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Dexter episode 4

Posted: July 22, 2013, 10:21
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The 4th episode of the 8th and last season of Dexter has now aired and here are my thoughts on it.

But don’t read this if you haven’t seen he episodes. There will be SPOILERS!

King cheers J.K. Rowling's try for 'anonymity'

Posted: July 17, 2013, 10:49
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From USA Today:

Early in his career, Stephen King wrote several novels under a pseudonym, Richard Bachman.

When J.K. Rowling tried it, publishing The Cuckoo's Calling as Robert Galbraith, she didn't ask King's advice, but if she had, King says, "I would have told her it's an impossible secret to keep for long."

In an e-mail to USA TODAY, he notes he "got outed as Bachman by someone who recognized my style, and in these days of the Internet, that becomes more and more likely."

But, he adds, "Jo is right about one big thing — what a pleasure, what a blessed relief, to write in anonymity, just for the joy of it. Now that I know, I can't wait to read the book."

King also recalls a story about Paul McCartney suggesting to the other Beatles that "they try playing as Randy and the Raiders — or some such — and come onstage dressed in capes and masks. (John) Lennon laughed at him and said, 'They'd know who it was as soon as we opened our mouths.' "

The Stephen King Movie Trivia challenge week 2

Posted: July 16, 2013, 10:43
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To celebrate the release of The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book in August there will be a series of contest here on Lilja’s Library. I choose to call it The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book challenge.

Each week during July and August there will be a question from the book posted here and each week a winner will be drawn from that week’s entries. The winner will get a trade paperback of The Stephen King Movie Trivia. How about that?

This week’s question is from IT:

After It, Seth Green (who plays Richie Tozier) went on to play a character known as “Wolfman,” on the television series SeaQuest DSV, starring Jonathan Brandis (aka Bill Denbrough). Still later, Green played the character Oz – a werewolf – on the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In It, Richie is menaced by a werewolf in the school basement after seeing which classic werewolf movie?

A: Lycanthropus
B: Curse of the Werewolf
C: The Wolf Man
D: I Was a Teenage Werewolf

Next week’s question will be posted on Tuesday July 23 and you have until that to send in your answer. Send your answer by mail using this link or to info[a]liljas-library.com (replace the [a] with @) Good luck!

PLEASE DON'T POST ANSWERS BELOW. NO ANSWERS BELOW WILL BE ENTERED IN THE CONTEST!

The Winner from week 1 will be posted on Friday.

Dexter episode 3

Posted: July 15, 2013, 10:42
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The third episode of the 8th and last season of Dexter has now aired and here are my thoughts on it.

But don’t read this if you haven’t seen he episodes. There will be SPOILERS!

Doctor Sleep Book Tour

Posted: July 10, 2013, 23:42
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Stephen will be appearing at an on-stage event presented by Boulder Bookstore in Boulder at the Colorado Chautauqua Auditorium on Wednesday, September 25th at 7:30 PM during which he will talk, read, and answer questions from the audience. Tickets are $37.50 for the general public and $34.50 for Chautauqua Members and will include a first edition copy of Doctor Sleep. The event will not include a book signing, but Stephen will be pre-signing a limited number of copies of Doctor Sleep, which will be randomly distributed at the conclusion of the event.

Tickets will go on-sale online Thursday, July 11th at 1 PM MST for Chautauqua members and Readers Guild members only at the Chautauqua Box Office website. A promo code for ticket ordering will be distributed to Boulder Bookstore members in a special newsletter blast which they will send out July 10th—be sure to check your email.

Tickets for the general public will go on-sale Friday, July 12 at 1 PM MST on-line at the Chautauqua Box Office website.

Tickets may also be purchased in person at the Box Office or by phone with the same restrictions listed above.

Box office information:
Website
303.440.7666

Walk up/phone sales Mon - Fri., 1 - 6PM

The Stephen King Movie Trivia challenge week 1

Posted: July 10, 2013, 21:00
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To celebrate the release of The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book in August there will be a series of contest here on Lilja’s Library. I choose to call it The Illustrated Stephen King Movie Trivia Book challenge.

Each week during July and August there will be a question from the book posted here and each week a winner will be drawn from that week’s entries. The winner will get a trade paperback of The Stephen King Movie Trivia. How about that?

This week’s question is from Nightmares & Dreamscapes:

In which decade does Clyde Umney live?

a) 1910’s
b) 1920’s
c) 1930’s
d) 1940’s

Next week’s question will be posted on Tuesday July 16 and you have until that to send in your answer. Send your answer by mail using this link or to info[a]liljas-library.com (replace the [a] with @) Good luck!

PLEASE DON'T POST ANSWERS BELOW. NO ANSWERS BELOW WILL BE ENTERED IN THE CONTEST!

Dexter episode 2

Posted: July 8, 2013, 09:35
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The second episode of the 8th and last season of Dexter has now aired and here are my thoughts on it.

But don’t read this if you haven’t seen he episodes. There will be SPOILERS!

