My book queue is empty, and my brain craves fiction! Could you please recommend some books? Favorites include : DeLillo, Murakami, Pynchon, Bolaño, Lethem, Barthleme, Franzen, Chabon, DFW, Bulgakov, Rushdie, David Mitchell, Gabriel García Márquez, Mark Z. Danielewski, Philip K. Dick, Stephen King, George Saunders, Joe Hill, and Raymond Chandler
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posted by Afroblanco
on Dec 12, 2012 -
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Long ago I had a book of collected Stephen King interviews, published chronologically based on the title he was promoting. What was it?
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posted by arniec
on Jul 22, 2012 -
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I am writing a story about an artist who is held captive on the condition of creating a work for the captor. I want to know what other works in the same sub-genre are like.
Can you suggest some books and movies with a similar motif, especially where a captive is expected to do something for the captor as a condition of their release?
Thanks!
posted by Atrahasis
on Nov 14, 2011 -
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Calling all Stephen King fans: If you could ask him a question, what would it be? Alternately, if you have heard a great question posed to an author, what was it, or what made it good?
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posted by tryniti
on Sep 24, 2011 -
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Have I been spoiled? Question about "Under the Dome" by Stephen King - possible spoiler warning.
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posted by NoraCharles
on Aug 25, 2010 -
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Is the fact that the Harry Potter epilogue is set nineteen years later a Dark Tower reference? Or is this just confirmation bias?
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posted by emilyd22222
on Apr 4, 2010 -
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Could someone please explain these lines from Stephen King's
The Tommyknockers?
"For want of a shoe, the kingdom was lost... for the choice of a path, the ship was found."
posted by murtagh
on Jan 3, 2009 -
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It's time for another round of "Name That Book!" Looking for the title of a compilation of horror stories from the 1980s or 1990s.
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posted by bijou
on Dec 1, 2007 -
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Who said "There is nothing more frightening than a closed door."? I seem to remember an attribution to Hitchcock, but that may be apocryphal. Also, my recollection of the quote may be a paraphrase.
posted by sciurus
on Oct 4, 2006 -
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A close friend of ours is moving away in a few days and I'd like to get him a token of our friendship to take with him. I know he's a huge fan of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, so I'm trying to come up with a symbolic object or phrase from the books that would be meaningful. I read the books myself a while back, but am terrible at remembering details and I won't have access to them in the next few days to look anything up. Any ideas?
posted by platinum
on Mar 24, 2006 -
17 answers
