what the heck is a book snake?

[Alvalanche]

I am almost finished with this book, and I know that SK sometimes fabricates his own meaning to word (e.g. long boy) and I usually I catch on to what it is, but I'm puzzled by this one and I've wikipedia'd it and googled to no avail... anyone know?

[Bev Vincent]

Create Your Own Book Snake

[Spideyman]

I think it is a type of bookcase? In Lisey's story is says- the room was empty except the booksnake remained......

[Samantha_]

I think it is a type of bookcase? In Lisey's story is says- the room was empty except the booksnake remained......

Yeah, but also ... what if a grouping of books, in a row, formed an energy creating a "snake" of one type or another?

[Alvalanche]

Yes, I think it's a kind of bookcase or shelving arrangement because she would not be able to removed the blood stained rug until it the booksnake was gone.

[Bev Vincent]

Here are two passages that explain it:

1) Amanda’s focus seemed to remain on the impressive stacks and piles of memorabilia which ran the length of the study’s south wall. She worked her way back and forth along this snakelike accretion, saying little or nothing but jotting frequently in a little notebook she kept near to hand.

2) She once again measured that long stack of books and magazines against the south wall, a dusty booksnake four feet high and easily thirty feet long.

So the word is a metaphor to describe these stacks.

[wally wonder]

i wondered if the booksnake is related to the long boy...all those books....articles...magazines...reviews... maybe i relate it to that song, 'there's a long black train, running down the line' and i ought to stop there or i'll post something that qualifies for the lyrical misunderstandings....course, this post might suggest another thread....heh heh! title it whoppers maybe? or, i think i've heard it all now! or, what a piece of work!

but you think of books, literature, and i suppose if you're looking at that stack from the backside, it would have a kind of piebald side, all that white. so you have all that stuff, what's come before, what's there, on the path. what do you do with it? add to it? cross over it? ignore it?

[king family fan]

Iam with you confused.So glad you all are discussimg this.

[GNTLGNT]

I am almost finished with this book, and I know that SK sometimes fabricates his own meaning to word (e.g. long boy) and I usually I catch on to what it is, but I'm puzzled by this one and I've wikipedia'd it and googled to no avail... anyone know?

Bev nailed it...it is an apt metaphor for that long, winding pile of books...kind of a "reptilian" reading pile if you will...and not to be confused with "bore snakes"(for cleaning gun barrels)or "pipe snakes"(for cleaning clogged up plumbing) or "Sneaky Snake"(a song by Tom T. Hall)...yeah, I know-*stuffs sock in keyboard, and wanders aimlessly off to interject idiocy in another thread*

[Pucker]

Bev nailed it...it is an apt metaphor for that long, winding pile of books...kind of a "reptilian" reading pile if you will...and not to be confused with "bore snakes"(for cleaning gun barrels)or "pipe snakes"(for cleaning clogged up plumbing) or "Sneaky Snake"(a song by Tom T. Hall)...yeah, I know-*stuffs sock in keyboard, and wanders aimlessly off to interject idiocy in another thread*

I haven't heard Sneaky Snake in a dog's age (which I'm assuming is a very long time).

I remember the Sneaky Snake had a habit of stealing something, but I can't remember if it was bubble gum or root beer.