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Katianna

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Hi everyone!

I am very interested in what city the book is set in. It says the Cleveland Indians are the closest pro team, and talks about the fog rolling in off the Lake. I am born and raised in Cleveland area, so the setting intrigues me! Mr King, if your reading this, I would love some info on where its set and how you chose the setting. I love Stephen King books. Is there a prequel to Mr Mercedes, or am I to understand that this is number one in a planned trilogy?

Thank you for welcoming me, and any answers.

Katya
 
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Katianna said:
Hi everyone!

I am very interested in what city the book is set in. It says the Cleveland Indians are the closest pro team, and talks about the fog rolling in off the Lake. I am born and raised in Cleveland area, so the setting intrigues me! Mr King, if your reading this, I would love some info on where its set and how you chose the setting. I love Stephen King books. Is there a prequel to Mr Mercedes, or am I to understand that this is number one in a planned trilogy?

Thank you for welcoming me, and any answers.

Katya
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Probably just a fictional city made up from what SK knows about the area. I live in Florida and Duma Key was a fictional place in Florida but I recognized the general area of Florida he created for the book. He probably stays away from naming a specific city so he has a license to change some things if he needs to.
 
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Katianna said:
Hi everyone!

I am very interested in what city the book is set in. It says the Cleveland Indians are the closest pro team, and talks about the fog rolling in off the Lake. I am born and raised in Cleveland area, so the setting intrigues me! Mr King, if your reading this, I would love some info on where its set and how you chose the setting. I love Stephen King books. Is there a prequel to Mr Mercedes, or am I to understand that this is number one in a planned trilogy?

Thank you for welcoming me, and any answers.

Katya
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He purposely wanted the city to be ambiguous which is why it is never specifically mentioned.
 
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Katianna said:
Hi everyone!

I am very interested in what city the book is set in. It says the Cleveland Indians are the closest pro team, and talks about the fog rolling in off the Lake. I am born and raised in Cleveland area, so the setting intrigues me! Mr King, if your reading this, I would love some info on where its set and how you chose the setting. I love Stephen King books. Is there a prequel to Mr Mercedes, or am I to understand that this is number one in a planned trilogy?

Thank you for welcoming me, and any answers.

Katya
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Hi Katianna - I'm a newbie too. I'm guessing that the fictional city in the novel is based on Toledo. Do you think Mr. Mercedes decided to attack the city's water intake system after waking from his coma?
 
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New here, very nice to meet you all. My name is...well, never mind about that, and I'm a King-aholic. :wink:

I'm a native Clevelander, and a few things caught my attention about Mr. Mercedes. Like many Clevelanders, I am an egomaniac with an inferiority complex, at least about Cleveland. We are constantly scanning for "outsider" mentions of our city, with both confident expectation that others find us "The Best Location In The Nation" and the sneaking suspicion that some hipster SOB is going to make a smart crack about pierogies or the Browns.

I couldn't help but notice the mention of:

- an ugly structure by I. M. Pei. Depending on your bias, this could be all of them, but Erieview Tower is easily the ugliest building he ever designed (if not the ugliest building anyone ever designed).

- the Indians as the "nearest MLB team" -- this might, as some have said, set the location closest to Sandusky (or maybe Erie), but as a resident of Cleveland, I could also accurately say that the Indians are the closest MLB team. (As a Tribe fan of 48 years, I could also say that the Indians are the closest we have to an MLB team, but I digress. Keep up the good work, Tito -- we all have high hopes for next year.)

- action taking place in the tony suburb "Sugar Heights" -- anyone else here think this is a soundalike for Shaker Heights? Shaker is perhaps not as tony as the fictional suburb, but it'll do.

Anyway, I'm sure it's Mr. King's creative amalgam, not meant literally to BE Cleveland, but these and other little clues (including one of the Christ-awful accents of the little patrons if the ice cream truck) makes it, as the Fella Himself might say, close enough for government work. Just makes me think of home.

Just my unsolicited .02 worth (and I may have overestimated the value there...)

Nice to meet all of you. :cat:
 
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