Has anyone read "The Talisman" by Stephen King?

[Rocknrule]

If you have, remember the segment in the middle of the book that involved a Christian boy's home run by a Pat Robertson-esque fellow named Sunlight Gardener? He also had several teenage boys working for him, all of whom were real assholes and ruthless bullies. After reading that part of the book, I realized that America is becoming like the Sunlight Home. Bush/Robertson/Dobson/Cheney, etc. are the Sunlight Gardeners of America, and Bush's supporters are the Sonny Singers and Heck Basts.

Does anyone else see that parallel?

[graywarrior]

1. I need to read that again.

I forget everything that was in that book.

[amitten]

2. That's a fantastic book--one of my favorites. And yes, I do see

the parallels, though the thugs in the book are a little more nightmarish.

A little.

[beyurslf]

3. Oh bushco still has time to show us they are scarier.

[Rocknrule]

6. Give our thugs time...

:scared:

I wouldn't be surprised if Bush is a gargoyle demon in some parallel world like in that book

[tmooses]

4. The name Sunlight Gardener reminds me of the "Sunlight

Dialogues" by John Gardener. Coincidence?

[TheDebbieDee]

5. Isn't that the book he wrote with Peter Straub?

This young boy keeps bouncing back and forth between two universes or dimensions?

In one of the dimensions, the boy's uncle keeps trying to hurt him or control him in some way!

I don't remember any Sunshine Gardner, though.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

13. That's the one

Do you recall where he was when Wolf was killed? That was the home for wayward boys run by SG.

[tulsakatz]

14. yes it is!!

[yorkiemommie1]

7. i've read that book several times

i remember that segment. what was the name of that 'wagon' over on the other side that was pursuing the boy? i always think of that driver as being Cheney!

[Rocknrule]

8. The term for otherworldly counterparts was "twinner"

I imagine Hitler would be W's twinner

If only we had a Jack Sawyer and a Wolf to save us all

[yorkiemommie1]

9. Morgan Sloat = Cheney

one of the best books i've ever read and re-read.

yeah... if only....

[Rocknrule]

10. Sonny Singer = quintessential "love Bush or leave it" Republican

[Rocknrule]

17. And Ferd Janklow = Dan Rather

[Glorfindel]

16. "Wild Child" if I recall correctly...

and when Stephen King was run down and almost killed by a van by the side of the road, my FIRST THOUGHT was, "Did it have "Wild Child" written on it? Life imitates art, and art imitates life. Have you seen King's "Kingdom Hospital"? The man is a genius!

[im10ashus]

11. Put the King down!!

Step away from the King. :-)

[tulsakatz]

15. haha.........

that's cute!!

He has a new book out that I want to read called The Cell. Apparently there is some kind of message that comes through people's cell phones that turns them into zombies or something like that.

[tulsakatz]

12. I read it a long time ago.........

...I still have the book, I'll have to go back and read it again.

Although King and I usually agree on evangelist types. They usually turn out to be bad guys in his books and I am 100% agreeable with that!

[DemonGoddess]

18. Yep

absolutely wonderful story tho ain't it? I've read it many, many times.

[Rocknrule]

19. They even engage in Abu Gharab-style torturing near the end of that part

threatening to burn a guy's balls off