Stephen King's new novel: The Institute (September 10, 2019)

That's awesome, Simon and awesome of you for passing these things along! Maybe she could be your one-stop-shop next go around and order everything in for you. Would be a great way to support an Independent as well.

SWEET! That was great of them to give it to you.

Have a couple of copies winging their way from the UK (courtesy of Waterstones), but still figuring out whether to get all 9 variants.

HBJ

That's awesome Simon. Good for you, some Karma for helping others on the boards. Sounds like that bookstore will get repeat business from you too. Wins all around.

Is there a thread where people actually talk about, you know, the story?

All this talk about different editions etc etc blah blah, is fine. But how about talking about the actual book itself?

It will follow...

Read faster, people!!! Lol

Non-DarkTower King books are discussed in
Cara Laughs

Feel free to

go there and start a thread for The Institute.

Interview from The Observer dated September 8, 2019:


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Here it is online: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-the-institute

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Here it is online: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...-the-institute

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Oh Steve, this is why I love you:

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Dumb question, but I’ll play.

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Question about the WH Smith edition, is the book under the jacket the same as the UK trade or is it different? In other words, could someone take the jacket on the WH Smith edition and put it on the trade with green end papers and no one be able to tell?

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Question about the WH Smith edition, is the book under the jacket the same as the UK trade or is it different? In other words, could someone take the jacket on the WH Smith edition and put it on the trade with green end papers and no one be able to tell?

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I would also like the answer to this question. I have a WH smith edition copy (green) bought from the store, but not a standard edition to compare it to. I would like to purchase the other WHS variants, but don’t want to pay for a switcheroo.

The whs edition boards have a slight purplish tinge to them.

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Question about the WH Smith edition, is the book under the jacket the same as the UK trade or is it different? In other words, could someone take the jacket on the WH Smith edition and put it on the trade with green end papers and no one be able to tell?

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I finally got to compare them side by side. The books under the dustjacket are different. The boards of the WH Smith edition are purple while the standard boards are blue, and the foil stamping on the spines are also different colors.

So if buying copies of the WH Smith edition on the secondary market, make sure to get pictures which include the boards and endpapers in the same shot. Otherwise, you may be taken in by a ruse.

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Question about the WH Smith edition, is the book under the jacket the same as the UK trade or is it different? In other words, could someone take the jacket on the WH Smith edition and put it on the trade with green end papers and no one be able to tell?

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I finally got to compare them side by side. The books under the dustjacket are different. The boards of the WH Smith edition are purple while the standard boards are blue, and the foil stamping on the spines are also different colors.

So if buying copies of the WH Smith edition on the secondary market, make sure to get pictures which include the boards and endpapers in the same shot. Otherwise, you may be taken in by a ruse.

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Thanks for sharing, Peter.

So Waterstone messed up my sprayed edges odrer and 7 days later, have not replied to my email. Frustrating

According to Stephen King's official fb page, THE INSTITUTE is nominated to the best books on Google Play
>>> https://play.google.com/store/books/..._uv_books_page

But I am being shown the french version of the page. Could someone please send me / share a screenshot of the american version of the page?
I cant access it and would like to

Thanks

The book was really well received, and I believe I saw it on the top pages for a while to. I tried checking myself but I can only find dutch books (I am from the Netherlands) I tried using a VPN but that didn't work, so I can't properly make a screenshot. Are you sure it wasn't just a temporary thing on the french version of the playstore? The link you sent doesn't work so I can't check.

Thanks for trying.
It was shared by the official Stephen King facebook page ;)

Stephen King - Das Institut
German HC - Heyne
(Think it was the worldfirst)
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Still think it is the best cover of the book.

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Still think it is the best cover of the book.

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Agreed. Still an internal debate to grab one just for that cover.

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The standard edition has 4 different end papers....

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These are nice; I wish the US edition had something like this.

It was a great event yesterday, the online Marburg Con where the Vincent Prize was awarded again.
Stephen Kings - The Institute was nominated / successful in the category best international work.

Die Preisträger des Vincent Preises 2019
https://www.phantastik-forum.de/vincent-preis-2019.html

Bestes Internationales Literaturwerk
Stephen King
Das Institut
https://www.phantastik-forum.de/die-...ises-2019.html

I am currently reading this book. It's the perfect novel for my quarant-read.