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Stephen King found real-life politics intruding into the horrifying world he constructed for his latest book, The Institute.
The newly released book tells a story about some extraordinary children confronting evil, and the best-selling author told The View that he became alarmed by the parallels between the frightening world he conjured up and the United States under President Donald Trump.
When I started this book, King said, I just wanted to write a story about defenseless children who were locked up and had to kind of band together in order to fight these cruel adults that are performing tests on them.
I was thinking a little bit about the CIA experiments in the early 50s, he said, and I was also thinking about the horrible experiments that were performed on people in the camps during World War II.
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But sometimes, life comes along and imitates art instead of the other way around, King added. As I was re-writing this book, all at once I find out were locking little kids up in cages on the border, and Im thinking to myself, this is like my book.
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Glorfindel
(9,730 posts)Maybe this one will be better. Hope springs eternal!
MuseRider
(34,111 posts)I am on chapter 52 and it is just now starting to get into it. I like his long windups, some people don't but it makes me feel like it is a bit more intimate.
Ex Lurker
(3,814 posts)whether they agree with us or not. Not singling you out, OP. I just see a lot of threads about what Stephen King, Bette Midler, Joy Behar, Jim Carrey, et al think about one thing or another and I'm a little tired of it. Their opinion is no more informed than the average person's, and often less so. That kind of thinking is what got us Donald Trump.