Stephen King fans....

“Tonight "Kingdom Hospital" starts.

"A 13-part supernatural tale that's set at an eerie Maine hospital and set in motion by the admittance of a critically injured auto-accident victim (Jack Coleman), treated by an enigmatic neurosurgeon (Andrew McCarthy)."

don't know what it's about, but I'm tuning in!”

“i used to love king, but he jumped the shark sometime around needful things. i may watch. is it on at 9? i forgot he was from maine!”

“KEWL! I completely forgot about this.”

“tonight's episode is two hours, starting at nine.

My favorite King book is "Eyes of the Dragon"”

“i liked eyes of the dragon. also liked the talisman, with peter straub, very much.”

“The Stand is my fav, with IT probably second. I still can't walk by a sewer grate and not think about Pennywise the Clown. "We ALL float down here."”

“I liked the Stand, did not like IT or Talisman...
I haven't read his stuff in quite a while...

Ever read Tabitha's books? Pearl and the Book of Rueben were very good.”

“The Dark Tower series, may turn into his opus. Eyes of the Dragon was cool, for a kids story (if you liked that you'll love "Enchantment" by Orson Scott Card) Talisman is still my fav”

“dark tower yes! although I was none too happy that he didn't finish those for years and I have yet to read the rest of the story...”

“I have the latest one "The Wolves of Calla" (haven't read it yet) and inside the cover somewhere he describes how many books are going to be written to finish the story.”

“I kind of got away from him the last few years. I only recently started the Dark Tower series. One down so I have some catching up to do. I liked the Talisman, and Misery has to be up there with my favs. Haven't read Tabitha yet.

Wow, Kingdom Hospital sure started off touchy feely, eh?”

“Little Tall (on the guys shirt) was the name of the island in Perfect Storm, which was filmed in Southwest Harbor”

“I liked The Stand and
Dreamcatcher. I have never
had anything in my life affect
me in the way that
Pet Sematary did. That book
completely creeped me out.
I have read all the books by
Ken Follett.
The Pillars of the Earth is my
favorite.”

“Pennsy, I got to hear King read that in person back in college, when he visited the University of Iowa and gave a reading of his almost finished novel, "It." And I interviewed him and he autographed a couple books. :-)

Course you guys told me this too late. Watching that OC crap!! lol”

“Now I get it. Liz interviews SK and he runs out in front of that car. Sorry, that was bad. ;o)

That must have been an awesome experience for you. I'm jealous.

Pet Sematary (the book, not the movie) was very freaky and gave me goose bumps.

I just started a Follet novel, Hornet Flight.”

“The Long Walk was another good one.”

“OC.... Obsessive Compulsive? LOL”

“I like to pick out what he's incorporated from other stories into the show - and the Maine things...wonder if he'll do his Hitchcock style cameo...”

“I liked Skeleton Crew. Leave it to King to write a book full of short stories and open it up with the 100+ page story The Mist. Every time there's a foggy day I have to wonder what is hiding in the fog.”

“it's the FOG monster....mooohahahah!
that's what we always called it sailing...”

“It was really eerie one time sailing along in the fog with zero visibility, and a dead sheep floated past us...”

“You didn't see any tentacles the size of tree trunks did you?”

“Christine was the book that really got me into Stephen King!
Rose Madder was pretty good and Hearts in atlantis wasnt to bad . Ive also got the book Desperation which was ok and Thinner(written as Richard Bachman).They made a movie from Hearts In Atlantis and I like Anthony Hopkins but they only did the first chapter,which really kinda screwed the story up since I had already read the book.I wonder if they will come out with sequals to finish the rest of it.”

“I haven't read Hearts in Atlantis yet, but the rest you mentioned were good. I like Christine as well.

I have Rage as well (haven't read it yet) which I guess is no longer printed because of school shootings.”

“Pet Sematery, the book truly made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

And "Pillars of the Earth"?

what more can I say , I've read it twice, and thinking about reading it again”

“I liked all of Follett's books.
"A Place Called Freedom"
is especially intresting......

A Place Called Freedom

Hidden by a Scottish river bank in the winter of 1767, Lizzie Hallim watches a naked figure emerging from the icy water. Mack McAsh is a slave and Lizzie is helping him escape. Mack challenges the mighty Jamisson family, which enslaves whole families to work their mine. Mack soon finds himself wrongly sentenced to death. Rescued from hanging, he is transported to America, where he continues to struggle for freedom...

