"Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie Lake

[Hutch]

So I stumbled across this:

http://m.eagletribune.com/eagletrib/pm_ ... d=QXeYvrgD

I already knew Steven King released another one of his mystery themed books, this time about a haunted theme park. But I was kind of surprised to find out that he chose to use some aspects of Canobie Lake Park to use in his new book, "Joyland."

Being a loyal Canobie fan myself, I'm now a bit more interested about this book, and might end up reading it. So what do you guys think?

 

[kimahri]

Re: "Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie

Is it set in Maine?

 

[furie]

Re: "Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie

He'd have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddlin' kids...

 

[kimahri]

Re: "Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie

Said the Spider and the poor CGI flying poos

 

[Hutch]

Re: "Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie

Is it set in Maine?

It says it takes place in a fictional park in North Carolina, so go with that :wink:

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Re: "Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie

All I picture is Cujo riding Untamed and Pennywise selling Cotten Candy...

I also want to send Canobie Corkscrew to the Pet Semetary please!

 

[davidm]

Re: "Joyland" -New book by Steven King, inspired by Canobie

Just FYI, currently its at 1/2 RR-price (to £3.99) in paperback in UK WHSmiths (think that they say they aren't doing an e-version for a while)

EDIT: and I read this last week ; was OK - more a rights-of-passage-plus-ghosts King book than a big-nasty King book (this is a good thing, got very tired of the small-spooky thing turns into the end-of-the-world storys). Very read-able, not particularly geeky (also a good thing).