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Post by osnafrank on Jan 26, 2019 14:30:45 GMT
I always asked myself, where this Pulse came from.
Who triggered it ? And why ?
What's your presumption ?
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Post by neesy on Jan 26, 2019 16:48:26 GMT
I always asked myself, where this Pulse came from.
Who triggered it ? And why ?
What's your presumption ?
Hmmm - just a theory but maybe it would be the same as any war - the enemy has to find a way to disable their foes (chemical warfare, bombs, whatever it takes)
Now how about why was it triggered? Who was trying to take over the world?  What did they hope to gain by creating a bunch of zombies?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2019 17:18:52 GMT
Stephen King writes a Black Mirror episode
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kingricefan
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Post by kingricefan on Jan 28, 2019 17:41:41 GMT
It was released from The Shop. 
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Post by docpain2 on Jan 28, 2019 17:44:54 GMT
I always asked myself, where this Pulse came from.
Who triggered it ? And why ?
What's your presumption ?
Perhaps he got a few breakers to do it... |
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Post by doccreed on Feb 10, 2019 18:09:48 GMT
This is probably my least favorite of his books. Rose Madder and Cell were the two novels, for me, that had the distinction of being inexcusably dull. I didn't root for the characters all that much and I didn't particularly care to know how it ended. One could say with Cell, King was phoning it in. Ba dum bum. That said, both books are strange enough to generate interest in a reader: paintings to other worlds, zombies, etc..
The reverse is true for Insomnia. I was interested from the word 'go' but the pace was too leisurely. King had realistic, endearing characters but for the first three hundred pages they just meander around Derry musing about life and, ostensibly, the car accident which puts the novel into motion. Ralph's wife's death and his subsequent insomnia are enough to create sympathy for him but don't exactly propel the story forward. Ironically, some readers nodded off while reading. I won't call it a bad book, though, because (as with The Tommyknockers) it would have been improved by some hefty editing. I think Ralph is one of his best characters.
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Post by kingricefan on Feb 18, 2019 0:37:19 GMT
This is probably my least favorite of his books. Rose Madder and Cell were the two novels, for me, that had the distinction of being inexcusably dull. I didn't root for the characters all that much and I didn't particularly care to know how it ended. One could say with Cell, King was phoning it in. Ba dum bum. That said, both books are strange enough to generate interest in a reader: paintings to other worlds, zombies, etc..
The reverse is true for Insomnia. I was interested from the word 'go' but the pace was too leisurely. King had realistic, endearing characters but for the first three hundred pages they just meander around Derry musing about life and, ostensibly, the car accident which puts the novel into motion. Ralph's wife's death and his subsequent insomnia are enough to create sympathy for him but don't exactly propel the story forward. Ironically, some readers nodded off while reading. I won't call it a bad book, though, because (as with The Tommyknockers) it would have been improved by some hefty editing. I think Ralph is one of his best characters.
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Post by CReeder on Feb 18, 2019 2:14:01 GMT
...The reverse is true for Insomnia. I was interested from the word 'go' but the pace was too leisurely. King had realistic, endearing characters but for the first three hundred pages they just meander around Derry musing about life and, ostensibly, the car accident which puts the novel into motion....
I think of it as a coming-of-old-age story. |
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Post by wolf on Jun 21, 2020 17:11:25 GMT
I always asked myself, where this Pulse came from.
Who triggered it ? And why ?
What's your presumption ?
'Cell' isn't one of my favorite King books, but I liked it. And it has got parts and characters that are very interesting. |
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What did they hope to gain by creating a bunch of zombies?
