Me in dune, specially book 2, or 4. Or any of them.

Agreed! I guess I view It as a history of Derry, which can only exist in Pennywise’s shadow. So the Losers Gang and the final battle against Pennywise is less about the humans and more about the destruction of Derry.

Though, you know… >! Pennywise Lives! !<

Thank you for the recommendation!

You have to do/be something/one of such note that would warrant the public to even want to read your letters.

Have you done anything that would reach that threshold?

Or are you just a nobody like the rest of us and this 'scenario' would never be an actual thing?

Edit: Lots of people be thinking they are the main character at life I guess.

Thanks!

I would like to experience Bovary-ism, for sure.

Its not so much a petit mal seizure, I'm just exercising my rights!

ummm what the hell's a 4sshole?

I'm deleting my email now just in case.

Those are just great.

Completely disagree. My favorite King books are his longer ones. The Dark Tower series is like 4200 pages and I'd read 5000 more of that world if he wrote it.

If you like his shorter works, check out The Long Walk. I read it in one sitting. Awesome book.

I do like vintage cover art on books originally published decades ago.

It was so good the symbolism, the dream that never was. I kept wishing they manage to run away and get to live in a house of their own.

Whoops, I woke them!

Or I’ll just continue my current trajectory of living and dying in obscurity

Disagree 100 percent. Movie made it seem fake, but the murders were real in the book.

People mistaking others' names was a theme throughout the book, as was not caring at all about other people. The lawyer not knowing is because he mistook whoever he was meeting or just didn't want to deal with it.

Why would the realtor act strange with him of nothing happened?

Amazing that three of those four were such great movies too!

You can put an end to your worries by ensuring that any relatives who survive you are the Estate of James Joyce.

Unless the original art was really tacky, I'd prefer the original art. There are several used books selling for more than a hundred dollars, out there, even though the newer versions are inexpensive, and I think it's partially because the older art was so iconic or at least loved.

I prefer paperbacks of the "pocket book" size, though of course I would prefer they be well-made and durable even though I'll be gentle with them. I like to be able to hold and read the book with one hand, if it's possible.

If I have a hardback, I feel like I have even more of a responsibility to "rehome it responsibly" and if it doesn't have the dust jacket, it's harder to do that. But other than that, the dust jacket is almost an annoyance; they're so fragile!

Most important of all, though; if the book is of a series? It should not vary drastically in shape or appearance from the others. I was more than a little frustrated when I owned the three (extremely good) Barry Hughart books but one was an inch taller and a half inch longer than the other two. Frustrating. But, alas, his stuff isn't as well known as it deserves.

Knowing full-well that instant gratification is overrated, I say it's perfectly ok to just wait and enjoy other books in the meantime. There's no shortage of older books worth your time.

I understand this context. And it seems they made arrangements for their release. My statement still stands though. I wouldn’t want this type of stuff released after my death.

Didn't he mention that he also edits his own manuscripts and usually waits like 3-5 weeks before a re-read/rewrite.

I think most Publishers and editors know that his books sell more than anybody else, and have for the past 50 years. So they allow them the comfort to kind of do whatever he wants.

Eh, I'd have spent them less profitably. Maybe that's really what we needed to do in that moment.

Having a good relationship with a good editor is pretty hard though. A lot of people - fans especially - tend to view it as a solely adversarial thing. That like, the editor is a piece of shit because their job is to go in and ~butcher~ the art. And a lot of editors can easily fall into a mentality that they are, somehow, the gatekeeper of quality and the author is basically just an unhinged hosepipe and it's up to them to sculpt things into what they want heedless of what the author desires. And because usually the most famous dumpster fires get publicized while really good relationships that elevate the final product almost never get brought to light except in interviews and end notes where the author thanks their editor (seriously; read just how many authors will include a note thanking their "tireless editor" often "For dealing with all of this when you could have just quit and moved on to more profitable venues" or something similar) a lot of people, especially those on the outside or are just getting into either side of the industry get a really brutal image of it and kind of go in with a preconceived notion that it's supposed to be editor vs author. And sometimes all it takes is one shitty partner - on either side - to fuck up someone's whole career and perception life-long.

Self publishing is still in its wild-west sort of era; but much like youtubers as of late, I think before long any creator doing reasonably well will realize how much more efficient and effective they'll be by hiring editors to help cut their own labor in half, basically, and we'll have a boom in independent editors for independent authors.

One has to imagine this was more common before telephones and internet made it easier to remember the current version of a person vs the memory that was held on to