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The Institute by Stephen King
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I've started this and it's ok. Might plod along with it really slowly alongside other things. Anyone else reading it?
Very scary to think this could possibly happen. Have read it and loved it. But Stephen King is my fave author of all time, so maybe I'm a bit biased.
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When I am finished Turn of the Key, this is my next read! I have never read a Stephen King book (how can that be! I know...) so I am looking forward to this!
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Bernie wrote: "Very scary to think this could possibly happen. Have read it and loved it. But Stephen King is my fave author of all time, so maybe I'm a bit biased."I agree with everything you said---Stephen King is the king of making me question how much goes on without my knowledge. I just read this last month and I almost wish it kept going, I could NOT put it down.
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Sara wrote: "It's so good, isn't it?! I'm halfway through now and I love the short chapters, make it easy to read."Yes! I stayed up all night the second day I had it, just to finish it haha
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Yes! I stayed up all night the second day I had it, just to finish it haha"
That's what I should be doing, too! I hate when I have to quit reading this one.
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It—publishing just as the second part of It, the movie, lands in theaters.
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,� Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.�
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
Start Date: October 1st, 2019