I too saw Wireman as The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Just finishing Duma Key now...Bryan Cranston as Edgar. Jeff Bridges as Wireman. I really liked this book.
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I too saw Wireman as The Dude from The Big Lebowski. Just finishing Duma Key now...Bryan Cranston as Edgar. Jeff Bridges as Wireman. I really liked this book.
...I'm a radio personality...how disappointing was I?....It's always fascinated me how we create someone in our heads based on info provided us by only one of our senses. For instance, I tend to picture what a radio personality looks like until that idealized "person" is as real as anyone to my mind. Why you, mrblonde, pictured Elizabeth Eastlake as you did is anyone's guess. In literature we have our eyes to interpret what the author describes, but our own interpretations inevitably differ from the author's and from each other. So, casting for movies is always a thankless job, and radio personalities always disappoint in person.
...thank you, at least somebody loves me....except of course, Scott.
Elizabeth Eastlake isn't black.
For some reason I always assumed she was black while reading this. I caught the "black help" line this time around.
It doesn't change the (amazing) story any for me, but I was a bit surprised.
I guess I had Abby in my head while reading
I wonder that you thought that. Remember Edgar and Wireman discussing the newspaper coverage of the young "child prodigy" and wondering, if she had been "black", would she have been called a "pickininny" or ignored altogether.
I "cast" every book I read in my head, and I'm usually disappointed with the actual casting if/when they do make the movie. The only recent casting I LOVED was "Savages." I though they nailed that one.
for Duma I have the following in my head:
Edgar: Gil Grissom
Wireman: Bruce Campbell
I'm sure there are better choices, but that is who I see when I read.
'Goodnight Mary Helen, goodnight Jim Bob.....'I don't really know why but every Stephen King book I read I picture the main character as the guy who played the adult Bill Denborough in IT.
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I was 100 pages from the end when my father died in 2008. Reading this book kept me occupied while it was going on.Duma Key was published 2 weeks after my grandmother died and it helped me escape the misery. thanks stephen
I never thought Wireman was spanish....I still don't not with that last name. Seems most people think he was. I thought he just "saw himself" spanish because he was in love with a mexican womanElizabeth Eastlake isn't black.
For some reason I always assumed she was black while reading this. I caught the "black help" line this time around.
It doesn't change the (amazing) story any for me, but I was a bit surprised.
I guess I had Abby in my head while reading
I hear you.Duma Key was published 2 weeks after my grandmother died and it helped me escape the misery. thanks stephen