59. The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book: Updated and Revised
By Bev Vincent, Brian James Freeman, Glenn Chadbourne (and the community at large)
About the Book:
"This revised and updated second edition of The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book features all of the original questions from the first edition, along with more than one hundred new questions about Stephen King's most recent releases!
Also included are ten brand new illustration-based questions from Cemetery Dance favorite artist Glenn Chadbourne, along with the 60 illustration-based questions from the original edition.
This new edition concludes with a brand new afterword by Kevin Quigley, founder of Charnel House, one of the oldest Stephen King fan sites on the web.
The Illustrated Stephen King Trivia Book by Brian James Freeman and Bev Vincent includes material right up through The Wind Through the Keyhole and no Stephen King collection will be complete without it!"
My Thoughts:
Glenn Chadbourne not only gives us a wonderfully intricate piece for the cover, he also contributes works of art that are part of the trivia content. Each art piece had a question all its own. Terrific way to give a proper shout-out to an artist.
Bev Vincent with his foreword and Kevin Quigley in his Afterword show great enthusiasm for the project.
The book itself is a 4 bookmark thing.
I had my pages marked with them in the following four places: the page I was on, the clues page, the answer page and then finally, one on the page that gave the answers for the beautiful art piece questions.
As I read each question, whether I knew it, guessed it (I did pretty well) or desperately needed that clue, I read every single clue and then read every single answer. Which thank God for the clues which ranged from clever, to tongue-in-cheek, informative, and how-in-the-hell-is-this-supposed-to-help-me types of hints.
This book was packed with some great information. I had moments of thinking, WHAT? Who is this? What story is this? What book is this? And some were cock-a-doodie cheats -- questions about things not available to the general public.
And the great thing about this book, it was a symbiotic relationship between the editor/authors and the community that adores Mr. Stephen King.
Anyone could submit a question with answers and citing information. So, the community did the legwork too. Nice credit given to those helpers. I read every single one of your names. You did great!
What did I learn from this Big Book of Trivia?
Everything.
I handed in an abysmal score. I couldn't have answered most of these without those multiple choice options, but my greatest help came from those clues.
So, I guess it's time to kick me out of the club. You guys need to change the secret handshake; I need to relinquish my Little Orphan Annie decoder ring (Be Sure to Drink Your Nozz-a-la); and I need to keep a sharp eye out for you creepy bastids and avoid the Cujo effigy you are building to lock me inside the belly of the beast and Wicker B*tch my ass.
It has become quite clear to me -- I need to read all things Stephen King again because obviously, I don't remember enough to claim I know a damn thing about these stories.