Jean I just came in to say the exact same thing. We're on the same brainwave.
and I just started Duma Key yesterday! I'm loving it so far.
Jean I just came in to say the exact same thing. We're on the same brainwave.
and I just started Duma Key yesterday! I'm loving it so far.
I am Daenerys Stormborn and I will take what is mine. With fire and blood.
WOW! What a read. It's been a long time since King put out a book I thoroughly enjoyed (minus the DT series), but this one is a winner! Not only did I absolutely love the setting (it reminded me of my own retreat on Dauphin Island, Alabama...except out house is named "BIg Blue"...not "Big Pink").
There are some aspects of the supernatural in this one that seriously creeped me out for personal reasons...so much that I wanted to throw the book across the room.
Also has anyone caught the blatant reference to Insomnia in it yet? I'm at work, so I can't quote it, but it's regarding "Edgar's string"
It's peanut butter jelly time!
A rather tenuous connection (pun intended!).
John
I thought another slight Insomnia ref was Perse's collection of her victims belongings on her ship (like the twin's rocking horse) - it reminded me of Atropo's stash.
There's a couple of IT references too:
* Ilse hears Perse's voice coming from the drains and the toilet.
* Edgar notes that Emery Paulson's eye is "an alien, disheartening silver that had nothing to do with humanity."
I'm not quite finished with this one yet, but, I came across something the other night that struck the Heart. I was told by Heather that I MUST read this book very soon. I had a feeling that she came across something that I have been going on about for a while now. However, this part that I am going to quote is probably NOT what Heather was talking about, but, I can see It / Her coming (BECOMING).
*
Chapter 3 - Drawing on New Resources:
"...By then I was on my second box of colored pencils...and I had a third waiting in the wings. There was aloe vera; sea lavender with its bursts of tiny yellow flowers (each possessing a tiny heart of deepest violet); inkberry with its long spade-shaped leaves; and my favorite, sophora, which Common Plants of the Florida Coast also identified as necklace-bush, for the tiny podlike necklaces that grow on its branches...
...There were twenty or thirty photo printouts scattered arund the feet of my easel. My eye happened on a close-up of a sophora necklace. Looking at it, my phantom right arm began to itch, I clamped my yellow pencil between my teeth, bent over, picked up the sophora photo, and studied it. The light was failing now, but only by degrees--the upper room I called Little Pink held light for a long time--and there was more than enough to admire the details; my difital camera took exquisite close-ups.
Without thinking about what I was doing, I clamped the photo to the edge of the easel and added the sophora bracelet to my sunset. I worked quickly, first sketching--really nothing more than a series of arcs, that's sophora--and then coloring: brown overlaying black, then a bright dab of yellow, the remains of one flower....
....Then I went back, turned the easel, and caught my breath. The sophora bracelet seemed to rear over the horizon-line like the tentacle of a sea creature big enough to swallow a supertanker. The single yellow blossom could have been an alien eye. More important to me, it had somehow given the sunset back the truth of its ordinary I-do-this-every-night beauty..."
"Nothing more than a series of arcs, that's sophora..."
Without Wisdom, She screams in the streets. Or, better put...
System of a Down - Jet Pilot:
...My source is the source of all creation
Her discourse is that we all don't survey
The skies, right before
Right before they go gray
My source, and my remorse
Flying over a great bay
Also, did anyone see "Blaine" on the cover?
(Big Pink...Little Pink)
Momma told me there would be DAYS like this. SHe is coming back around, though...to put things back the way they should be. HIS story? Nah...we've had enough of that.
Sorry, but that went way over my head!
John
I too am lost.
I totally blame my wife. I was just sitting here...drawing nothing more than a series of arcs, when she insisted that I read the book.
Momma told me there would be DAYS like this. SHe is coming back around, though...to put things back the way they should be. HIS story? Nah...we've had enough of that.
I just finished last night. I LOVE this book. The things that I thought were very "Towerish" nods were all the 19's, the roses & palaver. There were a few other things, but I can't remember just now. But what I kept thinking at the end was that Perse was like a female version of the Crimson King with her RED robe & "all seeing" third eye. I also enjoyed the nod to LOST.
I want to read it, too!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed Brian, it was kind of refreshing for me given my lack of enjoyment of some of the other "new King" [ie. Lisey's, Colorado Kid, etc]. It was nice to read a long SK book that I enjoyed from page 1 to page 600-whatever it was. Not that I would ever give up on reading new King, but it did a lot to revive my appreciation. He still goes a little heavy on the foreshadowing, but not enough to completely give up the whole game. I def rec Duma for anyone who is on the fence or has yet to read it. It's King like you're used to reading King.
Tower smilarity:
Melda has two fingers and part of a third finger on her right hand bitten off.
wow. just finished it--started it last night. i haven't read a book straight through like that since the last HP. wow. that's all i can say right now.
People love frozen yogurt. I don't know what to tell you.
I read about 60 pages and almost quit the book. I felt it was plodding.
I pushed through, and then suddenly was engrossed in the book. Half of it I read on a plane, then I almost finished it poolside. I saved the last 50 pages to sit in my room at home, and read/consumed them like a sumptuous dessert accompanied by a liqueur apéritif.
Thoroughly stunning, heartbreaking and enjoyable.
People love frozen yogurt. I don't know what to tell you.
jerome and bethany, same here. i wasn't thrilled at first but i kept on going. all of a sudden after 100 pages or so i coudln't put it down.
Man, I was ago from the get-go. Although I had read the first couple of chapters about a year ago in a literary magazine....somehow, this story had a hold on me.
I'm going to say at first it was locational...the Florida Gulf Coast, which is a favorite vacation spot for me...and then it just blossomed.
Seriously, King deserves a pat on the back. This book was terrific. I was scared, I was moved, I gave an actual shit about the characters, everything I should in a book.
I hope he has a few more like Duma Key in him, cause I'm a go!
It's peanut butter jelly time!
I was thinking the same at first because of the painting theme but it's been a long time since I read Rose Madder & it seems to me that Dorcas had a specific reason for her evil(her daughter) & what she did was sorta justified. Perse was IMO pure evil like CK unless I totally missed why she was like that. The boat being named Persephone also made me think that she was "Queen of the Underworld" like the greek mythology she was the wife of Hades, if I'm remembering that correctly.
Rose Madder had alot of greek mythology intwined in the story too, remember. Also the way Perse kept her face hidden was very much like RM...plus the glimpse of Perse's face where she had "too many eyes", also similar.
Rose Madder was made dangerous by her insanity, it was implied that once she had been sane, so similarly she could have been getting worse and therefore being on her way to being as irrational as Perse.
I didn't think Perse was Rose Madder, I don't think thats what Bethany meant either, we were just saying she was more similar to RM than the CK - although I'd say they were all of the same species (of the Prim?)
Gotcha... I totally didn't remember that about her face being covered & vaguely remember her having too many eyes. I should reread all those books that I was, shall we say, under the influence, that I read so long ago. This is why I love this forum. I love hearing everyone's opinions & different takes on everthing!