October - Guess the book/story quote game

But he did not, could not. An awful guilt rose in him at the thought. He held her, feeling the soft, steady drag on his arms and back. She was a big girl.

Is it The Float from Skeleton Crew?

(Crosses his fingers.... think's he's got it!)

yeah, but in my book it's called The raft

I thought it was The Raft when it was adapted for Creepshow 2 and The Float in Skeleton Crew? Probably I'm criss-crossing the titles.

(Oh yeah: I'll come up with a new quote when I get home from work...)

yup you got them backwards, I knew what you meant :)

Okay, I think this one will be easy. Here goes:

The horror was a crawling thing which must have been cast up by a previous wave. It dragged a wet, gleaming body laboriously along the sand. It was about four feet long and about four yards to the right.

Lobstrosties! The Drawing of the Three

Dod-a-chuck

Yeah. I knew a Dark Tower book was too easy. I'm not much a fan of the series myself, but The Drawing of the Three was pretty good anyway. And man, I'll never forget those lobstorities.

dude how can you not like the dark tower series? the last book kinda sucked, but still.

Ah, I still love Stephen King's writing, but I'm not a fan of 'Dark Fantasy' (which to me is horror but where the heroes also have supernatural powers).

For the same reason I love Clive Barker's short stories, but not so much his novels (Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show and Everville and Imajica).

ack! Love Barker, love him to death. Ok, as soon as my client leaves I'll find a quote and post it.

Yes, that was pretty much the bottom line, wasn't it? And if that meant following orders, so be it. This little interlude, which had started off being funny in a nice way, had suddenly gotten funny in a way that wasn't so nice...

I need to check in more frequently. The lobstrosities was the first time I've known one right of the bat in ages. Beeg's on the other hand, no clue. Clearly it's someone getting told to do harm to someone else, and I feel like I should know it, but... I got nothin.

is it The Regulators?

no, but good guess :)

what about Misery??

it fits doesnt it?

it does, but that's not it. now that I think about it, this scenario fits in a lot of his books.

The Long Walk?

which is kinda random.

no, that's not it.

Blaze maybe?

Desperation?

Ok, I can't stand it. I'll guess The Stand

Quartzite is right, Desperation

(*giggles* "can't stand it, The stand")

I love that book, but I'm not that hot at remembering quotes...

Sometimes, like now, the ivy looked like a grotesque giant hand ridged with great veins which had sprung up out of the ground to grip the building. She approached it with dragging feet.

Carrie

Got it in one. Good job. Guess that puts the ball straight back into your court.

Just a suggestion since it's only the 4th day of October and there's already 28 posts why don't we seperate the game into two week intervals or 'half-months' for us people with dreadfully slow computers...just a suggestion.
This game has become so popular!

hi becky, do you want to pick out the next quote?

Yeah! Soon as I get home I'll put one up...unless you beat me to the punch beeg.

Good news and bad news. My sister just had her baby (good) so I won't be able to post (bad) because I'll be very busy with the new niece, Lillian Reace. I hope you don't hold it against me! So beeg......your up, again.

welcome to the world Lillian Reace and happy birthday.

"In any case she might well have gone on until dawn's early light and it would have gotten her a lot of hot air in one hand and big pile of jack shit in the other."

(I really like guessing better than posting)

Gerald's Game?

no, not Gerald's game

Dolores Clarborne?

not Dolores either

Tommyknockers perhaps?

no, not that either, it's a newer book.

Hi guys.

In the middle of beeg's annoyingly clever quote (said with much love) I wanted to pose a question.

Not only am I a part of LibraryThing but also GoodReads (whose SK group is not as cool as ours) they do this thing that every month a SK book is chosen and everyone reads/re-reads it and does discussion, yadda yadda. Which is pretty cool.

And I know that there have been points where I've been thinking "well I wonder what so-and-so thinks of this book or that part."

I just thought that it would be something cool to do and also bring our little community disgustingly closer.

Any thoughts?

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and my next guess is that head full of marbles...Lisey.

and CandieBelle wins

ok my quote is...

Its like Alice in Wonderland, only the Nine Inch Nails version.

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and everyone say their thoughts on my "reading" post above. ty.

Rose Madder?

(An SK book group might be cool. Until we hit those Dark Tower books anyway...)

well I vote for starting with the first book Carrie since I want to read them over in order.

nope :)

and i think everyone is aware of how i havent read the DT books, so this will make me read them.

and beeg i was wondering how to get the first book out it since on the other side it seems that the admin is picking the books but going in order is perfect. i just dont know how to start. should I just make a new topic now that its the beginning of October, labeled something like SK book of October- Carrie?

suggestions from any? from all?