The mine written about is a
coal mine. After reading the
book I was a bit stunned.
Real "white slavery", could it
have happened? A few
moments of searching the net
revealed that yes it did. One
of the mines has been
"restored". It is presently within
the city limits of Edinburgh.
Whole tenant families were redirected from agrarian work
into the coal mines. Men reported to the mines three
hours before their wives and
children above the age of nine
so they would have a pile of
coal ready to be carried out.
The men worked twelve hour shifts. The women and
children worked fifteen hour
shifts carrying the coal in
baskets on their backs as
they crawled up steps as high
as 200' to bring the coal out.
Eighteenth century Scottish
miners were virtually slaves or
'collier serfs' in their mines.
Mine owners could treat them
more or less as they pleased,
forcing them to accept only
their housing and wages, with
no rights to seek better
conditions elsewhere. If a pit was sold, they became the
property of the new owner;
children were often bound to
the coal master for life at
baptism. The masters were obliged in return to keep them
all their days, in sickness and
old age and to provide a coffin
for their burial. This
extraordinary set of affairs, was
sactioned by Scots law in 1606
This meant among other things, that miners could not remove
themselves from that occupation
Beggars, tramps and those
guilty of minor crimes were
forced into lifelong bondage in
the mines. This law was not changed until 1775 when it was
then allowed that all new men
entering the mines were allowed to be free, however it
was not fully remedied until
1799. this form of slavery was
justified in the eyes of the
coalmasters & the law. Most
colliery operators were
landowners & men of substance
& "social import". Men who had a great deal of influence in
state affairs. Miners who
absented them selves from their
work could be imprisoned or
transported for "stealing" their
services from their master(s).
www.mcpitz.com/history.html
Transporting ....... prisoners
(white Scots, Irish, and English)
were transported on ships to
America where they were
auctioned {sold into servitude
(slavery)} by the ship captains
to pay for their forced transportation. This happened
to many thousands of men.

.....more than you wished to
know?”

“LOVE Stephen King. Thought "Desperation" was creepy. Just got the paperback version of the latest- "From a Buick Eight" . haven't started it yet. The latest short story collection (Everything's Eventual)was good, too. My all time fav was "The Stand", that's where my SK obsession began. (they SLAUGHTERED it on film- usually the case I guess) Whenever there is no new stuff, I go to the pre-Stand books and read them. Never ending, it seems. I still have a few I haven't gotten to yet.”

“If you haven't read the dark tower series You have to!! He is a master, he is bringing alot of his past books into the story. I have a feeling that they will all tie together by the end.
so far it relates to The Stand, Salems Lot, Desperation, Hearts in atlantis, and I am sure there have been more that I can't remember. I am going to have to reread the series.”

“Is he done writing them Lt?
I'll have to re read the first three, and I'm not gonna do that until I'm sure he's finished.

It took me a little bit to get into the story, then when I did I couldn't put it down, then when #3 ended and it wasn't the end of the story - grrrrrr!”

“I used to work with King's niece.

Her name? Carrie...”

“for a backpacking group i'm surprised no ones mentioned reading "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon" I think it's his best "in the woods" story”

“King's older stuff was much more entertaining....THE STAND,CUJO,FIRESTARTER,THINNER,ECT
.”

“It's that time of the week again...”

“Thanks for the reminder --”

“Kingdom Hospitol isnt on till 10pm this time but Sleepwalkers is on Sci-fi Ithink it started at 9 but might have been 8pm eastern.”

“I forgot again. Dang those Swiss.”

“The rest of the shows are on at 10, tater head...”

“I read the above post. Sheesh! I forgot that it was on at all tonight. So why am I posting while it is on now?”

“Forgot about my old favorite SK book- Insomnia!!!! ahhhh!”

“Oh Yes..... I remember this one:


Call the roller of big cigars,
The muscular one, and bid him whip
In kitchen cups concupiscent curds.
Let the wenches dawdle in such dress
As they are used to wear, and let the boys
Bring flowers in last month's newspapers.
Let be be finale of seem.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.

Take from the dresser of deal,
Lacking the three glass knobs, that sheet
On which she embroidered fantails once
And spread it so as to cover her face.
If her horny feet protrude, they come
To show how cold she is, and dumb.
Let the lamp affix its beam.
The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream.


Wallace Stevens



BUT... What Was the rock 'n' roll Song that was playing while that CRITTER was putting the bite on the guy in the hospital, who fell off the roof... ?

Anyone know?”

“Fountains of Wayne, "Red Dragon Tattoo"

StephenKing.com has a message board with a killer search function, WOO HOOOO”

“So...seems the series isn't doing well and tonight is the last night it's on Wednesday night...
Next week it's Thursday at 9pm.”

“Opposite CSI? Hm, that's not good.”

“Got a=hold of "the girl who loved tom Gordon" on audio book, listend to it quite a few times during my travels.

Putting a vote in for "The Stand".

"Dark Tower" Series... I loved it, then I thought it was retarded, now after reading the "wolves of Calla", I can't wait for the next one to come out.

Question for you all king nuts, is "Calla" prounounced like you would say it in spanish or english? During the book I didn't fifure it out.”

“i'm a HUGE King fan! i THINK i have all of his books... I'll have to check on that someday. Haven't got cable to watch the series... ugg. I'm totally captivated by the Dark Tower series too! I pronounced it the English way "Cal-lah", fyi. Has the next book since Wizard and Glass come out yet? Haven't been paying much attention lately and would like to know... thanx.”

“Wolves of the Calla was put out last November or December. Song of Susannah (book 6) is going on sale June 8th. I'm a bit of a Dark Tower junkie myself.”

“so what happened to this show anyway?”

“This Help?
Looks like Kingdom Hosital is taking a rest.”

“cut i think. it sucked anyway.

king almost never translates well to the screen- especially when he's directly involved.”

“Thanks Stovie!
I haven't watched any of it, I only taped it...”