Ben: Way to spoil your own story in the foreword, stephen king
Me: Whaaaaat
Ben: Was the short story entitled FOURTEEN-OH-EIGHT the inspiration for the john cusack movie of the same name
Me: Yes.
Me: Stephen King spoiled 1408?
Ben: So
Ben: the eponymous short story of EVERYTHING'S EVENTUAL was pretty good.
Ben: I enjoyed it.
Ben: A good read.
Ben: Two thumbs up, I suppose.
Ben: Also does that have something to do with the first story from HEARTS IN ATLANTIS?
Me: We require more in-depth analysis.
Ben: I forget what the old man does.
Ben: What his job is.
Me: I don't think.
Ben: Dammit.
Ben: So in HIA
Ben: the old man
Ben: from the first story
Ben: was a "thing."
Ben: What is that thing?
Me: Breaker.
Ben: That's it.
Ben: Does that make him a tranny?
Me: Whaaaat.
Ben: In EVERYTHING'S ETC.
Ben: The people with supernatural powers
Ben: are all called "trannies."
Me: Is that what they're called?
Me: I don't remember.
Ben: Yes.
Ben: It is.
Ben: They work for the Trans Corporation.
Ben: Hence
Ben: repeatedly
Ben: referred to as "Trannies."
Ben: Yes, it seemed weird.
Ben: It was a good story though.
Ben: The pacing was good.
Ben: He did not do too much of that thing he does where he tells you what is happening in like twenty pages.
Ben: He also did not engage in any fierce misogyny so bonus.
Me: Plus he dumped those coins down a storm drain.
Ben: And the supernatural bullshit was kept to the minimum necessary to support the premise.
Me: Stephen King got that idea in the shower.
Ben: Had an interesting and quirky main character.
Ben: Exposition came at just the right times.
Ben: So, a good story.
Ben: Okay so wait.
Ben: In this book
Ben: there were two stories I needed to read.
Ben: Which was they?
Me: The one about Roland fighting Super Mutants and the eponymous story.
Ben: Aha.
Ben: So it does have something to do with something.
Ben: Vaguely, perhaps.
Ben: I knew it!
Ben: Trannies abound.
Me: It's like [VIETNAM] all over again.
Ben: Q&A.
Ben: Queers and [VIETNAM].
Me: ROFL
Ben: Also you can't put the acronym "[VIETNAM]" on the blog.
Me: Shit.
Ben: You will have to think of wholly plausible substitutes.
Me: I will call it [IRAQ].
Me: Shit, now that will read "I will call it [VIETNAM]."
Ben: Fuck!!!
Me: It's like a snake fucking itself in the ass.
Ben: I think you mean: the mouth?
Me: How are the rest of the stories in that book?
Me: I've only read those two and the one that was a ripoff of that Alfred Hitchcock episode except with a handjob.
Ben: Haha.
Ben: I have forgotten if the ones preceding the Dartower vampire story were any good.
Ben: The ones after it seem to be pretty okay to good.
Me: 1408?
Ben: I have barely begun that one.
Ben: Fortunately I have forgotten how the movie ended.
Ben: Also
Ben: I don't know if the movie was really based on the plot of the story at all.
Me: Is the main character a writer?
Ben: Ummmm.
Ben: Are you even listening to yourself?
Me: LOL how foolish.
Ben: I have noticed some distinct new themes in these latter stories.
Ben: 1) Dogs are so stupid, fuck dogs
Ben: 2) Quitting smoking
Ben: 3) Authors (j/k this is not a new theme)
Ben: 4) Divorce
Me: This is a marked change from his earlier writings such as The Stand, in which the dog was so smart it had its own pov section.
Ben: In the foreword King claims to have chosen the order of these stories at random
Ben: which seems hard to believe since like there are four stories in a row that are about divorced authors who have quit smoking.
Me: 14 dark tales of domestic unrest!
Ben: 14 tales of nicotine withdrawl and sheer loneliness after that bitch done took my money and left with nary a word!
Me: How long until you get to INSOMNIA, based on the movie by Christopher Nolan?
Ben: Holy shit, is this really the book that inspired the movie?
Ben: Good thing I have also forgotten how that one ends.
Ben: All I remember is the part where Al Capone is chasing Robin Williams across some logs.
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