Whenever I start to get immersed ina Stephen King book, I have to be ready for my head to be messed with. As a teen reading the Stand, I got a little freaked out by old people coughing in church. "super flu," I'd whisper to my sister.
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Under The Dome is no exception. My wife and I took a long drive to the next town over so we could listen for a while. But I kept driving slower, and slower as I listened. Why am I driving so slow, I asked myself. Then I realized: I don't want to hit that invisible wall too hard!
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IT has caused more than one person to hate clowns. But I hated them before I read IT. Clowns are freaks, I'm glad King messed them up officially. Of course, IT messed with my head in other ways, too. http://talkstephenking.blogspot.com/2009/09/it-is-freaking-me-out.html
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And cell phones, do I even go there? I don't even carry my cell phone. King's fault? Probably not. I really don't like talking on the phone. But I might as well blame it on King.
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The Tommyknockers makes it impossible for me to just leave stuff in the ground. I have to dig it up. So far, no space ships, though.
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And if you think King doesn't mess with people's heads, why do you think you can't pick up a copy of Rage at the bookstore? Because it messed with someone a little too much, and they went Craig Toomey.
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this is good. . .
.Last year our church did a christmas program. Part of the program involved a mother saying goodnight to her child -- both obviously missing the deployed father. So the corner of the stage was set up like a bedroom.
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Of course, the stage was cleared to do this. But the walls of the church were not. So there it was: A child's bedroom scene. But towering over the bed was the cross on the church wall! Normally the cross is not a freaky site, but with the bed right under the cross -- I suddenly had visions of Carrie White! Thanks Steve.
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