I love King’s work, LOVE IT. Never read anyone who taps into what childhood was actually like so much as he does. Can’t speak to the girls, but us little boys were exactly as described. OTOH, his child characters are always a few years ahead of their time.
*The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" was a perfect example. She’s fucking 9 years old! Kids are basically retarded at that age. I have/had one of each sex. I could go on forever. King nails those childhood thoughts and actions, but he ascribes them to kids a few years shy of how they really be.
I would say that times were different for him growing up, and maybe that’s my problem. I’m old enough to be his middle-aged son. And yes, we grew up far faster than kids do now days. And reflecting on that, yeah, maybe that’s why I feel he’s out of touch? Sometimes I find social media opinions on what constitutes childhood to be way out of whack. I was fucking like Armageddon was next Tuesday when I was 17, yet lemmy tells me I was a child?
I love King’s work, LOVE IT. Never read anyone who taps into what childhood was actually like so much as he does. Can’t speak to the girls, but us little boys were exactly as described. OTOH, his child characters are always a few years ahead of their time.
*The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" was a perfect example. She’s fucking 9 years old! Kids are basically retarded at that age. I have/had one of each sex. I could go on forever. King nails those childhood thoughts and actions, but he ascribes them to kids a few years shy of how they really be.
I would say that times were different for him growing up, and maybe that’s my problem. I’m old enough to be his middle-aged son. And yes, we grew up far faster than kids do now days. And reflecting on that, yeah, maybe that’s why I feel he’s out of touch? Sometimes I find social media opinions on what constitutes childhood to be way out of whack. I was fucking like Armageddon was next Tuesday when I was 17, yet lemmy tells me I was a child?
Does that make sense?