Subject: Re: Morning-After Commentary: SK's "Golden Years"
From: samuels@halibut.nosc.mil (Lawrence J. Samuels)
Date: 1991-07-18, 09:04
Newsgroups: alt.horror,rec.arts.tv,alt.tv.twin-peaks

This is sort of a followup to Fiona's original post, where she
notes similarities between GY and other King works.

As I watched Dr. Toddhunter (what a name!), I kept thinking
"This guy would make a great Dr. Wanless", the 'mad doctor' form
Firestarter.  Nice and weird/intense.  

But when he was in  the waiting room outside the general's office
he was tearing strips out of magazines... who else do we know
that has this endearing habit?  The psycho in "The Langoliers", 
Craig Toomy!  Maybe  it's not exactly the same habit, but
watching the show brought that to mind...

On a slightly different subject, but similar:  as we know, Stephen King
often uses similar mannerisms/habits in characters;  the example I'm 
thinking of is stuttering.  The boy in The Shining that Jack Torrance
punches out, the boy that Johnny Smith tutors in The Dead Zone, 
Bill Denbrough in It, probably others I've missed.  Does anyone know
if SK has some personal contact with stuttering - did he do it himself
or some close associate?  I'm not trying to psychoanalyze him;  it just
that it's shown up enough in his works to make me wonder...

On yet another note, has anyone gotten their copy of The Waste Lands
from Donald Grant?  I haven't and I need my SK fix!

Larry Samuels
samuels@nosc.mil