You can take the sling out of the King but you can’t take the King out of the sling. For our first book of 2025 our viewers have elected to tackle another Stephen King novel. We’ll be looking at the fascinating early 2000s From a Buick 8.
Here’s the summary:
The state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in Shed B out back of the barracks ever since 1979, when Troopers Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox answered a call from a gas station just down the road and came back with an abandoned Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox knew old cars, and he knew immediately that this one was . . . wrong, just wrong. A few hours later, when Rafferty vanished, Wilcox and his fellow troopers knew the car was worse than dangerous – and that it would be better if John Q. Public never found out about it.
Curt’s avid curiosity took the lead, and they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still-life painting that breathes – inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.
The live-streamed discussion of From a Buick 8 will occur Friday, January 31st at 9:30 PM Central Time over on our YouTube page. We’ll see you there!
