I think King set parts of the book in Minneapolis because he’s been here three or four times and he thinks it resembles Maine enough that he can fake his way through setting parts of the book here. Why did Stephen King set the book in a place he knows nothing about? I had a notes app on my phone of the things Stephen King got wrong about Minnesota in The Institute, although I also did take some notes about things I did like about the book or that he got right. Paul, which is not the same city as Minneapolis. But it’s wrong: Falcon Heights is not a suburb of Minneapolis, to begin with. You’ll find that on Amazon, the back of the book, etc. That’s the first sentence of the book’s summary. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV.
The things that King got wrong about Minnesota begin before you even open the book: Stephen King writes Stranger Things fan fiction (which, if you forgot, is Stephen King fan fiction.) Now, let’s talk about the Minnesota stuff. Stephen King’s apparent homage to Stranger Things-which one could call ironic, considering Stranger Things is an homage to various Stephen King books, especially Firestarter and The Body and Carrie and The Shining. Here’s a longer one:Ī novel set in a secret facility, where superpowered kids with telekinesis and telepathy are put in dunk tanks and used for clandestine assassinations. The five words above are the best summary I can give for The Institute. Which means I had to do what I do when I google something and don’t find the thing I’m looking for. The results varied, but suffice it to say that the only thing I found from these searches was pages encouraging me to buy The Institute, reviews of the Institute and, in the case of the last search term above, information about art institutes in Minnesota. What stephen king got wrong about minnesota in the instituteĭid stephen king research minnesota before writing the institute I’m writing this because after I finished reading The Institute, I went to Google-like I usually do after I finish reading a book-and looked up the thing about it that nagged at me the most. This is my reflection on the things I liked about the book and the things I didn’t like and, specifically, the things Stephen King got right and wrong about Minnesota in his 2019 novel The Institute. This is not a conventional book review of Stephen King’s The Institute. Or: why didn’t Stephen King do more research on Minnesota before writing a book partially set in Minnesota?
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