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- From: lorenzo@rintintin.Colorado.EDU (Eric Lorenzo)
- Subject: Re: SK cancels Dark Tower series!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.054621.4962@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- References: <1993Jan24.233653.6069@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1993Jan25.155416.22985@shearson.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 05:46:21 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.155416.22985@shearson.com> scarrobi@shearson.com writes:
- >hey noIn article 6069@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU, prs9k@brain.med.virginia.edu (Phil Scarr) writes:
- >> In article <1993Jan24.224024.14889@scott.skidmore.edu> jholstei@scott.skidmore.edu (jeremy holstein) writes:
- >money off of limited editions.
- >
- >> Gee, you mean SK isn't in it for the artistic value of his work?
- >> Heavens. SK is a mass-market hack. He pulled crap like this before
- >> with the Bachman book Thinner. When sales were abysmil for the first
- >> few months, he came out and laid claim to the work and sales picked up.
- >> His work is geared for mass consumption and he is used to staggering
- >> press-runs so when he has a flop on his hands it doesn't surprise me
- >> that he drops it without regard for its possible merrit.
- >>
- >> -Phil
- >
- >u are so far from the truth it is disgusting.
- >king made an elaborate effort to keep his identity secret. he made phoney
- >editors and publishers, gave bachman a phoney past et al.
- >some jerk figured it out and blew his cover, buy writing and finding out that king
- >was bachman.
- >get your facts straight before defaming someone. sounds like jealousy. if u
- >dont like the man dont read his books.
- >
-
- I wonder where King got the idea for 'The Dark Half'? :*)
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