Bag of Bones was definitely not enjoyed by everyone!
Some highlights:
- Hard to get into it for some of us
- Noonan went off on some weird tangents
- Was the sex necessary? Did you just picture Stephen King as the one doing it? (Yuck…)
- Scary to some, not scary to others
- Many of King’s characters are writers
- Was it weird that the townspeople were still so scared of Devore after he died? Or are small towns really like that?
- Some thought it was too wordy, others thought all the descriptions were great
- Do you want messages on the fridge magnets?
- Sara sort of possessed everyone to kill their kids
- Did Sara kill Jo?
- Not really explained why Noonan suddenly wants to kill Ki and himself
- Bartleby, Rebecca, martians
- Writer’s block – Noonan ignored the problem like in The Shining
- King himself has probably written a bunch of extra books and tucked them away for later publishing
- Marriage is a private language between a husband and wife
- His devotion to Jo made him very likable
- The ghosts were real
- All those superstitions that he attributed to Jo were really his
- Superstitions – do they work or mean anything when you’ve never heard of them?
- Did Jo put the owls under the studio herself?
- Their struggle to have a child resonated with a few of us
- The pregnancy test opened the door for him to wonder about her secrets
- Noonan called himself a male VC Andrews – seemed to be making fun of himself
- At the fair – was it time travel? A dream?
- The mundane things (spilled sugar, magnets) were so creepy because they could happen to us!
Books:
The Passage by Justin Cronin
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
The Dark Half by Stephen King
Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
Movies:
The Shining
Bag of Bones (terrible)
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