{"id":46734,"date":"2015-01-14T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-14T03:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=46734"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:27:53","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:27:53","slug":"books-stephen-king-digs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2015\/01\/14\/books-stephen-king-digs\/","title":{"rendered":"Books Stephen King Digs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you love books and you&#8217;re on twitter, you really need to be following <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/stephen-king\/author225.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen King<\/a>. He LOVES tweeting about books. So much so that his twitter feed sometimes feels like some sort of rambling book club.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, he tweets so much about books that someone should accumulate all his tweets into one blog post and provide links on where to pick up these wonderful books.<\/p>\n<p>Well we&#8217;re going to do it, just to see the look on your face.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-46736\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/happy_cat-1.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"Happy_cat\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yep, that&#8217;s the one.<\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Finishing THE PAYING GUESTS, by Sarah Waters. Awesome full-bodied novel. It&#8217;s like she&#8217;s saying, &#8220;Hey, dudes, this is how you do it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/552586525436026880\">January 6, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-paying-guests-sarah-waters\/prod9780349004587.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grab your copy of Sarah Waters&#8217; <em>The Paying Guests<\/em> here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Oh, and on the subject of books&#8211;THE LIE, by Hesh Kestin. Awesome. It reminded me a little of the best plot twists in HOMELAND. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/544936500052627456\">December 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-lie-hesh-kestin\/prod9781925106053.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grab your copy of Hesh Kestin&#8217;s <em>The Lie<\/em> here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>YOU, by Caroline Kepnis: Hypnotic and scary. A little Ira Levin, a little Patricia Highsmith, and plenty of serious snark. Cool stuff.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/544696532902371328\">December 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/you-caroline-kepnes\/prod9781471137365.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grab your copy of Caroline Kepnis&#8217; <em>You<\/em> here<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>If you liked THE MIST, try DARKNESS ON THE EDGE OF TOWN, by Brian Keene. Excellent short horror novel. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/543821973617672193\">December 13, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/darkness-on-the-edge-of-town-brian-keene\/prod9781936383566.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Grab your copy of Brian Keene&#8217;s <em>Darkness on the Edge of Town<\/em> here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p>Me, with a heaping helping of Jim Thompson novels. Beautiful editions from Mulholland Books. Yum! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Gh0AElRUSZ\">pic.twitter.com\/Gh0AElRUSZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/506268530929831936\">September 1, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/search.ep?pn=1&amp;productType=917504&amp;keywords=jim+thompson&amp;cID=F\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here for more from Jim Thompson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you love books and you&#8217;re on twitter, you really need to be following Stephen King. He LOVES tweeting about books. So much so that his twitter feed sometimes feels like some sort of rambling book club. In fact, he tweets so much about books that someone should accumulate all his tweets into one blog post and provide links on where to pick up these wonderful books. Well we&#8217;re going to do it, just to see the look on your face. Yep, that&#8217;s the one. Finishing THE PAYING GUESTS, by Sarah Waters. Awesome full-bodied novel. It&#8217;s like she&#8217;s saying, &#8220;Hey, dudes, this is how you do it.&#8221; \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) January 6, 2015 Grab your copy of Sarah Waters&#8217; The Paying Guests here &nbsp; Oh, and on the subject of books&#8211;THE LIE, by Hesh Kestin. Awesome. It reminded me a little of the best plot twists in HOMELAND. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 16, 2014 Grab your copy of Hesh Kestin&#8217;s The Lie here YOU, by Caroline Kepnis: Hypnotic and scary. A little Ira Levin, a little Patricia Highsmith, and plenty of serious snark. Cool stuff. \u2014 Stephen King (@StephenKing) December 16, 2014 Grab your copy of Caroline Kepnis&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5013],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56048,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46734\/revisions\/56048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}