Question of the day #62: What is the best Stephen King book to read during a power outage? That is assuming you have a candle (which isn't recommended if you fall asleep while reading), flashlight, or a charged eReader.

My choice for a short outage with a campfire like atmostphere would be Salem's Lot.   But for an extended outage I would say  IT.  Either one could scare the bejesus out of me with all the lights on in the house.  A power outage is a great time for a reread.

Some of the many lessons learned from Stephen King

Stephen King has taught me many things over the years. He taught me that if I'm suffering from serious obesity, the best diet plan is provoking an old gypsy woman. He warned me that no teenage girl likes having her prom interrupted with a pig-blood shower. He contributed the healthy reminder that the clown who lives in the sewer probably isn't friendly and I don't want to take his balloons, whether they float or not.

But if there's any lesson that Stephen King felt the desire to teach over and over again, and a lesson that I've taken to heart, it's this one: If a cultured, European man moves into your small town and opens a shop specializing in the sort of top-end merchandise nobody in your town would ever normally purchase, he's most likely either a vampire or Satan. And in either case, you may want to start investigating property values in a neighboring town. For full article on Hit Fix or visit his blog  Daniel Fienberg on the Fien Print

Question of the Day #40: Is there a book, short story or novella that you would like SK to revisit or elaborate more on?

Personally, I would like Stephen King to write another novel about vampires either somehow connected to 'Salems Lot or a completely different vampire novel all together.  American Vampire's Skinner Sweet is another vampire created by SK but that is only supposed to be only five measly issues (not enough IMO.)  I wonder if he will contribute again at some point later on?  I'll have to keep my eyes and ears open for that one. Whoa, what if at some point he wrote an entire novel on Skinner Sweet?     

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