My reading of Revival

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Van Blaricum

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I would like to make my own post about Revival, I hope that is alright, I have somethings in particular I would like to say and don't want to crash any other threads Re:

I haven't been in the world of the constant reader much lately, let alone the world of the reader, but I somehow stumbled into B&N and noticed a book, Mr. Mercedes. I grumbled and bought it, not over the purchase of a book, but because I hate to let the things pleasing to me fall from my interest. I bought it and the clerk told me that there would also be a book called Revival, coming soon. I was excited. I got a B&N membership and some science magazines about the multiverse. There was even a magazine for explorers, I bought that too.

I came to this website to check it out and learn more, and ended up signing up for the message board. I like reading stuff so why not. I've been meaning to re read all my King books, and this would be a place to book talk. The website let me know when to get Revival. I went the day it came out, that is my contribution to fanaticism for the year.

I finished it today.

It covered every heavy topic, and somehow didn't feel heavy at all. I have particularly personal feelings about the topic, due to the fact that I have Wolfe Parkinson white disorder in my heart, an electrical disorder...so I am a mutant. As well, I have electrical anomalies elsewhere in my bod, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about how we all have electricity in us and energy can neither be created nor destroyed and I love to think about the universe so I am fascinated by that. It's personal to me. The theme at least, so I enjoyed that part.

Also, I am a third generation Showperson. That's a carny to all of you. I have noticed over the last few years a tendency for SK to mention carnivals. This is okay it makes sense to me, in the old days carnivals were an important form of entertainment, they brought much to a time with no Facebook, no malls, and no video games where you kill hookers and steal their money. They brought a breath of exotic air to tiny towns everywhere. I just happened to grow up on one. I'm guess I'm what a SK book would call " carny from carny from carny " Yeah.

I myself at my age am not familiar with any of the carny lingo from the books, and don't know if King invented it for his tales or earned the info cutting up jackpots with old bastards on golf carts, but I read somewhere carnies were giving him a little flack for it and I just wanted to say that to each doing their own good, they do. It's hard to talk like a real carny if you didn't grow up on the midway or close to it, so I don't mind and I think it's flattering that a great author has taken an interest in the lore of my people's culture. Lots of carnies read SK actually. My point though, is that I am a carny, and the glove doesn't quite fit, but that's okay. We Showpeople don't want you to wear our gloves anyways ;) We are just pleased you wanted to try them on.

I thought Revival was very mature writing for Mr. King, it made me think of a lot of themes that are very frightening to me science wise, regarding ethics. It made me once again think of the area between reality and perception, that little bit, just out of the corner of your eye that always gets away when you turn...

I am pleased to be included in this website, it's neat. Thank you for being patient with my over abundance of writing.


:surprise:
 
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Dana Jean

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I would like to make my own post about Revival, I hope that is alright, I have somethings in particular I would like to say and don't want to crash any other threads Re:

I haven't been in the world of the constant reader much lately, let alone the world of the reader, but I somehow stumbled into B&N and noticed a book, Mr. Mercedes. I grumbled and bought it, not over the purchase of a book, but because I hate to let the things pleasing to me fall from my interest. I bought it and the clerk told me that there would also be a book called Revival, coming soon. I was excited. I got a B&N membership and some science magazines about the multiverse. There was even a magazine for explorers, I bought that too.

I came to this website to check it out and learn more, and ended up signing up for the message board. I like reading stuff so why not. I've been meaning to re read all my King books, and this would be a place to book talk. The website let me know when to get Revival. I went the day it came out, that is my contribution to fanaticism for the year.

I finished it today.

It covered every heavy topic, and somehow didn't feel heavy at all. I have particularly personal feelings about the topic, due to the fact that I have Wolfe Parkinson white disorder in my heart, an electrical disorder...so I am a mutant. As well, I have electrical anomalies elsewhere in my bod, so I've spent a lot of time thinking about how we all have electricity in us and energy can neither be created nor destroyed and I love to think about the universe so I am fascinated by that. It's personal to me. The theme at least, so I enjoyed that part.

