Reading Insomnia and The Dark Half. Thank you Autumn and Linda for the friendly, Kingly loot. My collection had meager beginnings but with the generous help of members like you I'm reaching my goals. Thank ya big-big! 
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YAY! So glad you got it!Reading Insomnia and The Dark Half. Thank you Autumn and Linda for the friendly, Kingly loot. My collection had meager beginnings but with the generous help of members like you I'm reaching my goals. Thank ya big-big!
I have a question for you guys that know a lot more about King merchandise than I do: today at the second hand shop I found a really pretty copy of The Stand. It was published by Gramercy, and is illustrated. I know nothing about this publisher, but the pictures were sort of cool so I bought it. Can anyone tell me something about this publishing?
Well, I finished The Green Mile (very good by the way,) and decided to wait a bit until I start The Stand. So I'm reading I am Legend, and slowly going through The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe with one or two short stories a day.
- Gramercy Books, an imprint of Random House
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Gramercy Books
(Imprint of Random House Books For Young Readers)
Gramercy Books is a publisher of children's books. Some of the books published by Gramercy Books include A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Illustrated Shakespeare: The Tempest, The Wind in the Willows, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
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- The aim of Random House Books for Young Readers is to create books that nurture the hearts and minds of children, providing and promoting quality books and a rich variety of media that entertain and educate readers from birth to 16 years.
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What a great line up! I love I Am Legend, and you can't go wrong with most of Poe.
Thank you, Spidey
It's weird that Gramercy is listed as a children's book imprint here. This is definitely the uncut The Stand, which is undisputedly not a children's book (particularly when you factor in The Kid). The illustrations are by Bernie Wrightson, and are very interesting. My daughter actually insisted that I buy it (I don't do multiple copies usually, unless I'm looking for ones with book jackets--my early ones are long gone--and then I give away one of the copies), and I'm glad she did.
If, by pictures, you're referring to the black and white illustrations inside, those are by Bernie Wrightson and he did them for the Doubleday edition where excised text was put back into the story. They were not done specifically for the Gramercy edition. Back when The Stand was originally published in 1978, Doubleday asked King to remove text as the book would have been too thick for them to print, so Steve removed hundreds of pages of the story. Then when King became a mega-copy-selling author, they published the uncut/unedited version. Thank the Gods that King kept those pages!
Yep, they're the Wrightson illustrations. To tell the truth (and shame the Devil, as Mr. King has had his characters say so often
), I really didn't care for the uncut edition and have only read it once. I don't recall my original uncut book having illustrations (but that doesn't mean they weren't there, by any means).
There were no illustrations in the original book. King didn't have the stature back then for this to be done in a regular published book.Yep, they're the Wrightson illustrations. To tell the truth (and shame the Devil, as Mr. King has had his characters say so often
Yep, they're the Wrightson illustrations. To tell the truth (and shame the Devil, as Mr. King has had his characters say so often
I actually read the uncut first, then, years later, read the original version, just to see what was left out. I felt cheated. Many of my favorite parts weren't there. (And no Berni pics, d'oh!).
Oh, I know that. I love the original and have read it many, many, many times. I meant the original uncut edition, published by Doubleday in 1990. I don't remember illustrations in that one (though they definitely could have been there).
True. I'm enjoying the Poe book so far, I've only ran into one story that I really disliked: The Balloon Hoax. Weirdly enough, I liked The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall, not a favorite, but I had enjoyed the story to a degree.
I cant believe I waited so long to read THE Drawing of the Three absolutely loved it! Half way through Book 3. What a treat to read the Gunslinger series for the first time! I am going to take a break and read Insomnia and then tackle #4. I only have about 8 books in the SK library yet to read. MR KING better get started on releasing a few more books. I am almost caught up. 
The nuns in grammar school always said this, waaaay before I ever read SK.To tell the truth (and shame the Devil, as Mr. King has had his characters say so often
I want to apologise if I said anything untoward yesterday as I had a few beers. I want Sigmund to come back on the website as I miss Sigmund. I said what I said to try to rile Sigmund up so she would come back.
I deleted the post as it was inappropriate. I understand that you are missing Sigmund but when/if she is ready, she will return. There is no reason from our side of things that is preventing that.
The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin. He has got tired of his Harry Bosch cop and the new cop main person is a Inspector Fox. But no it does not help. This fox character is not very captivating and neither is the story. I Think Rankin, for me at least, is a finished chapter. The first Bosch books were interesting but then he ran out of steam and this new start hasn't refilled the tank.
Also read Who On Earth Was Jesus by David Boulton. It is a Precise going through of the research after the Historical Jesus. A search that can be said to have started with Tatian in 150 AD. This research was killed by the united church in ca 450 AD not to awake again for over 1000 years. Since then many has had learned and both wellfounded and unfounded opinions on this subject. Thomas Jefferson wrote a book about who Jesus really was (didnt know that) that was later used against him when he became president. Very interesting book, well informed and actually makes the effort not to take side in the debate but forward all the main scholarly views and the foundations of their opinions. The views range from Jesus as gods son to a nonexistant jesus (jesus as myth or invention) to the mainstream in between in various shapes.
Also read Who On Earth Was Jesus by David Boulton. It is a Precise going through of the research after the Historical Jesus. A search that can be said to have started with Tatian in 150 AD. This research was killed by the united church in ca 450 AD not to awake again for over 1000 years. Since then many has had learned and both wellfounded and unfounded opinions on this subject. Thomas Jefferson wrote a book about who Jesus really was (didnt know that) that was later used against him when he became president. Very interesting book, well informed and actually makes the effort not to take side in the debate but forward all the main scholarly views and the foundations of their opinions. The views range from Jesus as gods son to a nonexistant jesus (jesus as myth or invention) to the mainstream in between in various shapes.
Forget what I said about I Let You Go being predictable. I just got blindsided and I still don't know what hit me. Yikes!
Has anyone else read this?
No spoilers though, it'll probably take me a day or 2 more to finish it.
No, who wrote it? Is it a thriller?
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