Thursday, December 19, 2013

Relationships

One thing I did see that the novellas had in common was a tight focus on specific relationships: old man/boy, teacher/pupil, inmate/inmate, childhood friends, child-self/adult-self, doctor/patient. Which relationship did you find most compelling and/or most well-drawn?
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cl said...

I love the friendship between Andy and Red the most of the relationships. I think Stephen King does his best work in friendships — Christine is a heartbreaker, and It does an excellent job with it. I think it overshadows romantic relationships he plays with. Dreamcatchers was supposed to be another friendship tale, but it's kind of a mess. Tommyknockers is also driven by a drunken poet who wants out of an ugly alien situation but can't leave his longtime friend/ex-lover even when she has turned to the dark side. Anyway, Andy taking a risk at his jailbreak to leave clues for Red, then the final page of that story just kills me.

10:36 AM, December 20, 2013
cl said...

That's my sentimental pull. The relationship between Todd and Denker is just so sick and twisted and oddly intimate.

10:37 AM, December 20, 2013
cl said...

I should have mentioned "It" in that first entry. Friends reunite from the '50s to the '80s to fight a horrible entity, and the nostalgia and heartbreak of seeing childhood friends again has a deep emotional pull.

10:38 AM, December 20, 2013
cl said...

Am I vomiting up too much fandom?
KC, did you finish "The Stand"?

10:58 AM, December 23, 2013

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