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    A Good Marriage / Lisey's Story

    Thank you both.
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    A Good Marriage / Lisey's Story

    Hello all. Some time ago I read that what St. King says he likes about A Good Marriage is that it was the first time he was tackling the issue of marriage and the secrecies married people hold from one another. Then again it seems that he already had done much of that in Lisey's Story, which was...
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    Differences between the serialized and the one-volume versions?

    For information, Rocky Wood labels the omnibus version as an altered version of the serialized novel.
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    Differences between the serialized and the one-volume versions?

    All right then, thanks for sharing your thoughts -- and I guess I'll stick to the six volumes version.
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    Differences between the serialized and the one-volume versions?

    Thanks to the Look Inside feature on Amazon.co.uk regarding a 1999 Orion edition (978-0752826752), I could get a glimpse of the introduction, and indeed St. King writes he finally did very little changes -- and wishes he'd rewrite the whole thing. Indeed that edition even reprints the afterword...
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    Differences between the serialized and the one-volume versions?

    Hello. So far I haven't found any place that would offer the answer to that question. In the afterword of Volume 6, published in 1996, St. King discusses the possibility of making a single-volume version of The Green Mile, wondering how he could lose the installments element. So I'd really like...
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    July 1999: was it "On Writing" or "Rose Red"?

    Thank you for this. I just became aware you had answered as I never got the notification mail. He actually points out that the week before the accident he got a call from S. K. and adds : « I was to send a script to Craig Baxley to take a look at it over the week-end. That Saturday, the next...
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    The « trade edition ».

    I just got the book. It may be worth mentioning that the unpublished material is all grouped together at the end of the book, each bit being introduced and put back in its original context in the course of the previous edition.
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    July 1999: was it "On Writing" or "Rose Red"?

    It is a six-hour series about a (very) haunted house. There are good, pure stephenkingish moments in it, but I thought it lacked coherence. Then again one actor died during the shooting, which caused major alterations to the script while the shooting was two thirds (I think) into the making...
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    July 1999: was it "On Writing" or "Rose Red"?

    While reading "On Writing" I seemed to understand that at the time of his mid-June 1999 accident St. King was working on that very book, and that is was that same book he resumed work with while recovering once back home (Part 6 of "On Living: A Postscript"). Then again in the extras to the...
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    The « trade edition ».

    Thanks a lot, Bev, that's just what I needed to know. :cheerful:
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    The « trade edition ».

    Hello from France (again ;)). The wikipedia page for Salem's Lot mentions that after the 2005 edition, a « trade edition was later released ». I am trying to locate such an edition on the internet, but those I can spot here and there never mention in the description section if they are that...
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    A mistake

    . . . Well maybe I should have made this clear beforehand: I didn't come with the intention of gaining anything here, I just thought I'd help with a lingering error in one book by an author I enjoy reading. I was not begging for personal attention or any benefit from this. Should anyone decide...
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    A mistake

    I never intended to sound rude to anyone, sorry about that if I seemed to. Would you please make it clear what I expressed unpleasantly?
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    A mistake

    As I mentioned earlier, in case Mr King would care to correct his error without having to discard the whole paragraph, he could go with the idea that "gauche" in French also means "clumsy", which seems to be historically--ethymologically--connected with the left-handedness.
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    A mistake

    I will when I get something I deem worth sharing (or asking, etc.) Thanks for the warmth of your welcome anyway! I never wrote the word never existed! I mentioned the fact that St. King wrote « The French for left, bastardized from the Latin, is la sinistre » when this should have read « Five...
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    A mistake

    Well, it absolutely is a definite error and will remain such until corrected. Thanks for your attention anyway, and regards from France.
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    A mistake

    Thanks for the various welcomes, and thanks for answering this; do you think it should be brought to Stephen King's attention?
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    A mistake

    Thanks! Concerning the reason I posted, on second thought I doubt it will prove useful since that mistake has been around for over thirty years and I can't possibly be the first reader to pick it out. What do you think?
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    A mistake

    Hello all Constant Readers. Currently reading the latest paperback English edition of Danse Macabre I came upon a mistake Stephen King has made originally and which has not yet been corrected (obviously). Indeed, on top of page 55 in this Hodder 2012 edition, he wrote « The French for left...