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melanie12333
May 13th, 2009, 10:14 PM
Hi. I am new! I too fall on the side of loving The Langoliers. I never understood the title though. How did it originate? Anybody know? I mean I get how it played into the story but where did SK get that - an invention? Please solve this haunting mystery for me! :confused:
Moderator
May 14th, 2009, 09:38 AM
He told me he made it up.
melanie12333
May 15th, 2009, 08:36 AM
Dear Moderator, sincere thanks! I get so much pleasure from the details and nuances in SK's work and that one has been bothering me for a while. Truly, thank you.
aptpupil
May 15th, 2009, 10:38 AM
A langolier is a type of large orb shaped omnivorous organism, belonging to the genus pac man. They have huge mouths that make up almost half their entire bodies, and lined with several rows of extremely sharp chainsaw-like teeth.

The langolier's diet consists mainly of things from the past. It's also been suggested that langoliers tend to eat lazy humans who don't apply themselves.

Langolier's also exist in different dimensions, therefore all who wander outside of their dimension to another one, ultimately get eaten by langoliers.

Retrieved from "http://www.sciforums.com/encyclopedia/Langolier"
Speedygi81
May 18th, 2009, 02:25 AM
Love that story. But the ending was a little too Twilight Zone for me.
Queen Judia
May 18th, 2009, 10:38 PM
He told me he made it up.

really? that's way too cool. :grinning:
Mr Nobody
May 19th, 2009, 11:04 AM
Good story. I didn't think I'd like it so much, having seen the film version first (and thinking it started promisingly and ended up being a bit daft, iirc), but I was wrong. I enjoyed it a lot.
And what's wrong TZ?
Bad Bear
June 19th, 2009, 06:16 AM
Definitely my favourite Stephen King short(ish) story. I even thought the (made for TV?) film was pretty good, too and I've watched it a few times. It's waaaay superior to a lot of his low budget adaptations, and also the big budget and terrible film verion of Dreamcatcher.
wally wonder
August 21st, 2009, 01:21 AM
i been re-reading this one and one of the best ideas to ever come down the pike is 'forgetfulness'. i got it, big time. can't for the life of me remember exactly how it came out in the end and i'm looking forward to the ending. one thought on the langoliers. they're red and black. does that mean male and female? yin and yang? sane and insane? which is which? troubled though. gonna be taking a plane ride a bit over a week from now and i've got a bad feeling about it. we're due i guess. that or maybe it be the animal in me, sensing something. guess i better put my papers in order, hey? through out all the posters of tom cruise showing his navel. just call me angel of the morning. flying west. coulda been east. but all that traffic. no way hoosay
God
October 12th, 2009, 09:46 PM
This story was what introduced me to Stephen King, and I was hooked from then on:cool2:
celia
March 11th, 2010, 10:57 AM
Soooooo good!! I got amazed with it! SK, thank u so much for this story...
I didnīt watch it on the screen, shall I do it?
JohnDalglish
March 11th, 2010, 11:25 AM
Soooooo good!! I got amazed with it! SK, thank u so much for this story...
I didnīt watch it on the screen, shall I do it?

Hi,

Well, yes, but expect disappointment IMO

Long days and pleasant nights
Bryan James
March 11th, 2010, 11:49 AM
I like to make up words based on other words.

I'd bet my last dollar (and I only have 52 cents, so I'm not really wagering much) that "Langoliers" is "Languid Flyers."

And then there's the Montgolfier Brothers and the hot air balloon.

Read a lot and the brain pops out some good. Some brains moreso than others =)

~BJS
mrblonde
April 9th, 2010, 11:59 AM
I listened to this on audio book this week. Willam Dafoe read it. He was good, and I liked the story.
I have a hang up on time travel stories. At the end when they made it to LA and appeared, where there now 2 versions of each of them? the time traveling ones, and the ones from the time they traveled to? Was the plane still smashed into the building? Were the present day versions of the people the went missing on the plane alive? Was the present day version of Nick alive? and if so would he, or anyone else know what happened?
<head explodes>
MichaelBamford
June 8th, 2010, 10:14 AM
The Langoliers was probably by best childhood movie, i remember when i was ill and off school for a week, my brother had recorded it on VHS, i randomly put it in and since then its been one of my favourite's.

The whole being alone situation really drags me in when watching this movie, i love it.
Evil Queen
December 7th, 2010, 04:33 PM
This was a kind of slow story for me, but after awhile, I got interested in what was going to happen. It was a good ending, a feel good ending! :grinning:
motocop
December 14th, 2010, 01:49 PM
I liked how Toomy was so crazy. He just believed that what his dad said about lazy people getting eaten was real. I mean come on. What a freak. Sitting in dark rooms tearing paper to shreds. That character made the story for me. The blind girls control over him was cool too. Have to rewatch the mini-series.
Christiane17
January 24th, 2011, 05:59 PM
I'm now reading The Secret Window, but first, I read The Langoliers of course. Passages of this story made me laugh, and some made me feel sorry for the little girl in the story. Nick was a character who I completly loved. He had his ways of saying things that sort of entertained me a lot. Quite colourful guy, and I liked his interactions with Brian, creepy Toomy and Laurel. But it's kind of weird how this story ended. What was next?

This book I bought lately for only $.3.00 at some bazar, almost brand new. I was quite thrilled since it was one of the story collection I didn't own yet.:smile2:
Tinahorve
January 24th, 2011, 06:46 PM
Someone needs to put together a dictionary of all the "made up" words and phrases that Mr. King has added to the language for us Constant Readers. DT alone has added all sorts of weird words and phrases.

REDRUM
fljoe0
May 31st, 2011, 02:00 PM
Love that story. But the ending was a little too Twilight Zone for me.

I'm with you on this one. I loved the story but didn't like the ending too much. I think a darker ending would have fit this story very well. It was a gripping read and a real page turner but I just wasn't crazy about the ending.
Jojo87
June 1st, 2011, 03:06 PM
I re-read this story. And it's much better now then it was the first time I read it.
aKINGreader4ever
June 21st, 2011, 05:55 PM
Hey All,

I luved the movie, but the Character Mr. Toomey was an interesting one and I have to ask why did every1 else look like monsters to him? Was he crazy do to his father's upbringing of him. I will be reading the book in about 2 days, so just tell me if the book goes into more detail on this. The movie was great; but I'm sure the book will be so much better and clearer.
THX,
-Kris-