 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorist. Today we are talking about the fifth Bachman book thinner. I had a great time with this one. If you watched my book review for this that either went up yesterday or earlier today, I'm probably gonna upload them back to back. I don't know, maybe not, but you'll know that I had a lot of fun with this book this time and I'm happy because I didn't have a great deal of fun with the first four Bachman books during this reread. But one of the things that I want to talk about here is what, you know how Thursday Theorist goes. I'm going to go into theories and how it connects to the dark tower. But this time around it's it's very interesting to me because I'm going to be doing something that almost feels like a cheat. It's not, but it almost feels that way. This book was published in 1984. King was working on Misery. King was working on It. King was working on several different projects at this time while he was either working on this one or after he got through with this one. So all of, and the wastelands and all these books kind of like tied together in a in a weird way. And King, this is around the time that King realized that all of his stuff may be connected in some kind of way. And that's where he was writing the wastelands and he realized, hey, you know, I'm stuck over here on this book with It. Let me go over there and try to make that part of the dark tower series. If you don't know here on Thursday Theorist, I will spoil not just the book that I'm talking about today, which is Dinner, but I might, I might talk about any Stephen King book. So if you're not familiar with Stephen King's entire catalog, there might be spoilers from here on out. So go ahead and click away. If you're still here, one of the things that occurs in this book that really made me smile, it also made me call him a motherfucker over on Goodreads, but because he's so meta. In the dark tower series, he writes himself into the dark tower series as a character. They have to keep him alive so he can finish the story. And in this one, he mentions himself. I can't remember exactly what is said, but he goes along the line of it. You're making me feel like you're like I'm in a Stephen King novel or something like that. And the way I'm going to tie this thing is kind of the same way that I tied in Mr. Mercedes. This is another turn of the wheel. This in this world, Stephen King exists and this is the Stephen King realm without dairy. This is like the real world with Stephen King in it, the world where he got hit by the van, all that stuff. Stephen King is a writer living up in Bangor, Maine. In fact, the book goes to Bangor and the surrounding areas. So I'm going to tie it in that way. This would be the same turn of the wheel where Roland and Eddie and Jake and all them go to save Stephen King after he gets hit by the van. Furthermore, I think that there is a definite vibe here with the with the Romy with them and maybe even the true not. I feel connections there and maybe it's just the the nomadic quality of the two groups, but excuse me, but I definitely got that vibe. They would fit in perfectly. Another thing that struck me as funny was the Romy speaking Swedish in the book. I have been learning Swedish for the past two years now and I'm doing pretty well. In fact, I brought this up on Twitter and I brought this up on Instagram. I took pictures of the actual text. There's a lot of Swedish in here back and forth with the old man talking to his granddaughter, great granddaughter, whoever it is. Gina I think is her name and the old man Tadzu Lemke, but they all and Simon Lemke too. They all speak Swedish back and forth, which I thought was super interesting because I didn't know that Romy spoke Swedish. Then I'm going to have to look into all that to try and figure out what I missed along the way. Interestingly enough, you know that Google and all that didn't exist back then. So how much deep diving did Stephen King do? Did he have friends that were Romy? Any number of things. I am very interested in that aspect of it. And if you out there, anybody out there in the audience Romy, I'd love to know if you guys speak Swedish to each other. If that's just a language that you guys learned. I'm very, very interested in that. But as far as this book is considered, that's how I'm going to tie it to the Dark Tower series because Stephen King is a character in the Dark Tower series and he's the writer. He plays himself basically. He writes about himself and that's how I'm going to connect this one. Now did I miss anything because I didn't go over to the Stephen King fan wiki, any of that stuff. All I did was check what I found myself in the book and that was just the hard Stephen King connection in a Richard Bachman book. Really, is it any surprise that he got caught? I mean, he doesn't really feel like, especially in these later books, later Bachman books like he was trying to hide. But if I missed anything, I'd love to hear from you guys down there in the comments below. But until next time, I have been E, you have been E. This has been another Thursday Theorist Review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye. You guys still here? Hey. So I don't normally do this on the Thursday Theorist or the Stephen King Reviews but I wanted to throw this a little bit in at the end. I got a surprise for you guys next week and I'm going to need your input because I'm only reading female authors next month for February because it's women in horror months. So women of horror fiction months, something like that. Ladies of horror fiction months. I don't know. I'm going to get the terminology wrong but I'm only going to be reading that. So can you guess what I'm going to be doing for Thursday Theorist next month if he can drop it down there in a doobly-doo? But I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye.