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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:16:57 GMT -5
Would it be called a rabbitality lol
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Post by Watchtower on Aug 10, 2013 19:20:01 GMT -5
I'm late, but I'm here.  Chapter 58. I love it when Fran and Larry are at Stu and Fran's place and all of a sudden Larry hears Joe playing and singing 'Baby Can You Dig Your Man?" He spills his coffee. Stu's characterization of Harold as Silverfish from Watership Down is spot-on perfect to me. ![]() I thought this Larry's reaction was priceless. And I agree, Jen, Fran's observation is ironic. By the way, Moon, when I went to quote this post, I found that last sentence, somehow, the first part of the [ img ] code was before the last sentence, therefore, the sentence would not show up. |
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:22:42 GMT -5
On the bottom of page 687, King writes that Leo is playing song called "Sister Kate" by Tom Rush.
In a strange coincidence, I was looking through some albums I had but had never listened to before, and one was by Tom Rush. Sure enough, I picked it up and looked at it again just now, and that song is on it.
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:24:07 GMT -5
Would it be called a rabbitality lol  Or a hare-owing experience? |
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:25:29 GMT -5
Glad you're here Chloe
And I wondered why larry didn't own up to singing the song?
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:26:09 GMT -5
I'm late, but I'm here. ![]() Chapter 58. I love it when Fran and Larry are at Stu and Fran's place and all of a sudden Larry hears Joe playing and singing 'Baby Can You Dig Your Man?" He spills his coffee. Stu's characterization of Harold as Silverfish from Watership Down is spot-on perfect to me. ![]() I thought this Larry's reaction was priceless. And I agree, Jen, Fran's observation is ironic. By the way, Moon, when I went to quote this post, I found that last sentence, somehow, the first part of the [ img ] code was before the last sentence, therefore, the sentence would not show up. D'oh! That's better than what I was thinking--that somehow Randall Flagg was messing up my posts. Welcome aboard, Chloe! |
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:27:17 GMT -5
Would it be called a rabbitality lol ![]() ![]() Or a hare-owing experience? |
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:29:28 GMT -5
Sounds like a good song to me I didn't get to listen to it all the way
Here's some irony for you toward the end Harold mentions something about Nadine's hush puppies and don't you know I'm having hush puppies tonight lol
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:37:01 GMT -5
This is one of the saddest chapters in the book for me. Frannie gets a flash of insight during the meeting and tells everyone they need to get out of there right now, but it's too late to save everyone, especially Nick, who is on the same wavelength and somehow discerns where the bomb is hidden.
He gives his life trying to save the others. And for me, it's a loss that haunts the rest of the book.
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:38:32 GMT -5
Even with all the irony this was still a hard chapter for the free zone
The discovery of Harold's sadistic ledger
The loss of nick and the explosion
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:40:13 GMT -5
And amidst all the loss, Mother Abigail returns. That gives it an even stronger feel of destiny.
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:43:12 GMT -5
I know my heart will always miss nick
I wish Fran would have spoke up sooner
And wasn't it amazing how it seemed the committee was being spoken to through their minds
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:45:10 GMT -5
I was so shocked she returned I was happy and overwhelmed
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:45:27 GMT -5
At this point in the book King sets it up really well for Harold to have a particularly gruesome end. It's what we want after that.
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:48:14 GMT -5
I was so shocked she returned I was happy and overwhelmed As they say in the book, it's like a miracle: at the time of greatest loss, she comes back to them. |
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:49:01 GMT -5
I agree it's Flagg messing with your posts!
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Post by Watchtower on Aug 10, 2013 19:52:51 GMT -5
This chapter was definately the saddest chapter by far, at least for me.  The return of Mother Abigail, right when there is a tragedy, reminds me of a saying. "Something good always comes out of something bad" I'm not sure if this is an exact quote, but it's similar. |
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:55:43 GMT -5
What strange choice of words Harold used over the walkie talkie
As if hammering in the fact that it was by Harold's own will that he did that by his own will he delivered himself to the depths of hell and whatever he was going down to
Poor Harold believed he still had his mind that he could go down to whatever was waiting for him with his mind intact too bad he got the memo too late that he'd already lost his mind
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 19:56:58 GMT -5
This chapter was definately the saddest chapter by far, at least for me. The return of Mother Abigail, right when there is a tragedy, reminds me of a saying. "Something good always comes out of something bad" I'm not sure if this is an exact quote, but it's similar. It def made her return bittersweet |
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 19:58:48 GMT -5
That's a really good point--I hadn't even caught it, but you're right. Harold's last delusion. That he was doing it all on his own.
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 20:01:52 GMT -5
I know my heart will always miss nick I wish Fran would have spoke up sooner And wasn't it amazing how it seemed the committee was being spoken to through their minds Nick and Owen Meany probably had quite the discussion later that evening, don't you think? |
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 20:03:23 GMT -5
Like he said he'd been lead
And how he mentioned earlier in the novel about Flagg being a magnet and he was drawn to him
Harold had some intelligence but sadly he used it for the wrong purpose
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 20:04:39 GMT -5
I bet so they have an awful lot in common!
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 20:04:57 GMT -5
This chapter was definately the saddest chapter by far, at least for me. The return of Mother Abigail, right when there is a tragedy, reminds me of a saying. "Something good always comes out of something bad" I'm not sure if this is an exact quote, but it's similar. That's it. And I think that saying is exactly what King intended to show in that scene. |
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 20:10:17 GMT -5
I like the scene in the next chapter (59) where they're at the hospital and someone asks what it could be that Mother Abigail came back to say to them, and Lucy answers, "I don't know, but I'm afraid to hear it."
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 20:11:13 GMT -5
I have heard that before and I agree king was portraying that
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 20:13:20 GMT -5
I liked that too moon it seems all through the chapters when ma is still with them that ma exudes an air of "knowing things" and I think that's what makes people scared of her
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 20:14:51 GMT -5
I was a little heartbroken that ma was sending others into the west
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Post by gilmorefanalways on Aug 10, 2013 20:16:02 GMT -5
But I'm glad Fran senses up a little and didn't make a huge huge deal out of Stu leaving
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Post by Mistermoonlight on Aug 10, 2013 20:24:42 GMT -5
If I were Randall Flagg I'd be quaking in my boot at a one hundred and eight year old woman that spent two weeks in the wilderness living on "roots, herbs, grass, and other things of a similar nature."
Especially when I heard the doctor give this line at the meeting: "She has had one small bowel movement since she returned. It contained a number of small sticks and twigs."
For some reason that's an incredibly strong sentence to me, and makes the whole experience seem more real.
That woman has a strong constitution in more ways than one.
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