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The Lazy Way To Read

Posted: August 18, 2014, 10:19
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If anyone here should be to lazy (God forbid) to read King’s latest book here is an option for you. This is a summary of the book that is supposed to give you the plot, characters and anything else you need to know. My question though is who would prefer this version except someone too lazy to read the book and also has a school paper due?

What do you think of this book? Good or useless? And while you’re thinking about it, please send in your photo with Mr Mercedes so that I can add it to all the other fan photos.

Unearthed and Untold, The Path to Pet Sematary

Posted: August 14, 2014, 19:45
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Finally we might soon see what I think will be a great documentary about Pet Sematary:

Unearthed and Untold, The Path to Pet Sematary announcted:

Our documentary will be having its world premiere in the county where it all started: Hancock, Maine. On Saturday September 13 Unearthed & Untold will be playing at the Grand Theater in Ellsworth - one of the primary towns featured in the original film. This event is being billed as a double feature: They will also be showing Pet Sematary just before the documentary!

We will be in attendance as will some local cast and crew from t...he film. If you are in New England or the New England-area please consider coming to the September screening. Tickets may sell quickly, so go to the Grand Theater website to buy now! (grandonline.org)

This is hugely exciting and a real milestone for what has been a long, challenging, and rewarding journey. *To date, NO official distribution plans have been made, though we are working on it. Once we know HOW and WHEN you can see it, of course we will let you know. See you in September!

I Need Help From King Fans Around the World

Posted: August 14, 2014, 13:45
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Since there are a lot of you out there that are so much better than me to find things online I'm going to reach out to you with a request. I'm looking for three forigne books by King. Two of them I have found online but not in a book store that I can use creditcard or PayPal to pay with (which I would like to). So, if anyone can find these books online in a store that I can buy from I'd be very greatful!

Here are the info on the books.

#1: Basque
Amazon lists this version of Insomnia as being in Basqu language.
Link
This might be the correct cover but I'm not 100%

#2: Georgian
Any title really but here are the info about their edition of Mr Mercedes
Link


#3: Mongolian
As far as I have found they have only released Under the Dome and in two volumes

Part 1: Link

Part 2: Link

So, my hope now is that one of you here can find these in a bookstore where I can buy them and pay with creditcard or Paypal.

And now back to King news again. Thanks for your time!
Lilja

It Remake Set For 2015?

Posted: August 11, 2014, 09:09
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kpopstarz.com reports that the IT remake is set for 2015.

"It" movie remake 2015 is gearing up! Stephen King's highly acclaimed movie adaptation will be revamped based on two-part series. The planned project will be written and directed by Cary Fukunaga together with Chase Palmer who'll be co-writing the screenplay.

Roy Lee and Dan Lin will be spearheading the production together with Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg of KatzSmith Production.

While, Tim Curry gained praises from his astounding performance as Pennywise, he would most likely not come back to reprise his role for the upcoming It movie remake slated for 2015.

The planned remake is still in its early stages, thus no casting news is yet to be reported.

Haven Returns September 11

Posted: August 9, 2014, 08:37
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Season 5 of Haven premiers September 11.

Returns Thursday, September 11 at 10PM -- When the series returns for its fifth season, Haven’s protectors are thrust into uncharted waters: Duke (Eric Balfour) is now a ticking time bomb, fighting to contain the Troubles within him, while Nathan (Lucas Bryant) faces his greatest fear that Audrey (Emily Rose) -- the woman he’s fought so desperately to save -- may be gone forever.

King Translated Into 51 languages

Posted: August 8, 2014, 00:51
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The hunt for King’s books in different languages continues and during the last weeks I have actually found no less than X new languages.

The first two are versions of Spanish; Spanish Castellano and Spanish Latin. They differs like the UK and US versions of English so the books aren’t very different but there are still differences.

The third is Brazilian Portuguese that’s different from the Portuguese they speak in Portugal.

The last two are Georgian (spoken in Georgia) and Bengali (spoken in Bangladesh).

Oh, and I’m thinking about including Braille as a language. I know it’s not a language in its own but it’s very different from every other book. So, if you count Braille I can now confirm that he is translated into 51 different languages and I bet there are more (I might have one more soon). Pretty impressive if you ask me!

Se covers in all the different languages here.

King at a Fundraising Event

Posted: August 7, 2014, 23:57
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King to appear at a fundraising event to benefit Manatee County’s public libraries.

Prolific horror writer Stephen King is expected to fill an auditorium with his fans this fall for a fundraising event to benefit Manatee County’s public libraries.

The Manatee Library Foundation announced this morning that King, a seasonal resident of Casey Key, agreed to donate his services for a Jan. 29 lecture at the Manatee Performing Arts Center in Bradenton.

The foundation hopes to raise $100,000 toward a new operating system to manage the libraries’ acquisition, cataloging and circulation data.

“We knew we needed a very special event,” if it is to reach that fundraising goal, Foundation President Jane Plitt said.

The foundation previously said that it would wait until this morning’s news conference to identify the “internationally acclaimed writer” it had booked for that event.

“It’s been a really tough secret to keep,” Library Services Manager Ava Ehde said.

Thanks to Herbert West

Reveal Revival

Posted: August 7, 2014, 22:33
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Hodder & Stoughton sent out this today. Will you help them reveal the cover for Revival?

