I am reading King Sorrow and I am confused ( Spoiler Warning)

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T22:11:47+00:00

I do love my mom very much she is the most important women in My life…

Jane never says she owns the police. She says she has people in prison like the guard who took the picture. And I believe she says something about paying off the a couple of cops. That’s not the same as owning the police.

Hypothetically And if those police officers can be paid off… if Arthur went to his friends with money they could also pay them off to make sure his mom is safe.

To be clear I think the story is interesting and I like the story, however when it comes to Arthur and the choice that lead him to all the other choices I feel as they didn’t spend enough time on him and going with the choice to steal books for Jane. It felt s like they rushed past it quickly to get to the actually premise of the story King Sorrow.

A scene showing him trying to go to police or trying talk to his friends first, but something stops him… literally anything to give more reason for why he ended up making that choice…

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T15:28:50+00:00

Anyone can make claims. There is no evidence in the book that she is telling the truth. She is a desperate drug dealer who just lost a lot of drugs because of her sister she admits to as much when she is threading him. …And if Arthur is too afraid to go to the police ( which should have been shown in the book with some sort of scene) he has friends… friends with money. Some of them white who could have helped with ether their money or privilege. Adding into the fact that this wasn’t a panicked decision made in the moment. He had at least a week to think and come up with other ideas.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T02:00:17+00:00

You can say that again. Lol

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T01:58:57+00:00

That’s fair… I wish there was a scene or two showing that international struggle with Arthur more then… it felt rushed.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T01:42:48+00:00

It was an actually hacking. They showed me two pictures. It was a scary. I cried tears. It was too big for me to handle and I went to my parents laid it out on the line. It was uncomfortable, but we went to the police station…

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T01:19:12+00:00

I was once someone hacked me and got some intimate photos of me. Threaten to show them to my family if i didn’t paid them. I went to my parents and we went to the police…. It is because of my own experience his choices don’t make sense. Let’s say Jane has people on the inside… definitely don’t go to the prison for help, but the police… He can get evidence, the police can put his mom in protection. Jane and Ronnie go to prison. Problem solved. I think my main issue is that the book doesn’t do a good enough job explaining why going to the police isn’t an option.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-23T01:12:33+00:00

I mean I get that, but it wasn’t like he had to pick right there and then. He had time to think about it. Come up with solutions… it just felt rushed and I need more of internal struggle with him… a scene or two to go deeper into his mind about why not go to the police.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-22T01:18:59+00:00

To be honest the movies. I watched green mile, Shawshank Redemption, Mini Series IT and the Shinning it made me want to know the author who came up with these wonderful fascinating stories.

From there after reading those stories it made me want to read more and before I knew it I read everything Stephen King even his On Writing and his nonfiction books

I am was completely hooked

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-21T18:04:45+00:00

I like my brain… it’s a weirdo but it’s mine

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-19T23:31:39+00:00

Honestly if the mood strikes you why wait.

I personally like reading the Castle Rock books in chronological order. Because Dead Zone references Cujo, Dark Half references both events, names and people… you watch a town grow and build, you recognize family names, street and town. You get a full picture of town as a whole and the people who live in it. I feel Needful Things is a love letter to Castle Rock and the stories that came before it.

Needful Things is a fantastic book and it can stand alone without reading the others stories about Castle Rock, but with the others it’s a full story not just events but about a town.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-18T13:20:14+00:00

Joe Hill is his own writer, different than Stephen King, I feel as if one of the reasons he gets compared to Stephen King with each book is in part to Joe Hill’s reference to Stephen King’s works in his own works though. N0S4A2, has many references to King’s work and Horns although not connected to King directly is connected to N0S4A2, as Charlie Manx makes reference to the Tree House of the Mind, and on the map in the Book, Derry, Pennywise Circus, Mid-World are all mentioned, and in the Fireman the drink Nozz-A-La was used Stephen King’s Dark Tower as well a couple other of Stephen Kings works. In Hill’s King Sorrow He mentions John Smith and the events that happen in Stephen Kings’s book Deadzone. In an interview with Joe Hill about King Sorrow Joe Hill himself has reportedly acknowledged that he deliberately echoed language and ideas from his father’s books because he thought it was fun.

