After reading this story my first impression is....(awkward silence ).... WHAT THE HELL? Did I miss something? I totally do NOT get this story at all lol
Here there be tygers?
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Now you've piqued my curiosity! It's been years since I last read Skeleton Crew--might have to pull it out tonight and take another look at that story!
Yes! Please do! And then make some sense of it for me lol
...no reason to be confused...just scan it again... zero hidden meaning...it's pretty much in your face...
Definitely not one of my favorite King short stories....
Just recently re-read,
I agree with GNT
(this time!)
I agree with GNT
(this time!)
If I read that story when I was in primary school, I would still be traumatized. It doesn't help that one of my recurring nightmares is that there's a tiger loose in the house.
Don't understand any confusion there,pretty simple take on the kid getting flack from a teacher who meets a strange demise..
I guess it would be considered a simple take from someone who uses a Calvin and Hobbes avatar
Maybe I just missed something ill go back and read it again.i don't know why but the first time I read it I was totally confused so I missed something or had a huge brain fart,one or the other.
I could never figure out why tigers is spelled wrong........
I guess it would be considered a simple take from someone who uses a Calvin and Hobbes avatar
Apparently a poet named William Blake wrote a poem,"The Tyger" and Ray Bradbury also used it in Fahrenheit 451..some say it is a throwback to Olde English spelling of the 18th and before centuries..gotta watch out for them Tygers,they are out there!I could never figure out why tigers is spelled wrong........
Never one of my favorites either. But I did get it.
....and remember, he wrote this when he was in High School.......plus, IMO-the Bradbury tail(pun intentional)of the same name is superior.....
I read Bradbury's short story Here There Be Tygers before I read SK's short story and wondered if SK's imagination had been stirred by Bradbury's story. The stories are quite different but I guess the imagined tiger in SK's "tail" lol coming to life is a bit like Bradbury's "tail"
Trivia: one of the original Star Trek episodes was based on Bradbury's story.
...yeppur.....Shore Leave....I read Bradbury's short story Here There Be Tygers before I read SK's short story and wondered if SK's imagination had been stirred by Bradbury's story. The stories are quite different but I guess the imagined tiger in SK's "tail" lol coming to life is a bit like Bradbury's "tail"
Trivia: one of the original Star Trek episodes was based on Bradbury's story.
Oh my..thank goodness for BBCAmerica,they have been showing the original trek episodes every Friday night for the last four weeks..it is great to see it in hi def,lots of stuff the old TV's didn't pick up..cool one today,this alien has a toupee that looks like a melted vanilla Hershey's kiss..those old costumes were funny as hell..
