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kpete

(71,994 posts)
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 06:12 PM Sep 2019

Stephen King tells The View which Trump policy is even more horrifying than his new book

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 we’re locking little kids up in cages on the border, and I’m thinking to myself, this is like my book.”

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Stephen King tells The View which Trump policy is even more horrifying than his new book (Original Post) kpete Sep 2019 OP
I started reading it today. High hopes...King's last few books have been real snoozefests Glorfindel Sep 2019 #1
It it's winding up slowly. MuseRider Sep 2019 #3
I think we do ourselves a disservice hanging on what celebriites speak or tweet Ex Lurker Sep 2019 #2

Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)
1. I started reading it today. High hopes...King's last few books have been real snoozefests
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 06:41 PM
Sep 2019

Maybe this one will be better. Hope springs eternal!

MuseRider

(34,111 posts)
3. It it's winding up slowly.
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 07:07 PM
Sep 2019

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)
2. I think we do ourselves a disservice hanging on what celebriites speak or tweet
Wed Sep 11, 2019, 06:47 PM
Sep 2019

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.

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