Did you have any "trunk novels"? Do you now?
Questioning The King
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What is the weirdest thing a fan has ever sent you/given to you?
Someone sent him a box of dead kittens.
aye yah.SERIOUSLY??? That's not weird, that's just f******** up!
Who's that darn shadowy figure at the end of the Long Walk! lol
Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
Hi Mr. King. Thank you for all the great stories. Do you recall a Laurie Anderson from college days? A while back I was...actually I was looking for Doctor Sleep...this was back in October and I looked in Book World in Houghton...not there...then I went to the Finlandia Bookstore in Hancock and it wasn't there either. Bummer, hey? Anyway, while I was in the Finlandia reaching for a book a man behind me says if you buy that one I'll sign it for you. Heh! Who could resist a sales pitch like that?
The book was From Moosehead to Misery Bay, a memoir by Lauri Anderson. I bought the book and he did sign it "to know an author well is to have a friend for life". We got to taking books and writers...I was also looking for Pynchon's Bleeding Edge...and they didn't have that, either. I've yet to acquire that one, but I will. Lauri Anderson said something about going to college with you...maybe attending some of the same classes...possibly something about, I dunno, that one instructor was upset that you wrote...something...gothic? I'm sorry I'm not much in the memory department. All water under the bridge by now. Kinda amusing though...trying to imagine some old college professor giving you what-for years back. Heh!
The book was From Moosehead to Misery Bay, a memoir by Lauri Anderson. I bought the book and he did sign it "to know an author well is to have a friend for life". We got to taking books and writers...I was also looking for Pynchon's Bleeding Edge...and they didn't have that, either. I've yet to acquire that one, but I will. Lauri Anderson said something about going to college with you...maybe attending some of the same classes...possibly something about, I dunno, that one instructor was upset that you wrote...something...gothic? I'm sorry I'm not much in the memory department. All water under the bridge by now. Kinda amusing though...trying to imagine some old college professor giving you what-for years back. Heh!
I think this is an interesting idea in general. I know one of the strong draws (pun) DT had for me had to do with the obvious connection in sK'sa mind between what he was writing and what already existed in terms of Eastwood's and Leone's The Man With No Name movies, most of which I'd seen and which all convey that particular brand of a hero mythos.I've had my girls read BLAZE in conjunction with OF MICE AND MEN, since the connection is clear. It's really interesting to see them light up when making comparisons, then to see them take off into other books by both authors, still exploring points of comparison. I, for one, am glad he pulled BLAZE out of the trunk and sent it out into the world. The girls have now devoured most of Mr. King's books, and ventured into Steinbeck's shorter books. When they've finished EAST OF EDEN, my job is done
I read somewhere recently an sK quote something to the effect that writing about horrors gets them out of himself. It's a way of dealing with them. I guess one of the questions I'd ask him is if he's tormented at all, either routinely or infrequently by thoughts or even how awful the world can be, and if so if that's what he means when he made that quote.
Please ask him if he thinks there could be a market for belly button lint. I do.
...following the release of ON Writing, did you contemplate a companion piece called OFF Writing?....
Well you can make paper out of dryer lint....
@kingricefan if I make a piece
of paper out of my belly button lint, would you like me to send you a letter?
of paper out of my belly button lint, would you like me to send you a letter?
I'd ask him how to go about being an extra in one of his movies, and if he'd put in a good word for me.
...don't be a hater....I think that was Dean's part in the King/Koontz collaboration.
He'd say, "Gimme five bucks." Not really.I'd ask him how to go about being an extra in one of his movies, and if he'd put in a good word for me.
I'm not really, it was just too good to let pass....don't be a hater....
xox
Oh, heck yea! Only, I just want a letter, no words or paragrsghs, just a letter...@kingricefan if I make a piece