The Mist

jake_thompson_7669 shared a tip "This is neat. I saw the movie forever ago, didn't know there's a series. But this is really interesting. Every once in a while something goes strange with the pace, I don't know how to describe it. A very occasional lag where I catch myself wondering if he's going to lose me. But maybe the whole SK thing is you sort of know where this is going already, it's his way of getting there. "Monsters in the mist," got it. But I like how subtly the little society of the market develops."

jake_thompson_7669 shared a tip "The group dynamic in the book is about two days I think? I can't remember, but I think the movie stayed pretty true to that. Somehow the movie feels longer, the benefit of this story is how quickly everything seems to happen. This is an absolutely impossible situation and the random selection of shoppers who got inside when it happened deal with it for as long as they collectively can. There's a fun twist I don't remember in the movie?"

jake_thompson_7669 shared a tip "I get lost when he talks about his massive erections and all of a sudden it's got sex. Maybe that's the thing I don't understand about the SK brand: maybe that's just part of it? He's a staple of American fiction I'm only just now meeting, and he's developed a sort of universal response: "it's a story, it's not real and it's certainly not anything I would do." If you don't like it, don't read it. And like, fine. I just think everything else is really really interesting."

bill_s. shared a tip "I was never able to figure out the 2nd word that the protagonist whispered to his son at the very end. One was "hope". Did anyone figure out the other one?"

agnes.rbtll shared a tip "It is not a very scary book compared to many other Stephen King books. This is the thrilling story of a father and his son who find themselves trapped in a supermarket because of a thick mist that settled around them. Like many of Stephen King's books, the end is a bit uncertain, but that's what makes the book so charming."

meghan_macaluso shared a tip "The scariest part, for me, was not what was in the mist, but how quickly the humans changed and how they changed. Human nature is scary."