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    Am I the only one to have the sudden urge to put at least one Stephen King book in the display?

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    The Terror is marvelous. If you’re thinking of buying Paul Tremblay’s short story collection, don’t. It’s dire from start to finish, full of half-thought stories and stories that seem to have no point.

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      full of half-thought stories and stories that seem to have no point.

      Ugh, so many short story collections are like that. It’s such a nice surprise when can find a good author of short stories because I like them more than novels.

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        I saw Nick Cutter and wanted to ask this as well. The Troop was such a fantastic book with vile description and really left an impression on me. Fuck you Shelley.

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          That was my first Cutter book and I did not expect to like it as much as I did.

          Fuck Shelley, justice for Newton. 😭

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    So, if the author is prominently featured on the cover of a book, how hard is it to not pickup or buy a book by an author you don’t care for?

    I mean, you have to at least be able to read before there’s any point in buying a book, unless you need toilet paper in a compact portable form and then the author really doesn’t matter…

    Anyone?

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      Stephen King has written a lot of books, and a lot of shops promote those books far more than others.

      This is just a nice way to give other authors a bit of promotion, I think even Stephen King himself wouldn’t be opposed to this.

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      Is that you Stephen? I don’t think it’s going to impact your sales. You could take a shit on the side walk and it would make it to the top 20, and get it’s own movie.

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        The reason there were so many movies based on Stephen King works for so long is both because he has a large catalogue and because up until the last couple of years if you met certain criteria you could license a bunch of his stuff for $1. He had a whole program set up for it that only ended because the woman who was in charge of it since the very beginning finally retired.

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    The Only Good Indians is a fun read.

    I’m gonna have to read The Terror because the show was 🤌🏾

    I was never a fan of King, but his son on the other hand!