STEPHEN KING BOOK WORD ASSOCIATION GAME!

[Walter Oobleck]

X on the calendar, November 1, 1978, Arnie'e 1958 Plymouth became street legal...after paying an eXcise taX...and a municipal road taX

 

[not_nadine]

Young Love - Arnie/Dennis/Leigh

 

[Neesy]

Chapter 12/ Some Family History..page 105 in my usa paperback copy

Thanks Walt! (My "Anderson's" disease must have kicked in for a minute there!)

 

[Neesy]

I think we missed V

V = Vicious vehicle - becomes violent around Arnie's enemies; vigilant to protect him

 

[chris2-4]

Pet Semetary next. I'll start with American Casket Company.

 

[Walter Oobleck]

birdy hands

 

[Neesy]

Church is the first cat to come back to life? (I read this one a long, long time ago!)

 

[blunthead]

Dead bodies

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Elmo's fire...Eliot, as in T.S. Eliot...and eyes...with a cold hungry fire

 

[blunthead]

Fred Gwynne

 

[Walter Oobleck]

guttural chuckling...in Little God Swamp

 

[morgan]

Horrific

 

[blunthead]

Interred

 

[Blake]

John (Coffey)

 

[Walter Oobleck]

John (Coffey)

Hi Mark...the way this game works is one need post a word to-do with the novel in question...we've been going through the list and we are now on Pet Semetary...but I've learned my lesson and know that I cannot be offended even though I was offended. No Chex for you!

say like, Jerusalem's Lot would have worked for J...or Jud...

Kids need to know

 

[blunthead]

Lots

 

[Walter Oobleck]

Pet Sematary...I meant above...can never spell that right. Oh, la.

moose can smell massachusetts on a man or a woman

 

[Blake]

Hi Mark...the way this game works is one need post a word to-do with the novel in question...we've been going through the list and we are now on Pet Semetary...but I've learned my lesson and know that I cannot be offended even though I was offended. No Chex for you!

say like, Jerusalem's Lot would have worked for J...or Jud...

Kids need to know

Dear Walter,
I just thought when I glanced at it that it was characters from any of Stephen King's stuff, as long as you followed the next letter. Jesus or Judas? Joan or Jud? Next time I'll get my act together. (I'm trying my best, I really am, I don't tell any stupid jokes any more because the last time I did, Stephen King said he wanted to kick his table.) People say that...

 

[blunthead]

Nekrós (Greek for "dead body")

 

[Neesy]

Orrington - name of the place that had a busy road which was the inspiration for Pet Sematary

Spoiler

Pet Sematary - Inspiration:

In early 1979, Stephen was serving as a writer-in-residence at the University of Maine at Orono and living in a rented house in nearby Orrington that bordered a major truck route which frequently claimed the lives of dogs and cats.

In the woods behind his house, local children had created an informal pet cemetery. One day, his daughter's cat was killed by a passing truck.

Stephen was faced with the task of burying the cat in the pet cemetery and then explaining to his daughter what had happened. It was on the third day after the burial that the idea for a novel came to him.

He wondered what would happen if a young family were to lose their daughter's cat to a passing truck, and the father rather than tell his daughter, were to bury the cat in a pet cemetery. And what would happen if the cat were to return the next day, alive but fundamentally different. "I can remember crossing the road, and thinking that the cat had been killed in the road--and (I thought) what if a kid died in that road?

And we had had this experience with Owen running toward the road, where I had just grabbed him and pulled him back.