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We were never a churchgoing family, or religious at all in any conventional sense. Once I asked my mom why we didn’t go to church—was it because she didn’t believe in God? She told me that she did, but she didn’t need a minister (or a priest, or a rabbi) to tell her how to believe in Him. She said she only needed to open her eyes and look around to do that. Dad said he was brought up a Baptist but quit going when his church got more interested in politics than the Sermon on the Mount. El whisky no huele como la ginebra… y a la vez sí. A mí todo el alcohol me huele igual: a tristeza y pérdida.» The mayor cut a ribbon, Father Coughlin blessed the goddam thing, and that was that,” my father said one night. He was pretty drunk at the time. “Wasn’t much of a blessing for us, Charlie, was it?”

Like I didn’t know the rest of the bottle would be on the kitchen counter. And another one in the liquor cabinet. Or two. Or three. Las relaciones entre los personajes son el punto más fuerte de este libro. La relación de Charlie con su padre, al que quiere y siempre quiso, aunque "a veces no tanto", y las que establece con Howard Bowditch y con Radar. Relaciones que implican decisiones y renuncias. Por amor a su padre, adquirirá ese compromiso consigo mismo. Por cuidar de Radar, envejecida y enferma, renunciará a muchas de las cosas que hacía y daba por sentadas ( "El hombre valiente ayuda, el cobarde hace regalos"). Elecciones y renuncias que le preparan para afrontar las situaciones duras, que le toca vivir en el reino de Empis. I got the credit for saving him—another gold star for my college applications, should I throw modesty to the winds as my father suggested and attach the newspaper article that was published a week later—but it wasn’t me, not really. You also need to think about loans, but only as a last resort—those loans’ll haunt you for a long time. Think scholarships. And play your sports, that’s also a road to scholarships, but mostly it’s grades. Grades, grades, grades. I don’t need to see you graduate valedictorian, but I need to see you in the top ten. Understand?”

I think you should say adios to those talking camels,” I told him, and that made him laugh. Then I said what I had to. “But if you start drinking again, you’ll screw it up.”

In the dungeon, I thought King’s creativity flagged a little. He dropped into a tired old trope used in Ben Hur, The Gladiator, Hunger Games and on and on ad nauseum. In stark contrast to everything else like the play on all the old fairy tales. These were so fresh. Several new aspects though rescued me, like the huge daughter, the despicable girlfriend, the blue aura on the captors, just to name a few. And I would definitely recommend this to anyone who is not a fan of horror but has always wanted to read a Stephen King book. The thing is as follows: this book is so unlike his usual style, but at the same time he keeps his usual pace and his usual storytelling manner, which might give you chills down your spine from time to time.Before Mom died, my father was what I’d call “a regular drinker.” I was just a little kid in the second grade, so I suppose you have to take that with a grain of salt, but I stand by it. I never heard him slurring, he didn’t stumble around the place, he didn’t go out to bars, and he never laid a hand on me or my mother. He would come home with his briefcase and Mom would give him a drink, usually a martini. She’d have one, too. In the evening, while we were watching TV, he might have a couple of beers. That was it. Charlie has been through a lot for a boy of his age. He has a sense of honour, and a compassionate heart. But there is also a dark side to him, one he can't always control.

Your friend Andy isn’t the only kid he’s yelled at,” Dad said. “Bowditch is famous for his foul temper and his equally foul-tempered German Shepherd. The town council would love for him to die so they can tear that place down, but so far he’s hanging in there. I speak to him when I see him—which is rarely—and he seems civil enough, but I’m an adult. Some elderly guys have an allergy to kids. Steer clear of him would be my advice, Charlie.” Hero of Fairy Tale is Charlie, a 17-year-old who has been through hell ever since his mother was killed in a hit-and-run following which his father became an alcoholic. He's in a pretty good place at the beginning of this book, but he doesn't really trust it. Also, some stuff he's done in the past is haunting him.Homeless, I thought. The bank will take the house, like in The Grapes of Wrath, and we’ll be homeless.

What do you think about Charlie’s voice and retrospective point of view? Some of his lingo and phrases speak to older generations, ones that a teenager from the 2010s wouldn’t necessarily say. How does this characterization later play out in the novel and what effect does it have for you as a reader? At one point in the novel, Charlie Reade is in a course called America Today and his teacher, Mr. Masensik, asked Charlie for his opinion concerning the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. Both of those shootings occurred in 2016 and the novel is set in April 2013 to February 2014, so those shootings would not have occurred yet. Cuando Charlie descubre que el Señor Bowditch ha estado escondiendo algo increíble en su cobertizo de madera, las intenciones de la novela se enfocan. Es un escenario de cuento de hadas, pero claramente arraigado en las encarnaciones más antiguas, oscuras y violentas de esos cuentos. Charlie encuentra muchas oportunidades para reflexionar sobre cómo éstas chocan con las versiones de Disney. Maybe I shouldn’t have been reading this in parallel with what I consider King’s best - the still amazing after a gagillion rereads It).Fairy Tale by Stephen King review – a terrifying treat". the Guardian. 2022-09-03 . Retrieved 2022-09-23. That's the kind of fairy tale King was creating for his own book and he succeeded. You can clearly see that he believes in the twisty ones rather than the Disney sugary ones. La segunda parte transcurre ya en el mundo de Empis. Un cuento de hadas al estilo primigenio, con toques de humor y con escenas duras, de esas que no se leen a los niños. Una princesa heredera camuflada de pastora, un gobernante malvado, insectos del tamaño de gatos, gigantes, zombis eléctricos, una zapatera muy especial, una familia real diezmada, un reino destruido, una ciudad peligrosa y Charlie, que viaja a ese mundo impulsado por su amor a Radar. A medida que se avanza en esta segunda parte, comprendemos el tiempo que King se ha tomado en la primera. Todo tiene su razón de ser.