Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—is now available as a stand-alone publication.It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn’t offer much in the way of a future. A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.
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The Body
By Stephen King
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s timeless novella “The Body”—originally published in his 1982 short story collection Different Seasons, and adapted into the 1986 film classic Stand by Me—is now available as a stand-alone publication.It’s 1960 in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine. Ray Brower, a boy from a nearby town, has disappeared, and twelve-year-old Gordie Lachance and his three friends set out on a quest to find his body along the railroad tracks. During the course of their journey, Gordie, Chris Chambers, Teddy Duchamp, and Vern Tessio come to terms with death and the harsh truths of growing up in a small factory town that doesn’t offer much in the way of a future. A timeless exploration of the loneliness and isolation of young adulthood, Stephen King’s The Body is an iconic, unforgettable, coming-of-age story.
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Reviewed by Inken JähnigWhen both book and the adaption are perfect… Notes: - Stand By Me is one of my favourite movies since forever. I watched it multiple times and thought I was prepared for the book. But I wasn’t. - After finishing this book it’s fair to say that Stand By Me is probably one of the best book-to-screen adaptions ever. - this story is filled with heartbreak, nostalgia, emotions, grief, friendship and so much more - that makes it a horror story in more than one way - having the book written by the author from the pov of a writer who writes down his own story is genius - Chris and Gordie are breaking my heart - honestly everything I loved about the movie I loved even more in the book Quotes: - „I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?“ - „Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird.“ - „The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that's not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It's hard and painful for you to talk about these things ... and then people just look at you strangely. They haven't understood what you've said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear.“ - „Speech destroys the functions of love, I think…If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn't what these…poets...want you to think it is. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It's the other way around, that's the joke.“ - „I wish to fuck I was your father!” he said angrily. “You wouldn’t go around talking about takin those stupid shop courses if I was! It’s like God gave you something, all those stories you can make up, and He said: This is what we got for you, kid. Try not to lose it. But kids lose everything unless somebody looks out for them and if your folks are too fucked up to do it then maybe I ought to.“ - „Your friends drag you down. They’re like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can’t save them. You can only drown with them.“ Later: „Teddy and Vern slowly became just two more faces in the halls […]. It happens. Friends come in and out of your life like busboys in a restaurant […]. Some people drown, that’s all. It’s not fair, but it happens. Some people drown.“ - „Vern Tessio was killed in a housefire […]. Teddy went in a squalid car crash […] Chris, who’d always been the best of us at making peace, stepped between them and was stabbed in the throat […]. Chris died almost instantly.“