Posted on 09/06/2023 12:15:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
King explained that his new novel 'is a time capsule of a particular time when I was writing the book,' during which he quickly became an outspoken advocate for social distancing and COVID vaccinations
Stephen King is tackling his most terrifying horror yet: surviving a pandemic in Trump's America.
The author told Rolling Stone in an interview published Tuesday that COVID deniers and Donald Trump supporters are sure to hate his new book Holly, which follows the eponymous PI as she investigates a string of disappearances amid the height of the pandemic.
"I think that a lot of people are not going to like it," explained King. "I think that a lot of people — particularly people on the other side of the COVID issue and the Trump issue — are going to give it one-star reviews on Amazon. But all I can say to those people is, 'Knock yourself out.'"
Holly was introduced in King's Mr. Mercedes books, joining Detective Bill Hodges and the Finders Keepers Agency in solving crimes.
Her solo outing begins after spending the majority of her life at home with her domineering mother. As Holly sets out to get to the bottom of the disappearances, she faces a deadly pandemic, a racially-divided country and cannibalistic professors.
King explained that Holly "is a time capsule of a particular time when I was writing the book," during which he quickly became an outspoken advocate for social distancing and COVID vaccinations (King also previously said he believes "Trump was a horrible president and is a horrible person").
Holly begins with the titular character making a Zoom appearance at her COVID-denying mother's funeral, who continued to insist "I've just got the flu" from her deathbed.
"I think that it goes back to this is not a new thing," said King. "There have been people for years who have just been vaccination deniers who say that if you get a vaccination for a certain kind of thing, you're going to cause birth defects in your children, this and that. Or if you vaccinate your children, they could have strokes. And you see the same things about the COVID vaccinations."
King continued, "There's this constant story that thousands of people are dying of heart disease because of the vaccinations. It's not true, but it's gained a lot of credence. So there's a lot of that. And I tried to put that in the book. There are characters in the book who just say, 'I don't believe in this bulls—. It's all crap.' And that's the life that we live. And I always try to reflect the time that I'm writing in."
Stephen King's Holly is now available.
Good. I loathe Stephen King’s books anyway, so I can just add this one to the pile of them I’ve never read and never will. Just a sample of a few pages was enough to turn my stomach.
Then I won’t buy it.
I’m working on my own horror novel. It’s about a famous wealthy novelist who is so afraid of a disease epidemic that he hides away, takes multiple vaccines, and ridicules and demonizes those who just don’t take the thing seriously. He is so sanitized that his immune system collapses from underuse.
He eventually overdoses on vaccines and dies a painful death, only after transforming into a pile of oozing green sludge.
Given what Stephen King has cranked out over the years, I’ve always compared him to the large room full of chimps with typewriters. Once in a while he types out a quasi-hit but I don’t consider any of his works that great, regardless of his politics. Some people are really big fans of his, though. I don’t get it.
My money will stay in my pocket and I'll be happier that way.
And good for you in knowing I meant Robert McCammon.
I never was much for horror but I try to skim at least a couple of books by every author so I know my stock.
Out of all the horror authors I have read they are the two that stand above. And also have scared the wits out of me.
Only liberals read him... they’ll kiss his butt for ‘being brave preaching to the choir’....
King has one foot in the grave and the other foot on the banana peel.
Screw him!
That guy is still able to write books?
I thought he was so infested with TDS that he wouldn’t be able to form a coherent thought.
not a fan of this sicko.
Lets see who DIES 1st, jabbed or unjabbed:-)
>> I say most will not read it.
...or anything else written by him, in my case.
He hasn’t written a good book in30 plus years just 700 pages of blather.
I’ve disliked his books for a long time because he was kind of a sick freak. Now he’s an old, bitter, entitled, condescending, ignorant, sick, political freak.
Its fiction right? nothing new... Covid vaccine deniers were right. Its difficult for these scumbags to ever have to eat their own shit.... but the facts are in.... Stevie was wrong about it all. Their game is gaslighting... and Stevie wrote a whole book trying to convince folks he was right , when in fact he was 100% wrong...and he knows it.
Dude peaked in the 1980s, if not earlier.
Who reads his cocaine filled brain stories?
He’s another stupid idiot leftist.
King hasn’t written anything worth a c..p in a long time.
Stephen King is not going to like his steeply declining book sales.
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