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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.