Black House?

And seems like just starting a thread is the best idea. It will evolve as you go. You might as well just jump in. :-)

The Regulators? That sounds like fun CandiBelle, I haven't read some of King's books in decades years!

yes it is the Regulators. shame on the others. it seems my clues are always from there. I just love that book so much.

ok the thread is up and ready for some moving and shaking. im going to get my Carrie book today from the library and hopefully all will feel the urge to join in.

Woohoo I got one, I got one *does the dance of joy* now in honor of all the haunted house books I have been reading lately I will submit this quote, hopefully it will take more than an hour for someone to get it!

The house was alive. He knew this, could feel its awareness reaching out from the boards and the slumping roof, could feel it pouring in rivers from the black sockets of its windows. The idea of approaching that terrible place filled him with dismay; the idea of actually going inside filled him with inarticulate horror.

'Salem's Lot! (I hope...)

Naw, that's Salem's Lot - jseger got it. ....or if it's not, it's Needful Things.
That's the Marston house, I remember reading something from King about how he was inspired by The Haunting of Hill House.

I'm pretty sure beeg's right. That's Black House. It's got Peter Straub written all over it.

C'mon Angelikat. Out with it or there's going to be a rumble. :-) (Watch us all be wrong...)

LOL who cares, you got my back, and that rocks.

I think everyone before me took the good guesses, but Im just going to thought out there...Bag of Bones.

No, not any of those books, although they were all good guesses.
It kind of does sound like Black House doesn't it, but this book was written ten years before that one.

The Talisman? I still think it sounds like Straub...

yeah, Talisman *ready to rumble*

LMAO, beeg.

(Dear God, I've started some sort of literary street gang...stand down, beeg, stand down)

Nope, not The Talisman.

*runs quickly from beeg*

It wouldn't be Secret Window, Secret Garden would it? I'm taking that "ten years before Black House" pretty seriously as a hint...

Somehow, I don't think a literary street gang is going to cause me to lose any sleep.....;)

Ok, There was another haunted house in a short story - took me a while to find it. It grows on you from Nightmares and Dreamscapes. (it's the one with the crazy rich guy who keeps adding onto his house and his even crazier wife.)

No, it isn't either of those short stories, and the ten years earlier comment was a hint. Unca Stevie has a thing for haunted houses, or Bad Places if you prefer, he likes to scatter them around in alot of his books.

ok 10 year before Black house...
The waste lands?

ding, ding, ding......it is The Waste Lands, IMO the best of the dark tower books. Your turn beeg.

Nice job, beeg. Way to represent...

*high fives the Bent*

"A kid in this place would stand out like a rose in a patch of poison ivy, if you know what I mean."

Hearts in Atlantis when they're at the bar?

nuh-uh

Is that the first DT book... The Gunslinger?

nope

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon?

I haven't read the book yet (maybe it could be a group read if that works out?), but it's not gonna stop me from guessing my favorite of guesses: Blaze!

Not The Girl - (didn't love that book at all)
or Blaze, LOL Jesger, you need a couple more favorite guesses.

There's a bar in one of the later DT books - The Dixie Pig. I'll guess Song of Susannah.

nope, not a Dark Tower book

Im guessing The Shinning. idk.

and jseger the group read will work out.

not The Shinning either

here's some more:

"if a kid got snatched, someone probably came along in a car and snatch him. No kidnaper's in here, I can tell you that much."

The Library Policeman??

edited because I guessed Hearts in Atlantis, which has already been guessed.

Was there a short story about the Low Men? Or were they in the Library Policeman?

not a short story

How about Insomnia?

Zzzzzz huh? what? oh, no, not Insomnia

what about It?

which is a crappy guess.

The Dead Zone maybe?

Laughs at the very idea of a Maxton moldy oldie snatching any kid big enough to ride a bike. The kid would probably break the guy over his knee like a dry stick.

How funny. Even with the additional quote, it still sounds like Blaze...

#81 - I think you were thinking of Low Men in Yellow Coats from Hearts in Atlantis.

it's NOT Blaze

LOL! get another favorite guess.

Oh! Is it Popsy from Nightmares and Dreamscapes?

no, not a short story from any book, not a DT book. Not too old, not too new, not every ones favorite either.

Have we had Black House yet?

and Jody wins!

Yay! Thank you. Here's my line:

"Don't they say it's the squeaky wheel that always gets the grease? And that's our ______, isn't it? The squeaky wheel."

