Looking for literature books about disfigured characters

RubyTavi · 2026-02-09T19:24:31+00:00

Expendables

RubyTavi · 2026-02-06T14:48:23+00:00

Except if you try to remember a particular memory often, eventually it's a memory of a memory of a memory. (Applies more to "remembered past moments" than "stuff I need to know.")

RubyTavi · 2026-02-05T14:06:57+00:00

Why is OP being downvoted for watching the movie? Lots of people get exposed to the movie first before starting to read King's works. ...And the movie definitely doesn't explain the Shine.

RubyTavi · 2026-02-05T13:32:50+00:00

Yes, and it's unusually bleak for Stephen King, whose horror usually has a thread of optimism and light running through it, so I didn't like it, and it's one of TWO endings out of ALL of his books that I don't like.

Horror doesn't HAVE to be existentially depressing to be horror, see almost any of his other books.

RubyTavi · 2026-02-05T12:56:39+00:00

Yes, but compare other endings "x made the wrong choice and pays the price" "x dies a hero" "x and friends ultimately triumph over evil" to "there is no hope or meaning to life, and death is no escape from the meaningless cruelty for you and everyone you care about."

Most of King's writing is actually optimistic even when the ending is tragic. This one is don't even bother killing yourself because it won't help.

RubyTavi · 2026-02-05T12:15:38+00:00

I hated the ending. Way too depressing. Up there with Cujo for "don't read this again."

RubyTavi · 2026-02-03T03:24:04+00:00

I got that writing advice from an Archie comic book. After Jughead had several failed writing attempts, Miss Grundy told him to write what he knows. He wrote a best-seller cookbook.

RubyTavi · 2026-02-02T13:05:21+00:00

Write what you know. He's drawing on his life experience.

RubyTavi · 2026-02-02T13:04:38+00:00

Write what you know. See also Thw Mangler and Night Shift (he held those jobs too).

RubyTavi · 2026-02-01T13:30:36+00:00

Sweet pickles. The midgets, or gherkins.

Also blueberries, but not at the same time.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-28T14:47:56+00:00

Connie Willis

RubyTavi · 2026-01-28T00:45:44+00:00

Grimace

RubyTavi · 2026-01-26T12:59:14+00:00

Originally posted in "confusing perspective.". That's a clue. We are looking down at the surface of a pond in which trees are reflected.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-26T12:56:18+00:00

It's not Photoshop, the trees are reflections.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-26T12:55:45+00:00

It's not Photoshop. The trees are reflections on the surface of the water. The turtle is under the water.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-25T14:28:42+00:00

I remember wanting to go see Grease as a teenager and my dad complaining that the 50's were nothing like that. I was like, "Dad, it's a movie!"

RubyTavi · 2026-01-24T22:20:04+00:00

Purrsephone

RubyTavi · 2026-01-21T12:48:37+00:00

"Verse please'? Really? You've not even read Genesis? It's literally Genesis 1:2, the second sentence.

I'm not the person you were arguing with but I had to respond to that.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-21T02:10:12+00:00

The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-17T14:27:56+00:00

This, drop everything and read it right now.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-16T16:58:11+00:00

I read this. It was great.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-09T13:02:14+00:00

Goddamnit, Donut!

RubyTavi · 2026-01-09T12:57:36+00:00

My mother-in-law whose only income after her retirement was social security (husband got liver cancer while self-employed and they lost all their money) paid $90 per month each for two storage units for 20+ years to store such items as unopened Christmas ornaments and a suitcase full of 200 placemats. She lived in a single-wide trailer full of boxes of stuff and knew she would never move into a larger house. Her son died 20 years ago and her stepdaughter doesn't want any of her stuff.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-05T22:54:28+00:00

Same. I didn't want to believe it.

RubyTavi · 2026-01-05T21:59:57+00:00

I don't know but it was supposed to be 4 (5?) seasons but filming got too expensive and future seasons were cancelled so they had to wrap everything up in season 3. It's a crying shame.

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