The Body

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There are lyrical parts and trademark-King unflinching gory parts, and social commentary without the slightest sugar-coating. 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.

Subsequently, one of the gang members reports the body as an anonymous tip, and the gang members severely beat all four boys. Halliburton, the town truant officer, was always showing up at Chris's house, driving his old black Chevrolet with the NO RIDERS sticker in the corner of the windshield. So, obviously after reading Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and realizing that it was just as good as the movie, I was pretty excited for The Body as well.

He's reminiscing about the summer of 1960 when along with three close friends, all on the cusp of becoming teenagers, set out to find the body of missing Ray Brower, who is their age and rumored to have been hit by a train. Gordie also tells how after he'd become successful he caught a glimpse of Ace Merrill in their hometown. Carrie, which takes place over ten years later but was written eight years earlier, features a reference to a Teddy Duchamp, but he is clearly not the same person as the Teddy of the novella. Chris was marked up every two weeks or so, bruises on his cheeks and neck or one eye swelled up and as colorful as a sunset, and once he came to school with a big clumsy bandage on the back of his head. Obviously, it reminded me a lot of It as well as Stranger Things, at least when it came to Gordie and Chris (as I said.

You always know the truth, because when you cut yourself or someone else with it, there's always a bloody show. The book follows the movie "Stand By Me", with some added information that wasn't exactly navigated in the movie. King was the recipient of America's prestigious 2014 National Medal of Arts and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for distinguished contribution to American Letters. Such a wonderful story that we can relate to the characters' lives and their interaction with each other. What is deceptively simple King wrangles into magic: a simple journey to see a dead body is transformed into one of the most powerful coming of age stories ever told, one against which the sub-genre is still measured.

A lot of it is sad (the missing kid who died, the descriptions of the kids' home lives, Gordon's thoughts about death).