Maybe he could have turned Halleck around. But perhaps I’m going soft, because today I wonder if there was not a means of redeeming him. Even the innocent at the tale (his daughter) is punished due to his selfish actions. Such a brutal method of ending a audio book: no expectation, no going back again. It made the novel for me, frankly, because it was so dark and cold. I recall loving the finish when I was younger. Stephen King Thinner Audiobook Free Online. And he does, so it’s satisfying from this point of view. You need something to latch onto, and it’s not there. I really don’t think there is anything redeemable about him, which really makes reading the book relatively tough. Penance via self-destruction. Stephen King – Thinner Audiobook Free.īefore this stage, King had done a good job playing with notions of unlikeable protagonists (Carrie Jack Torrance, certainly I’d assert that Louis Creed’s egocentric actions place him on the wrong side of Nice Guy), however Halleck takes things a step farther. It’s a way of meaning he does not need to take care of the guilt of his household dying. And then, at the novel’s final minutes, Halleck cuts himself a slice: a gesture that isn’t as accurate as it possibly seems. While he is asleep, his wife and young daughter eat the dish, damning them both. He believes about giving her the pie, knowing it’s going to harm, hurt and kill her. What perhaps can not be viewed coming is that Halleck believes his wife is to blame because of his situation, because she was the onedistracting him from the road. The curse can not be raised outright and only a complete asshole would pass it. That would be taking responsibility for his actions. He should, the gypsy suggests, eat the pie himself, and only accept his destiny. Now, Halleck is as previously recognized – an asshole. Rather, he decides to use his old ex-mafia buddy Richie to help him monitor and then repay the gypsies, until… So, the gypsy man bakes a pie (having a few of Halleck’s blood) that can pass on the curse to whoever eats it. But because he’s an asshole who sees no reason to accept blame for what occurred he cann’tworry about atoning. It’s slow at first, but then speeds up, and after discovering that the men and women who have helped him evade justice are similarly tainted (with strange scaly skin and acne( no less), Halleck realises that this can be a gypsy curse. He touches his face and says a single word: Thinner.įrom that point onwards, Halleck finds that the burden he was formerly carrying - he begins the book at a pretty hefty – starts to drop him off. When he gets the court case and fees dismissed, thanks to knowing the right people, the gypsy’s dad (whose overriding physical characteristic is his “rotting nose”) seeks Halleck outside beyond the courthouse. He is a attorney, morbidly obese, who runs within a gypsy if not watching the road because his wife is giving him a hand-job. I did not even know it was a Bachman until later on, and that I did not wonder the narrative voice for a second. This was the very first Bachman music book I browse King’s name on the cover, not Bachman’s. That line dividing King from Bachman collapsed with Thinner, which throws its hat firmly into the supernatural ring nearly from the first. King’s work in this point utilised more traditional horror tropes - the haunted or possessed whatevers that drove the stories along. The four Bachman music books were about broken, trapped men, desperately clinging to humankind while the world they inhabited pushed them farther away from it. Until that point, Bachman wrote human stories. But before it a novel that summed up the rest of King’s Bachman-attributed output, while adding in just enough proof of its writer to increase suspicions. Stephen King – Thinner Audiobook. But all things must come to an end, and shortly after Thinner was released, that end came. Therefore, the pseudonym had been necessary to prevent King looking suspiciously prolific. We are on entry 19 today in this rereading experiment, and just 10 years into King’s livelihood. But he had been writing faster than publishers could deal with. His voice – rich in language, nasty in tone - was never going to be a bestseller, really, but King’s was. Richard Bachman could only have lived long, I guess.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |