Awwww... thanks for the hugs blunt. Even though it was many, many years ago at this point, I still bear a few, deep emotional scars. A hug is always nice.(((((carrie's younger brother)))))
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Awwww... thanks for the hugs blunt. Even though it was many, many years ago at this point, I still bear a few, deep emotional scars. A hug is always nice.(((((carrie's younger brother)))))
I totally get it, right there with you. Even today I assume people I'm just meeting aren't going to like me, that if people are nice to me, it's merely politeness, etc. I kinda resonated with Harold in The Stand for those reasons.Awwww... thanks for the hugs blunt. Even though it was many, many years ago at this point, I still bear a few, deep emotional scars. A hug is always nice.
Try it again. Mostly snarky neighbour stuff.In a good way or a bad way? I tried reading this one a few years ago and I barely remember it.
Definitely. I'm reading or re-reading all his works in order, short stories included. By that I mean that I'm reading them all (again, short stories included) in the order they were originally published. I'm probably just over two thirds of the way through The Stand (just finished the first Boulder Free Zone public meeting), which is a re-read, and the 40th story down the list. Needful Things is number 100, but I'll get there.Try it again. Mostly snarky neighbour stuff.
I think you'll enjoy it.Definitely. I'm reading or re-reading all his works in order, short stories included. By that I mean that I'm reading them all (again, short stories included) in the order they were originally published. I'm probably just over two thirds of the way through The Stand (just finished the first Boulder Free Zone public meeting), which is a re-read, and the 40th story down the list. Needful Things is number 100, but I'll get there.
Exactly!!!I totally get it, right there with you. Even today I assume people I'm just meeting aren't going to like me, that if people are nice to me, it's merely politeness, etc. I kinda resonated with Harold in The Stand for those reasons.
I think the reason I really resonated with Arnie in Christine is that I know what it's like to be bullied all day at school and then come home and be bullied by your parents as well. Seriously, they would sometime bully me about being bullied, as both of them were convinced that no child would ever bully another child unprovoked. I keep wondering if they even really had childhoods.
I say your last statement is a profound one, Pucker. I'm currently personally relating, in fact.
Thanks for the hugs, CYB. We bullied people need to stand together.Exactly!!!
((((((((Takoren))))))))
At least she has the potential to be happy in the future. I'd love to see her turn up again some day.Of all the SK novels, novellas, and short stories that I've read (all), I feel for Charlie McGee the most for having to deal with such a dismal past and her unpredictably complex future.
Ayuh! That would be a (another) whopper of a tale, wouldn't it?Young Mike in Joyland. Such a great kid!
John
So agree with you on Last Rung on the Ladder. The ending really struck a nerve for me.I love that story even though it makes me sad. ' I knew you would be doing something'.I haven't read everything Sai King has written, but I recently started a mass read-it-all project and I found myself effected emotionally on a much deeper level when reading 'Salem's Lot than I remember being the first time. Being a dad now might have something to do with it. The deaths of children, especially the baby, really got to me.
But Pet Sematary amps this up to eleven. To me, that's the one that I could barely finish because I could hardly bear Gage's death.
For that matter, I remember The Green Mile causing me to break down in tears in public. I had just read about Coffee's execution. Short stories that made me weep openly include The Last Rung on the Ladder and The Woman in the Room.
So what about you? What book of his did the best job of clefting your heart in twain?