• Leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      Notice how its the only copy? All the others on that table have small stacks. It’s like someone got it off the shelves deeper into the shop and then their nerve failed them.

      • you_are_dust@lemm.ee
        28·
        2 months ago

        Not the OP but I have read the book. It’s very unique and the story is told in some pretty strange ways. Parts are written backwards, in code, in the margin of the pages, etc. I think it’s a great experience and I’m glad to see it on that table. I’ve never read anything else like it.

        • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          12·
          2 months ago

          OMG!!! I was friends with a girl (smalls) in the early 2000’s at tech school for the Air Force and every once in a while throughout the years when I’ve thought about her I’ve always wondered what this book was and tried to figure out a way to google it so I could get a copy. You have solved a twenty+ year life mystery for me, thank you so much!

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      If you enjoyed the book, check out the album Haunted by Poe. Anyone with a functioning radio in the 90s may have heard Angry Johnny a time or ten but she’s got some other good tracks too. Poe is the stage name of Anne Danielewski and, if the last name is familiar, that’s because she’s the House of Leaves author’s sister.

  • istdaslol@feddit.org
    32·
    2 months ago

    Am I the only one to have the sudden urge to put at least one Stephen King book in the display?

  • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    The Terror is marvelous. If you’re thinking of buying Paul Tremblay’s short story collection, don’t. It’s dire from start to finish, full of half-thought stories and stories that seem to have no point.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPM
      4·
      2 months ago

      full of half-thought stories and stories that seem to have no point.

      Ugh, so many short story collections are like that. It’s such a nice surprise when can find a good author of short stories because I like them more than novels.

      • bcovertigo@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        I saw Nick Cutter and wanted to ask this as well. The Troop was such a fantastic book with vile description and really left an impression on me. Fuck you Shelley.

        • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 months ago

          That was my first Cutter book and I did not expect to like it as much as I did.

          Fuck Shelley, justice for Newton. 😭

  • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
    6·
    2 months ago

    The Only Good Indians is a fun read.

    I’m gonna have to read The Terror because the show was 🤌🏾

    I was never a fan of King, but his son on the other hand!

      • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
        6·
        2 months ago

        He is! He goes under Joe Hill so people don’t know, but I think he’s great. The Heart Shaped Box was my first book with him and I found it a lot of fun! NOS4A2 is my overall favorite, but it’s a long one, so I always recommend the shorter one first.

    • Timecircleline
      3·
      2 months ago

      I just read I was a Teenage Slasher, which was super fun. Gonna look into The Terror now!

  • undercrust@lemmy.ca
    4·
    2 months ago

    Stephen Graham Jones’ The Only Good Indians was wonderful, and Augusta Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh was dystopian nightmare fuel. Both absolutely excellent books.

  • mindbleach
    1·
    2 months ago

    The gag deserves to be paired with an inverse table. Fiction (Stephen King). Fiction (Other).

    And then make the King pile taller.

  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radio
    722·
    2 months ago

    So, if the author is prominently featured on the cover of a book, how hard is it to not pickup or buy a book by an author you don’t care for?

    I mean, you have to at least be able to read before there’s any point in buying a book, unless you need toilet paper in a compact portable form and then the author really doesn’t matter…

    Anyone?

    • li10@feddit.ukEnglish
      62·
      2 months ago

      Stephen King has written a lot of books, and a lot of shops promote those books far more than others.

      This is just a nice way to give other authors a bit of promotion, I think even Stephen King himself wouldn’t be opposed to this.

    • justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io
      16·
      2 months ago

      I love the way Sir Terry Prachett wrote. In my opinion he is easily among the best authors.

      But I like finding other authors that I don’t know about. This is an issue in fantasy and scifi because there are so many bad ones, or weird ones like Michael Crichton, who penned some fantastic novels, but then went off the deep end and wrote an entire novel about how climate change wasn’t real.

      As such, a table like this is fantastic.

    • Aeao@lemmy.world
      74·
      2 months ago

      Is that you Stephen? I don’t think it’s going to impact your sales. You could take a shit on the side walk and it would make it to the top 20, and get it’s own movie.

      • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 months ago

        The reason there were so many movies based on Stephen King works for so long is both because he has a large catalogue and because up until the last couple of years if you met certain criteria you could license a bunch of his stuff for $1. He had a whole program set up for it that only ended because the woman who was in charge of it since the very beginning finally retired.