He’s been clean and sober for over 3 decades now.

I know that it's not meant to be taken fully literally, but it does annoy me that everything now is treated as a "right", when rights are limited freedoms which are supposed to be guaranteed by governments. These are more in the class of things people do, which you can't stop them doing.

I'm also not sure what they're supposed to tell a reader in the first place. Are people really crying out for the "right to be silent"?

I accept your surrender.

You might need to beef up your rhetorical skills, friend. Come back when you’re interested in having a good faith debate! Until then, seriously, you can just move on with your day; this thread is a conversational dead end.

i hear schools in Florida have a bunch of books they got no use for anymore.

I liked this book, and yes you are right, it is steam punk.

It? Too long? No. Not to me. I'm a character-driven reader and King does that so well! If you're a plot-driven reader than i'd see the problem. For me though he dives deep into characters and that is what I want and NEED from a story generally! Plot? Who cares about the plot? Not me! Well, not much anyway in comparison to the characters. I don't think it's too long at all and I usually read much shorter books. But something I love about King is how much he dives into his characters. So far from King i've read: Joyland, Misery, The Tommyknockers, On Writing, 'Salem's Lot, Needful Things, Pet Sematary, Carrie and It. So I haven't read a ton from him yet but his character-work is why I love his work so far.

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number 6 - I'm guessing that means the right to get so immersed in a book that you are, in effect, temporarily "living it". That's OK - but is different from actually mistaking fiction for reality, which isn't really such a good idea.

The right to a book cover that is just a book cover and not an advertisement ... yeah I know, that ship has sailed ... but still, would be nice.

I really hate how dismissive people can be of spoilers, especially for old stories. Not just that, people will get annoyed at me, because it's obviously a character flaw of mine for not knowing everything already. I understand, some things have been out for hundreds of years, but I haven't been alive and cognizant of the world for that whole time, or had the time to consume every piece of entertainment people consider essential in this day and age, just let me experience an old fucking story without your stupid ass spoiler.

The right to stare at the same page for ten minutes while distracted

Personally I think a lot of King's later books are too long. I think his popularity let him do whatever he wanted and his editors had to go along. I prefer his earlier shorter books.

On a re-read, you're probably correct here.

But it wasn't clear to me as it was phrased as a negative, not a "that book left a wonderful impression of its world with me and I was sad to see it end" sort of regret.

Sometimes Elroy’s style gets to be a bit intense for me and I have to put the book down for a while but I do appreciate that he is the closest to what Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and other early mid century noir writers might have conveyed if they had been less constrained by publishing standards of the time.

I think IT is the exemption, because of its length you can re-read the book after some time and notice that you forgot parts of the story, similar to the protagonists forgetting parts of their life.

How so? Aren’t you and I just trading unpopular opinions?

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Man, you’re taking this really personal.

Start by putting a pot of petunias on the casket.

The right to not feel guilty about all the hours invested in reading as opposed to being out with real people lol

All I did was point out that I think you misdiagnosed the downvotes, so you responded with 10x more. That’s what we internetters call a smidge unhinged. But don’t worry, upvotes and downvotes have no real-world value.

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The right to an uncracked book spine, a choice of formats, a night light and freedom from spoilers