Stephen King 2025 read-along discussion

Hello Constant Readers! It's May. Not sure how that happened. As you get older I feel like we talk about the weather and the passing of time more and more often. So excuse me and my oldish ways.

This month we are tackling a bigger book. Not too big....,but definitely bigger than April's. I purchased the paperback Hodder edition at 496 pages. If you have the U.S. edition it will be around 580 pages depending on if you have the hardcover or the paperback. The reason I picked this book for the month of May is because Lala's readathon #buzzwordathon's theme for May is house/home. Now we could have done Black House, but we did that a year or so ago. Like I've been doing with a few of the other books we've read so far this year. This is a stretch to the theme. I mean you could technically live at an institute, so lets go with it.

The institute is blurbed to be "the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since IT." That right there is a bold statement. IT is in the top 5 King books for me, so I'm definitely looking forward to reading this one.

If you want a little more detail...our main character Luke Elli's parents are murdered and he is stolen away to an institute that houses other kids with supernatural powers. That's all I want to read from the synopsis. I hate spoiling myself. What do you guys think of psychic powers? King tends to use that theme a lot. Telekinesis, Pyrokinesis and telepathy are the most standard.

https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-b...
If you click on the link above you'll get to take a trip through all of King's characters with psychic abilities. One of my favorite characters is Danny Torrance from The Shining.

Now that we've discussed the book a bit, what about a screenplay? Yes, this book which came out in 2019 is already in the works to be on screen, whether it's the big screen or our home screens. The same team that was behind the tv series Mr. Mercedes has acquired the film rights for The Institute. They are thinking this too will be a limited series.

I haven't watched a tv adaptation of one of King's books. This might be the time to test one out. What do you guys think of adaptations of King's books?

Well that's it my friends. Thanks as always for participating in this read a long and I hope you all the best in this month's read.

Good Luck and Happy Reading!

I bought this book when it came out and haven't read it yet. I'm ready !

I'm sooo excited to start this! From what I've heard even people who aren't huge King fans had positive things to say about this one.

Is it true it's like a part 2 of another of his books? I can't remember which book tho

Omgosh u guys I haven't even started the book yet! May is flying by ....

I'm only like 10 pages in lol hoping to really get into it this weekend but we'll see

So I hurt my back picking my disabled child up , she's 50 lbs doesn't seem like a lot but girl! Lol anyway point is I still haven't started reading . 🤦🏻‍♀️

So far I'm really really liking it! The beginning was a little weird and I was trying to see how it fit into the story but I think it's about to come together. Hoping to finish this weekend but we'll see lol

Chelley wrote: "So I hurt my back picking my disabled child up , she's 50 lbs doesn't seem like a lot but girl! Lol anyway point is I still haven't started reading . 🤦🏻‍♀️"

Oh no! D: I hope you're feeling better!

The institute was great! One of the things I LOOVEE about king is his character development and character depth, which there’s LOTS of in this book!

Oh and as for adaptations of Kings books, I’ve only seen the new The Stand that’s out on Amazon prime.

Even though it’s a mini-series they didn’t capture nearly half of the parts I loved in The stand. For instance no characters had any back-story so I don’t understand how people who never read the epic novel would even react to this mini-series!
However, they scenes were amazing and realizing, bolder was exactly how I envisioned it and new Vegas was better than I could conjure up in my head!
Pros and cons I guess.

I think the institute should be hard to mess up though! High hopes!

Thanks Ashley I'm doing much better.. :)

Aleecia-mari first I've heard of this .. I'm going to look it up maybe buy it :)

Unfortunately the new A.P. rendition of The Stand is not out on DVD yet and have not been able to see a release date on dvdreleasedate.com. I was a fan of the original mini series and think that Aleecia-mari may like the character development better in that version.

By the way new on here and have been going along my King list alphabetically so can discuss Jan.-Apr., Sep. and Oct. and Different Seasons for Dec. LOL

If they are to adapt The Institute into a movie/series, I suspect it will be somewhat like the "tower attack" scenes that is in The Dark Tower film.

Emery wrote: "Unfortunately the new A.P. rendition of The Stand is not out on DVD yet and have not been able to see a release date on dvdreleasedate.com. I was a fan of the original mini series and think that Al..."

Welcome Emery! We are not a strict group. Read at your own pace, lord knows I do lol.

Emery wrote: "If they are to adapt The Institute into a movie/series, I suspect it will be somewhat like the "tower attack" scenes that is in The Dark Tower film."

I pray it's better than the Dark Tower Film. That was garbage. How can you create one film from 7 epic stories in a long series? I can't believe they attempted it the way they did. Hopefully in the future they do the entire series justice.

I love that series! I'm planning another reread this year. Here it is June lol I would never watch the show of this tho. I tried the tv show under the dome and the fist 10 minutes was all wrong lol