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    :radioactive: Duma Key--**spoiler thread**

    I know we have several Duma Key threads going right now, but its a big deal.

    One for news on it
    One for collections information

    And now one for people who have read it and want to discuss it without worrying about spoilers.

    I won't be in this thread again.
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    Wireman is so very cool. I am loving this book! About 1/2 way thru it, and I'm not sure maybe cuz I live in Florida, but its so easy to relate to it.

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    I read the book a couple months ago and enjoyed it then. I am now in the process of rereading it and am discovering that there are lots I'd forgotten or didn't notice in the first reading. I love the Wireman character--he seems so down-to-earth in everything he does. I especially enjoy seeing how he is caring for Miss Elizabeth. It rings very true from my personal experience with my mother.

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    I think this will be one of those books for me, reread , repeatedly.
    Not all books have this effect, not even all SK books but this one? yeah I think so.

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    I am only about 100 pages in so far and have loved it. Edgar just cracks me up, I don't know if it was meant to be funny or not. But I have had a few good chuckles so far.

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    The time of year( discribing weather, winter) flora and local flavor are very acurately discribed. It makes for really good reading .

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    I'm only up to about the 7th chapter, but so far I love it. Out of curiosity does anyone know if the Dali painting that King described hanging in Elizabeth's house is actually based on a real sketch, or was it just one that King made up to fit with the story. I went online to see if I could find a picture of it, but I couldn't really find anything, but then again I didn't look real hard.

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    I'm not reading this thread but a scary doll and raw meat was enough to put me over the edge early on.
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    Where's your sense of adventure? :p

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    It ran away when the doll talked.

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    She did have a sweet little voice!

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    I think there were several (albeit very loosley based ) Dt hints what do you all think?

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    My sister owns many Dali prints etc.... I'll look at the description again, and ask her. There is a Dali musuem in St.Pete, I'll look around there too.




    Quote Originally Posted by Heather19 View Post
    I'm only up to about the 7th chapter, but so far I love it. Out of curiosity does anyone know if the Dali painting that King described hanging in Elizabeth's house is actually based on a real sketch, or was it just one that King made up to fit with the story. I went online to see if I could find a picture of it, but I couldn't really find anything, but then again I didn't look real hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alinda View Post
    My sister owns many Dali prints etc.... I'll look at the description again, and ask her. There is a Dali musuem in St.Pete, I'll look around there too.
    Thanks, let me know if you find anything. I've got a couple of books with his works, I was going to look thru those to see if I could find anything.
    And I highly recommend checking out that museum if you've never been there. I went there a couple of years ago. They have quite a collection of his artwork.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alinda View Post
    I think there were several (albeit very loosley based ) Dt hints what do you all think?
    Well, I've been keeping notes in my notebook for the Tower Connections and I've noticed a few mentions of roses, 19 and even Randall (no Flagg, but still ).

    Even the loose links will have a place in Tower Connections eventually - a section called something like "Touched by the Tower", where all these kinds of books can go

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    Sounds great!! Y'all are really making a fine site.....




    Quote Originally Posted by Darkthoughts View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by alinda View Post
    I think there were several (albeit very loosley based ) Dt hints what do you all think?
    Well, I've been keeping notes in my notebook for the Tower Connections and I've noticed a few mentions of roses, 19 and even Randall (no Flagg, but still ).

    Even the loose links will have a place in Tower Connections eventually - a section called something like "Touched by the Tower", where all these kinds of books can go

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    Could you give me a discription, or page # to reference please?



    Quote Originally Posted by Heather19 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by alinda View Post
    My sister owns many Dali prints etc.... I'll look at the description again, and ask her. There is a Dali musuem in St.Pete, I'll look around there too.
    Thanks, let me know if you find anything. I've got a couple of books with his works, I was going to look thru those to see if I could find anything.
    And I highly recommend checking out that museum if you've never been there. I went there a couple of years ago. They have quite a collection of his artwork.

    The answer is within

    all matter is energy, all energy is GOD

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    The description in the book is (the page ref won't be the same from the UK version to the US one): The sketch was just pencil, augmented by two scarlet threads, probably added with nothing more than a plain red ballpoint pen...These not-quite-offhand scribbles had been laid along the horizon line of the Gulf to indicate sunset...On the horizon was a ship, probably a tanker. It's said to be signed "Salv Dali".

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    Really? I think that's fictional then....


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    As it would be the same or like Edgars painting NO?

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    Yes, i think he was quite stunned by it.

    Is Duma Key a real place?

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    No, but the flavor of Florida (as described) is very close to
    authentic to this Floridian.


    Our beach house is in Treasure Island, off the coast
    (near Tampa) and the general feeling of the area
    and the beach ....are just like in the book. I felt
    at times that Duma Key was just down the road.

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    Treasure Island?!! Wow, how amazing would it be to put something like that in your address!

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    Its great there.

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    As for connections, don't forget the notation on the copyright page regarding one of the items quoted within, copyrighted by R. Tozier and W. Denbrough. Names sound familiar?

    John

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    Totally missed that!! Awesome catch John, thank you!!!

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