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    At times Blaine bored me to tears...

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    Making holographic entertainment for himself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gunslinger1987 View Post
    At times Blaine bored me to tears...
    When and how? His part wasn't so long.

    Roland would have understood.

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    That's an interesting outlook I never had myself. I found him quite entertaining.

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    Yeah, Blain was very interesting to me, as well. Insane robots... they can always catch my attantion because they seem very dangerous.

    Roland would have understood.

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    I can't think of a boring scene with ol' Blaine either. Hmmm...no I really can't.

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    Blaine was a great Character A Super Computer loosing its mind due to the loneliness of the world and its people it once served having moved on also i believe Blaine said that parts of his system were malfunctioning
    " REPEATED DIAGNOSTIC CHECKS HAVE FAILED TO REVEAL THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM. I CAN ONLY CONCLUDE THAT THIS IS A SPIRITUAL MALAISE BEYOND MY ABILITY TO REPAIR"
    "SUCH MALFUNCTIONS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE WITH SLOTRANS TECHNOLOGY, BUT OF COURSE THE WORLD HAS MOVED ON...HAS IT NOT, ROLAND OF GILEAD?"
    I also like that we see Blaine as mostly the pink mono train but were as his network stretches all the way to END WORLD and who knows were else.
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    Yeah, Blaine gets his moment(s) of grace. Roland is able to reason with him. There's that. There's some things in the next book that provide, as well. I wonder if he's a mechanic of the brain, riddling, he "emancipated" Patricia, his only friend, by allowing her to die. Seems like the people of Lud were looking for death, lining up at the stamping press. I don't think there's a form at the hospital that says, KEEP ME ALIVE!...but there are forms for pulling the plug. There's that bit about Guyana, as well, Jim Jones. Like he said, he only provided what his servants wanted, made it easier for them,

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    I admit that the whole idea of Baine was interesting and the scenes ivolving him were entertaining at some point. But I didnt like him at all. All that robots with rudiments of intellect are just so not interesting...

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    I think Blaine is representative of humanity's increasing dependence on technology, and where it could lead, he reminds me a little of hal 9000 from 2001.

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    I thought that Blaine was a pretty cool character. A clever invention of King, I have to say. I didn't find him boring whatsoever, quite the contrary. I enjoyed his part in the book rather a lot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by AlishaRiley View Post
    I thought that Blaine was a pretty cool character. A clever invention of King, I have to say. I didn't find him boring whatsoever, quite the contrary. I enjoyed his part in the book rather a lot.
    Right. I always loved trains but after I met Blaine... they became even more fascinating.

    Roland would have understood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letti View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by AlishaRiley View Post
    I thought that Blaine was a pretty cool character. A clever invention of King, I have to say. I didn't find him boring whatsoever, quite the contrary. I enjoyed his part in the book rather a lot.
    Right. I always loved trains but after I met Blaine... they became even more fascinating.
    I think Blaine is one of Sai King's greatest achievements, and my favorite minor villain by far.

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    Here's what I got: Blaine is the extention of every King bully from Ace of "The Body" right on out. How he came to the hideous solutions to amuse himself until the arrival of Roland's ka-tet baffles me. I will never understand this cold brand of malice. Thus when Eddie blew terrific holes in the digital map, it was very cathartic for me.
    As for his true passing, it is not too clear to me if the computer in Lud was still functioning after the mono's departure. But then again this might be a metaphorical opportunity. Consider the mono as corporeal existance and the computer under the city as ethereal consciousness. If you dig the vibe I'm sending...help me clarify.

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    While I felt no sympathy for Blaine, he is still one of my favorite characters. I think I love him so much due to the combination of his riddles and his cruelnature..

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    The dude loved riddles...what's not to love about him????
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    The dude loved riddles...what's not to love about him????
    *laughs*
    everything else

    Roland would have understood.

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    Default Blaine the Mono

    Maybe odd that I find this character amusing, but I do. I have just finished The Waste lands and I can now say thank God I did not read the series as it was published. My patience is nill and the way that one ended would have killed me to have to wait for the next. I am sure as I read on, I will learn more about the machines and how they fit, but so far Blaine has been my favorite non-ka-tet character. I know that tick tock man or others should stand out more, but so far this is where I am at. The kids have kept us very busy lately so I have had to resort to doing some of Waste Lands on audio. That could be an influence I guess. As for the group, I love em all, but I was very interested in Detta as I was married to a black woman and being around her family I heard many stories about the civil rights times. (12 years of being together you tend to learn alot)

    I stick to my side of being glad I waited. When I see some of you talking about upccoming stories I can only imagine myself waiting to see how the train ride ended. A valium or two may hve been required for a day till it was released.


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    I certainly felt bad for little Blaine. Saw him as a sort of alternate personality, a little brother if you will, to Big Blaine. Trapped in with and terrified of the dominant version.

    And yeah, Blaine was not boring in the least. Completely lacking in compassion and totally insane, definitely. But not boring.

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    For me little Blaine and Blaine were always the same. I felt little Blaine was another way for Blaine to play with the ka-tet,

    Roland would have understood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letti View Post
    For me little Blaine and Blaine were always the same. I felt little Blaine was another way for Blaine to play with the ka-tet,
    Really? I never interpreted him that way. I thought Little Blaine was like the moral part of Blaine's personality, something that had become compartmenatlised, segregated from the main personality as he went insane.

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    Yeah, I though of Little Blaine as separate as much as I thought Odetta and Detta were separate and for much the same reasons.
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    I can understand where you are coming from. Maybe I am the minority with my thoughts about little Blaine.

    Roland would have understood.

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    I also saw little Blaine as a part that had segmented itself from the crazy Big Blaine part, like the tiny sane part of a brain that may metaphorically brick itself into a safe niche from the insanity raging through the rest of the brain.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Míchéal View Post
    At times Blaine bored me to tears...
    Quote Originally Posted by Míchéal View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Míchéal View Post
    At times Blaine bored me to tears...
    this.

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