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What time is this? I better start reading! - got so caught up in watering the garden and then I got distracted by something else... [oh look! a squirrel!]
It used to be at 8PM ET, but I have been posting the discussion thread in the morning so that anyone can post at anytime. Work schedules, kids home etc.What time is this? I better start reading! - got so caught up in watering the garden and then I got distracted by something else... [oh look! a squirrel!]
Good synopsis - I am afraid I will have to bow out tonight after all - we are all going out to the seafood restaurant for Andy's birthday tonight.This is a very good story but also one of Stephen's very darkest ones with one very graphic and hard to read section. This was published in 1990 and if I'm remembering correctly it was a time when people were just starting to speak publicly about assaults they suffered as children. A repressed memory of an assault is the theme of this story. At first, the reader is probably wondering why Sam is so scared of the library policeman. Then the reader gets bits and pieces of the repressed memory as the story goes along as the character Sam is getting them. I think Stephen does a good job here with some tough subject matter. Stephen is not one to shy away from disturbing subject matter.
Did anyone see some similarities to It? The librarian disappearing and reappearing for periods of time and be strengthened by the fear (mainly of children).
There are also similarities to Joe Hill's Nos4A2 -- a bit twisted but the dynamics of getting something from children is there.This is a very good story but also one of Stephen's very darkest ones with one very graphic and hard to read section. This was published in 1990 and if I'm remembering correctly it was a time when people were just starting to speak publicly about assaults they suffered as children. A repressed memory of an assault is the theme of this story. At first, the reader is probably wondering why Sam is so scared of the library policeman. Then the reader gets bits and pieces of the repressed memory as the story goes along as the character Sam is getting them. I think Stephen does a good job here with some tough subject matter. Stephen is not one to shy away from disturbing subject matter.
Did anyone see some similarities to It? The librarian disappearing and reappearing for periods of time and be strengthened by the fear (mainly of children).
Upon t he re read found a few Easter Eggs I had missed-
The man Dave draws in all his scary posters he refers to as the dark man (Randall Flagg?!?).
Paul Sheldon is mentioned as a romance novelist--Misery
Stephen King's name is mention in the list if authors.
coolI discovered something in the past couple of weeks with the kindle app that's pretty cool. If you notice in my 2 posts above, I was able to pull a quote from the book and when I paste it and the quote is attributed to Stephen with the page number. The way I do this is when I'm reading on my ipad, using the kindle app, I highlight something I may want to come back to. After I'm done reading the story, I open up the book on my desktop kindle app and all my highlights are lined up on the right side of the screen. I click a highlight and the page is displayed. I can highlight the text on the book portion and copy it and then paste it right on my message board post. When I do this, the author, book and page number are automatically put under the quote. This is going to be very handy in further discussions.
Does Piggly Wiggly still exist?
Florida | Piggly Wiggly
www.pigglywiggly.com
Oh yes. A few here in my county.Does Piggly Wiggly still exist?
Hi Doc!Oh yes. A few here in my county.
Good to see you. Hope all well and you are safe.Oh yes. A few here in my county.