That's GREAT!!
John
New fiction is always good. New LONG fiction is great!
I found the reference. Ms. Mod says it weighs 16 pounds! WOW!!
John
16 pounds... about 7kgs, for a manuscript?
Lets take of half of it, cause probably aint printed both sides of a paper...
a book of 3.5 kg? my gosh!
CANT WAIT :-)
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According to Bev Vincent (on his webpage), 16 pounds comes to about 1600 manuscript pages. He said the last three volumes of The Dark Tower series came to about 2500 manuscript pages. So Under The Dome could be about 2/3 the size of those three books combined. A massive book!
John
So a regular printed hardcover would be approximately how many pages then?
According to Bev Vincent, the last three DT books worked out to about 2500 manuscript pages, which amounted to about 2000 pages in the trade editions. So that's probably about 1280 pages for Under the Dome (4/5ths).
John
Holy crap.
And we still don't know the plot.
That "dome" (a forcefield?) must be mysterious. Seems like King expanded the tale, so there must be many other things. Probably supernatural.
I think "dome" might refer to a sanctuary type situation in a natural disaster a la "superdome"
Did anyone listen to Sk's reading of the first chapter at that CSPAN "The Three Kings" Him, Tabby, and Owen? It was good, but the "dome" sounded like maybeSpoiler:
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
Hmmm...I went to Three Kings and he read us Duma Key, thanks for the info, that sounds even cooler.
maybe it wasn't the three kings event. But those three were there, at the library of congress (i believe) there was a q&a and they each read a little something. King read the woodchuck bit. The video's on cspan. i'll find a link.
[EDIT] Found it http://www.c-spanarchives.org/librar...ts_id=204835-1 Just push the big red button on the right side of the screen. should start playing. Also, the chapter starts about 44 min 20 sec into it.
So it goes.
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. "
- Oscar Wilde
I think the scope of the book will cover more than an apartment building, especially with 1200+ pages!
John
From the Library of Congress reading, it seems that a dome-shaped forcefield of some sort is isolating a small town in Western Maine from the rest of the world.
Very exciting! Can't wait to get lost in that one.
Life is a garden...dig it!
Update from the Mod at SKMB:
It was sent to the publisher and his editor right after he finished it the middle of August. I haven't seen any feedback from them yet but that isn't unusual. They may have sent it directly to him. He hasn't mentioned working on the edits based on their suggestions, though. The last thing he'd mentioned to me about writing was that he had been working on the rewrite of The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County and another project that I can't give details about at this time.
I wonder if The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County could be published somehow?
This collecting stuff is a sickness! ~Patrick
In the new Salon interview, King says, "it deals with some of the same issues that The Stand does, but in a more allegorical way."