Episode 20 - Charles Ardai Takes Charge

Posted: July 7, 2013, 01:12
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Episode 20 - Lilja & Lou Let Charles Ardai Take Charge - of the Lilja & Lou Podcast is now out.


A milestone podcast for Lilja & Lou our 20th podcast!  To celebrate we have another special guest.


This one features an in depth interview with writer Charles Ardai founder and editor of the Hard Case Crimes bookline which published the latest Stephen King book - Joyland.  Charles takes us behind the scenes of book publishing, tells us what it feels like to work with Stephen King, drops a few teases about the upcoming season of Haven, and gives us a heads up on his upcoming projects.


We also review Joyland and the first episode of the CBS Summer TV series - Under The Dome.


We hope you will all 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) Twitter - @LiljaLouPodcast - please use the hashtag #LiljaLouPodcast


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



In this podcast:

1) 00:56 - Lilja and Lou Intro.


2) 01:45 - In The Death Room: Stephen King News


3) 08:13 - From The King Crate: Charles Ardai of Hard Case  Crimes books interview


4) 50:50 - Reviews From The Night Shift: Joyland & Under The Dome


5) 1:09:34 - Preview for next podcast and Signoff



Intro Music - Don't Fear The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult


Outro Music - Stand By Me - Ben E. King


Listen here or on iTunes.


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New teaser

Posted: July 4, 2013, 09:05
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Here is a new teaser for episode 3 of Under the Dome.

Tonight's the Night...

Posted: July 1, 2013, 05:00
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Follow me through the 8th and last season of Dexter week by week. I will give you my thoughts on each episode as they air and in 12 weeks we’ll all know how the story of Dexter ends. But don’t read this if you haven’t seen he episodes. There will be SPOILERS!

Read the review here.

Today's topic

Posted: June 29, 2013, 00:45
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If you missed it, today’s big topic is the letter King wrote to defend the changes that were made when Under the Dome was transferred from the book to the TV series. Some fans agree with King and some don’t and no matter how you see it, King fans are sometimes very hard against adaptations that don’t follow the book. Anyhow, this got me thinking and I suspect that all these changes was the reason CBS didn’t want King fansites reviewing the pilot in advance. Lilja’s Library as well as other King sites didn’t get screeners with the excuse that only the bigger publications would get them and I think that was because the bigger publications would be less likely to see those changes. A King site would probably mentioning them, something CBS tried to avoid for as long as possible. What do you think?

Read King’s letter here and my review here.

Preview of King on CBS Sunday Morning

Posted: June 29, 2013, 00:04
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Stephen King will be on CBS Sunday Morning this Sunday, June 30th. CBS Sunday Morning airs from 9am to 10:30am EDT.

The piece features an interview with Anthony Mason filmed in Bridgton, Maine (the inspiration for Chester's Mill) and a walk around the set of Under The Dome On CBS. Here is a preview.

King about differences in TV series

Posted: June 28, 2013, 12:23
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This message was posted on King's official site addressing the fans who are having some problems with the changes that have been made in the TV series version of Under the Dome compared to the book.

For those of you out there in Constant Reader Land who are feeling miffed because the TV version of Under the Dome varies considerably from the book version, here’s a little story.

Near the end of his life, and long after his greatest novels were written, James M. Cain agreed to be interviewed by a student reporter who covered culture and the arts for his college newspaper. This young man began his time with Cain by bemoaning how Hollywood had changed books such as The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity. Before he could properly get into his rant, the old man interrupted him by pointing to a shelf of books behind his desk. “The movies didn’t change them a bit, son,” he said. “They’re all right up there. Every word is the same as when I wrote them.”

I feel the same way about Under the Dome. If you loved the book when you first read it, it’s still there for your perusal. But that doesn’t mean the TV series is bad, because it’s not. In fact, it’s very good. And, if you look closely, you’ll see that most of my characters are still there, although some have been combined and others have changed jobs. That’s also true of the big stuff, like the supermarket riot, the reason for all that propane storage, and the book’s thematic concerns with diminishing resources.

Many of the changes wrought by Brian K. Vaughan and his team of writers have been of necessity, and I approved of them wholeheartedly. Some have been occasioned by their plan to keep the Dome in place over Chester’s Mill for months instead of little more than a week, as is the case in the book. Other story modifications are slotting into place because the writers have completely re-imagined the source of the Dome.

That such a re-imagining had to take place was my only serious concern when the series was still in the planning stages, and that concern was purely practical. If the solution to the mystery were the same on TV as in the book, everyone would know it in short order, which would spoil a lot of the fun (besides, plenty of readers didn’t like my solution, anyway). By the same token, it would spoil things if you guys knew the arcs of the characters in advance. Some who die in the book—Angie, for instance—live in the TV version of Chester’s Mill…at least for awhile. And some who live in the book may not be as lucky during the run of the show. Just sayin’.