Also, I am a third generation Showperson. That's a carny to all of you. I have noticed over the last few years a tendency for SK to mention carnivals. This is okay it makes sense to me, in the old days carnivals were an important form of entertainment, they brought much to a time with no Facebook, no malls, and no video games where you kill hookers and steal their money. They brought a breath of exotic air to tiny towns everywhere. I just happened to grow up on one. I'm what a SK book would call acarny from carny from carny. Yeah.

Anyways, although I myself at my age am not familiar with any of the carny lingo from the books, and don't know if King invented it for his tales or earned the info cutting up jackpots with old bastards on golf carts, but I read somewhere carnies were giving him a little flack for it and I just wanted to say that to each doing their own good, they do. It's hard to talk like a real carny if you didn't grow up on the midway or close to it, so I don't mind and I think it's flattering that a great author has taken an interest in the lore of my people's culture. Lots of carnies read SK actually. My point though, is that I am a carny, and the glove doesn't quite fit, but that's okay. We show people don't want you to wear out gloves anyways ;) We are just pleased you wanted to try it on.

I thought Revival was very mature writing for Mr. King, it made me think of a lot of themes that are very frightening to me science wise, regarding ethics. It made me once again think of the area between reality and perception, that little bit, just out of the corner of your eye that always gets away when you turn...

I am pleased to be included in this website, it's neat. Thank you for being patient with my over abundance of writing.


:surprise:
When I was around 17, a friend and I went to a state fair. We spent a lot of time at the dime throwing booth. That's the one where they had a ton of glassware set up and you threw dimes and if your dime stayed in something, it was yours. I was so good at this game, they actually had to get boxes to load up all my loot. They asked me if I was a carny I was that good. lol.
 

Van Blaricum

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When I was around 17, a friend and I went to a state fair. We spent a lot of time at the dime throwing booth. That's the one where they had a ton of glassware set up and you threw dimes and if your dime stayed in something, it was yours. I was so good at this game, they actually had to get boxes to load up all my loot. They asked me if I was a carny I was that good. lol.

Those are called " Dime Stores "

:) Glad you had a good time.
 

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If you cast your dimes unto the swine you end up with:

Bacon-dog-3.jpg


This post doesn't make as much sense as my (m)other(s).
 

Van Blaricum

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No sir, as throwing dimes at pigs doesn't make bacon, or else I'd go running through the farmland country side with a roll of dimes and a bib apron on.

:very_drunk:

Either way, I love underwater art photos of dogs with squishy faces though, so you're in.
 

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Those are called " Dime Stores "

:) Glad you had a good time.

You should write a book on life in the carnival game. An honest one. The good, the bad, the ugly about it. It is a world unto itself and would be fascinating. Or perhaps there is a code among carnies not to expose things? It would be a fantastic read.
 

Dana Jean

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Actually Van Blaricum , I'm not blowing smoke up your behiney. I honestly think this would sell. You should approach an agent with the idea, see if anyone bites. I bet you'd get some takers, they would ask for so many sample chapters and judge from that whether you had something to sell. And I would make those first 3 or so chapters gangbusters scandalous. I bet you money they would ask for more.
 

DiO'Bolic

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When I was around 17, a friend and I went to a state fair. We spent a lot of time at the dime throwing booth. That's the one where they had a ton of glassware set up and you threw dimes and if your dime stayed in something, it was yours. I was so good at this game, they actually had to get boxes to load up all my loot. They asked me if I was a carny I was that good. lol.
At 17, it was the hoochie coochie tent they always had at the annual County Fair that provides a most special memory in my heart. Ah, the good old days. :)
 

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At 17, it was the hoochie coochie tent they always had at the annual County Fair that provides a most special memory in my heart. Ah, the good old days. :)
I live in a state that bans any sort of hoochie coochie at a state fair. I think their collective heads would blow if they saw any kind of cooch.
 

DiO'Bolic

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I live in a state that bans any sort of hoochie coochie at a state fair. I think their collective heads would blow if they saw any kind of cooch.
They're not allowed here any more. That was a thing of the past. I can't type the things I saw in that tent here and remain PG-13 rated. Lets just say there were talents on display that I didn't think were humanly possible.
 

