Vette in front of Stephen King's house

[firedawg]

I just got back from vacation in Bangor, ME and had to get this pic, it is my car in front of Stephen King's house (author of Christine in case you were wondering :L ) and got home and with a little photoshop, here's what I came up with (well, auctally I have the unedited version too, but wanted to keep it clean for the CAC!)! Let me know what you think.

 

[78SilvAnniv]

I can't see the picture...there are some asteriks in the routing address. (*****)
I'd LOVE to see Stephen King's house! I've been on a King reading junket lately, reading all of his older novels; Cujo, Firestarter, Delores Claiborne, Needful Things, Four Past Midnight and just started The Shining a few hours ago.
Heidi

 

[78SilvAnniv]

Nevermind...while I was composing my post, the picture decided to show itself.
Heidi

 

[firedawg]

Just got it fixed, had the writing on the picture edited, but the title of the pic wasn't :eyerole If you want I could send you some more pics, we went and found alot of landmarks from where he got ideas for "It", where they filmed "Graveyard Shift", The Cemetary where gage was burried in the movie "Pet Semetary" and some other things. It was alot of fun, kind of like a treasure hunt!

 

[Bob Chadwick]

Heidi,

Don't forget The Stand. It's my fav.

Bob

 

[78SilvAnniv]

I almost picked up The Stand, but found myself drawn to The Shining.
I have all but one of his books. The first book of his that I ever read was Night Shift in 1980 or so, I was about 13 or 14.
Heidi

 

[firedawg]

His Bachman books are pretty good too! I just picked up "Different Seasons" Getting ready to start that.

 

[koolaid117]

Does he still live there? Seems like there should be more security around the house (for obvious reasons).

 

[firedawg]

Yea, he still lives there, he was out of town all week. I was reading about it in a book that he has CCTV all around his property, all of the gates lock and there's a keypad at the driveway. I'm sure there's other things too, they had a bomb scare a couple years ago in his house, only his wife was there, but that was when they extended the spider web gate all the way around the house. Who knows, maybe the real Cujo is running around there somewhere...

 

[koolaid117]

Who knows, maybe the real Cujo is running around there somewhere...

Christine was parked in the garage! Great pics though!!

 

[firedawg]

I was wondering why that '58 Fury was following me home from ME! :L

 

[rrubel]

That's funny! Night Shift was the first one of his I also read, and at the same age...

I'm quite partial to the Gunslinger series, though it's a bit eerie that he not only introduced HIMSELF as a character, but <spoiler edited >.

[RICHR]

 

[firedawg]

They had a copy of "The Gunslinger" at Betts Bookstore in Bangor (a very little store that carries all Stephen King books and memoribilia) going for $8000!!! Couldn't believe it, it was some very limited edition, and autographed.

 

[rrubel]

Yeah. The first run of books was very limited and only available locally. He didn't even want a mass-market edition.
[RICHR]

They had a copy of "The Gunslinger" at Betts Bookstore in Bangor (a very little store that carries all Stephen King books and memoribilia) going for $8000!!! Couldn't believe it, it was some very limited edition, and autographed.

 

[78SilvAnniv]

I was a little ambivalent about the Gunslinger series because I felt it was so different from his usual fare. I enjoyed the first Gunslinger novel, and this latest one where he introduces himself as a character...sort of revived my interest, especially after reading the book about when they were in The Calla of Bryn Sturgis (I found it hard to slog through, I wanted them to move on, but they stayed in The Calla almost the entire story)...but my favorite Gunslinger novel was the story of when Roland was young and was sent with his friends to Mejis, where he fell in love with the girl, Susan Delgado.

That is the first book I have EVER read that I actually mourned reaching the end of. I have no explanation, but when I finished that book I was depressed, moped around and could not bring myself to start another book...and I much prefer reading to watching tv to pass my entertainment time.

King's writing, and especially his earlier novels, have a way of captivating me and drawing me into the story.
Heidi

 

[Bob Chadwick]

King's writing, and especially his earlier novels, have a way of captivating me and drawing me into the story.
Heidi

And his later novels just seem to have a way of never finding a way to end. :L

 

[78SilvAnniv]

And his later novels just seem to have a way of never finding a way to end. :L

By George, I think you've got it!
Three that come to mind are: Gerald's Game, Bag of Bones and Insomnia.
Heidi

 

[Bob Chadwick]

It was the last new one of the pure horror genre that I think I read. Three hundred pages of digging.

His new ones, like the the book about the girl lost in the woods listening to the baseball game, are pretty good.

 

[VatorMan]

Have you ever noticed how he links characters in all his books ?

 

[Patrick]

Firedawg- are my eyes playing tricks on me, or is there someone up there on the porch, kind of bent over? Hmm... creepy.

I'd have to personally rank "Needful Things" as my favorite King Novel. I love how he takes a whole town, gives it a group of citizens who are real people (people you can envision because you've probably met people like them before) and then wreaks havoc on the place.

-Patrick