I wonder what kind of nightmares King has? Or maybe we do know, as he
probably puts them in his books.
Dave Homstad
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Hoo-boy! You and I might look out at a lake and see a
pristine sight of beauty, King can look at the same thing
and see the creatures in the lake...
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From: "Stragand, Dave" <Dave.Stragand@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [FWDLK] Christine meets a "Buick 8"? The long
awaited sequel?
| Apparently Stephen King is releasing a new book about a
haunted car... "From a Buick 8". It also takes place near
Pittsburgh.
|
| "Ever since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural
western Pennsylvania have kept a vintage Buick Roadmaster-or
what looks almost just like one-caged in Shed B out back of
the barracks. That's when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis
Wilcox answered a call about its driver gone missing from a
gas station just down the road. Wilcox knew old cars, and he
knew this one was suspect. When Rafferty vanished a few
hours later, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew it was
worse than dangerous - and that it would be better if John
Q. Public never found out about it. Mostly the car sleeps
(that's one way of putting it, anyway), but even as it
sleeps it breathes-inhaling a little bit of this world,
exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.
|
| "In the fall of 2001, Wilcox's eighteen-year-old boy Ned
starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing
windows, shoveling snow. Sergeant Commanding Sandy Dearborn
knows it's the boy's way of holding on to his father, killed
in the line of duty in a gruesome auto accident. Missing his
father, Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family,
and one day he looks through a window of Shed B and
discovers the family secret. Just like his father, he wants
answers. And the secret begins to stir.
|
| "From a Buick 8 is a novel about the fascination deadly
things have for us and about our insistence on answers when
there are none. Like The Green Mile, it is set in a close
knit and isolated community and exploits King's unparalleled
ability to describe the often sinister interaction of men in
small groups. King completed a draft of From a Buick 8
before his own near-fatal auto accident just two years ago,
and he addresses the coincidences between his life and the
novel in a fascinating afterword."
|
| -Dave
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