SORRY: TOO MUCH WORK TO DO AND TO LITTLE TIME TO DO IT... AN OLD HISTORY ISN'T IT? I'LL CAME FROM TI...
SORRY: TOO MUCH WORK TO DO AND TO LITTLE TIME TO DO IT... AN OLD HISTORY ISN'T IT? I'LL CAME FROM TIME TO TIME... WAITING FOR BETTER MOMENTS!
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Sparrows are graceful, beautiful, small pets that we all love, but they also are the messengers who lead men in the world of the dead.
George Stark: year of birth 1973, year of death 1988, epitaph 'Not a Very Nice Guy'.
It seemed only a joke or a stupid idea for a bit of advertising, that of 'bury' George Stark in the cemetary of the country, with a gravestone, to publish a beautiful service on People, one of those services that readers like a lot and that, more than this, should attracts a lot of other possible readers.
But Thad Beaumont did not felt so calm that morning, while he was standing with his wife Liz in front of the photographer of People, close to the graveyard, with a spade in a hand and a half-witted smile on his face.
No! Goods knows why, but it seemed no more so a great idea..., on the contrary: it seemed quite a little gloomy idea and this, my dear friends, let me tell it to you!, this indeed is a great stupideness!
Why should a cardboard gravestone be gloomy, when it just covers only the shadow of the memory of a fantastic character, even if he was 'Not a Very Nice Guy'?
The sparrows could tell it to you, Thad Beaumont: they could give you an answer...
They also should tell you, for example, what that black Toronado made in front of your house ...., or why the blond and high man who got out from the car seemed to be a so shady and dangerous type...
They know it, Thad Beaumont.
The sparrows know it very well: that's for they are now lying on the branches of the trees all around your house, just to decide who, among you and George, should they take to the threshold of the world of the dead,
'The dark half' is one of the most alarming, hallucinatory and completely estranging book of Stephen King.
We do not know, nor told he it to us during one of his numeruos interviews, how much of him is in Thad Beaumont, and how much of him is in George Stark... Even if we, who read his books, we would prefer to think that there is just nothing of George Stark in him!,... if not other, in order to try to safeguard that little of mental health that still remains to us, after having read this book!
But, in any case, have I already told you that George Stark is 'Not a Very Nice Guy'?
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Stephen King isn't on my reading list, mainly because its horror books that he write ...
Zoe_South 10.11.2003 13:31
Tough call to write an opinion in this kind of style when it's not your mother-tongue. You ALMOST get there - if you clean up a bit of the grammar, I'll happily re-rate to VH, as I know I couldn't do this in Italian! Zx
Kukana 09.11.2003 16:10
Intriguing - but since I don't like suspense or horror, I'm not going to read this! Sue
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Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half, 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumon...
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In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, ... more
Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to write The Regulators.) At the beginning of The Dark Half, 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumon...
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In 1985, 39-year-old Stephen King announced in public that his pseudonymous alter ego, ... more
Richard Bachman, was dead. (Never mind that he revived him years later to writeThe Regulators.) At the beginning ofThe Dark Half, 39-year-old writer Thad Beaumont ...
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