PLEASE NOTE THE NEW VENUE & TIME CHANGE! The meeting will probably last about 2 hours including drinks breaks (the venue closes at 9pm). Please look out for any great second hand versions, there are a load of great covers out there - do post them on here and/or bring them along to the meeting! We will be meeting in the big Pret opposite the Royal Court of Justice (217 Strand). Please do not bring in your own food or drink from outside as they'll kick us out! The second session on Thursday will be on Zoom so if you are not able to attend in person in London then please RSVP to the second session. Book Blurb follows: A fellow named Richard Bachman wrote Blaze in 1973 on an Olivetti typewriter, then turned the machine over to Stephen King, who used it to write Carrie. Bachman died in 1985 ("cancer of the pseudonym"), but in late 2006 King found the original typescript of Blaze among his papers at the University of Maine's Fogler Library ("How did this get here?!"), and decided that with a little revision it ought to be published. Blaze is the story of Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. --of the crimes committed against him and the crimes he commits, including his last, the kidnapping of a baby heir worth millions. Blaze has been a slow thinker since childhood, when his father threw him down the stairs--and then threw him down again. After escaping an abusive institution for boys when he was a teenager, Blaze hooks up with George, a seasoned criminal who thinks he has all the answers. But then George is killed, and Blaze, though haunted by his partner, is on his own.

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