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Meet the Guy Who Fact-Checks Stephen King On Stephen King

Posted by samzenpus on from the ask-me-anything dept.

cartechboy writes "Stephen King has sold more than 300 million books of horror, suspense, science fiction and fantasy. The guy has written so many works, and words, that he actually needs a "continuity adviser" to fact check him when he picks old stories up as a new book. Enter Rocky Wood — who is the world-wide leading expert on Stephen King's work. So much so, that King hired Wood (who has authored a 6000+ page encyclopedia on CD-ROM on every single aspect of King's work — including 26,000 different King characters) to fact check himself when he writes."

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  1. Somebody had to say it... by John+Pfeiffer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    High-functioning autism as a career path? Heh.

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  2. Re:The continuity adviser is not doing his job by quadrox · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't mind the ending so much as I hate the new books in general. Wolves of the Callah was downright awful (I really hated all the Harry Potter and other stuff), the one after that was not much better, and the dark tower finally was actually ok again.

    I don't know why, but the first four books are exciting and amazing with a lot of suspense and mystery, and the last three just plain suck compared to that. It's like he figured that he really needed to finish the series and just rushed it. Or after the long break and the car accident he forgot what it was all about - I think he even alluded to this in some interview, I'm very fuzzy on the details though.

    No, the end really was ok. It was the only logical ending I guess. But I wish anything between book four and that ending was left unwritten instead.

    And in addition to all of this, he decided to mangle the original books with all the jesus crap. Fuck that shit!