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So... Any Richard Bachman?
Am I the only one to have the sudden urge to put at least one Stephen King book in the display?
Put a book written under his pen name on there...
Don't put "it" there...
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?
I don't think you're a good fit for a bookstore manager.
Yeah, let's move on and interview the next candidate.
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.
I really love it when bookstores have all the employees put up a book they recommend as a suggestion.
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.
Nick Cutter is awesome, especially if you’re into body horror …. I highly recommend The Breach
Better or worse than The Troop?
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.
That was my first Cutter book and I did not expect to like it as much as I did.
Fuck Shelley, justice for Newton. 😭
I've always preferred Geri's Game anyway
I'm not seeing The Girl With All The Gifts there!
What, no Дми́трий Глухо́вский?! Metro rules.
Yeah metro is good. My name is Artem so when I listened to the audio book it felt like I was reading a dream.
Fuuuuuck that dream! Lol the rats, shudder.
Not a good dream it still read as a nightmare lol
I bet!
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!
I just read I was a Teenage Slasher, which was super fun. Gonna look into The Terror now!
Damn, his kid is a writer too?
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.
Joe and Owen both write
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.
HOUSE OF LEEEEEEAAAVEEESSSS