Stephen King picks Serenity! by Micronaut

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Stephen King picks Serenity!

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UPDATED: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 02:12
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Friday, October 14, 2005 2:55 AM

MICRONAUT

Author extraordinaire Stephen King loved Serenity! It was his pick of the week for Oct. 10th... Check this out!

http://www.stephenking.com/stephens_picks.php

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Friday, October 14, 2005 3:21 AM

EMBERS

I'm disappointed he didn't write a review or something...
man if all HIS fans went to see 'Serenity' then it would be a major box office hit! LOL

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Friday, October 14, 2005 4:53 AM

JESTERHEAD

Yay Steve! He's my favorite author of all time. Working on the Dark Tower series right now.

"Some people juggle geese"

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Friday, October 14, 2005 5:09 AM

IMALEAF

I would have felt better if he wrote more, but maybe he will bring in more people so YAY!

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Friday, October 14, 2005 5:14 AM

THELURKER

Steve has good taste and often good recommendations. I've read and enjoyed a lot of books he's recommended over the years.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:10 AM

BROWNCOAT1

May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.

Shiny!

Wish Mr King had gotten around to this say opening weekend in hopes his thumbs up would have given some influence to some of his fans to go see the film sooner. Not to sound ungrateful or anything.

Hopefully his nod will still get some people to give "Serenity" a try.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:31 AM

JINGTSAI

Truly Shiny, but I'm honestly not surprised. I've been reading Stephen King for longer than I care to say, and whether you like the genre or not, he is a superb writer. His work, like Joss's, is highly character driven, and he has that same ability to put you into the shoes of a character with whom, on the surface at least, you have nothing in common. And a lot of his characters are flawed, ordinary people just trying to get by, like our BDHs. Of course, he GETs Joss Wheadon--and how could anybody not love it?

JingTsai

The stakes are so low, they are much higher than we're used to. --Joss Wheadon on Serenity

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Friday, October 14, 2005 7:35 AM

JINGTSAI

Whoops! Sorry about the misspelling. I guess "A" just comes to mind when I think about Joss!

JingTsai--keyboard challenged

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Friday, October 14, 2005 8:17 AM

BLINKER

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Whoops! Sorry about the misspelling.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 8:18 AM

JASONZZZ

He is also about one of *the* only authors who understand enough about the new market place of the digital media and distribution channels that he was willing to "give away" the first couple chapters of that novel -online available for downloading - to see what it would do with good fans.

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Friday, October 14, 2005 11:37 PM

STORCH

I loved "The Dark Tower", I started reading it when it was pretty new, when I was still in school, and after those years of breaks, I didn't really hope that he would still complete it. But as this proves, sometimes things you almost gave up the hope on come true ;)

Anyway, nice to see that another famous guy loves our heroes.

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Saturday, October 15, 2005 1:08 AM

JACQUI

Been avoiding Stephen King novels like the plague ... but my sister has just shown me the first two episodes of "Kingdom Hospital" and I'm kind of intrigued.

The man knows creepy. And, wow, the humour is just quirky and disturbing. I love the dogs "How should I know, I'm just a dog?" and "nice going, who's going to feed me now?".

It's a fair trade, me and my fiance watch Kingdom Hospital, my sister and her husband watch Firefly.

Kingdom Hospital, kinda makes me think Stephen King and Joss Whedon have the same kind of humour, I think they'd get along.

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Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:43 AM

NOX2HED

Well, aside for ‘nice of you to mention it Steve, it should be quite obvious to anyone who is in any renown position, without a more in depth supportive commentary, means little more than any of the multitudes of the viewing public posting their support, being aware that this Gem that may be lost amongst the tons of garbage presently being viewed by public. (anyone aware of the decline of the ‘Roman Empire’?)

But thanks for the thought, “Mr. King”

If Firefly does not somehow get picked up by a network with half a brain, then it’s just another sad example of the moronic insipidity that’s running amuck on the airwaves these days. Would also love to see some movie sequels also, but once a year or three, just doesn’t compare to the weekly fixation of the exceptional series.

I hopefully believe that Firefly will continue on some television medium, and personally pin best hopes on sci-fi, as not only are they getting a ton of feedback, bit are also, to my understanding, part of Universal (Serenity). That’s just MHO.

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Saturday, October 15, 2005 6:26 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

Quote:
Originally posted by Jacqui:
Been avoiding Stephen King novels like the plague ...

Good plan!
Everybody I've known who's been an avid reader of Stephen King has gone insane and/or committed suicide.

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Sunday, October 16, 2005 6:01 PM

ANTIGONE

Stephen who?

Orson Scott Card raved about Serenity on Sept 30th and says the most flattering things that made my heart leap, because I've been watching, waiting and reading about his thoughts on an Ender's Game film.

http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/2005-09-30-extra.shtml

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Monday, October 17, 2005 3:52 AM

NONOPERATIVE

All of King's work isn't just stuff like "The Shining." (I'm reminded of the Family Guy parody... "a lamp monster! Ooooooo!")

I'm not big on his horror stuff... not really my taste... but The Dark Tower is fan-bleeding-tastic.

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Monday, October 17, 2005 8:39 AM

THELURKER

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Everybody I've known who's been an avid reader of Stephen King has gone insane and/or committed suicide.

Maybe this isn't a reflection on Stephen King, but rather a reflection on you.

- an avid reader of Stephen King who may or may not be insane.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:25 AM

MINDREADER

i love stephen king books and i love serenity!!well it would have been better if he gave a review instead of it just saying he loved it!!

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 12:29 AM

MANTICHORUS

Any publicity is good publicity, or so they say.

Late last night and the night before,
Reavers, Reavers, knockin' on the door,
I wanna go out, don't know if I can,
'Cause I'm so afraid of the Reaver man.

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 2:12 AM

CLJOHNSTON108

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Originally posted by TheLurker:
Maybe this isn't a reflection on Stephen King, but rather a reflection on you.

Thank you for that.

Except I wasn't close with any of them: They were friends of friends.
I steer clear of anybody with Stephen King titles in their hands or on their shelves.

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