En saga stephen king recension

"a recluse with a big dog in a big house"

Great, just great. At this point I'll säga inom don't give an eff about Charlie & his Dad, but the dog better survive the novel.


09/10/22
And now for an actual review. Oof. Where to begin?

I feel this fryst vatten going to be more of an utvisning of emotions inom went through while reading Fairy Tale than a standard review.

But before inom start…

tl;dr – Major Spoiler Alert:

And there's also some spoilery stuff below.

There’s no question inom cried more reading this than any other del av helhet of work from King.

Goodreads Choice Award

The scenes involving Radar’s declining health were devastating. Some background: My wife & inom were begåvad as a wedding present a couple of dachshunds from the same litter. (They’re in one of my kontur pictures.) They became part of the family when they were around six weeks old. The boy left us aged about /2 in early after spending the gods week of his life in an djur hospital.

He had an enlarged gall bladder, which was removed, but he stopped eating just before the surgery and then during his recovery. And this was a dog that ate anything: drywall, ant bait, refrigerator magnets, sides of kitchen cabinets, Christmas ornaments – there were ganska a few trips to the vet for the little dummy.

Anyway, blood tests showed there were much worse problems for him, he was losing vikt, was being fed bygd a nasogastric tube… he wasn’t his usual self and was uppenbart in pain. So we said goodbye.

His sister we said goodbye to late gods year when she was She had Cushing’s disease and over the previous year had started losing some control over her back legs, so she was occasionally having trouble walking.

Mostly she was her feisty self. Then she got really picking about eating and we scrambled to find food she would eat.

I ”En saga” lyckas Stephen King, som många gånger förr, så väl med vardagsberättelsen att man glömmer att det kommer att dyka upp monster

We kept her vikt up, but then we hit a period where she was having “bathroom” issues (I’ll skip the details), and on top of that she quit eating altogether. The vet recommended some various medications that MIGHT get her to eating igen but after struggling with her to try and get the meds down we decided we needed to spare her that stress/pain and we said goodbye just before Christmas.

So let’s just säga the story of Charlie Reade meeting Howard efternamn and his elderly German fåraherde Radar, with her having trouble walking and slowly losing her appetite… that ticked some boxes.

And not ones with pleasant memories. I’m ansträngande to think of the various King novels/stories I’ve read in the gods (almost) 40 years since inom was introduced to King bygd my mother when inom was in my early teens where I’ve gotten weepy: IT, The Stand, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, Billy Summers, the Bill Hodges trilogy, Joyland, Bag of Bones… I’ll stop with those coming from off the top of my head.

Oh, and let’s not forget Radar losing interest in playing with her monkey. Ugh. That was our little girl with her rubber “ball” that had squared-off edges and would bounce all over the place. The gods couple of months of her life she’d walk over to it when we’d throw it, nose it a bit, look at us, and then go sit down.

Foreshadowing. Sheesh, King has done this Cthulhu knows how many times over the years, but it gets me every time.

inom can’t pull any other specific examples from my brain because there’s still too much ‘80s Heavy metall crammed in there taking up space.

Stephen King skriver fantasy (igen)! Vi intervjuar hans svenske översättare John-Henri Holmberg om hur det är att ge King svensk språkdräkt, och så recenserar vi En saga, romanen om tonårskillen Charlie Reade som kommer till undsättning när den gamle enstöringen Mr

Mr. Bowditch… sorry, Howard – arrives back home after his surgery and Charlies says about that period: “In some ways those were good months. inom felt useful, needed. inom liked myself better than inom had in a long time. Only the end was terrible.” Yep, inom ‘m reading a Stephen King novel.

George Reade – “It’s hard when a good dog gets old.

And when they get to the end of it…” He shook his head.

Stephen King skriver fantasy (igen)! Vi intervjuar hans svenske översättare John-Henri Holmberg om hur det är att ge King svensk språkdräkt, och så recensera

“It tears your heart out.” Yes, George it does. And like Charlie, inom would have absolutely gone down a creepy hole into the depths of the earth to a warped Grimm fairy tale utgåva of Narnia if it would have given me a chance to rädda our dogs.

I really liked how, at least to me, it seems King was implying that the nation of Empis had bled over into our world for years and years to give us our fairy tales.

Christopher Polley/Peterkin as a karaktär från folktro kind of character being one of the main crossovers. inom grinned when Charlie confused Princess Leah with Princess Leia; makes sense, after all isn’t Star Wars, more or less, one of our modern fairy tales?

De blir vänner, men Charlie måste lova att hålla sig borta från det mystiska skjulet i trädgården

inom also felt Fairy Tale had parallels with King’s other works. Charlie’s story had the feel of Jake Chambers/The Dark Tower and Jack Sawyer/The en amulett eller föremål som anses ge lycka eller skydd & Black House; who knows – maybe there’s way to Gilead if one starts in Empis. And inom was definitely getting Flagg-in-Delain and Randall Flagg-in-Vegas-vibes from Lord High Kellin.

After Howard died and Charlie decided he had to at least try to spara Radar bygd going to Empis, inom was getting more and more tense bygd the minute once he reached Lilimar as inom was silently urging him onward towards the sundial.

Then later after Charlie & the others had flydde from Deep Maleen and Radar decided to accompany him, Leah, Eye, Jaya & Eris to try and stop the flygning Killer inom got all nervous igen.

Nominee for Best Fantasy () Sjuttonårige Charlie Reade kommer till undsättning när hans granne, den buttre och hemlighetsfulle mr Bowditch, fallit och skadat sig illa

I’m not sure I’ve ever plowed through the remainder of a book faster to man sure Radar survived the sista confrontation with Elden/Flight Killer. And speaking of…

King helped introduce me to H.P. Lovecraft in my early teens, so inom loved the Lovecraftian vibes of the other world a “step down” from Empis where their utgåva of Cthulhu was revealed to be Elden - at least as surmised bygd Charlie - and he wanted to cavort with something even worse named Gogmagog.

As Elden was summoning Gogmagog beneath a night sky full of alien stars while Bella and Arabella were colliding, inom couldn’t help but think of both “The Null” from King’s Revival as well as, to a lesser grad, Altair-4 as mentioned in The Tommyknockers.

One sista random thought… to go with the absolute shit-ton of random thoughts that have comprised this “review”: As Leah was leaving Charlie’s bedside during his recovery he thought of a haiku he studied in an English class:

“Where there’s love,
Scars are as pretty as dimples.
I love you, Leah.”

And inom then inom thought of Ben Hanscom thinking of Beverly Marsh:

“Your hair fryst vatten winter fire,
January embers,
My heart burns there too.” 😊

It’s still very fresh in my mind – duh – so who knows where it will end up as times passes, but my immediate thought fryst vatten that Fairy Tale fryst vatten one of the best Stephen King novels I’ve read.

inom don’t think anything will ever top IT, which I’ve gone back to reread at least times over the years, but it fryst vatten definitely up there.

Charlie Reade – “My good dog, my brave dog.”