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.
He is going to hate himself when the narrative flips to “Big Pharma was trying to kill us with vaccines for obscene profits”
Anti vaxxers won’t know whether they like it or not. We won’t read it.
Clever marketing ruse
I didn’t like any of his books.
I quit reading his crap a long time ago. There is plenty of horror all over America. I don’t need a book by a whackjob to scare me.
Based on data from GoodReads and Amazon, King’s most popular books are:
# Book Title
1 The Shining
2 The Stand
3 Carrie
4 IT
5 Pet Semetary
6 Misery
7 Salem’s Lot
8 Cujo
9 The Dead Zone
10 11/22/63
Here is the last of all the books King released in the past decade: Joyland, Doctor Sleep , Mr. Mercedes , Revival , Finders Keepers , End of Watch , Gwendy’s Button Box , Sleeping Beauties , The Outsider , Elevation , The Institute , Later , Billy Summers , Gwendy’s Final Task, and Fairy Tale.
Anyone see a trend?
King is your typical lib...Someone who enjoys telling you what to do, but doesn’t know his arse from a hole in the ground.
Irrelevant
I haven’t liked his “new book” in 20 years.
I tried reading a book of his involving a dog. I have low standards for books when on an airplane, but I tossed it in the trash before leaving the airport.
I’ve never read any of his schlock so his latest is a non-event for me.
I liked The Shining. Scared me to death. Way scarier than the movie. I tried to read a few other books of his but lost interest in the first few pages
He is going to hate me ... I’m not going to buy it or read it. I don’t know how much you will get from paper recycling the books that won’t even make the $2.00 table in WalMart.
We are not against covid vaccines. We think all Democrats should get weekly mRNA shots, because whatever they mutate into can’t be any worse than what they currently are.
Actually the book where the government created a virus that killed 99% of the people who got it, and escaped into the population was pretty good.
Who?
Teeing off on 35% of buyers, is not as good business plan.
Bleah. He was the main reason I gave up reading fiction - utter pointlessness.
Please get a few more jabs
Sounds interesting. I'll be the first in line to buy your book.
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