Boo'ya Moon

[The Outsider]

I just wanted to start a discussion on this interesting world in Lisey's Story, since I think it was pretty important.

The first thing I thought of when reading about this place and how it could be bad at night was that M. Night Shamyalan movie Lady in the Water. If you've seen it you'll probably know what I'm talking about.

Mainly, I just really enjoyed the idea of a world so close to ours, and how crazy people go there, and just how it was sort of an escape for young Scott.

DISCUSS!

[wally wonder]

i'm troubled by the hyenas, outsider. why are they there? are they everywhere. when lisey tells scott, this isn't the library, the hyenas (as i recall, anyway) laughed or did their thing.
a$$holes. why are there always a$$holes no matter where you go? even at boo-ya moon.
troublesome. i know a place where when the mornings are cool, the spiderwebs get heavy with dew. it looks like spider christmas. pretty cool. have to wonder, though, if the spiders think it's all that cool. like, are they saying, not this schist again!

[The Outsider]

I think the hyenas represent those with the "bad-gunky", similar to the people in or around the Pool represent the "gomers", otherwise known as the catatonic, suicidal, or just plain crazy people.

Reasons being that for instance, Scott's father tells he and Paul that their are two types of people (i think that's what he said), gomers (mental/catatonic) and bad gunky (homicidal maniacs).

And, when Scott starts "going gomer", I guess you could say, he is found in Boo'ya Moon next to the pool. So, by similar guesstimation (real word?), those like Paul and Sparky Landon were probably represented by the "hyenas" in Boo'ya Moon.

Does that help?

[wally wonder]

yeah! you betcha! incredibly simple, hey? thanks :y: i feel like a doofus.

[wally wonder]

whoa! deja vu! coulda sworn i was here before and yeah, you betcha! helps big big! i recall being a doofus. could ask, though, why call them that? why is water wet? why not call them bad gunks? gunky-poo? maybe time for a re-read i'm thinkin'.

[Nabila]

I just wanted to start a discussion on this interesting world in Lisey's Story, since I think it was pretty important.

The first thing I thought of when reading about this place and how it could be bad at night was that M. Night Shamyalan movie Lady in the Water. If you've seen it you'll probably know what I'm talking about.

Mainly, I just really enjoyed the idea of a world so close to ours, and how crazy people go there, and just how it was sort of an escape for young Scott.

DISCUSS!

Yes, I've seen Lady in the Water. And night time seems to always be a bad time because that's when evil spirits roam freely. That's what I've been raised to believe. I always questioned why they can't roam during the day. And my late grandmother said because they are creatures of darkness, and light will expose them. I can live with that.

Boo'ya moon reminds me of this place I see when I have bad dreams. It's always the same place. I hate it! Sometimes it begins as a totally lovely place then it slowly turns to the same ugly place. I guess dreams are like that because it's night time. Evil asserts itself.

My husband said I just need to change my choice of tv programmes at night which consists alternatively of Buffy, Angel, Supernatural, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Fringe, Lost, Roswell and lately, True Blood.:laugh:

I also like the idea of a place where confused people can go to rest their weary minds. I have convinced myself that there is a place, an island, where all species of animals can hide before they go extinct. No one can find them there until they choose to re-surface after they've been declared as extinct creatures. That keeps me happy and sane.

[doowopgirl]

I thought Liseys story was a kind of a love story. The way Lisey and Scott loved each other, the way Lisey loved hr sister and it made me cry at the end. I loved the idea of the place they went to, even though it was bad at night. Don't think I can ever think of Last Picture show the same way, though.

[Suzana]

Boo'ya moon is such a fantastic place!! I think Scott had a bit (or whole?) of a childish mind, so this place is some kind of a fairy tale place, and as most kids are afraid of the dark, that´s why it turns into a bad place at night...

I loved it so much that I wrote a paper for college inspired on it :)

[michal]

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Mainly, I just really enjoyed the idea of a world so close to ours, and how crazy people go there, and just how it was sort of an escape for young Scott.

DISCUSS!

And why should it be just one world? Perhaps there are many and some people can travel between them, especially in those parts where reality is thinner.

[mammy]

I agree with you, Boo'ya Moon is a wonderfu; place.

[Adrian]

Yea, good place.

[brandon]

Boo'ya moon is such a fantastic place!! I think Scott had a bit (or whole?) of a childish mind, so this place is some kind of a fairy tale place, and as most kids are afraid of the dark, that´s why it turns into a bad place at night...

I loved it so much that I wrote a paper for college inspired on it :)

interesting thought... and so very simple! I think you are probably right

[randallFlaggfan1]

Boo'ya Moon captivated me. I'd love to go there!!

[lillamis]

The first thing I thought of when reading about this place and how it could be bad at night was that M. Night Shamyalan movie Lady in the Water. If you've seen it you'll probably know what I'm talking about.

I am tempted to sat that that movie is also bad in daylight - sorry.

[cloudsover31]

this was simply such a beautiful story. i loved it. i think that boo'ya moon was very real. all good things must have a bad side, and thats what boo'ya was. i think that something from boo'ya moon [at night] got into scotts brother and father and turned them the way they were, and thats why scott had to kill his father, and see his brother die the way he did..

[labec1130]

This story touched me like no other...I fell in love with everyone in it and cried despairingly when it ended without the reunion that I so desperately wanted for Scott and Lisey. I thought Boo ya was going to perform a miracle and I cried for two days thinking about it. A very powerful story...I think its because I was thinking of them as Stephen and Tabitha.

[krs72]

That's how I looked at it too.
When I first started reading SK. I didn't realize a lot of the characters
in his storys were based partly on him.(especially the writers)
After reading his prelude and afterthoughts I found out a lot about
the real SK. and now it makes his books easier to read.

Lisey's Story is one of those books that kinda grows on ya, the more
you think about and discuss it.