Neesy
#1 fan (Annie Wilkes cousin) 1st cousin Mom's side
If you read Doctor Sleep there is a part where he mentions 9/11 (and the members of The True Knot)Yeah that is what I am talking about. Helping his hometown, being a rich democrat, that alone is rare.
I remember when 9/11 happened and it was showing on the TV I was home by myself and a kid at that. I was sure that america was going to be invaded and at anytime war was going to break out in the streets. I was waiting for the war to start like we learned in history class. I was waiting for bombs to drop out of the sky and buildings to crumble around me. I pictured what I learned in school about concentration camps and the harshness of war. I knew this was it. I grabbed a pen and just started writing. I wrote what was happening. I didn't know who the bad guys were I just knew one building got hit and then while I was watching another got hit. Grown ups were running in the street. Screaming and covered with gray ash. I had no one to ask is this going to be okay. I thought that if they take over, if I die, if everything as we know it comes to an end maybe someday someone will find what I wrote and know what happened.
Looking back on it now it seems silly. But at the time that was my reality. The reason I bring it up is because that helped shape my generation the way JFK shaped a generation. We had our war but we had it in a time when media was so polluted there was no truth. They had watergate we had the patriot act.
And here we have this guy that has been a writer through it all. Not only breaking literary bounds in his horror and emotional work but in works like 11/22/63. There will never be another Stephen King. There will be horror books, There will be emotional books. But never someone like this. Don't get me wrong I am not saying he is like JFK what I am saying is that this is history it has already happened and most people only realize it is important history when the time has passed. I want something to hold onto and say this is mine. This is my part of it all. This is something that was a part of my life before being shocked into reality and after it. This is my piece of something that lit up a part of my brain that no one else in my family has. This is a part of my experiences with it all. This is something that made me feel emotions that I had never felt before. And I will keep it forever. Because money comes and goes but history lasts forever. SO if I never meet the guy I can live with it. If I can't get a signed book I can live with that too. It is just a goal of mine since I have realized the significance this all had in my life.
Then you have this author who wrote 11/22/63. The same author who wrote things like IT and Hearts in Atlantis. You remember your times of complete and udder shock and horror at the world around you. But
I know what you mean about the horror of that day - I am not of your generation and I am in Canada, not the US, but September 11, 2001 had a terrible effect on me. My Mom had actually died earlier that year and I was caring for Dad who had Alzheimer's (so already under stress).
It DID seem like the beginning of a Third World War (almost) - especially when I heard a plane was heading for the Pentagon.
