Tough times for the Losers. Writer's block is never easy and the Club has decided to nurse their creative woes with a quick cabin trip to Dark Score Lake. (Some locals have been known to call it "Sara Laughs.") Rest assured, this will get ugly. Published in 1998 on the day after the author's 51st birthday, Stephen King 's Bag Of Bones is many things: Gothic ghost story, queasy romance, legal thriller, meditation on grief, and a ghastly reminder that the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children. It's also horny. Really horny. Join Losers Randall Colburn, Mel Kassel, Dan Pfleegor, and Ana Marie Cox as they shack up in Sara Laughs for a sprawling, two-part discussion of the novel's tumultuous publication history, its potent scares, and its protagonist, Mike Noonan, who King describes as "probably as close as you could get to me." Throughout it all, one question perseveres… "Was this King's mid-life crisis book?" F...
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