I haven't read Carrie....yet. After watching the movie, I felt like what's the point? I know, the writing is the point so I made a promise to myself I'll read it...at some point.
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You're definitely missing somethimg.........I haven't read Carrie....yet. After watching the movie, I felt like what's the point? I know, the writing is the point so I made a promise to myself I'll read it...at some point.
But Joyland is on kindle now.... So what if the ereader have to wait a year or two. thats not an unreasonable way to support local bookstores.
But Joyland is on kindle now.... So what if the ereader have to wait a year or two. thats not an unreasonable way to support local bookstores.
You're definitely missing somethimg.........
I've haven't really noticed him say too much that isn't common sense. The only thing I'd suggest to him is to stop doing Twitter as I think it's a lot of crap and I always think it makes people that use it look like 'try-hards'.
I'm just being pedantic. I understand that's the way he has to keep up with his new readers.I like his tweets. But I respect your opinion.
I too have not read Carrie because I saw the movie first, which I thought was great as was the remake.I haven't read Carrie....yet. After watching the movie, I felt like what's the point? I know, the writing is the point so I made a promise to myself I'll read it...at some point.
The Kings already have a trust fund for higher education scholarships which are granted annually but it is limited to Maine residents. They have a separate trust for grants to needy organizations in Maine but I don't know how/if that will continue after his and Tabitha's deaths. I could be wrong but I really doubt they will set up a trust to preserve his house/s as a museum. He is a private person and opening his home, even after his and his immediate family's deaths, isn't something I'd think he'd want to do. He has been donating much of his work through the years to the Fogler Library, Special Collections, at the University of Maine, Orono, though.I don't like talking as if someone is going to cark it tomorrow but seeing it was brought up: obviously his first responsibility would be to make sure his kids are set up so they don't have to become dependent on this unforgiving capitalist system. Obviously that house he lives in will become the 'King Museum' where fans in 100 years time can go and look so he'd have to set aside some money in a trust for that. He could also put a 'King scholarship' thing for kids from disadvantaged families to go to university. Maybe something in the conservation area as well.
Slightly off-topic (sorry) but I'm not sure it is the e-book that is killing local book shops, I suspect it may have more to do with Amaz** (other internet retailers are available but I can't readily think of one.)
Having been broguht up in the centre of Oxford I grew up surrounded by bookshops, in fact within 200 yards of where I lived there was the huge Blackwells, Blackwells Music shop (which was a seperate bookshop for books about/to do with music), Blackwells Children's Bookshop, The Paperback Bookshop, Blackwells Art and Poster shop (books abouot art) another one selling Travel books and maps and possibly even more. I used to spend hours browsing in these, but sadly I think even in the middel of Oxford these have now contracted down to maybe just the 1 or possibly 2.
I am not sure I can see a way of fending off internet sales. The little town I now lvie in used to have two or three book shops and a weekly book stall on the market, but I think these have pretty much gone.
I think to survive bookshops are going to have to have a niche, run events and maybe have a second string to their bow, like the one below which also runs as a cafe and seems to be thriving, but is a 40 minute drive away for me:
Jaffé and Neale – Bookshop - Cafe
The Kings already have a trust fund for higher education scholarships which are granted annually but it is limited to Maine residents. They have a separate trust for grants to needy organizations in Maine but I don't know how/if that will continue after his and Tabitha's deaths. I could be wrong but I really doubt they will set up a trust to preserve his house/s as a museum. He is a private person and opening his home, even after his and his immediate family's deaths, isn't something I'd think he'd want to do. He has been donating much of his work through the years to the Fogler Library, Special Collections, at the University of Maine, Orono, though.
Perhaps I’ll buy the house and turn it into the Maine GOP headquarters. Hey, it already is kinda considered a house of horrors, right?The Kings already have a trust fund for higher education scholarships which are granted annually but it is limited to Maine residents. They have a separate trust for grants to needy organizations in Maine but I don't know how/if that will continue after his and Tabitha's deaths. I could be wrong but I really doubt they will set up a trust to preserve his house/s as a museum. He is a private person and opening his home, even after his and his immediate family's deaths, isn't something I'd think he'd want to do. He has been donating much of his work through the years to the Fogler Library, Special Collections, at the University of Maine, Orono, though.
Perhaps I’ll buy the house and turn it into the Maine GOP headquarters. Hey, it already is kinda considered a house of horrors, right?
And probably full of holes from having been used as a dart board.Lol...good one! And LePage's portrait will be hanging on the creepy people wall.
And probably full of holes from having been used as a dart board.
Except that by that point he will most likely be dead, too.Maybe Donald Trump will buy it, convert it into a upscale bed & breakfast, and rename it 'Trump Horrors.' It will be Yuge.
True, but Ivanka could carry on the Trump legacy, and then there'll be hell toupée.Except that by that point he will most likely be dead, too.