Constant readers: help us reveal the cover for REVIVAL Stephen King's electrifying upcoming novel REVIVAL arrives in November and we are unveiling the cover in square segments. To reveal the segments, all you have to do is like the Stephen King Books Facebook page and share this app. You can also share on Facebook and Twitter using the hashtag #RevealREVIVAL.

Once enough likes, comments and shares are generated a new square will be ready to uncover. When the entire cover is revealed, it will animate and you can then unlock additional content, such as Twitter skins and Facebook cover photos.

The more you share, the more we will reveal . . .

See how much has been revealed so far here.

Beautiful Shining Wraparound

Posted: July 30, 2014, 23:41
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Vincent Chong has done an extra piece of artwork for The Shining to be used on a wraparound dust jacket that would be sent out exclusively to those who had purchased the Limited Edition and as you can see Vincent used of the fact that this would be a wraparound dust jacket and came up with the idea for an image which would have Jack chasing Danny down the corridors, in a way so that you would only see Jack on the front of the book, and Danny on the back.


Head over to Vincent's blog for a skiss of it.

Mark Romanek is checking in

Posted: July 22, 2014, 01:13
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Mark Romanek is checking into the Overlook Hotel. The director is in negotiations to direct the prequel to The Shining for Warner Bros., The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.

The Shining was one of Stephen King's early horror works and was adapted into the classic Stanley Kubrick movie, which starred Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall.

Overlook is based on King's original prologue to The Shining, which was cut from the book prior to publication in 1977.

The film will tell the origin story of the haunted hotel through the eyes of its first owner, Bob T. Watson, a robber baron at the turn of the 20th century.

Former Walking Dead showrunner Glen Mazzara wrote the script. James Vanderbilt, Brad Fischer and Laeta Kalogridis are producing.

Romanek is a music video director who last directed the clone-themed drama Never Let Me Go, starring Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan. He also directed the pilot for Locke & Key, the adaptation of a comic written by Joe Hill, King's son.

Thanks to Lou Sytsma and Troy Tradup

A 44th Language Found

Posted: July 2, 2014, 13:40
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The 44th language that a King book is translated into has been found. Today I found out that The Shining has been translated into Breton. Breton is a celtic language that's spoken in western France, the Brittany region and what’s extra interesting is that only 200,000 people have Breton as their native language. Very impressive that they now got their own translation of a King book if you ask me.


Thanks to Herbert West

Under the Dome Ratings & Interview

Posted: July 1, 2014, 20:08
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What did you think about the season 2 premier? Seems the ratings was lower than the season 1 premier and finale but still high.

The second season premiere of "Under the Dome" came in way below last summer's premiere and last fall's finale, but the Stephen King-scripted episode still ranked as Monday night's top show in all measures.

What did you think about the season 2 premier? Seems the ratings was lower than the season 1 premier and finale but still high.

We know before the season started that two characters were going to die in the first episode (personally I thought it was the wrong two) and here are two interviews with one of them. If you haven’t seen the episode you might want to do that before you click on the links.

TV Guide
EW

Thanks to Lou Sytsma

King Got The Idea In Paris

Posted: June 30, 2014, 16:54
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According to the moderator on King's board the news story That Bus Is Another World is the one he talked about when he was in Germany.

I've read it although he'd only titled it "That Bus" at the time. Steve wrote it not long after we got back from Europe as he got the inspiration as we were heading into Paris from the airport. Traffic was heavy and we were stopped next to a bus. He shared with us the idea of something (bad) happening on the bus being witnessed by a person in a vehicle next to it and what they would do about it came to him and voila, a new story!

Under the Dome Returns Tonight

Posted: June 30, 2014, 12:08
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Tonight Under the Dome returns to CBS for a second season. King has written the first episode and also has a cameo in it so it will be interesting to see where he’s going with the story. What’s a bit worrying though is that according to CBS there has been screeners sent out for this episode (not to me though) but there are no reviews to be found. Usually when a now season starts you hear something about it beforehand but not this time. Does that mean it’s bad? Does it mean it’s not worth talking about, or seeing? Does it mean that no one is interested? Could it be that I’ve been looking at the wrong places? Well, I have no idea. Hopefully it’s good but I guess since there are no reviews we’ll have to wait and see, right?

Ep33 - News & Mr. Mercedes Test Drive

Posted: June 30, 2014, 09:06
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With your hosts Hans Lilja of Lilja's Library and Lou Sytsma.

Welcome to Episode 33 of The Stephen King Podcast!

A ton of Stephen King news covering movies, tv series, stage, and of course books. We also take King's latest book - Mr. Mercedes - for a spin and share our thoughts.

We hope you enjoy this episode and, as usual, we want to hear from you.

Good or bad, we want it all!

You can leave us comments, questions, topic suggestions at:

1) FaceBook - Lilja's Library

2) Audio Message - Speak Pipe widget on the right hand of the podcast page (send voicemail)

In this podcast:

1) 00:00 - Intro
2) 00:56 - Podcast Setup
3) 01:28 - From The Death Room - The Latest Stephen King News
4) 42:37 - Reviews From The Night Shift - Mr. Mercedes
5) 01:03:46 - Signoff
6) 01:04:40 - Outre



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A New Story By King

Posted: June 29, 2014, 20:26
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According to the cover for the upcoming August issue of Esquire Magazine there will be a new story by King included. I first thought it would be called Nobody but that part is probably part of the Cameron Diaz headline. More news as soon as I have them...


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