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Thread: Thinner - Let's Discuss! *SPOILERS*

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    Did anyone like the movie? I was not a fan.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Odetta View Post
    Did anyone like the movie? I was not a fan.
    not particularly. king-based movies are either hit or miss for me. this was the latter.

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    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

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    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.

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    Does anyone believe in curses anyway?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letti View Post
    Does anyone believe in curses anyway?
    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.
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    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.

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    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).

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    Quote Originally Posted by ManOfWesternesse View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Letti View Post
    Does anyone believe in curses anyway?
    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.
    It's so hard to imagine you to be afraid of a curse. But still... it's understandable.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lily-sai View Post
    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.
    And here is the truth. Or a very important of of the truth.

    Roland would have understood.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Letti View Post
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    It's so hard to imagine you to be afraid of a curse. But still... it's understandable...
    No Letti, I'm Celtic, and brought up catholic! I'm absolutely bound to be superstitious!
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    Yes, Irish Catholics believe EVERY superstition.

    I am not superstitious at all, but belief is a powerful and sometimes dangerous thing.
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    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.

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    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 .....

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    - you've been cursed with the need to re-read it linda!
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    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.

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    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.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    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.

    My post directly above yours was me just being silly. I hope you know that. I actually agree that superstition and the kind of belief as applies to religion are seperate things entirely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Brice View Post
    I hope you know that.
    of course I do!

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    The Awesomest fled across the desert and The Awesomer followed.

    If you rescue me
    I’ll be your friend forever


    I wish that I could write fiction, but that seems almost an impossibility. -howard phillips lovecraft (1915)



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    I didn't know King himself wrote that Bachman biography. Is that confirmed?

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    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.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Disincarnate View Post
    ....... 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!.......
    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.
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    As I recall that pretty much sums it up nicely. It's been awhile for me too though. Yes, it was a daughter.
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    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.

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