Van Blaricum

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Well, that's the thing, we tend to not end up sharing with" marks " as we call them, as they don't seem to value that although we bring excitement everywhere we go, we aren't very exciting. It's not always so scandalous or juicy.

I grew up a hard life, constantly traveling on the road, cold, sick, lonely on the outside of society, with just some books and an a.m./f.m. radio in the night. My family, although well traveled show owners, are very crude salt of the earth people.

It was a mind numbing march from town to town, where we brought excitement to people and made their lives a little shinier, our selves leaving a little more stooped and a little more tired for it, the Ferris wheel our find-my-way-home constellation of the night. It never ends, until it does. Like they say, the show must go on.

I often feel like I have nothing to say about it. It's not like " Desperate Housewives (with Carnies! ) " There's no monsters like in a Ray Bradbury piece, there's just poor and proud people who work their lives away, finger to the bone, with a few criminals on the lam mixed in for good measure.

Although I did work as a child " operator " or " agent " as they say, in a variety of different " joints " ( games ) and I grew up with a mother with cotton candy in her hair, I feel like it's actually probably just boring to people I think. We are itinerant farmers with Ferris wheels and teddy bears.

My work would probably be about despair, and then when my fellow road dogs read it, they would perhaps feel a sense of sadness at the self awareness. I don't want to hurt the other Showpeople by disturbing their gentle reality even by speaking of it. It's all magic.

That world only exists because it is allowed to, it's fabric is composed of subconscious participants and it is dying away. It's like a near corpse on it's death bed that I don't want to hug because I don't want to cause it to turn to dust.

As a carny, I came like a shaman, year after year and took away peoples pain. Now I am off in a room stewing, to write it all down and give it all back would be... a rule violation and liberating.

I've thought it over. It's hard being a life long member of a somewhat small and unique band of peoples. It's also hard being a carny. It's even harder to be a carny child. It's that move-along loneliness. And for that, I had my books. That's what books are good for. That's why I always liked Sk, as a move along carny with a move along life, I could always enter the world of the constant reader where things were somewhat consistent albeit fantastic.

<3

Take care you guys.
 
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Van Blaricum

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They're not allowed here any more. That was a thing of the past. I can't type the things I saw in that tent here and remain PG-13 rated. Lets just say there were talents on display that I didn't think were humanly possible.

It doesn't happen or exist anymore. It's basically unregulated and unlicensed stripping and/or worse. Hasn't happened for years. Most event sponsors are churches, chambers of commerce, and community organizations like the Lions Club or the Rotary Club. There aren't really even too many oddities and freak shows anymore, although there are a few that exist, mostly for nostalgia's sake at some of the larger state fairs where those shows will draw a big enough tip. Rent and gas is high.

The fairs and festivals are all sanitized and family friendly and extra regulated nowadays. By golly!
 

DiO'Bolic

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Well, that's the thing, we tend to not end up sharing with" marks " as we call them, as they don't seem to value that although we bring excitement everywhere we go, we aren't very exciting. It's not always so scandalous or juicy.

I grew up a hard life, constantly traveling on the road, cold, sick, lonely on the outside of society, with just some books and an a.m./f.m. radio in the night. My family, although well traveled show owners, are very crude salt of the earth people.

It was a mind numbing march from town to town, where we brought excitement to people and made their lives a little shinier, our selves leaving a little more stooped and a little more tired for it, the Ferris wheel our find-my-way-home constellation of the night. It never ends, until it does. Like they say, the show must go on.

I often feel like I have nothing to say about it. It's not like " Desperate Housewives (with Carnies! ) " There's no monsters like in a Ray Bradbury piece, there's just poor and proud people who work their lives away, finger to the bone, with a few criminals on the lam mixed in for good measure.

Although I did work as a child " operator " or " agent " as they say, in a variety of different " joints " ( games ) and I grew up with a mother with cotton candy in her hair, I feel like it's actually probably just boring to people I think. We are itinerant farmers with Ferris wheels and teddy bears.

My work would probably be about despair, and then when my fellow road dogs read it, they would perhaps feel a sense of sadness at the self awareness. I don't want to hurt the other Showpeople by disturbing their gentle reality even by speaking of it. It's all magic.

