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I think Crichton didn't mean literally 40 pages. Just that what's left of a book after adaptation is comparative of 40 pages of the book - meaning 90 % of the book didn't make it into the film....

There's been 'Brake' also recently, which takes place in the trunk of a car. There have been a lot of these lately, you would think if ever there was a time for 'Gerald's Game' it was now.

Seven exactly now.

I admire his determination to keep translating King to the screen, especially 'difficult' ones like 'The Stand' or the remake of 'The Shining', but the results get progressively...

This is very common though in the film industry. Hitchcock said he didn't read the books often or just a synopsis, or real fast and never looked at it again.
Look at The Birds, very different from...

It's great that it's by the writer of 1408 and the excellent Fair Haired Child episode of Masters of Horror. I love those both a lot.
I always like stories that are sort of like a fairy tale set in...

Thanks. I don't quite get it though... You say it's essential meaningless, but has both a literal meaning and a connotation apart from how it's used in the story. That sounds a bit contradictory to...

Thanks for checking, SpideyMan! I know this issue of one side being darker than the other, that's relatively common - I have that in several books, usually cheaper, smaller paperbacks. But even with...

Yeah, it's actually told in the story that it's something Pug from Supr Savr says, meaning something like 'great' or 'wonderful' (I assume sort of in the sense of 'something being an event', yeah). ...

Glad you like it, but I never liked that one so much. What it felt to me was two different stories in one. One about divorce settlements and another about a homicidal waiter. The whole just didn't...

I think we don't have a saying similar to it in my language. It was translated here very literally, but it's basically meaningless in Dutch.

What I get what it means is: everything is supposed to...

GNTLGNT: I suppose some press hiccup. I also noticed it's always on the odd numbered pages (so the page on the right side).

FlakeNoir: Probably, yeah. I don't really know trade paperbacks for...

Release is now set for 2014 it seems. I think they can only give an exact date once the film is finished. So, it's still gonna be a while.

Out of Order and GNTLGNT: Dark Tower 4: Wizard and Glass.

They reprinted the Dark Tower books recently here, to coincide with the release of 'Wind through the Keyhole'.

You know how letters...

I can't see the attachment unfortunately. But could it be what publishers call a 'dummy'?

http://www.ilab.org/eng/glossary/582-publishers_dummy.html

I think I may have had one once or seen...

I seem to have a little bad luck lately with buying King books. I bought one which seems to have a sort of misprint going. Every four/five pages or so, there are a couple of lines where the letters...

It's kind of strange to see her mother take her to school in a car. Didn't she walk from home to school in the book and original film? It makes her situation feel more hopeless and lonely that way. ...

I'd forgotten that bit from Drawing of the Three, kingricefan...

Thanks for that summary, Spideyman!

Actually, it is clearly stated as a fact in the last sentence before the last space in the...

Is Johnny Cash a serious reply or just joking? Is the story related to a song or songs by him?

I guess it's just plain weird then, as I always thought. It's just when a number of elements are...

Is it just me or is this one of his weirdest stories? It never makes sense to me. It's kind of funny with the drunken guys, but I can never see how the elements fit together.

The first Milkman...

Rewatched it. Still loved it.

When Danny is floating in front of Mark's window though, at a certain point when he moves back you can clearly see he's sitting on some device - it looks like it's...

Ha ha, and people who live there WILL notice. I once used only the NAMES of stores in an existing street, without any other reference to it. And people said: I KNOW where you got your names. :)

But this goes only for Derry, I assume? Places like Castle Rock or Haven (from Tommyknockers) are not based on existing towns or have landmarks of existing towns?

I kind of wonder why he did this...

Has he been to New Hampshire?

And Louisiana?

And Los Angeles?

I always think you can write best about a place you know to avoid mistakes (usually the advice given and taught), but then in...

So, the Jacobs map is the only one we have then.

That interactive map idea sounds great, exactly the thing I'd like. It would also make a great poster I'd imagine.To see all the houses of...

Is that map by Frank Jacobs that MemnochTheDevil linked officially approved by Stephen, ms. Mod?

There have been maps of streets and town in books, but never one of the whole of his fictionalized...