Beverly's "step"father...

[Bobarobbob1]

And just for the record this is still one of my favorite Stephen King books. I was only looking for some clarification. I don't think it takes away from the story at all.

 

[not_nadine]

Funny, I am not remembering Beverly's mother (mummer) either.

 

[skimom2]

Funny, I am not remembering Beverly's mother (mummer) either.

I do remember her. She's described something like 'tiredly pretty' or 'used to be pretty but was now careworn'.

 

[Karloff]

Elfrida Marsh - she worked in the best bar in Derry

She was more afraid of losing job than losing children or having cancer - interesting approach

 

[Bobarobbob1]

She was a waitress in the town's classiest restaurant, Green's Farm...

 

[GNTLGNT]

...here in Appalachia it is entirely possible to be someone's dad, step-dad and aunt all at the same time.....

 

[Bobarobbob1]

...here in Appalachia it is entirely possible to be someone's dad, step-dad and aunt all at the same time.....

lol no comment

 

[Karloff]

OK, I found it, my bad.
Still - has to be a mistake.

 

[Karloff]

seen this ? "WORLD EATER" T-SHIRT – CAVITYCOLORS

I made it to order the last Large size !

 

[muskrat]

It's true. I noticed that the last time I read it (this summer). It only took my seventh or eighth reading, but I caught it.

I think his editors spend more time trying to 'over-write' the master (suggesting lame changes and stupid cuts) rather than look for errors.

 

[Bobarobbob1]

seen this ? "WORLD EATER" T-SHIRT – CAVITYCOLORS

I made it to order the last Large size !

Well isn't that funktastic. lol Very cool.

 

[Bobarobbob1]

It's true. I noticed that the last time I read it (this summer). It only took my seventh or eighth reading, but I caught it.

I think his editors spend more time trying to 'over-write' the master (suggesting lame changes and stupid cuts) rather than look for errors.

I think you are probably right.

 

[Neesy]

Eddie Corcoran was dead, all right. He died on the night of June 19th, and his stepfather had nothing at all to do with it. He died as Ben Hanscom sat home watching TV with his mother, as Eddie Kaspbrak’s mother anxiously felt Eddie’s forehead for signs of her favorite ailment, “phantom fever,” as Beverly Marsh’s stepfather—a gent who bore, in temperament at least, a remarkable resemblance to Eddie and Dorsey Corcoran’s stepfather—lifted a high-stepping kick into the girl’s derrière and told her “to get out there and dry those goddam dishes like your mummer told you,” as Mike Hanlon got yelled at by some high-school boys (one of whom would some years later sire that fine upstanding young homophobe John “Webby” Garton) passing in an old Dodge while Mike pulled weeds out of the garden beside the small Hanlon home out on Witcham Road, not far from the farm owned by Henry Bowers’s crazy father, as Richie Tozier was sneaking a look at the half-undressed girls in a copy of Gem he had found at the bottom of his father’s socks-and-underwear drawer and getting a regular good boner, and as Bill Denbrough was throwing his dead brother’s photograph album across the room in horrified unbelief.


Stephen King -IT- Chapter 6 subsection 3 page 255 in the hardcover addition. English

Okay - it is a mistake then (and Glocks don't have safeties, either!)

p.s. I am pretty sure the only copy of "It" that I own is the paperback. Maybe I will get lucky and find a hardcover at Value Village someday.

 

[muskrat]

Okay - it is a mistake then (and Glocks don't have safeties, either!)

p.s. I am pretty sure the only copy of "It" that I own is the paperback. Maybe I will get lucky and find a hardcover at Value Village someday.

My copy is paperback and it still has the mistake. And .410 shells aren't 'big fat suckers'.

 

[Neesy]

My copy is paperback and it still has the mistake. And .410 shells aren't 'big fat suckers'.

Okay - you "outed" me! (I did not even go look in my paperback copy).

Nitpicking - to me that is all this is. Like skimom2 and the original poster said, if you read something enough times you notice the tiny details. C'est la vie

I know it is a bit early, but...

Spoiler: Xmas craft!

 

[Mr. Gray Robert]

It's true. I noticed that the last time I read it (this summer). It only took my seventh or eighth reading, but I caught it.

I think his editors spend more time trying to 'over-write' the master (suggesting lame changes and stupid cuts) rather than look for errors.

Here here

 

[do1you9love?]

Eddie Corcoran was dead, all right. He died on the night of June 19th, and his stepfather had nothing at all to do with it. He died as Ben Hanscom sat home watching TV with his mother, as Eddie Kaspbrak’s mother anxiously felt Eddie’s forehead for signs of her favorite ailment, “phantom fever,” as Beverly Marsh’s stepfather—a gent who bore, in temperament at least, a remarkable resemblance to Eddie and Dorsey Corcoran’s stepfather—lifted a high-stepping kick into the girl’s derrière and told her “to get out there and dry those goddam dishes like your mummer told you,” as Mike Hanlon got yelled at by some high-school boys (one of whom would some years later sire that fine upstanding young homophobe John “Webby” Garton) passing in an old Dodge while Mike pulled weeds out of the garden beside the small Hanlon home out on Witcham Road, not far from the farm owned by Henry Bowers’s crazy father, as Richie Tozier was sneaking a look at the half-undressed girls in a copy of Gem he had found at the bottom of his father’s socks-and-underwear drawer and getting a regular good boner, and as Bill Denbrough was throwing his dead brother’s photograph album across the room in horrified unbelief.


Stephen King -IT- Chapter 6 subsection 3 page 255 in the hardcover addition. English

Whoa! I stopped reading this paragraph at the part I highlighted in red.

 

[Karloff]

yep, =19= is there a couple of times

Spoiler

Stan and Patty get merried - 19th of August 1972
Ben meets Bill and Eddie - 19th of June 1958
Eddie Corcoran's death - 19th of June 1958
Richard Macklin's suicide - 19th of July 1967