That world only exists because it is allowed to, it's fabric is composed of subconscious participants and it is dying away. It's like a near corpse on it's death bed that I don't want to hug because I don't want to cause it to turn to dust.

As a carny, I came like a shaman, year after year and took away peoples pain. Now I am off in a room stewing, to write it all down and give it all back would be... a rule violation and liberating.

I've thought it over. It's hard being a life long member of a somewhat small and unique band of peoples. It's also hard being a carny. It's even harder to be a carny child. It's that move-along loneliness. And for that, I had my books. That's what books are good for. That's why I always liked Sk, as a move along carny with a move along life, I could always enter the world of the constant reader where things were somewhat consistent albeit fantastic.

<3

Take care you guys.
Do write it down. It sounds like a story worth telling, and one I would like reading.
 

Dana Jean

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Well, that's the thing, we tend to not end up sharing with" marks " as we call them, as they don't seem to value that although we bring excitement everywhere we go, we aren't very exciting. It's not always so scandalous or juicy.

I grew up a hard life, constantly traveling on the road, cold, sick, lonely on the outside of society, with just some books and an a.m./f.m. radio in the night. My family, although well traveled show owners, are very crude salt of the earth people.

It was a mind numbing march from town to town, where we brought excitement to people and made their lives a little shinier, our selves leaving a little more stooped and a little more tired for it, the Ferris wheel our find-my-way-home constellation of the night. It never ends, until it does. Like they say, the show must go on.

I often feel like I have nothing to say about it. It's not like " Desperate Housewives (with Carnies! ) " There's no monsters like in a Ray Bradbury piece, there's just poor and proud people who work their lives away, finger to the bone, with a few criminals on the lam mixed in for good measure.

Although I did work as a child " operator " or " agent " as they say, in a variety of different " joints " ( games ) and I grew up with a mother with cotton candy in her hair, I feel like it's actually probably just boring to people I think. We are itinerant farmers with Ferris wheels and teddy bears.

My work would probably be about despair, and then when my fellow road dogs read it, they would perhaps feel a sense of sadness at the self awareness. I don't want to hurt the other Showpeople by disturbing their gentle reality even by speaking of it. It's all magic.

That world only exists because it is allowed to, it's fabric is composed of subconscious participants and it is dying away. It's like a near corpse on it's death bed that I don't want to hug because I don't want to cause it to turn to dust.

As a carny, I came like a shaman, year after year and took away peoples pain. Now I am off in a room stewing, to write it all down and give it all back would be... a rule violation and liberating.

I've thought it over. It's hard being a life long member of a somewhat small and unique band of peoples. It's also hard being a carny. It's even harder to be a carny child. It's that move-along loneliness. And for that, I had my books. That's what books are good for. That's why I always liked Sk, as a move along carny with a move along life, I could always enter the world of the constant reader where things were somewhat consistent albeit fantastic.

<3

Take care you guys.
And what you said right there and how eloquently you said it would make it an interesting read. The Grapes of Wrath, after all, is about salt of the earth people. Poor, moving, hungry, sad. Working hard for other's benefits. I still think it would be interesting if nothing else just to show us the humanity of a small group of people who are there giving excitement to others (and those people coming for a night of fun take for granted the work involved). Then the carnival moves on leaving nothing but flattened patches of grassy crop circles.

There is a writer in you girl.
 
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Van Blaricum

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Then the carnival moves on leaving nothing but flattened patches of grass like crop circles.

There is a writer in you girl.

...like that scene in BIG with Tom Hanks, where he makes the wish on the Zoltair and then gets BIG. He goes back, and there's nothing save for flat grass and trampled popcorn boxes.

And actually. There's a girl in my writer! :) I do write, but currently anything I share is not anything I would want to share with the readers here via the self promo page. When I am ready you'll be 1st to know.
 

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...like that scene in BIG with Tom Hanks, where he makes the wish on the Zoltair and then gets BIG. He goes back, and there's nothing save for flat grass and trampled popcorn boxes.

And actually. There's a girl in my writer! :) I do write, but currently anything I share is not anything I would want to share with the readers here via the self promo page. When I am ready you'll be 1st to know.
Good deal!