Let’s talk about the #kindle for a minute.

When the Kindle first came out, I fell in love. I’m a huge book guy, but books are expensive, big, and heavy. For a guy that moves a lot, they could be a problem.

But here, I saw the solution. The prices could be way lower. Scarcity wouldn’t be a thing anymore. Textbooks could be cheaper and easier to navigate. You could keep a whole library on one device!

But it took until the Kindle3G for me to be able to afford one of these guys. Now I have a Paperwhite but, honestly, miss the 3G for the ability to shop anywhere and PHYSICAL BUTTONS!

The real disappointment was that the cost of books wasn’t that much lower and scarcity was still a thing. Old Marvel prose novels never (or at least hadn’t for years and I’ve given up on the idea) made it to the device.

Which is RIDICULOUS. If I were a publishing house, every single thing I published would be available. They left money on the table.

Anyway… King also seemed like a huge Kindle fan as his was one of the biggest voices used to push it and it seemed inevitable to me that he would write a story involving one.

It also deals with the Dark Tower.

The story is fine. It’s more a fun story about a Kindle and a chance for him to talk about authors - something he loves to do.

It’s fine. It’s an interesting story.

I wonder if King’s changed his mind on the Kindle. Besides bringing mine on flights and to donate plasma, I know I’ve gone back to physical books.

What are your thoughts on the Kindle?

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Nietzsche mentioned (by the way, have you guys read Nietzsche? Dude’s got some pretty crazy thoughts) this desire for a dignified suicide.

I guess Nietzsche pops up with some random ideas but this one had more to do with control and bowing out rather than throwing up your hands.

It kind of felt like our protagonist here was following a similar path. He BASICALLY gets a terminal illness, makes amends, gives away his cat, bids adieu to his friends, and then that’s all she wrote but it was on his schedule, not the illness’.

That’s a dark interpretation, I’ll admit.

A lighter interpretation is that Scott is becoming aware of the fact that his life isn’t representative of all lives and, as his perspective grew, he grew to be better than he was - he ELEVATED himself beyond his former self if you will.

Anyway, it’s one of my favorite King books.

I don’t think it’s very popular, though. It’s not horror, it’s super short, and pretty political - a recipe for complaints if there ever was one.

But I like it.

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