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King of Exchanges
Aug. 7th, 2019 03:44 pmApologies for the delay! If you’ve started on something, just go with it. I don’t have a lot of DNWs and, really, for a King Exchange, I think basically I don’t want ABO or mpreg, and if earthquakes are included I would prefer them to be lightly alluded to rather than wallowed in (I realise this sounds odd but I am progressing over time from a blanket no earthquakes in fiction to hopefully arrive in the future at the point where I can read NK Jemisin’s Broken Earth series). I would also prefer to avoid child death/harm outside of canon.
I have read all King’s novels except for Cell, Revival, Blaze, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Gwendy’s Button Box, Sleeping Beauties and the last third of Lisey’s Story (moved house, misplaced, will eventually get back to it). I wasn’t sure how to do this on sign up but am more than happy with crossovers with any of his other works.
Misery, Misery Chastain
I love the book within the book, the gothic romance that Paul feels trapped by and yet is an ultimate salvation far more than Fast Cars would have been. I love the way it goes weird and over the top, and I love Misery herself. I’d be happy with anything in this - Misery as a child? Misery in the aftermath of Misery’s Return, dealing with her child and the two men who love her? Misery’s next - even weirder - adventure? I am totally up for metafiction with Misery, her creator, her creator’s creator and any level of shenanigans between them all.
The Dead Zone, Sarah Bracknell
Quite a few of King’s early works end with a woman who has been adjacent but not central to the mystery alone at the end (this one, Sue Snell in Carrie, Wendy in The Shining), left to go on by themselves in the aftermath. What happens to them? What do they do next? Is Johnny right to tell Sarah that nothing is ever lost? I really like The Dead Zone for the way it plays with fate and destiny - what can we change? What if Sarah had been the one to end up with Johnny’s ability?
The Talisman, Jack Sawyer, Richard Sloat, Lily Cavanaugh. I love The Talisman despite and because of its flaws - when I did a ten week trip as a teenager it was one of the two books in English I took with me, and I still liked it at the end. The sequel, which I’ve only read once, did nothing for me, and I’m happy to forget it. What I loved was the fantastic worldbuilding, from the tiny details (the money! the flying men!) to the greater (twinners, wolfs, the talisman itself and the black hotel) and the characters. Anything that pings that sense of the book would be great - a stolen moment from the book, the aftermath, many years down the track; I’ve nominated three characters, because I couldn’t pick, but any two of them interacting would be fantastic.
The Breathing Method, Stevens The same mysterious club, and its butler, feature in this and in The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, and really I’m up for anything. Who goes to the club on the other nights? Who, or what, is Stevens? (and why the echo of the author’s name?) Who looks after the library of books that exist nowhere outside? What other unfamiliar things are waiting in all those other rooms? Go wild!
I have read all King’s novels except for Cell, Revival, Blaze, The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole, Gwendy’s Button Box, Sleeping Beauties and the last third of Lisey’s Story (moved house, misplaced, will eventually get back to it). I wasn’t sure how to do this on sign up but am more than happy with crossovers with any of his other works.
Misery, Misery Chastain
I love the book within the book, the gothic romance that Paul feels trapped by and yet is an ultimate salvation far more than Fast Cars would have been. I love the way it goes weird and over the top, and I love Misery herself. I’d be happy with anything in this - Misery as a child? Misery in the aftermath of Misery’s Return, dealing with her child and the two men who love her? Misery’s next - even weirder - adventure? I am totally up for metafiction with Misery, her creator, her creator’s creator and any level of shenanigans between them all.
The Dead Zone, Sarah Bracknell
Quite a few of King’s early works end with a woman who has been adjacent but not central to the mystery alone at the end (this one, Sue Snell in Carrie, Wendy in The Shining), left to go on by themselves in the aftermath. What happens to them? What do they do next? Is Johnny right to tell Sarah that nothing is ever lost? I really like The Dead Zone for the way it plays with fate and destiny - what can we change? What if Sarah had been the one to end up with Johnny’s ability?
The Talisman, Jack Sawyer, Richard Sloat, Lily Cavanaugh. I love The Talisman despite and because of its flaws - when I did a ten week trip as a teenager it was one of the two books in English I took with me, and I still liked it at the end. The sequel, which I’ve only read once, did nothing for me, and I’m happy to forget it. What I loved was the fantastic worldbuilding, from the tiny details (the money! the flying men!) to the greater (twinners, wolfs, the talisman itself and the black hotel) and the characters. Anything that pings that sense of the book would be great - a stolen moment from the book, the aftermath, many years down the track; I’ve nominated three characters, because I couldn’t pick, but any two of them interacting would be fantastic.
The Breathing Method, Stevens The same mysterious club, and its butler, feature in this and in The Man Who Would Not Shake Hands, and really I’m up for anything. Who goes to the club on the other nights? Who, or what, is Stevens? (and why the echo of the author’s name?) Who looks after the library of books that exist nowhere outside? What other unfamiliar things are waiting in all those other rooms? Go wild!
