August 2017 Group Listen: Stephen King's Bag of Bones

[Lena]

Brutal ending?!?! Shit! I'm 92% in.

[Latasha]

Well I thought it was. It was awful and heartbreaking and uncalled for. And so wrong, so bad.

[Lena]

Finished!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
(view spoiler)[ the ending wasn't as bad as imagined. I thought it was going to be like The Myst and he ends up drowning her at bath time months later on Christmas Eve. (hide spoiler)]

[Greg]

The ending I didn't think was too brutal or terrible or maybe it's just because I saw a lot of things coming. After the end of Cujo and the Stand just to name a couple we'll just say fuck you King how are we gonna wrap up this tale with a shit show.

(view spoiler)[ I am grateful he did not kill the little girl in the end. It would have felt trite and made the whole novel seam wasteful. (hide spoiler)]

[Lena]

Wasteful? Maybe, maybe. But I think it also would have said that curses never die even if you kill the mouth that screamed them.

[Greg]

I guess I hadn't thought of it that way but...

(view spoiler)[his connection to the family blood line seamed pretty stretched to me as it was. (hide spoiler)]

[Lena]

Was it just revenge or was certain, with her otherworldly powers, that there is such a thing as bad blood? Most drawn back to the town had dark hearts. The MC certainly felt the compulsion to return, to name his daughter K, what part of him felt that hook?

[Latasha]

I agree with Greg about the stretch of a connection. I guess it bothered me so much cause I'm sensitive about those things? idk. I didn't see it coming at all. I was just biting my fingernails and hanging on. I think it was revenge.

[Lena]

Could you see Mile and Mattie together? An HEA? Not in a horror. I knew one was going to die, or even two. (view spoiler)[The child dying would have had the most emotional impact. Mattie dying the least. That's why it was a surprise to me. (hide spoiler)]

[Latasha]

Not after the picnic. It was too perfect.