Steve announces trilogy on Twitter account

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blunthead

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There are so many serial detective novels on the current market - many of which are very good - that it's hard to get excited about King joining that crowded genre. I can read just about anything King writes and enjoy it including these books, but would have preferred a couple of original novels over detective sequels. And you really have to suspend disbelief at some point to buy that one retired detective and his teenage sidekick can solve so many major crimes while the police cannot. I can do that up to a certain point, but then it becomes somewhat absurd even in a fictional context. I'll read them though!
So you read it, or didn't you?
 

blunthead

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I don't hate it, per se, Tommyknockers was the only book of his I actually hated. It was simply average for me. It didn't grab me like I thought. I'm glad others like it, but it felt far too padded. This could have been a really taut novella, instead of a plodding novel.
See? How different CRs can be. I really love Tommyknockers as is. It might well be the first sK novel I'll reread, which would necessarily be in my next life, since there's no way I'm ever getting caught up even if he stops writing as we speak and I know he just didn't.
 

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Hmmmm, hyper-intelligent golden retriever dog gets eaten by psychotic supernatural clown.....I like it. I think this is do-able...:)

...Cujo revisited as a Golden....yeah!!!!!...and Jordy Verrill consumed by sentient bougainvillea...
Just stop it now, you two! :lol:
 

kingricefan

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There are so many serial detective novels on the current market - many of which are very good - that it's hard to get excited about King joining that crowded genre. I can read just about anything King writes and enjoy it including these books, but would have preferred a couple of original novels over detective sequels. And you really have to suspend disbelief at some point to buy that one retired detective and his teenage sidekick can solve so many major crimes while the police cannot. I can do that up to a certain point, but then it becomes somewhat absurd even in a fictional context. I'll read them though!
Mr. Mercedes takes place in 2009. It's possible that the sequels will take place later, maybe in 2014 or 2015, and if so, then Jerome will have gone on to college and would no longer be a teenager.
 
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Mmm... not really. You were talking about him solving a crime. That happens through most of the book.
So you DID read the whole book or not?I assumed most people,about two weeks after release and reading a thread titled this,would have..guess I was concentrating on responding to Richard and not considering others..but regardless,it is nice to know that you,at least,pay attention and read my posts with such avidity..
 

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So you DID read the whole book or not?I assumed most people,about two weeks after release and reading a thread titled this,would have..guess I was concentrating on responding to Richard and not considering others..but regardless,it is nice to know that you,at least,pay attention and read my posts with such avidity..
:lol:Liked that Simpsons clip :clap:
 

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So you DID read the whole book or not?I assumed most people,about two weeks after release and reading a thread titled this,would have..guess I was concentrating on responding to Richard and not considering others..but regardless,it is nice to know that you,at least,pay attention and read my posts with such avidity..
Yes, after I read your post.

I'm sorry that I work full time and have a life and I didn't read the book on your time frame. The thread is called "Steve announces trilogy...." not "Let's discuss what happens" so I'm not sure why you thought it would only be for people who had read the whole book.

But what's even more puzzling to me is why you just can't admit that you maybe shouldn't have posted it without spoiler tags, apologize, and move on instead of acting like I did something wrong.
 

blunthead

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Hence the "I liked" (personal; opinion) and not Mr. Mercedes IS (fact, universal truth) better as a stand-alone thriller.
You seem to be missing my point, which I thought was obvious and which is: If Mr Mercedes is the first in a trilogy of novels the remaining two of which are yet to be written, how can you say you already prefer it as a stand alone book? You can't know that yet.
 
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Yes, after I read your post.

I'm sorry that I work full time and have a life and I didn't read the book on your time frame. The thread is called "Steve announces trilogy...." not "Let's discuss what happens" so I'm not sure why you thought it would only be for people who had read the whole book.


But what's even more puzzling to me is why you just can't admit that you maybe shouldn't have posted it without spoiler tags, apologize, and move on instead of acting like I did something wrong.
I don't think I need to apologize especially after you insult people by saying that you have a life and imply that others don't.. You jumped into the conversation while I was responding to Richard and I didn't need you to hop in there and be rude.. But of course as I have read your posts in the past you are always correct.. Or feel that you are.You seem to think that you are always right and people that don't agree with you are wrong.. So if you want to ignore me that is fine with me..and have seen you be wrong before, like assuming the Boston bombers were white old guys,of course you didn't admit you were wrong there..whatever, ignore or do what you want to..
 

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Yes, after I read your post.

I'm sorry that I work full time and have a life and I didn't read the book on your time frame. The thread is called "Steve announces trilogy...." not "Let's discuss what happens" so I'm not sure why you thought it would only be for people who had read the whole book.

But what's even more puzzling to me is why you just can't admit that you maybe shouldn't have posted it without spoiler tags, apologize, and move on instead of acting like I did something wrong.
I don't think I need to apologize especially after you insult people by saying that you have a life and imply that others don't.. You jumped into the conversation while I was responding to Richard and I didn't need you to hop in there and be rude.. But of course as I have read your posts in the past you are always correct.. Or feel that you are.You seem to think that you are always right and people that don't agree with you are wrong.. So if you want to ignore me that is fine with me..and have seen you be wrong before, like assuming the Boston bombers were white old guys,of course you didn't admit you were wrong there..whatever, ignore or do what you want to..
Oh c'mon my darlings... mummy loves you both, don't make me tie you together.
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