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ryan_howse January 23 2011, 03:04:13 UTC
I guess people not expecting the meta--people who'd started on the first three books--could certainly be thrown off by meeting King, but it's one of my favorite scenes in the series.

And the newspaper at the end! So good.

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lookingland January 23 2011, 18:17:28 UTC
i think knowing definitely colored the way i read the series, for good or for ill, though i tend to think it was good to know it was coming because then i was prepared for it and also paying attention to things i might have otherwise dismissed. it's impossible to know what my reaction might have been if i hadn't known, but i think the scene was still so well-executed that i wouldn't have thrown a shoe about it.

i have to wonder about the description of the "memory" of King chopping wood and the spiders ~ true or untrue? very curious.

and i agree about the newspaper (the rest of the journal sort of lulls you into a place of yadda yadda yadda and then bang.

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