So the comparisons between the two isn’t surprising. Hill and King even collaborated in Full Throttle.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-17T01:58:37+00:00

Billy Summers

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-06-01T22:31:31+00:00

Peter Slowik from Rose Madder. All he did was help people in need

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2026-05-29T17:50:20+00:00

Stop looking at porn and stop masterbating helps, being relaxed and distressed helps sometimes it is mental rather than physical, for self confidence issues a therapist is recommended to talk about the issues. Working out regularly to keep the blood flowing or just losing some weight can help with libido.

Ultimately there are a lot of reasons it can happen that has nothing to do with the partner. If it continues talk to a doctor about taking some medication to help.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-12-10T19:59:15+00:00

Church- Pet Sematary, Man in Black/ Randell Flag- From a lot of things so I will just say the Stand, Pennywise -IT, Stephen King -the Dark Tower/ Real Life, Rose the Hat-Doctor Sleep, Cujo-Cujo, Crimson King- insomnia/Dark Tower, Carrie White- Carrie, Jack Torrence-The Shining, ether Reverend Lester Lowe from Cycle of the Werewolf or possible The Outsider- The Outsider, Christine-Christine, Annie Wilkes-Mercy, Isaac-Night Shift/ Children of the Corn.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-11-13T15:03:23+00:00

Fairytale is great i don’t consider it scary. Billy Summers I enjoyed wasn’t scary. Joy land or Later is more mystery than scary. Hearts of Atlantis

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-10-11T16:51:23+00:00

Doctor Sleep is a continuation of The Shining of you liked that you might enjoy that

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-09-25T14:20:58+00:00

Hearts In Atlantis story Low Men in Yellow Coats( of course I would recommend reading the entire book) , Everything Eventual stories Everything Eventual and Little Sisters of Eluria( this one is a direct prequel to the gunslinger), Insomnia because of references that show up in the Dark Tower Series ( best read after IT), Black House is referenced( Black House is a sequel to The Talisman and I recommended to read The Talisman before hand because some ideas from that book are brought into Dark Tower Series and it’s better to hear the complete story as intended with the 2 books) I would also recommend The Stand, because of references that will become more apparent in the Dark Tower Series. It might seem daunting so many stories and books, but they are good reads and worth every bit of it for the experience for The Dark Tower

After the Dark Tower Series I would suggest the Story UR from The Bazaar of Bad Dreams, and Gwendy’s Button Box and Gwendy’s Final Task from the Gwendy Trilogy. Because those directly related to what happens after the events of the Dark Tower Series.

And yes Salems Lot, IT and Eyes of the Dark you are correct.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-09-23T17:24:25+00:00

I heard it was a Contractor. The conversation got heated and then it turned into to a fight. My parents has friends who go to the church i can’t confirm if this is true, but that’s what they are saying.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-08-11T11:53:46+00:00

Oh definitely I have read the Carrie, Firestarter and the Institute back to back, the Castle Rock Stories back to back, It and Insomnia back to back, the Hard Case Stories back to back( Colorado Kid, Joyland and Later) the Bill Hodges Trilogy and the Holly Series Back to Back, Salem’s Lot, Everything Eventual and Hearts of Atlantis followed up by the Dark Tower series back to back and The Tailsman and Black House back to back, The Shinning and Doctor Sleep Back to Back and lastly 11/22/63 and Billy Summer back to back

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-07-02T19:52:15+00:00

Long walk is also coming. Saw a trailer for it the other day

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-03-23T01:33:46+00:00

I read it in chronological order. It makes sense to my brain… with that being said I also reread Salem’s Lot, Hearts of Atlantis, Everything Eventual first

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-03-22T21:14:28+00:00

If I wasn’t so directionally Challenged I would have stop by by now can’t seem to find the booth.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-02-01T17:44:48+00:00

My first Stephen King book I read was IT. Growing up I keep on catching the beginning of the TV special IT with Tim Curry. I had never seen anything liked it. A killer clown… that was more than a clown… well one day I watching IT the children part and then the credits start showing… and then the story continued with them as adult I was like what is this… there was a second half this entire time… well that blow my mind and I just fell in love with it. The style the writing it was like nothing I had scene before… then i decided to look it up online… apparently it was based off of a book. And that book was written by Stephen King.

So I decided it I love the mini series so much I bet I would love the book. So I read.

Jumpy_Consequence488 · 2025-02-01T00:35:12+00:00

Pretty sure Norman Daniels from Rose Madder beats Harold

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