The Body

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We’re entering the depths of summer now, and I recommend giving this a look if it’s been a while since your last read. Gordie Lachance and his three friends set off along the railway tracks on a quest, determined to become famous by officially finding the boy's body.

But, even though I hate to see things turn out in such a fashion for those characters, it makes sense to me. Set in 1960, the story takes place in the small town of Castle Rock, Maine, where twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends are ready to set out to substantiate the rumours that the body of a missing boy has turned up near the next town. Lardass" Hogan, who has been picked-on his whole life for being overweight, seems to be winning the contest until, having drunk a full bottle of castor oil beforehand, vomits all over the contestant next to him. The next morning, the boys stumble upon a small pond and partake in a swim, but jump out in horror when they find that the pond is teeming with leeches. This one at least seemed to mirror some of the lives of the boys so I could kind of understand its inclusion, but the erotica part of it was still pretty unpleasant.Stephen King did a wonderful job of writing this book about characters in a way that made them seem completely genuine and authentic. New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—is now available as a stand-alone publication.

Mi sento stranissima, sarà che mi ha riportato ai miei di 12 anni, alla mia adolescenza, a tutti quegli amici che ora sono un piacevole ricordo, ma che in quegli anni erano la tua famiglia. Apparently my original review defaults to something attributed to “Robin Waterfield” instead of Stephen King.

Stephen made his first professional short story sale ("The Glass Floor") to Startling Mystery Stories in 1967. There is mention of using a playing card against the spoke of a bicycle that instantly brought back times to where I used to do something similar to my bicycle. Also, I gotta say; I haven't resonated with a book quote like the one below this deeply in a long time. Does my comparison mean that Gordie and Chris (and by extension Mike and Will) are supposed to be lovers?

It solidifies the truth about the friendships of our childhood being the one's we remember the most fondly. When Vern tells Gordon, Chris, and Teddy about what he heard, they decide to find the body themselves, so they can report it and get their names in the paper. Chris had it worst (like Beverly), but Gordie's fate felt similar to Bill's - mainly because his parents weren't capable of taking care of him after the loss of another child. His desire to get away from Castle Rock and out of the mill's shadow seemed to me to be my best part, and I could not just leave him to sink or swim on his own.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Her parents, Guy and Nellie Pillsbury, had become incapacitated with old age, and Ruth King was persuaded by her sisters to take over the physical care of them.