André Oliveira
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For those who have read the book: does it have spoilers for other Stephen King books? If yes, which books? Thank you very much!
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MICHAEL SCIBETTA
I thought the twin girls were a direct reference to The Shining.
Christina
There are no spoilers for other King books, just tiny easter eggs that fit really well into the story if you don't know what they are.
Nancy
MAYBE Salem's Lot. If you catch the reference. It's a quick reference, there and then gone in just a sentence or two.
Eeps
Its got a spoiler! Its amazingly narcisstic that King wrote an entire book just to drop a one liner about Donald Trump. We get it: you hate him. Sorry about Hillary, move on.
Agustin Maggi
I also spotted several intertextual references to other King books et all. Certainly Salem’s Lot mentioned by Orphan Annie (another funny note if you are into musicals). Then the twins are referred to as emerging from an “old horror movie”, a funny wink to the Shining movie. The whole scene with William Smith must also be connected to The Dead Zone and its protagonist John Smith, not just through the names but the topic...
Elly
Spoilers - no, easter eggs - few. And it's always fun to find them~
SassafrasfromAmazon
There were no spoilers. If you haven’t read the majority of his books, you wouldn’t get any information about other books with any specificity. For others who have read most of his books, any little nuggets that may vaguely remind a reader of a former book is too subtle to be of any consequence.
Beth
Toward the end of the book, the bank teller is Sandra Robichaux. Maybe related to the Robichauxs in "Storm of the Century"?
Lisa
No spoilers, just a few Easter eggs!
Steve
The Institute would have improved vastly with a reference to Carrie and The Shining! Sadly, no connections to other King-o-verse works are included in this one.
Brian Cole
It definitely fits right in to the King-o-verse. If you've finished the Dark Tower series, you can sense very clearly this is going on in conjunction with events in those books. Also the aforementioned reference to Salem's Lot. But outright spoilers? No, you're fine.
Jonathan
They do make some references to Walk Ins (The Dark Tower) & Salem's Lot.
Diane
No spoilers for other books and I've read them all.
Sharon
The three different coloured vans was a reference to the vans in The Regulators book.
Weez
The concept of a shadowy, secret, facility where children with psychic powers are taken was also a theme in Firestarter, and a character in this novel makes a vague reference to Salem's Lot but I didn't notice any spoilers.
M
There's a cool reference to "the Outsider".
Dawn
Even if there were minor references that are mentioned below they certainly wouldn't be considered spoilers. You're free to read this one.
Marco Baiocco
No, not spoilers. References, there might be one or two, as usual in King's books.
Not ruining any other reading, though.
Not ruining any other reading, though.
Lisa Holyk
It also makes reference to Hearts in Atlantis. Kept thinking of the low men coming.
Steven
I found the comment about The Ramones interesting since their music was used in Pet Semetary and...Richie Ramone is still alive and well :0)
Rafael Bacigalupo
Several easter eggs related to all of King's work related to psychic powers:
Dead Zone: able to see the future and doing something to change it
Shining, Carrie, Firestarter, etc: telepathic, telekinetic powers
You also get the feel of camaraderie between children / teens from IT, The Body.
The lights that the children see when they're close to death may have some relation with the lights from IT.
Also mention of Shawshank prison and most towns mentioned in the New England area from all of King's books.
Dead Zone: able to see the future and doing something to change it
Shining, Carrie, Firestarter, etc: telepathic, telekinetic powers
You also get the feel of camaraderie between children / teens from IT, The Body.
The lights that the children see when they're close to death may have some relation with the lights from IT.
Also mention of Shawshank prison and most towns mentioned in the New England area from all of King's books.
The_coder
The twin girls from the Shining and Salems lot
Leah
but it does have a strong connection to Everything's Eventual - the story in the short story collection by that name.
Lauryn Martin
No, I don't think any of his books give spoilers for others.
Hex
I suppose, it's the backstory of "Captain Trips" (security Charles Campion, manages escape from secret lab, and spread Project Blue virus). Some kind of Maureen words, - There have been plenty of others, just in my time at the Institute. You'd say there was no rhyme or reason to any of it-six years ago it was an Argentinian poet who swallowed lye-and there's none that i can see, but there must be, becouse the world is still here
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