Stilton: I can't recall how many times I've read a book and thought, 'Jeez, when is this thing going to end?' The waffle I've had to wade through because of 'unit size' could fill a small library, and worse than that, it encourages the great windbags of our age to keep right on blowing. I don't think Stephen King has written anything in the last six or eight decades that couldn't have been circumcised with a very large knife and not been any different. When I see his latest title in a bookshop with a sticker that says £5 OFF I always wonder if they're referring to its physical weight. Fortunately I gave up on him a long time ago, but the thought still wryly crosses my mind.

adaliabooks: Lol, yeah... I have to say I can't hate John Travolta, because he was in Pulp Fiction, and I absolutely love that movie.

adaliabooks: Lol, yeah... I have to say I can't hate John Travolta, because he was in Pulp Fiction, and I absolutely love that movie.

Stilton: Interesting you mention Joe Abercrombie. My better half is an art director for a 'fashion' magazine and part of her job is to do location shoots where models wearing a selection of garments can lounge about looking like models lounging about. Joe Abercrombie's house happened to be put forward as a possible location choice and she went there to get the required images. He wasn't around (I don't blame him, to be honest - shoots like that are amazingly dull).

j0ekerr: I've never read Stephen King myself, but I knew someone who said that he was going to make himself a t-shirt that'd read "I read IT; the whole thing!"
He then told me about how he'd read a couple of pages, dedicated exclusively to telling the life of a street sweeper, who has no significance to the plot whatsoever and is NEVER mentioned again.

j0ekerr: ...

PS:The book was among my father's SF library. It always struck me as funny that the cover page claimed "over 1 million copies in print".

In print, but not sold.

j0ekerr: Aaah dear old John. he's certainly done some good and/or entertaining movies in his time.

But he's also done this.

Remember that his involvement in that movie was not simply limited to acting, he was one of the main backers that made that abomination possible.

It makes it a lot easier to hate him.

PS:The book was among my father's SF library. It always struck me as funny that the cover page claimed "over 1 million copies in print".

In print, but not sold.

EBToriginal: My older sister was replacing her softcover books with hard bound when I was in middle school, so she gave me some of her paperbacks including IT. I tore through it in my spare time in classes (whenever I had finished the assigned work or tests or what not). It caused such a ruckus that I was reading such a book. THe coup de grace was when some snot nosed little girl from a different sixth grade class told me her parents said I was going to hell for reading that book and I needed to give it to her so they could burn it.

Stilton: Hi Ghost. What kind of thing do you write?

EBToriginal: My older sister was replacing her softcover books with hard bound when I was in middle school, so she gave me some of her paperbacks including IT. I tore through it in my spare time in classes (whenever I had finished the assigned work or tests or what not). It caused such a ruckus that I was reading such a book. THe coup de grace was when some snot nosed little girl from a different sixth grade class told me her parents said I was going to hell for reading that book and I needed to give it to her so they could burn it.

Stilton: That is absolutely astonishing. How religious is America? I've heard that some huge percentage actually believe in angels...

EBToriginal: This was about 1996 in the mountains of western NC (one of the most backwards part of the United States) I was constantly harassed by people who couldn't keep their noses in their own buisness.

GhostwriterDoF: ....