confronted by a heroic band of vampire-hunters who eventually drive him from England by using modern technology—everything from diaries kept on wax recording cylinders to blood transfusions. In The Strain Trilogy, the body-hopping Master—who arrives at JFK in the person of Polish nobleman Jusef Sardu—uses the very technology that defeated his honorable forebear to destroy the civilized world. Big corporations are his tools; modern transportation serves to spread the vampire virus; nuclear weapons usher in a new era of pollution and atmospheric darkness.

    Only jolly old England escapes; the wily Brits have blown up the Chunnel early on, and remain relatively vampire-free. At moments like this, the reader senses del Toro and Hogan tucking their tongues in their cheeks and having a gleeful blast.

    When speaking of the New World Order in Henry the Sixth, Shakespeare has one of his characters say, “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” As The Night Eternal opens, the Master (currently having traded the body of Sardu for that of rock star Gabriel Bolivar) doubles down on that, ordering his minions to kill not just those in the legal profession but all the CEOs, tycoons, intellectuals, rebels, and artists. “Their execution was swift, public and brutal. Out they marched, the damned, out of the River House, the Dakota, the Beresford and their ilk…in a horrific pageant of carnage, they were disposed of.”

    With the exception of heroic pawnbroker/scholar Abraham Setrakian (who almost destroyed the Master in Volume Two, The Fall), the winning cast of human characters from the previous novels are all present and accounted for: Nora Martinez, who has traded in her scientist’s microscope for a silver sword; Vasily Fet, who now exterminates vampires instead of rats; Augustin “Gus” Elizade, once a gangbanger and now a hero of resistance. There’s also the less-than-admirable but fascinating (in a repulsive way, it’s true) Alfonso Creem, with his insatiable appetite and his vampire-repelling mouthful of silver teeth.

    And there’s Eph Goodweather, the epidemiologist around whom all these others revolve. When The Night Eternal begins, two years after the Master has used nuclear weapons to create vampire-friendly darkness all over the planet, Eph has fallen on hard times. His undead ex-wife stalks him relentlessly (he is, after all, one of her “Dear Ones”), his son has become a rifle-toting, obsessive-compulsive acolyte of the Master, and Eph himself has started popping Vicodin and oxycodone. Nora has left him for Vasily Fet, and Eph is viewed with distrust by those who used to rally around him. Justifiable distrust; he keeps showing up late for meetings and vampire-killing gigs.

    Fet has managed to purchase a rogue nuke (it’s wrapped in garbage bags and looks like a trashcan), and the resistance fighters have a sacred book that may—if deciphered—lead them to the Black Site where the Master’s earthly life began. If they can destroy that holy soil, they believe the vampire plague will end.

    There’s a certain amount of perhaps dispensable hugger-mugger about vampires in Rome and archangels in Sodom, but the main attractions here are the resistance fighters’ fierce dedication to their cause, and Eph Goodweather’s slow and painful realization that if he destroys the Master, he may also destroy his son Zachary, the last person on earth he truly loves. Heroes of tragic dimension are rare in popular fiction, but Goodweather fills the bill nicely.

    After a small (and perhaps unavoidable—see Tolkein’s The Two Towers) letdown in The Fall, The Strain Trilogy comes to a rip-roaring conclusion in The Night Eternal. The action is non-stop, and the fantasy element is anchored in enough satisfying detail to make it believable. All the New York landmarks, such as Central Park’s Belvedere Castle and The Cloisters, are real. And while you’re discovering such essential vampire facts as the undead’s inability to cross running water without human help, you’ll also find out that the stone lions outside the New York Public Library have names: Patience and Fortitude. Plus, come on, admit it—there’s something about seeing vampires massing for an attack in a Wendy’s parking lot that makes them more real. The devil’s in the details, and this is one devilishly good read full of satisfying scares. --Stephen King

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    Yeah. fans of those books should NOT read that review.

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    Well, I'm game. Sounds a little like "The Passage", but with a more contemporary setting. Just bought books 1 & 2
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    I loved the first two books and I'm eagerly awaiting #3 (which is on its way to me now). I would not say it's reminiscent of THE PASSAGE (which is very epic in scope) but I'm pretty sure that if you like one, you will like the other. Enjoy!

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    Default Endorsed by Stephen King?????

    This apparently came out last year, but as far as I can see searching the forum, it went unnoticed:



    King's preface is short, and can be read in its entirety by using Amazon's Look Inside feature.

    I'll quote it here, since it's publicly available:

    Monsters In Your Closet:
    А Preface by Stephen King

    Few novels had the impact оn me that Dracula did. In college, even guys in my literature class talked about it, and as I read and re-read it, I realized it was the original vampire cloth from which all others had been cut. I know one thing, it scared the blооdу well-hell out of me.

    The story seemed а simple оnе. А young solicitor named Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to assist Count Dracula in а real estate transaction. While the first chapter starts off pleasantly enough, Harker soon begins to note odd happenings and details of the people and events he experiences while traveling deeper and deeper into the Carpathians. Gloomy castles standing high in the mountains, odd figures half-obscured by the dark, eerie landscapes with flashing lights, and howling wolves trail Harker as he journeys ... unaware of the mystery and horrors he and his love Mina Murray are soon to become entangled with. Only with the help of such noted characters as Professor Van Helsing, John Seward, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincey Morris does good prevail over evil.

    There was talk in literary circles that Stoker had been inspired by the stories of Vlad The Impaler and а few others, but had he been inspired by anything, I believe it was Joseph Sheridan LeFanu's (1814-1873) Gothic vampire novella Carmilla (1872) that was the main influence. Nobody will ever know, for Bram Stoker took the secret to his grave, but not before he penned а sequel, Dracula's Guest, which was published posthumously.

    While Stoker wrote numerous novels and short stories, he is chiefly remembered today as the author of this best-selling novel.

    Of all the monsters in my closet, this is the one that scares me most, and probably always will.

    - Stephen King
    10 JAN 11
    http://www.amazon.com/dp/1936828154/

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    I would be willing to call BS on that one. The book seems amateurish enough that the foreword might be lifted from some other source. My main evidence is that the CP page doesn't even show that the preface is copyrighted by Stephen King. It simply says "Copyright 2011 - Bram Stoker", which is an unlikely claim.

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    I somehow can't access the Amazon preview page...can someone add the actual preview page, unless it's of course against copyright issues.

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    The preview looks awfully cheap...



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    Yes, it does, but I agree that it's mighty risky for someone to publish a book with a "fake" intro by King. Could be they are a small publisher who simply can't produce good looking books but that the intro is still King. Spelling errors can easily be done by them, transcribing King's text.

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    I am almost 100% positive that the book is print on demand, probably through Createspace.

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    It looks to me like each sentence is a randomly selected and exactly worded sentence from the parts about Dracula in Danse Macabre....am I wrong?
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    Gunslinger Apprentice DanishCollector will become famous soon enough

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    It could be, will need to look through my copy of Danse Macabre.

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    Might be easier to ask Marsha directly?
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