Fair enough..may not agree with your magnum opus(or was it Opie? that kid was a cute lil feller on the Andy Griffith show)but it has a good beat,and you can dance to it..so will stay tuned..I don't know! But I do find this forum to be a pleasant surprise. I'm an old campaigner who remembers when Alta Vista was the predominate search utility, and insidetheweb was the forum of choice for nearly everyone. You could throw up a working message board in like 3 minutes! The inmates were running the asylum. I have a core group of online friends I've known since what -- the 90's? Oddly several worked in advertising and nearly all were southern, or southern expatriates, who aspired to write. We dropped out for a decade or so, but over the last several years discussing our personal reading habits, I've mentioned SK a lot & got very little traction. They feigned a bit of interest -- because y'know, they, as many of you folks have noticed, ain't no sunshine when I'm gone. They like to keep 'grin' engaged. Losing me would be unthinkable. But their hearts weren't in it. Still, several have read some of the Gunslinger books which I have avoided. For now. Anyway, I came across this forum, and half-heartedly created a profile. Assuming I'd only need it for days. In my brief young life I've waded into many fan forums. Most members are -- how do I put this? Out of their damn minds. I decided to storm the SK citadel in the manner of Sonny Chiba, using monkey-style kung fu.
I immediately attacked Cell, book & movie, one of King's Achilles heels. Then I think I posted something like, "Desperation didn't make any damn sense." LOL! Which isn't really true. It's a pretty good book. Ha. Then the forum sicced a giant on me! Even being an old campaigner, that was unexpected. Where the hell did they get him at?! But shortly I began to notice the people on this board aren't really that alike. It's not what Kurt Vonnegut called a grandfalloon. (A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat's Cradle), is defined as a "false karass". That is, it is a group of people who affect a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is meaningless.) The forum is just a place to throw out ideas & screw around. It's not their whole life. Generally, the people here don't affect a shared identity. Like if I wrote, "Tabatha King's work is crap!" I'd get a lot of "Die! Go away! You're a monster! I hate you!" And some, "Whatever, shut up." But why do I come back? Mostly for the continental breakfast.
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