Jonathan ,'Touched'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
On board with Emlah and juliana, though IMO Beverly's father had more to do with future abuse than her experience with the boys.
Of course, taking the rationale to its logical conclusion, some of the boys would have had to have sex with each other. And that'd never happen in a King novel. It isn't like he showed any clue about homosexuality until at least Insomnia.
I read Girl With a Pearl Earring today. Loved it. No idea about hstorical accuracy and don't care. Loved it. Completely transported me. It was a very quick read too.
Hate to say it (well, not really), but I told you so...
I kept meaning to see the movie but never got around to it, despite Colin Firth. Is it still playing in theaters here?
no idea. I now want to see it too, but think I'll have to wait and netflix it as my next few weekends are pretty full.
Fredpete, WRT It there was homosexuality in it. It was just the bad kind where only the evil pyscho kids do it after lighting their farts or something. Or am I mixing it up with another King book?
Nope, you're right. It was Patrick Hockstetter and whathisname -- Big Bully Kid -- and Patrick the sociopath gave him a a handjob, and offered a hummer, at which point BBK decided that was GAY.
Beverly saw it all from the bushes.
Why, yes, I did read It several times as a teenager. Why do you ask?
And I agree totally re: the sex. I thought it was ridiculous and demeaning even when I read it at 13. Puh-leeze.
Did not. Have NO idea what you guys are on about.
Um, nothing germaine to add. As you were.
Yeah, you did. And you were wearing hot pants and roller skates!
Re: the kidsex in It: Yuck. Felt more creepy-wrong to me than Bev's abusive daddy, or the bad thing in the drains.
I thought of an ending I really enjoyed: The Red Tent. The Narrator concludes the tale in the persona of a benevolent storyteller from the depths of the past. Very short, very sweet.
Obviously I'm big for happy endings. I think I may have to give romance novels another try. Suggest away, readers!
Actually, one of the first victims in It was a very flamboyant gay man. Some of the local bullies threw him in the river for fun, and It got him there. The bullies were arrested but received slaps on the wrists. Victim's boyfriend left town (and the story) soon after.
Insomnia was King's first novel to have a gay character who was even vaguely sympathetic (and around for more than 5 pages).
Then there was the husband in Rose Madder, who engaged in sadistic sex games with other men. Which was more of a control thing for him than a sex thing.
Same with Bee Season, which is still worth reading -- REALLY -- despite the ending that left me asking "Buh?"
Bee Season was good, up to a point. Talk about a character/plot twist that just killed a book for me!