Sundays with Stevie Giveaway – Intro post

Hi friends!

I am so excited to make this post, I can’t believe it!

For those of you that don’t know, I’m a huge Stephen King fan, and have been since I was like in sixth or seventh grade.  Love LOVE.  So much so, that I have nearly all of his books.

***paper backs still needing replaced

What I don’t have is all of them in HARDBACK.  I hate mass market paper backs, so I have spent the last couple of years working on gradually getting all my Stephen Kings that were paper backs, replaced with hard backs.  It’s been slow going, but I’m almost there!  Crossing my fingers that I finish up the replacements in 2012!!  I am so happy with my book collection, you have no idea!

Anyway, what all this replacing has done is left me with a slew of duplicate Stephen King books.  So, I thought wouldn’t it be fun to have one big giveaway for them?   Wouldn’t it?!  Omgosh, YES!

So, here’s what I am going to do.

When I was thinking of what reading challenges I wanted to do for myself in 2012, I thought – you know, I haven’t read ANY of my Stephen Kings in a long time.  Shoot, I haven’t even read Under the Dome: A Novel yet!  Why don’t I work into my challenge that I should re-read a few of my old school Stephen King.    I love the idea!  It not only helps me with my Goodreads Reading Challenge for 2012 (I put 52 books, again), it also let’s me remember what got me into reading horror!

So through out 2012, I will be making some posts each Sunday.  Mostly they will just be little reading updates with where I am in my Sundays with Stevie Challenge and discussing what book I am currently reading. Some of them, I’ll guess and say at least one a month, will be a post with me adding a new goodie (or three) to the prize box!  So each month a new book is going into this giveaway box.  You guys can be entering all year long.  On Dec 31st, I’ll announce the winner.  Yes, you read that right.  I’ll announce THE winner.  Someone is going to win the entire box!

I’m not sure what all I’ll be putting in it yet, there will be some hard backs, that are duplicate copies,  and there will be some paper backs.  Some of them will be new or like new, and some of them will be my old books from when I was a kid.   They will all be Stephen King.

So to kick this giveaway and reading challenge off, let me show you the first book landing in the box!

A brand new copy (still wrapped in plastic!) of:

From a Buick 8 : A Novel by Stephen King

Stephen King, an evil car, and a teenage boy coming to terms with the fragility and randomness of life…. Wait, haven’t we read this before? Diehard King fans, worry not. Aside from the titular car playing a main role in the story, From a Buick 8 could not be less like King’s 1983 masterpiece, Christine. If anything, this story resembles King’s serial novel The Green Mile, with reminiscing police characters flashing back on bizarre events that took place decades earlier. The book’s intriguing plot revolves around the troopers of Pennsylvania State Patrol Troop D, who come into possession of what at first appears to be a vintage automobile. Closer inspection and experimentation conducted by the troopers reveal that this car’s doors (and trunk) sometimes open to another dimension populated by gross-out creatures straight out of … well, a Stephen King novel. As the plot progresses, the veteran troopers’ tales of these visits from interdimensional nasties, and the occasional "lightquakes" put on by the car, are passed on to the son of a fallen comrade whose fascination with the car bordered on dangerous obsession. Unlike earlier King works, there is no active threat here; no monster is stalking the heroes of the story, unless you count the characters’ own curiosity. In past books, King has terrorized readers with vampires, werewolves, a killer clown, ghosts, and aliens, but this time around, the bogeyman is a more passive, cerebral threat, and one for which they don’t make a ready-to-wear Halloween costume–man’s fascination with and fear of the unknown. While some readers may find this tale less exciting than the horror master’s earlier works, From a Buick 8 is a wonderful example of how much King’s plotting skills and literary finesse have matured over his long career. And, most of all, it’s a darn creepy book. –Benjamin Reese

NO OF PAGES: 368 |  GENRE: Horror  |  BUY ON AMAZON

RULES OF THE GIVEAWAY:

Please note that I am NOT affiliated with Stephen King in ANY WAY, I am just a fan!  Some of the books in this giveaway will be new, and some will be used.  This giveaway will run from Jan 8th – Dec 30th, with the winner announced on Dec 31st, 2012.  The winner will have 7 days to reply to my notification – if they fail to reply, I’ll pick another winner.

Contest is open to the US ONLY.  Sorry, this box is going to be way heavy, no way can I afford to ship it over seas.   Winner must be at least 13 years of age.  Anyone under the age of 18 will need parental consent in WRITING before I will ship the box.  These are HORROR novels and not really appropriate for kids, so I will need your parents consent before sending the box!

Current box (as of January 8th, 2012)

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