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GNTLGNT

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...didn't care for it that much...I like Edgar Allen Poe, which I feel this was an homage to, but it just isn't one of my favorites...
 
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Walter Oobleck

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Had to pull the pb off the shelf to refresh my memory. Looking at it again, I'd guess you might like to read John Sandford's Phantom Prey and I need to read this one again. At a glance, they both have the same vibe going for them.
 
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Walter Oobleck

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So did you ever read it again Walter?


No...no I didn't...but I'm looking at it again now...wondering too about Phantom Prey as my previous must have seemed relevant at the time and now it does not seem...relevant, I mean. But yeah...this Nona story is something else. There's all these images that are like echoes of other King stories...The Shining...and when the narrator fights the big ole truck-driving son-of-a-gun...there's this great line, I seemed to be swelling--my whole body seemed to be swelling...and that is repeated...imagery I guess...metaphor...from quite a few SK stories. Too, the big ole truck driver must have called the narrator a ******, implied, but clear in the telling. Clear as in typed/printed out...not starred so nobody will see it. ****** ****** everybody's saying ****** ****** all we are saying is...give peace a chance.

Heh! The air barfed out of him in a white cloud. What other stories does it remind me about...Green Mile...Coffey, with a stain.
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...didn't care for it that much...I like Edgar Allen Poe, which I feel this was an homage to, but it just isn't one of my favorites...

Why did you think Poe? I saw it as a redo of the typical urban-legend hitch-hiker. I know Poe had a thing about being buried alive, a talent for writing from the perspective of madness, and a strange love life, but I've read everything he's written and I didn't see the connection.

Kelly
 
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GNTLGNT

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Why did you think Poe? I saw it as a redo of the typical urban-legend hitch-hiker. I know Poe had a thing about being buried alive, a talent for writing from the perspective of madness, and a strange love life, but I've read everything he's written and I didn't see the connection.

Kelly
...OK, here's my somewhat twisted reasoning...my synapses make some odd connections from time to time...that story has elements of Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls, echoes a bit of King's Jerusalem's Lot-but Nona gave me a Poe vibe because the titular character reminds me of many of Poe's femme fatales, or ladies who brought their swains to the brink of madness...
 

krwhiting

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...OK, here's my somewhat twisted reasoning...my synapses make some odd connections from time to time...that story has elements of Lovecraft's Rats in the Walls, echoes a bit of King's Jerusalem's Lot-but Nona gave me a Poe vibe because the titular character reminds me of many of Poe's femme fatales, or ladies who brought their swains to the brink of madness...

I agree with that. She does.

Kelly
 
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