Fairy Tale: a novel

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The crash came in 2006. It was summer vacation. I had a Shrimp League game at ten in the morning—hit two home runs and made an awesome catch. I came home just after noon and found my father already there, sitting in his chair and staring at the TV, where old-time movie stars were having a duel on some castle stairs. He was in his undershorts and sipping a white drink that smelled to me like straight Gilbey’s. I asked him what he was doing home. Los cuentos de hadas, que hoy en día se consideran bonitas historias para dormir, solían ser parte de las pesadillas. Las versiones que se encuentran en los libros para niños son a menudo versiones suavizadas de las parábolas crueles y espantosas que son las originales, cuyos "felices para siempre" están lejos de ser garantizados. Las hermanastras de Cenicienta, por ejemplo, mutilan sus propios pies en su desesperación por entrar en esa zapatilla de cristal. No muy diferente, la malvada madrastra de Blancanieves es castigada por sus fechorías haciéndola bailar con un par de zapatos de hierro al rojo vivo hasta que cae muerta.

You also need to think about loans, but only as a last resort—those loans’ll haunt you for a long time. Think scholarships. And play your sports, that’s also a road to scholarships, but mostly it’s grades. Grades, grades, grades. I don’t need to see you graduate valedictorian, but I need to see you in the top ten. Understand?” una vez, Stephen King se atrevió a escribir una novela llamada "Cuento de Hadas", tomando prestado de los cuentos clásicos que todos conocemos, tanto los estándares antiguos como los clásicos modernos, para poner su propia firma en un género fantástico dentro de una narrativa que abarca mundos con gigantes devoradores de hombres, zombis eléctricos, castillos y sirenas, duelos a muerte, un gobernante cruel y una bella princesa. Sin embargo, es un chico y su mascota quienes conquistan nuestro corazón, así como los esfuerzos pasados de King han desconcertado nuestra alma. Mr. Bowditch is an isolated, grumpy old man that doesn’t interact with the community. He also has an old dog named Radar that he loves with every piece of his crotchety heart.The book introduces us to Charlie when he's a young kid. As the book progresses, we see the maturity and growth he comes to terms with and is introduced to Howard Bowditch.

All the interactions, situations, events, and descriptions were exactly that of a dog and how a dog owner would react. I can imagine if you’re also a dog owner, you will feel the same way as you connect immediately with the dynamic duo of Charlie and Radar and the adventures that await them.This is the best Stephen King book I have read in some time. It's vintage King - satisfying and scary - a frightening mix of fantasy and reality. So the part of my heart that isn't shriveled and cold was really rooting for this kid to come out of this adventure with a not-dead pup. I kept thinking that it was all going to tie together into something more clever at the end, have a bigger meaning, be a metaphor for something, but it more or less just petered out. In the end, I actually think the slow beginning was the best part of the story. Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. The main character of Charlie is basically good with a bit of dark/rough in there to do what he needs to do when he is transported to the world of Empis. I wouldn’t call him a morally grey character but he does have to do actions he’ll struggle with later in life.

So. While I can't foresee this being one that I re-read, it is a wonderfully imagined book about a boy and his dog who travel to a magical land and fight evil. Like I didn’t know the rest of the bottle would be on the kitchen counter. And another one in the liquor cabinet. Or two. Or three. La segunda parte transcurre ya en el mundo de Empis. Un cuento de hadas al estilo primigenio, con toques de humor y con escenas duras, de esas que no se leen a los niños. Una princesa heredera camuflada de pastora, un gobernante malvado, insectos del tamaño de gatos, gigantes, zombis eléctricos, una zapatera muy especial, una familia real diezmada, un reino destruido, una ciudad peligrosa y Charlie, que viaja a ese mundo impulsado por su amor a Radar. A medida que se avanza en esta segunda parte, comprendemos el tiempo que King se ha tomado en la primera. Todo tiene su razón de ser. I didn't like this one as much as I loved King's other fantasy book, The Eyes of the Dragon, but that's more than likely just a "me" thing. At one point in the novel, Charlie Reade is in a course called America Today and his teacher, Mr. Masensik, asked Charlie for his opinion concerning the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Both of those shootings occurred in 2016 and the novel is set in April 2013 to February 2014, so those shootings would not have occurred yet.

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As if my imagination had been waiting for the question to be asked, I saw a vast deserted city—deserted but alive. I saw the empty streets, the haunted buildings, a gargoyle head lying overturned in the street. I saw smashed statues (of what I didn’t know, but I eventually found out). I saw a huge, sprawling palace with glass towers so high their tips pierced the clouds. Those images released the story I wanted to tell.” I’ve gone on too long, sorry for the ramble. I could continue, I love King (most anyway). I’ll end by saying for me this is a solid five stars and goes up there alongside my favorites of his which is saying mouthful. Ahora, con diecisiete años, Charlie encuentra dos amigos inesperados: una perra llamada Radar y Howard Bowditch, su anciano dueño. El señor Bowditch es un ermitaño que vive en una colina enorme, en una casa enorme que tiene un cobertizo cerrado a cal y canto en el patio trasero. A veces, sonidos extraños emergen de él. George Reade – “It’s hard when a good dog gets old. And when they get to the end of it…” He shook his head. “It tears your heart out.” Yes, George it does. And like Charlie, I would have absolutely gone down a creepy hole into the depths of the earth to a warped Grimm fairy tale version of Narnia if it would have given me a chance to save our dogs. The mayor cut a ribbon, Father Coughlin blessed the goddam thing, and that was that,” my father said one night. He was pretty drunk at the time. “Wasn’t much of a blessing for us, Charlie, was it?”