The Body

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The journey itself was quite compelling, but it kind of just boiled down to three or four interesting events split up by weird dreams, the short stories, or conversations between the characters so it didn't really feel like a cohesive narrative to me. Jerusalem's Lot, from the novel Salem's Lot is referenced when the boys first listen to Gordie's Lard Ass story.

A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.At the time of writing about the events in 1960, he has written seven novels about the supernatural. We’re entering the depths of summer now, and I recommend giving this a look if it’s been a while since your last read. Smart and tough Chris Chambers, a kid from a family that supplies Castle Rock with alcoholics and juvenile delinquents, is being seriously abused by his father and is seen as a worthless and even dangerous person because of his family.

Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them. Both are very strong tales, some say his best (I've only read Dreamcatcher, FYI), and that is the same case here. It does not appear that the constable is same Sheriff George Bannerman who appears in Cujo and The Dead Zone.The older boys are upset to see the four friends, and during an argument, Chris pulls a gun belonging to his father from his rucksack and fires into the air and then threatens Ace, the leader of the gang.

But, even though I hate to see things turn out in such a fashion for those characters, it makes sense to me. A lot of it is sad (the missing kid who died, the descriptions of the kids' home lives, Gordon's thoughts about death).

Il sottotitolo in alto alla copertina con scritto "da leggere con la luce accesa" potevano evitarlo. After his father left them when Stephen was two, he and his older brother, David, were raised by his mother. Though I hadn’t read this in 6, 7 years, the story has remained so fresh in my mind—partly due to the classic film adaptation, and partly because this is simply Stephen King at his very best, showing off all his skills.

Gordie looked up to his brother, who treated him very well but his parents are still deeply in shock over their older son's death and haven't begun to recover. Teddy himself becomes enraged with Milo and tries to climb the fence to attack him but he's dragged off by his friends. This is a story of four boys on the brink of adolescence; the last moments of childhood told with occasional almost Bradbury-esque nostalgia but with the rose-tinted glasses mercilessly torn off. Can ya believe this was written when he was still a new author, with only two published books to his name?To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Another issue I had with this is that it's supposed to deal with the low prospects of the kids but other than the last couple of chapters that sum up what happened to them later in life, there's really only one section that really deals with that concept. During the course of their journey, the boys, who all come from abusive or dysfunctional families, come to grips with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that does not seem to offer them much of a future.