Reading the Chunksters discussion

Please share your thoughts. The events are really getting their momentum, and this is the moment in the book where I literally found it unputdownable and engrossing.

P.S. Just a reminder that our next contemporary read is a themed read about India/Asia. Later this week, I will encourage you to start nominating books for our next read. So get ready for a very turbulent emotional ride in Under the Dome, and look to a new read!

Thanks for posting this Zulfiya, it totally flew out of my head to do it when I was posting other things.

Hey, Kristi, it always happens to the best of us. It is a flu season, and I am sure we all feel somewhat blase:-)

My notes are somewhat sketchy for this chapter. The only thing that is worth mentioning is King's backslashing and criticism of CNN. It is true, though, the quality of this once reputable channel is deteriorating in my opinion, and it gradually is turning into a scoop queen instead of the news channel like BBC. Or maybe it is something between King and CNN :-)

I really liked Rusty's effort to apprehend and stop Big Jim, but it is obvious that he is a very good man, an excellent Physician's Assistant, but he is not a politician. Otherwise he would not have ended up in the cell together with Dale Barbara. Oh, well, people of Chester's Mill will have to act quickly and rely on themselves.

And finally, I hate when people say that King is not literary enough. One of the passages in this chapter was phenomenal in its serenity and its augury of darkness and disaster for Chester Mill. Section 16 ... So let us go then, you and I, while the evening spreads against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table ...

These are the line from one of the most challenging poems of the 20th century - The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock by T.S. Eliot.

I think he uses these quotations from Eliot, Fowles, Salinger in his novels and other literary powerhouses as a code for his fellow readers who are voracious in their reading tastes and read everything - high-brow and mainstream fiction alike. And do not write off King as a horror writer - he is much more :-)

I didn't find too much to be excited about in this section, though I'm bothered that Rusty ended up in jail I guess we all should have seen it coming. Not surprised that Big Jim is thinking of murdering his own son ... though it's true Junior won't be long for this world anyway, but Big Jim isn't concerned about easing his son's pain but rather what Junior might blab when he isn't thinking correctly. Though Junior may have already said too much.

I have a bad feeling about the plan to break Rusty and Barbie out of jail...

Finally, excited that Andi has finally gotten her hands on Big Jim's secrets in the envelope, and that she was with-it enough to put 2+2 together about where the envelope came from. What a cliff hanger to end this section with!

Zulfiya - I didn't recognize the quote, but I'm not surprised! King is a master of literature of all types, and has references to many genres of literature in his books. I agree that he's much more than a horror writer!

Why Andrea did't tell Julia about Vader files?It's crazy