Love Stephen King

[MauraG]

Hi. I am a big fan of Stephen King's work and have been for a very long time. However, he made an error in the last book he wrote that is just bugging me to death and I need to say something. Revival. Loved this book, or most of it. I think it would have been better without the horror element, as it almost felt like an after thought, as in, oh,yeah, I need to add the weirdness...but that is not what bugged me. The Reverend has blue eyes, his wife green eyes, both of them have crystal clear eyes, genetically that is a double recessive. Their son had brown eyes. This is NOT possible. I really want him to fix this.

 

[FlakeNoir]

Welcome to the site.

 

[blunthead]

Hi. I am a big fan of Stephen King's work and have been for a very long time. However, he made an error in the last book he wrote that is just bugging me to death and I need to say something. Revival. Loved this book, or most of it. I think it would have been better without the horror element, as it almost felt like an after thought, as in, oh,yeah, I need to add the weirdness...but that is not what bugged me. The Reverend has blue eyes, his wife green eyes, both of them have crystal clear eyes, genetically that is a double recessive. Their son had brown eyes. This is NOT possible. I really want him to fix this.

Welcome to the SKMB! Keep posting! Interesting observation, which tempts me to assume what issues Rev has with Mrs Rev.

 

[KingAHolic]

Oh that is another thing.. I thought for sure Jacobs and Jamie's mom had an affair. Was waiting for that reveal through the entire book. I think something could have been made of that..... just a thought, not a sermon

 

[blunthead]

Welcome to the SKMB! Keep posting!

 

[GNTLGNT]

...eyes that shone like sodium arc lights, so bright-they illuminated the grille of an impossibly numbered Mercedes Benz....

 

[Spideyman]

Welcome.

 

[Moderator]

Hi. I am a big fan of Stephen King's work and have been for a very long time. However, he made an error in the last book he wrote that is just bugging me to death and I need to say something. Revival. Loved this book, or most of it. I think it would have been better without the horror element, as it almost felt like an after thought, as in, oh,yeah, I need to add the weirdness...but that is not what bugged me. The Reverend has blue eyes, his wife green eyes, both of them have crystal clear eyes, genetically that is a double recessive. Their son had brown eyes. This is NOT possible. I really want him to fix this.

We have a link on the Home page of the site for Reporting typos or errors you believe you have found to the publisher for consideration for future printings, but to save you the time here it is.

 

[MauraG]

Thanks. You are so nice to welcome me. I did wonder if his wife drank because of some conflict. Maybe the eye color was intentional, but was a thread not picked up, but I let it bug me since he didn't pick it up. I really liked this book. I like the story development and the characters. Didn't really think it needed the otherworldly element. It seemed rather tacked on. I also really liked Joyland.

 

[prufrock21]

Welcome. In the SK universe a double recessive gives brown eyes. You see, in school he was good in English, lousy in Biology.

 

[Neesy]

Hi. I am a big fan of Stephen King's work and have been for a very long time. However, he made an error in the last book he wrote that is just bugging me to death and I need to say something. Revival. Loved this book, or most of it. I think it would have been better without the horror element, as it almost felt like an after thought, as in, oh,yeah, I need to add the weirdness...but that is not what bugged me. The Reverend has blue eyes, his wife green eyes, both of them have crystal clear eyes, genetically that is a double recessive. Their son had brown eyes. This is NOT possible. I really want him to fix this.

I just copied this from a site called Parents and it's about Genetics and Your Baby:

Eye Color
If there were just one pair of genes involved in selecting eye color, there would be at maximum three shades of eye color -- brown, blue, and perhaps green. But human eyes come in a whole spectrum of different shades of these colors. That's because eye color is a polygenic trait.

"Eye color is determined by the amount of melanin, or brown pigment, in the iris. Dark eyes have large amounts, blue have very little, and other colors -- green, hazel -- have varying amounts. Because different genes are probably responsible for how much brown pigment you inherit and where it shows up in the eye (more brown or blue can fall in the center or outer edges of the eye) there's a great possibility for a wide variety of hues. It's even possible for two blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed offspring."

I do like the title of your post, however - Love Stephen King - I think Love and Stephen King go hand in hand - he writes about many things - Good vs. Evil and Love, too - try reading 11/22/63 - it's a great love story!

 

[staropeace]

Hi. I am a big fan of Stephen King's work and have been for a very long time. However, he made an error in the last book he wrote that is just bugging me to death and I need to say something. Revival. Loved this book, or most of it. I think it would have been better without the horror element, as it almost felt like an after thought, as in, oh,yeah, I need to add the weirdness...but that is not what bugged me. The Reverend has blue eyes, his wife green eyes, both of them have crystal clear eyes, genetically that is a double recessive. Their son had brown eyes. This is NOT possible. I really want him to fix this.

I did notice that too. I wondered about it.

 

[staropeace]

I just copied this from a site called Parents and it's about Genetics and Your Baby:

Eye Color
If there were just one pair of genes involved in selecting eye color, there would be at maximum three shades of eye color -- brown, blue, and perhaps green. But human eyes come in a whole spectrum of different shades of these colors. That's because eye color is a polygenic trait.

"Eye color is determined by the amount of melanin, or brown pigment, in the iris. Dark eyes have large amounts, blue have very little, and other colors -- green, hazel -- have varying amounts. Because different genes are probably responsible for how much brown pigment you inherit and where it shows up in the eye (more brown or blue can fall in the center or outer edges of the eye) there's a great possibility for a wide variety of hues. It's even possible for two blue-eyed parents to have brown-eyed offspring."
That is weird Neesy. When we did genetics in Bio I thought that two blue eyed parents could not have a brown eyed child. Maybe it is two brown eyed parents lol.
I do like the title of your post, however - Love Stephen King - I think Love and Stephen King go hand in hand - he writes about many things - Good vs. Evil and Love, too - try reading 11/22/63 - it's a great love story!

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[Neesy]

Well I guess what they are saying now is that the original Mendel type genetics that was taught turns out to be too simplistic and that genetics is actually much more complex than that - I dunno - when we had to choose between genetics or cutting up frogs I can't even remember which one I picked!



Basic Principles of Genetics: Exceptions to Simple Inheritance

 

[staropeace]

Well I guess what they are saying now is that the original Mendel type genetics that was taught turns out to be too simplistic and that genetics is actually much more complex than that - I dunno - when we had to choose between genetics or cutting up frogs I can't even remember which one I picked!



Basic Principles of Genetics: Exceptions to Simple Inheritance

I had to do my cutting up frogs thingy. I surprised myself in not liking the anatomy part of bio. I was amazed that the plants and marine part of biology is what I enjoyed the best. Strange but there yah have it lol

 

[Sigmund]

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