I was all right for a while.

I could smile for a while.

But I saw you last night.

You held my hand so tight as you stopped to say hello.

Oh, you wish me well, you couldn't tell that I've been crying over you. Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Stephen Man's Musings on the Works of Stephen King.

Each week I will review one entry in the bibliography of Stephen King in the chronological order of publication.

And this week, I'm turning my attention to episode four of Hulu's Castle Rock, which I have a lot of thoughts on this particular episode. And I can't wait to get into it. But before I do that, I want to read some listener email, because as you know, guys, I can't do this without you. So first up, we have Nate, who writes Constant Reader. Let me preface this by saying, as much as I spout my love of everything King, I have only read a handful of his works. Finding and listening to your podcast has inspired me to fix that. Have you reviewed Heart-shaped Box? It's the one Joe Hill book that I own. So just to answer that question, I haven't reviewed Heart-shaped Box yet. It's a big blind spot for me. I mean, it's not a blind spot in terms of me having read it. I have. Um, I just need to actually uh, get around to reviewing it for the purposes of this podcast. So on to my thoughts. Nate writes, it. I have read the book and listened to the 44 hour audio book. Pennywise lives. I love the way it's written how he kept track of the narrative. Had to be something out of this world. The only part was the sewer scene.

I didn't think it was necessary and was very uncomfortable.

With that said, I could still understand what it meant within the narrative.

So, Nate, I agree that it is uncomfortable.

And of course, my thoughts are, I have spoken my thoughts about the sewer scene on multiple

occasions on this podcast.

And then he writes, The Dark Tower Books.

As you were going through two and three, I was really getting a Tolkien vibe from it.

It's obvious that Roland is the Eragorn character, the Loner King.

The Cotet is the fellowship because you can't vanquish your foe alone.

Something Tolkien knew and that you mention a lot about King is the importance of friendship.

I'm a huge Tolkien fan, probably the only author I like more than King so I can easily see the correlations.

I actually spent the better part of 17 years studying all that I could on Tolkien and his influences. There are more things I caught as you went through the books, but I'm drawing a blank at the moment. I'll probably send another email when I remember them. Please do. The Dark Tower movie. I just watched it yesterday. I've only read the gunslinger, but as I mentioned earlier, I intend to remedy that. Got some money on Father's Day. So my thoughts on the movie are based pretty much on what you have said on summaries. As a whole, I really enjoyed the movie as its own story. It felt a little rushed. I love the role in that Edris Elba portrayed in the gunplay on par with John Rick. John Wick, now that's a dual I'd watch. So I think that if you see the movie just on its own thing, it's quite good. The one complaint that, from that perspective, I have to say, is that they, spoiler alert for the movie. They killed Walter too easy. He's supposed to be really powerful. He's killed by a little trick, stupid. I would actually apply that criticism to the entire

movie personally but that's that's just me random thoughts I have very few friends

due to the fact that my idea of friendship is based on characters of my favorite

stories Holmes and Watson Harry and Ron Frodo and Sam and lastly the Losers

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