While picking up some dinner to go at Peking Palace, I took The Tome with me to kill time while waiting for my veggies ( Read more... )

So my doctor was taking my blood pressure today and noticed the boulder of a book taking up half the examination room and said:

"So what's Under the Dome about, a small New England town covered by a big dome?"

Stunned, I said, "Exactly."

"Wasn't that a Jim Carrey movie?"

Again stunned, I said, "Why yes, it was! The Simpsons too."

"Huh," he said.

I' ( Read more... )

A patron just came up to reserve the book.
I had my copy fresh from my field test handy, so I allowed him to look at it.
He showed it to his buddy. "Look how big it is!"
His buddy: "Eh, The Stand was 1100 pages. I could knock that out in ten days ( Read more... )

I just did a field test of the new King novel ( Read more... )

Dear Mr. King,

Really?

Your new book, Under The Dome, comes out and it's 1072 pages long? Are you fucking kidding me?

In your "Author's Notes" in the back (p. 1074) you state:

"Nan Graham edited the book down from the original dinosaur to a beast of slightly more manageable size..."

Really? This book sits next to me on the computer counter at work ( Read more... )