For some reason, I'm guessing The Shining. I'm listening to that right now and I seem to remember something like that.

im guessing Insomnia

I'm always amazed (at myself) from all the reading I do, I don't always stop and think about what's being said. Like "the squeaky wheel always get the grease." Which is code for the one who yells the loudest gets the most attention. Ok back to your regular scheduled SK quote.

*thumps head on desk*

Ha! I know this one! Fill in the blank is Jessie. Gerald's Game

Ealaindraoi is right, it's Gerald's Game. It's not one of my favourite books but that passage where Jessie's parents are arguing about her and her Dad knows she can hear them is one of the best bits of the book.

Yeah, I like that part of Gerald's Game - and the bit about 'getting the grease' and what happens later. One of those connections that you think about later.

My Quote:
"I don't know," I said. Now I have a temper, which I have not always been able to control - a gift from my mother's side, I think. But I have struggled womanfully with it as applies to -----. I could feel it straining its leash, however.

I've been away for awhile and looks like a missed a ton of good stuff both on this thread and the Carrie one. I'm guessing here, but it sounds kind of like Misery. I think, however, that might be a bit too obvious.

Nope, not Misery.

Rose Madder?

Not Rose Madder.

Dolores Claiborne? She talks to the reader that way I think.

ETA: Triple posted, sorry.

Not Dolores.

what about Firestarter?

Not Firestarter.

WAG - Bag of Bones?

Not BoB.

Carrie?

Not Carrie.

No guesses??? Time for a hint, I guess.
This quote is a bit tricky because it's in the first person. Most of this book is written in the third person - but the quote is from a journal /diary entry.

Needful Things perhaps?

what about the Regulators.

*i love that book so much*

which doesnt make sense with the hint but may fit the quote.

No and No.
;)

I'd never have a Regulators/Desperation quote, CandiBelle - I don't like those books. (also never read Black House)

I can't remember anyone who kept a journal....so guessing The Shining.

No, not the Shining. Actually, the discovery of the journal by another character is pivotal to the plot.....

What about the Tommyknockers idk if she keeps a journal but she is a writer no?

I don't recall Bobbi keeping a journal. Nope, not Tommyknockers and not a writer.

Just gathering the guesses so far:

Misery, Rose Madder , Dolores Claiborne, Firestarter, Bag of Bones, Carrie, Needful Things, The Regulators, The Shining, The Tommyknockers

I'm going to guess The Stand as there are journals in that (Fran and Harold) and this could be one of them.

sorry double post

There you go Jodyreads! That's it - it's Fran's journal and Harold, of course, is the one who reads it and it's an important twist in the book. The ___ is Harold also.

Thank's, here is my quote:

"What was comin out of the corners of Willy's eyes was gummy and pink, like bloody snot, or chunks of flesh that have almost liquefied."

ok, I think this is from Bag of Bones but if I'm right I don't wanna pick the next quote, I just like guessing them.

Isn't that the The Library Policeman??

You would think that a quote like that would be easy to recall............that's nasty, but somehow it's evading me completely......

I second Library Policeman what a great story.

It is The Library Policeman so well done ealaindraoi. Very creepy bit of the story. I always think about it when my books are getting near their return date.

Ooooh, yeah - when that creepy librarian lady is sucking out their life force through the tears. That's shivvverrrry!

I think I've got a tough one!

She held herself - thin comfort, but better than none - and looked up at a horned moon that was quadrupled through the film of her tears. Everything had changed, and it had happened with the speed of a cyclone. Her son hated her; she had seen it in his face - it wasn't a tantrum, a temporary pique, a passing squall of adolescence. He hated her, and this wasn't the way it was supposed to go with her good boy, not at all.

Ohh, I think I know this one....is is Dolores Claiborne???

No, sorry angelikat, not Dolores.

Not sure, but it sounds like Eddie's mama from It.

I can't remember if Arnie's mum in Christine gets a passage like this about her but that's who I am going to guess.

That does sounds like Christine, and I would never have thought of it. But just to be a gamer, I'm going to guess Needful Things.

hearts in Atlantis after the mom turns the old man in. (names are failing me)

And it's Jody again! It is indeed Arnie's mother in Christine. :)

And I was sure munro had it this time. Here's my line.

Well, he thought, my ex-wife died, and when I saw her at the morgue it looked like she'd grown an extra mouth two inches below her chin.

I seem to have stopped the game so will add a bit more to the quote.

Fifteen minutes later, while he was making coffee, the crazy man's call jumped into his head again. There were two cops outside his door, and he hadn't told them a thing. What in hell was wrong with him?
Well, he thought, my ex-wife died, and when I saw her at the morgue it looked like she'd grown an extra mouth two inches below her chin.

