The Plant - Stephen King Reviews

The Plant is a multi/mini series released through Stephen King’s web presence www.stephenking.com. The Plant has now reached a point where, Mr. King has decided that he has more pressing work to complete and although a loose date has been set for him to start work on it again I sincerely doubt he will ever finish this story, at ...  Read the complete review

How long can Stephen King keep churning out crappy books? He must have written about 100 books in a space where most good writers could do about 10. Some were good, for example the Shining but others will be forgotten within about 6 months. Stephen King is the pop-music of the world of books: he pours out novel after novel (all having imaginative ...  Read the complete review

The scariest thing about this project is that the marvellous, witty little story is the danger that one might never read the end. I have only read the first two parts (the third is sat on my machine waiting), and I am very much hoping that enough people shell out to ensure that King finishes the thing off. It's an insidiously simple ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King is arguably the world’s most successful author, with 36 novels under his belt, many of which have been made into movies, and an annual income of $40m. It is no wonder then that an author this successful has decided to try cutting out the middleman, and self-publish a novel on the internet through his own publishing house, based ...  Read the complete review

Soon all books may be written and distributed this way. As more and more people get connected to the Internet, a whole host of information (and non-information) is reachable in a way that it never was before; to a whole cross -section of society. Stephen King has pushed the distribution of his books that one step further by ...  Read the complete review

Stephen King is publishing this novel over the net through his site. There will be one part every month for as long as at least 75% of the people who have downloaded the parts will pay a a buck a piece. Well what can I say I have read the first part which encompasses about 20 pages written in the stlye of letters and memos between a ...  Read the complete review