Literary References

[Davearreno]

There are multiple literary references in BoB. I took them as a nod to the similarities between BoB and the other stories. Can anyone post the references? I consider this an accompanied "reading list" and will try to work then in to my rotation.

[omm poppa mow mow]

You mean like the list of three stories before the title page, Davearreno? Or King's stories? Could be that someone could make the argument that there are nods to all of them, maybe even The Red-Shirt Man, have you caught Baseball Cap?

[SusanNorton]

The obvious one (since King mentions it in BoB) is "Rebecca," by Daphne du Maurier, but I'm not familiar with any others.

[ginapenn]

Another one of the literary references in this story is Bartleby The Scrivener, by Herman Melville.

[ginapenn]

Also, "You funny little man," said Strickland is The Moon and Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham.

[md10pc]

"Mars is Heaven" - Ray Bradbury short story

[ginapenn]

Don't forget Thomas Hardy-"The most brilliantly drawn character is but a bag of bones."

[omm poppa mow mow]

Nelson DeMille, The Charm School, perhaps. Helen's Promise? Yes.


The gingerbread man? run all the way back...p 72 in my usa pb copy. fast as fast can be....remember that? the fox. my fairy tale book had a pic. the fox, floating on his back, the gingerbread man in his mouth? is that how it happens?

Ralph Roberts, too. Which means Insomnia...dam the torpedoes, full speed ahead, excuse my bellicosity.

how about the phantom of the opera? o fock, the phantom is sniveling again!

there must be a...somethin wicked this way comes allusion w/the cables running underneath the town?

Raymond Garraty is mentioned....p 371 fwiw...john sanborn...our town...more and more?

oh, and an allusion to congressional law: you take the people who work in these bureaucracies one by one and they're mostly fine, but when you put them together....

that's when the shee-ite hits the fabula.