Oh shoot, I think I know this one....must go look it up.

is it Roadwork?? wait did his wife die or just leave him? i dont remember anymore.

lol jody you didnt stop the game. I was just shocked how gruesome the quotes are getting *grin*

......just in time for Halloween.

I like the gruesome quotes the best :-)

But it isn't Roadwork, sorry.

Hm... well, I really have no idea, but this is a cool game, and I wanted to get involved in it, so, might as well take a shot in the dark, lol.

Firestarter?

No, sorry, it isn't Firestarter, but welcome to the game.

Maybe The Dark Half? I don't remember the passage, but it seems to fit the general plot.

I haven't been able to remember anything with an EX-wife, but wait....maybe Secret Garden, Secret Window??? There's an ex-wife in that!

Well done Bentley, that's the one. I couldn't remember if we had quoted from it before or not but it seemed to have been overlooked for awhile.

It's the part where Thad's agents, Miriam and Rick, are targetted by Stark. Miriam is Rick's ex wife and he has just identified her in the morgue.

I had completely forgotten that Thad was ever married to his agent. But hiding things from the cops at the door sounded like The Dark Half.

Here we go. I have to admit, I'm kind of proud of this one...

His jaw dropped. The eyes bulged. In that moment I felt a great deal of pity for him. The Bible says the snake tempted Eve with the apple. What would have happened if he had been forced to eat it himself?

Salem's Lot...the eye's bulging thing.

Nope. Sorry.

Needful Things? I haven't read it for awhile and can't remember what happened to Leland Gaunt but that sounds like comeuppence to me.

Not Needful Things, but I almost went with something from that book. It seemed only fair since I almost always think the quote is from it. :-)

great quote! I can't place it, though. How about the end of The Stand? Although I seem to guess that quite frequently.

Tommyknockers?

Nobody's got it yet...

Wild guess: Is it The Lawnmower Man?

Ahhh, it's a very good quote! I only got it because I happen to be rereading the Bachman books.

Rage When Ted gets his comeuppence. (and STILL I can't figure out exactly why everyone was so against Ted!)

Yes, indeed.

And it was reading Carrie for the reading group that put me in mind of it. I think Rage is another of those high school dynamic books where King is exploring adolescent scapegoating. You can see why they don't like Ted, but they are awfully quick to throw him under the bus even so. There's kind of an element of The Lottery to that story.

Did you know it's out of print?

Yeah, SK pulled it off the market after some serious school shootings when they blamed him for it because of the book. He said that was the 'worst career' move he made was publishing that book.

Oh heck, he published that book 20 years before Columbine and such. I remember him saying that and thinking it wasn't fair that others people's need to place blame reflected poorly on him.

Yes, I did know - which makes it a particularly hard quote! But I can't blame King for withdrawing it - if just one deranged kid uses it as a blueprint - oy vey, the guilt!

Re: Ted - I dunno, so the kid is arrogant and less than completely truthful - the kids all attacked him to the degree that it made him catatonic. Overkill - real scapegoating is so much more subtle than that. I think he made the point better in Carrie.

Ok, my quote - to honor the season, I went looking for a Halloween related one:
--- came running out onto the porch, her black dress flapping. She clutched her broom in one hand. Her green face, now pulled long in dismay, looked like the face of a pygmy wino in the last stages of alcohol poisoning.

Ellie came running

LOL ealaindraoi didn't close her tag

</i> Sorry about that!!!

As you got the name right, should I assume you have the book too? lol

yeah, I got the book Pet Sematary :)

sigh, now I have to find a quote

I'm watching the movie right now makes for an easy choice

"The town knew about darkness.

It knew about the darkness that comes on the land when rotation hides the land from the sun, and about the darkness of the human soul"

Needful Things?

'Salems Lot?

winner winner chicken dinner goes to quartzite

'Salems lot

(second part is on tonight)

I agree Madcow, but society always looks for a reason (and someone to blame) for EVERYTHING.

I love the new version of 'Salems Lot, do you know which station is showing it? Last year I had class and only got to see the first part...boo hoo

sorry, this is the old 1979 version on a new channel I just found called ChillerTV http://www.chillertv.com/

a whole channel just for horror, I'm a happy girl :)

Oh, I love the '70's 'Salem's Lot! I got the whole three hour miniseries on DVD for five bucks a few months back! I haven't seen the new version, though it is in my Netflix queue.

