Did anyone like the movie? I was not a fan.
Did anyone like the movie? I was not a fan.
Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.
I saw it when it first came out, but I can't really remember too much about it now. I do remember kinda enjoying it, but I've also never read the book so I don't know how it compares.
I just had to comment about this (I just finished Thinner) - being trilingual (Finnish sign language, Finnish and Swedish) I found the gypsies' language deeply hilarious. Yes, King used totally gibberish Swedish, not Romanian. But in one case he did manage to spook me a little. 'Child of the night-flowers' was 'purpurfargade ansiktet', which means purple-coloured face in Swedish. Eekk. You can only imagine what horrible imagery crossed my mind when I read those words.. =P
"...neither the stupid jokes nor the easy surface emotions were the truth of Cuthbert Allgood."
I enjoyed Thinner a lot. I've read it a couple of times, but not in the last 10 years or so. It's one I would certainly pull off the shelf again at some point and read again.
I don't think I watched the movie. If I did, I've forgotten it. Most King movies are not very good. At least the ones based on his horror stories.
Does anyone believe in curses anyway?
Roland would have understood.
My head says 'No', but in truth if I were cursed by an old Gypsy/Traveller would I be worried? - yes I would a bit. There are strange things in the world.
On the main subject, I think I've read Thinner twice, both of those certainly a good 15 years & more ago. An OK read at the time but not exceptional. No particular desire to read it again but you never know.
Yeah, you couldn't believe how much the mind affects the body. If someone creepy said he/she has cursed me, I presume I would feel quite unwell pretty soon.. And vice versa - for example, the plasebo medicine.
Anyway, Thinner isn't one of King's best novels, but readable enough. It was that gibberish-Swedish that kept me amused.
"...neither the stupid jokes nor the easy surface emotions were the truth of Cuthbert Allgood."
I definitely do believe in curses. I didn't like Thinner when I read it the first (and only) time, but I think I got to reread it, those things change sometimes (as it happened with me and Tommyknockers, which I now consider one of the best King novels).
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Irish Catholics believe EVERY superstition.
I am not superstitious at all, but belief is a powerful and sometimes dangerous thing.
I am not Irish, but a Catholic, and, in fact, try not to be superstitious - superstition is against Christian religion, not part of it, although many people confuse "superstition" with any belief in anything supernatural - and yes, many Catholics are traditionally superstitious, it comes with the whole colorfulness and multifacetedness - multidimensionality, in fact - of the world we live in. I don't see why believing in curses should be under this category. Even not going into some deeper points, it is only logical that if there is a power to bless, there must be a power to curse.
Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is power....the power of all. I quite like this story. I may have to take it of the shelf today as a matter of fact, I now feel compelled to .....
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
- you've been cursed with the need to re-read it linda!
Precisely, and it is such a short story, I can finish it today....that's of course IF I can get off line long enough to read anything at all.
The answer is within
all matter is energy, all energy is GOD
I've never read Thinner.
I have seen the film, and I didn't mind it. It made me feel a bit uncomfortable though. It's rather nasty, and not in just the horrific sense that most King books have an edge of nastiness.
I was interested to see a rather attractive actress appear as young gypsie wench though. I knew her mainly from Sliders (the second female character, the army girl). She also appeared in the film aboout giant Spiders. (Eight legged freaks?) I think Thinner must have been part of her early work, and I remember she hammed it up quite a bit (not in a bad way mind.)
I didn't know King himself wrote that Bachman biography. Is that confirmed?
I just finished this book and I really liked it, but could someone please give me their interpretation on the ending? I assume it's more straightforward than my mind is making it, but I just feel so weird about it. I hate not knowing what finally happened to him and his family!
This book made me realize how I feel about King's endings. Their really honest, but they always leave me temporarily dissatisfied. It's like if you're really, really craving a taco in the middle of the night, so you drive all the way to a mexican fast food joint and find out they're closed. This has happened to me once and I think I'd equate it with the heart sinking feeling I just had after finishing Thinner.
I admire King for writing books where their isn't a fairy tale ending and things don't always get resolved the way you would expect them too... but at the same time, I feel like I have to prepare myself for a kick in the metaphorical balls every time I start reaching the end of a book.
I'm not saying the endings to the books I've read havn't been good - because ususally what happens is the more I think about the way these books end, the more I end up loving the endings. This was just an observation, I suppose.
Bear in mind that I am looking back over 15-20 years in trying to answer this - and a LOT of the old grey matter has passed into the clearing in the intervening years!
To the best of my recollection it was a straightforward enough ending.
He got the pie from the old Gypsy, and only had to get someone to eat it to pass the curse on to them.
-His intent was to feed it to his wife.
-In the event both his wife & child (a daughter?) ate a slice before he was aware of it.
- so he ate a slice himself to join them in the curse (and in inevitable death).
Someone who's read it more recently might have a better perspective on it.
As I recall that pretty much sums it up nicely. It's been awhile for me too though. Yes, it was a daughter.
That's what I figured. I guess I was confused becuase he never explained what happened after they ate the pie so I wasn't sure if they all ended up getting cursed or not.