Listen, I’ve always been a situational writer. My idea of what to do with a plot is to shoot it before it can breed. It’s true that when I start a story, I usually have a general idea of where it’s going to finish up, but in many cases I end up in a different place entirely (for instance, I fully expected Ben Mears to die at the end of ’Salem’s Lot, and Susannah Dean was supposed to pop off at the end of Song of Susannah). “The book is the boss,” Alfred Bester used to say, and what that means to me is the situation is the boss. If you play fair with the characters—and let them play their parts according to their strengths and weaknesses—you can never go wrong. It’s impossible.

There’s only one element of my novel that absolutely had to be the same in the novel and the show, and that’s the Dome itself. It’s best to think of that novel and what you’re seeing week-to-week on CBS as a case of fraternal twins. Both started in the same creative womb, but you will be able to tell them apart. Or, if you’re of a sci-fi bent, think of them as alternate versions of the same reality.

As for me, I’m enjoying the chance to watch that alternate reality play out; I still think there’s no place like Dome.

As for you, Constant Reader, feel free to take the original down from your bookshelf anytime you want. Nothing between the covers has changed a bit.

Comic Con will be Under the Dome

Posted: June 28, 2013, 11:22
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On Sunday, July 21, fans are invited to join the cast and producers of this summer’s critically acclaimed series Under the Dome at Comic-Con 2013.

SUNDAY, JULY 21:
UNDER THE DOME
2:15 PM – 3:15 PM
Hashtag: #DomeSDCC

The dome has descended upon Chester’s Mill and there is no way in or no way out! Get a sneak peek of what’s in store for the town and its residents as they become sealed off from the rest of the world in this summer’s critically acclaimed series based on the bestselling book by Stephen King, from Amblin Television. Stars Dean Norris (Breaking Bad), Mike Vogel (Bates Motel) and Rachelle Lefevre (Twilight) will be joined by executive producers Brian K. Vaughan (Lost) and Neal Baer (Law & Order: SVU). Norris, Vogel and Lefevre will participate in an exclusive autograph signing following the panel at the CBS Interactive Booth at 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM on the convention floor.

The Dark Man winner is...

Posted: June 28, 2013, 08:11
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The Dark Man contest is over and here are the correct answers.

1. What is the release date for The Dark Man?
- July 30, 2013

2. On facebook I posted this question “How would you like to win a copy of The Dark Man?” from what facebook page did I share the cover? (you might have to scroll down a bit for this one...)
- Lilja Says

3. How expensive is the most expensive edition of The Dark Man?
- $1750

The winner and lucky owner to be of a copy of the slipcased Trade Hardcover of The Dark Man when it’s released from Cemetery Dance is Casey R. Kelly! Congratulations!

Under the Dome episode 2

Posted: June 27, 2013, 11:28
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“The Fire” – While the residents of Chester’s Mill face the uncertainty of life in the dome, panic is heightened when a house goes up in flames and their fire department is outside of the dome, on UNDER THE DOME, Monday, July 1 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

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Tribute to Richard Matheson

Posted: June 26, 2013, 13:06
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Tribute to Richard Matheson
June 25th, 2013 12:26:18 pm

We've lost one of the giants of the fantasy and horror genres. From THE BEARDLESS WARRIORS,
his brilliant (and largely unread) World War II novel, to THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN and
all the wonderful TWILIGHT ZONE scripts and stories, Matheson fired the imaginations of three
generations of writers. Without his I AM LEGEND, there would have been no NIGHT OF THE
LIVING DEAD; without NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, there would have been no WALKING DEAD,
28 DAYS LATER, or WORLD WAR Z. Matheson wrote the script for Steven Spielberg's
extraordinary film, DUEL, and created one of the most brain-freezingly frightening haunted
house novels of the 20th century in HELL HOUSE. He fired my imagination by placing his
horrors not in European castles and Lovecraftian universes, but in American scenes I knew
and could relate to. "I want to do that," I thought. "I must do that." Matheson showed the
way. In addition to that, he was a gentleman who was always willing to give a young writer
a hand up. I will miss his kindness and erudition. He lived a full life, raised a fine family,
and gave us unforgettable stories, novels, TV shows, and movies. That's good. Nevertheless,
I mourn his loss. A uniquely American voice has been silenced.

Stephen King

Casting news for Good Marriage

Posted: June 24, 2013, 12:15
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Daily Dead just reported this exciting casting news for A Good Marriage

It has been revealed that Theo Stockman (pictured below) is part of the cast, playing the son in the family the story revolves around. According to THR, he’s “a man who made a name for himself in the advertising world and is enjoying his newfound success.” Stockman has appeared on a number of TV shows, including 30 Rock, CSI and Nurse Jackie. He’s also known for his Broadway work, including his appearance in American Idiot.

My weekend with Dexter

Posted: June 24, 2013, 12:14
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I have spent the weekend with Dexter. You know the guy who works as a forensics expert for Miami police during the day and moonlights as a serial killer during the night. Well, on June 30 the 8th and last season premiers but I was lucky enough to get a press kit this past Thursday and to my joy it didn’t just include the first episode but the first four episodes of season 8. Off course I had no intention to hold of seeing them. Instead I saw them all this weekend and even though I’m no closer to figuring out how it will all end I loved every minute of it. The only downside is that now I have to wait until July 28 for a new episode…

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