I think 'Salem's Lot is up next in our reading group. I've always thought that the '70's Nosferatu version of Barlow is actually better (to me) than SK's own Bela Lugosi-esque Barlow. That's one aspect of the book that always seemed cheesy.

I'm so jealous of Beeg having the Chiller channel.

I've had Chiller for a couple of years - they rarely play anything but old cheesy horror. (which is ok, if you're in the mood for old cheesy horror.) Diverse, they ain't. I wouldn't mind if they'd at least play old cheesy Italian horror, or old cheesy Japanese horror. But no, just old cheesy American horror. All Tales from the Crypt and all the Friday the 13th, Halloween, Jason movies all the time.

I want something like the Sci-Fi channel for horror!

#175 - I know what you mean, but a Sci-Fi Channel for horror would be terrible. Sorry, just the Sci-Fi Channel seems like such a wasted opportunity. Usually, instead of doing anything good, they show terrible original films, usually starring Casper Van Dien.

It might be nice if Chiller could fund some low-budget movies and then hire guys like John Carpenter or Joe Dante and let them make what they want. Sort of like Masters of Horror, but longer.

But Sci-Fi also did Battlestar Galatica and Stargate and Stargate Atlantis and Eureka. They did the mini-series Taken and Tinman (which wasn't half-bad fantasy). I admit they've done some awful blunders (Wrestling on Sci-Fi??) and some real boner original films. But about 50% of the time, they get it right.

If Chiller would just show SOME films that are less than 10 years old - goodness knows there are some really good horror movies out there. Or if their budget wouldn't support that - go niche and do some other countries horror movies, or real oldies like Nosferatu and Phantom of the Opera. Real classics instead of 70's garbage.

Two hour Master's of Horror would be a dream come true. :) Of course, only possible on pay channels. :(

Okay here's the quote

"Everything would be fine...except it wouldn't be. Eventually there would be a payback. It might not come for a day or two, even a week, but it would come. "

i know i know this in the back of my head somehwere...

is it Pet Semetary?

Seems like this has gotten a lot of play lately, but is it Blaze?

Thats hard. Im sure I just read that... Maybe Rose Madder? Except she didn't understand the payback for a few months so...

What about Riding the Bullet?

Ooh, beeg. I bet that's right...

And beeg is indeed the winner!

________ had spent four raving, cursing hours on his belly in an Emergency Wing examining room while a jovial intern picked tiny pellets out of his butt and dropped them into a steel pan.

Isn't that Carrie?!

yup, LOL it's handy since I haven't put it back up. I just finished watching 'Salems Lot and now I'll have to drag the book down from the heights of my book case.

Okay, I know this quote is too easy, but it's late and I'm kinda tired. So beeg, I hope you have another one lined up! Here goes:

The reason Adrian was wearing the hat, his sobbing boyfriend would later tell the police, was because he had won it at the Pitch Til U Win stall on the Bassey Park fairgrounds just six days before his death.

Please see the second sentence in post #190...

Hey, no new quote? I was hoping to creep in early in the morning and guess the quote back!

I knew #190 was too easy. I remembered a part where the guys that threw Adrian over the bridge are talking about a flower on the top of the hat that was bobbing and driving them crazy. A little detail that I've remembered for decades. Unfortunately last night I was tired and punchy and couldn't find it...

yeah it was late and I was tired too. I can continue to pull from the stack I have by the side of my desk or go get another book. Which is why there isn't another quote yet.

"It had to hunt around, slinking through the streets at night and maybe creeping in the sewers. Smelling for us."

That sounds so familiar, I think it is from The Talisman.

nope, that's not it

Oh... that is sooooo familiar!
It isn't from It is it?

No It's not :)

I can't remember the name of the one I want to guess.

I think it is from Graveyard Shift and is probably called The Boogeyman.

It's about a man in a psychiatrists office whose telling the story of how a boogeyman killed his family one by one, even though they moved house to escape and it tracked them down.

So nice, so nice.

His name is Billings and that story still give me the creeps.

Was that the one? And beeg I agree, that story still has me checking the wardrobe if the door has been left open. If I don't check it I know I will only have to get back out of bed and close it if I ever want to sleep.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear, yes, that's the one, you guessed correctly.

I'm sorry everyone, the delay here is my fault. Jody disappeared for a while and asked me to take over her turn, then I had a family emergency and never quite got round to it. I'm pretty sure Jody is due back today, in which case it's only fair she gets her turn back again. Just a little more patience, please!

http://www.librarything.com/topic/48791&newpost=1#lastmsg

Sorry for the delay, link to the November thread and the new quote.