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Stephen King Scammers On Amazon
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Not that I know of. It was just a book of stories that had been previously published in an older copy of stories from ALL DARK, NO STARS. Everything in A GOOD MARRIAGE was first featured in ALL DARK, NO STARS.
I'm confused as there aren't any other editions that I am aware of that have A Good Marriage in them. When a movie from a collection comes out, they oftentimes will re-release the book featuring that story on the cover of the same title (in this case FULL DARK, NO STARS) and may have a still photo from the movie on the cover. We often get complaints from people who don't look further to see that it's the same collection just with a different cover.
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You may be correct. I will have to look further. I didn't read either, but was told not to get both because the latter featured the former. Seems this could be incorrect.
taken from amazon.com, a customer's review:
While I love all things Stephen King, I feel totally taken advantage of in this instance. I kept thinking, I think I've read this before, so I checked the publication date. It says 9/2014. Yeah, maybe for this stand alone story but I had already read it in an earlier collection of short stories. King is worth re-reading in a lot of instances (I couldn't tell you how many times I've read The Stand), however, I prefer to make my own choice to do so, not be manipulated into thinking I'm purchasing a new short story, book, etc. Mr. King doesn't need the money, amazon.com doesn't need to do this to sell even more than they already do of anything, and I don't need the aggravation!!!
WARNING: This "book" is actually 2 stories from King's short story collection, Full Dark, No Stars, which I had previously purchased at full price. (And, which I would rate 4 to 5 stars.) Call me stupid for failing to download a sample first.
Paying $4.99 is a ripoff when you can get the larger collection for $8.99. I'm mad at myself, but I'm angrier at Stephen King, Scribner Publishing, and Amazon, as I feel that this is just a way for all of them to trick unwitting fans into buying books they've already purchased and/or read by presenting those works, or at least portions of them, in deceptive repackaging. I would have rated this Zero Stars, if possible.
Not right, not fair, and shame on you, Stephen King, Scribner Publishing, and Amazon!!
The story A GOOD MARRIAGE is featured in FULL DARK, NO STARS.
While I love all things Stephen King, I feel totally taken advantage of in this instance. I kept thinking, I think I've read this before, so I checked the publication date. It says 9/2014. Yeah, maybe for this stand alone story but I had already read it in an earlier collection of short stories. King is worth re-reading in a lot of instances (I couldn't tell you how many times I've read The Stand), however, I prefer to make my own choice to do so, not be manipulated into thinking I'm purchasing a new short story, book, etc. Mr. King doesn't need the money, amazon.com doesn't need to do this to sell even more than they already do of anything, and I don't need the aggravation!!!
WARNING: This "book" is actually 2 stories from King's short story collection, Full Dark, No Stars, which I had previously purchased at full price. (And, which I would rate 4 to 5 stars.) Call me stupid for failing to download a sample first.
Paying $4.99 is a ripoff when you can get the larger collection for $8.99. I'm mad at myself, but I'm angrier at Stephen King, Scribner Publishing, and Amazon, as I feel that this is just a way for all of them to trick unwitting fans into buying books they've already purchased and/or read by presenting those works, or at least portions of them, in deceptive repackaging. I would have rated this Zero Stars, if possible.
Not right, not fair, and shame on you, Stephen King, Scribner Publishing, and Amazon!!
The story A GOOD MARRIAGE is featured in FULL DARK, NO STARS.
Review for A GOOD MARRIAGE on Amazon.
Scheduled to hit the big screen on October 3rd in the US, A Good Marriage is the 46th story written by Stephen King to be made into a movie. This story was originally published in 2010 as a short story in the Full Dark, No Stars collection. As I listened to the short audiobook (just 3 cds), I thought it sounded somewhat familiar, but it was still very enjoyable a second time (4) years later.
Scheduled to hit the big screen on October 3rd in the US, A Good Marriage is the 46th story written by Stephen King to be made into a movie. This story was originally published in 2010 as a short story in the Full Dark, No Stars collection. As I listened to the short audiobook (just 3 cds), I thought it sounded somewhat familiar, but it was still very enjoyable a second time (4) years later.
You're going to fit in here just fine. Lol
I think I see what's going on here after going to Amazon. As I suspected, this is a movie tie-in version for the Kindle and audiobook formats. It also appears to be promoting Audible.com services.
Not quite. Ross Macdonalds real name was Kenneth Millar and he wrote his first four books under that name but changed so not to be confused with his wife, Margaret Millar then a good selling author (this is ca 1948), to pseudonym John Macdonald, sometimes John Ross MacDonald, but when John D. Macdonald made his big breakthrough in the early 50-ties he changed again to avoid confusion to Ross Macdonald. John D. Macdonald wrote under his real name all the time.
You haven't seen it lately.Have been trying to let it grow out and it's summer with lots of humidity; that plus naturally curly hair can make for big hair. Mucho product is involved for keeping it from going there.
This reminds me of a John Cleese sketch:
Interesting - he changed his name twice.
Yes, his authorname at least. In all official papers he was Kenneth Millar.
Welcome to the board. I stupidly bought Crossroads, too. Fortunately only one. I knew very quickly it wasn't THAT Stephen King. While I understand a name is a name ( do you know how many John Lennons there are in the phonebook?), Amazon has to realize that they specifically put it to me as a fan of his work. I felt like a real doofus. Live and learn. If it's not on the SKMB, it's not the real deal.
Welcome to the SKMB. Enjoy yourself here! Now you have a place you can go and find out for sure if it's the real deal or not. 
Enjoy yourself here! Now you have a place you can go and find out for sure if it's the real deal or not. Oh, yes, I feel her pain!
I am of the mind that Amazon knows. My reasoning is simple enough. If it wasn't the real SK, they would have found a way to make this known to a customer. It's not rocket science. Also, there have been a number of occasions in which I see that they are advertising a work by Stephen King, and a few customers have complained that they touted this imposter's work as "from all time bestseller", though I have not seen this. Something else I have noticed are the five stars ratings these imposters' books get, with reviews like "King's best". I have seen these. Although, to Amazon's credit they often remove these comments or the comments are deleted by the reviewers themselves, probably after they've already derived some financial advantage and people have bought their books. It's a very big problem.
