 Hello everybody, Ian here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorists. Today we are talking about Lisa's story. Now, this book has a crappy reputation. I'm going to tell you that right off the bat. There is absolutely no reason for it. There is quite a few people who lump this in with the trilogy of Trash, Dreamcatcher, from a VOK and Cell. This book doesn't deserve to be anywhere near that. What happened was, King finally wrote a mature story that has no horror element whatsoever. It does have some supernatural stuff. It does have some supernatural thriller-esque moments, but it is not a horror story. What this story is, it is a love letter to the spouses of writers. These women and men who sit in the background and watch the rest of us playing in our make-believe land, the first time I read this book I didn't get it. I was in the hate train along with the books that I lumped in with the aftermath of his accident in 1999. I hate myself for that because this is one of his best novels. The reason I say that, now I don't put that up there in my best because it is almost as if it's outside of King's catalog. Even Bag of Bones has the horror element with the ghosts and everything. This one that is not the focus. There is some stuff in Boo-Yamoon. We'll get to that in a minute. But when I came back to this one during my reread in 2015, I've been married for several years at that point, 14 years, and I finally understood what he was talking about. I understood where he was coming from. I read it as if I were Scott Landon, the one who died and I had left Shell behind. That was so much more poignant and upsetting and affecting than thinking of it as any other novel. You will get much more out of this book if you are a writer. There's a lot of stuff like that. I suspect that you would get even more if you are the spouse of a writer. Those forgotten souls in the background who make it easier for us to do what we do. I'm going to try not to get emotional here, but Shell is sitting on the other side of the camera and I'm feeling it. About the book. I said I love the book. For some odd reason, every time I think about this book, I seem to remember that Scott Landon dies at the beginning from the gunshot. That's not the case. He actually survives it. That's where the shovel comes into play. The shovel that's in all the covers. When Lisa knocks the dude out with the shovel, knocks the rabid fan, but then it moves on and he's passed away and she has to go into and unpack all the stuff that he has left, all this life that he has left behind in all these boxes and everything. Funny back story to that that actually happened to King after he got sick after the car accident. He got sick with pneumonia and Tabitha thought while he's away, kind of blessing in the hospital, I am going to rearrange his office. When he got out of the hospital, she wasn't done yet and she said I wouldn't go in there. It's a disaster. He goes in there anyways and he sees what it would look like if he had died. He comes home to all of his stuff packed up because she's working on renovating the office and he has that moment and this book was born out of that. If you are one of those people out there who hate this book or who stick their nose up at it because it's not horror, I ask you to read it again with what I told you with that in mind. Especially if you're an author, especially if you are the spouse of an author, even a wannabe author or aspiring, however you want to put it, I would like you to re-read it with that in mind. Okay, so enough of the wishy-washy mushy bullshit. Let's jump into the meat and potatoes that you guys are here for. The connections here is very simple. In fact, somebody mentioned they couldn't wait for me to bend over backwards trying to connect this one. The territories are mentioned in this one. Territories from the Wasteland, they're also mentioned in here. Sorry, from the Talisman are mentioned in here and they're mentioned in the Wasteland, so all the way back to the Dark Tower. That one's easy. East Stoneman is also mentioned. That one's in Wolves of the Kala. That's a town, by the way. Wolves of the Kala and Song of Susanna. Finally, I would like to make a big drastic leap and say that the other place in this one, Buyamun, is actually the same place that Mrs. Todd ends up in Mrs. Todd's shortcut. I would also go as far to say that it's the same place that Rose ends up in the... No, is it Rose? I can't remember. It's the main character from Rose Matter named Rose. I can't remember. It's going to bother me. Hang on, let's go. I don't think it is. It is Rose. Rose Matter. Rose. Dang it. Anyhow. But I would say that it's also the same place that Rose ends up at the end of Rose Matter. Anyhow, did you find anything else that connects anywhere else? Did I miss anything? I know how much you guys like telling me what I missed, so leave it down there in the comments section. I promise I won't get mad. But until next time, I have an E, you have an U, this has been another Thursday Thirst Review. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye!