Discrepancy in "Lisey's Story"

**The Outsider** · August 12th, 2009

Okay, I'm just gonna say to this whole thread I say WHO CARES? I can see why people may have wondered about the whole Clutterbuck thing and him dying or whatever, but this is the answer (i think): King just overlooked it. Or, maybe Clutterbuck is a different Clutterbuck, and its just a coincidence?

It doesn't matter. And with the Boston Zoo thing, what does that matter? Maybe people who live there just call it that, since it is in Boston, or maybe its name changed in the 50 or 60 years since then.

My point is, at the least, that second little "discrepancy" wasn't really relevant or important at all. It was just nitpicking.

**Terry B** · August 12th, 2009

I get a headache trying to keep all the characters and their book connections straight. Too many and too confusing. I prefer to just enjoy the book I'm reading at the time.

**Yenny** · August 17th, 2009

It could be a mistake but in the end I like to believe is just another level of the Tower

**Travisisdead** · October 6th, 2009

Know what I think? I think Steve just liked the name "Clutterbuck"
Just my opinion.

**AndyDufresne** · October 21st, 2009

He's an author, and authors occasionally make things up. The towns of Derry, Castle Rock and Jerusalem's Lot don't exist either. Is that cheating as well? I don't think so.
And if you want a different explanation: there could be a totally unrelated guy with the same name. The name 'Andy' is quite common, and I think 'Clutterbuck' has more hits than you would realize. Or maybe it's a relative, like a nephew or something.

**LunaDementia** · October 21st, 2009

Clutterbuck in Lisey's Story was the illegitimate child of Annie Wilkes and Clutterbuck Sr. See, Annie worked the hospital where an unconscious Clutterbuck Sr. was rushed, in a coma state, after breaking up a girl fight at Kappa Kappa Kappa where a rogue I.U.D. sliced his jugular down to the bone.

Now, Clutterbuck Jr. doesn't find out that his dad is Clutterbuck Sr. until after that Firestarter girl burned down the Orphanage/pig farm where he lived with Misery the pig and numerous other ne'er-dwells after Annie's untimely death. He roomed with a Danny Glick.

Danny Glick, by this time, was all bitey and all, and he sort of spilled the beans to Shelley Duvall on the set of The Shining when he refused to suck her blood because he didn't want to pick up her bad acting virus.

So, then, big bug-eyed, big mouthed Shelley told Mike Noonan who happens to be the cousin of her second husband's mother's brother-in-law, and this guy, Malachi, just happened to know Clutterbuck Jr. from their days of topping corn for a local farmer. So, he clued him in, and Clutterbuck Jr. ran to his ancestral home to follow in his father's footsteps as a Police Officer and he ended up having a gay affair with Pip from Great Expectations.

I hope this cleared things up for you.

LMAO.....you just made my day!!!

**Travisisdead** · February 17th, 2010

I personally think he just liked the name Clutterbuck (who wouldn't?) and wanted to use it again. Different story, different Clutterbuck? (there's GOT to be more Clutterbucks in Author-Space right?)