 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to Thursday theorist today We are still on the Bachman train and we are to actually last week. We didn't do Bachman So we we stepped we took a took a break from the Bachman train and we did not for season For past midnight today. We're doing another Bachman book and it is a roadwork I did a review for roadwork yesterday I will link that review down there in the doobly-doo, but I wanted to talk about spoilers this time And if you're if you're around and you don't want spoilers first off This series is nothing but spoilers for all of Stephen King's work So if you have a problem with that, please click away now Okay, so in road work Barton Dawes He he goes he some day is a slow descent into madness But I think there's a there's a definite point where he snaps and I think that's at right at the beginning right at the Right at the point when Mary he's talking to Mary on the phone and Mary is very flippant He can tell that she's just like yeah, yeah get this conversation over with I think at that point is when he finally loses his mind as far as it's gone now Is he crumbling throughout? Yeah, but it's never I mean it's it never escalates I don't think because from the jump from the very first page. He's talking to Frey Which is the his alter not really alter ego, but it's also his son's middle name is it's a mess inside this dude's head but When I found fascinating this time around was the emotional weight of the story that I think a lot of people miss when they read This even I missed it the first two times I just kind of blew it off, but having been married for almost 20 years now. I see you know I I see more of where Dawes is coming from I see more of where where Mary's coming from You know would you put up with that kind of thing? When is the when is this? When do you find the straw to broke the camel's back? You know, what is the straw that broke the camel's back? The those are things that really fascinated me this time around to see how long Mary puts up with it And of course she has the first initial meltdown But then she hangs around for a little while in you know in Dawes's life And you see a lot more of her Inability to let go and then as soon as she is able to let go and move on. That's when Dawes loses it I I Understand completely where Dawes comes from with burning your own life to the ground trying to Find Find yourself in that process, you know, are you just you know a work of worker B? Are you just that person? What is it is it Vinny? I think that he tries to tries to talk out of Being a lackey for the man kind of deal and I understand that but you got to do what you got to do You got to feed your family. You got it. You have to support yourself. You have to survive But there is something to be said about having a little self-respect along the way And I appreciated that aspect the story while I do not wholeheartedly agree that you should you know Burn down your life and start over again or burn down your life and just give up once you realize these things I do this time. I did understand where Dawes was coming from whereas the first two times. I Couldn't care less Now as far this is the fun part And why you guys are here. So let's talk about the Thursday theorist aspects of it what ties into the dark tower What ties into the King verse so right off the bat? I thought it was extremely funny that he would tie it as Tie it to the King verse as hard as he did because this is a Bachman book that the mangler is Mention on page 389 of this version of the book and the mangler is a short story from Stephen King It's about a laundry machine or press or folding machine something like that That's sentient that you know tears people to pieces Another thing on page 431 He literally says Dawes in some not narration, but in some dialogue says maybe I'm off the beam King does this again in misery and throughout the thing even in the Gerald's game movie I don't remember that it's in Gerald's game but I remember in the Gerald's game movie the husband actually says, you know, maybe I'm off the beam and Off the beam seems to be both a it's like an I don't know if you considered an idiom But something to say that, you know, maybe I'm off the path kind of deal which is you know, maybe I'm straying away from normal But here it is Another thing that I thought was funny is and I didn't catch this until right up to the end The hard tie-in I think I think the hard tie-in for the dark tower if you if you don't consider off the beam If you consider that just a throwaway thing 784 Interstate 7 plus 8 is 15 15 plus 4 is 19 unless I'm just horribly bad at math 19 pops up Again and 19 is a huge Huge thing in the dark tower series. It's a huge thing Let's see here now one thing I wanted to talk about that I didn't want to talk about in the review is the amount of grammatical errors in this book I mean holy shit. I went through this and it's like reading a Free indie book that you grab on Amazon. It was so bad and I wanted to point out a couple things. Let's see here Let's see a roadwork 367 I'm gonna just give you an example of what some of these are these are three errors in one page so The phone was picked up on the second ring and male voice said and Male voice there's no other words there Then down a little bit further. It says what's that with no punctuation? No question mark. No period nothing And then toward the bottom of the page. It says Merv Griffin was chatting with celebrities when got home And there's a lot of stuff like that. There is an error on almost every single page and I'm not Exaggerating it's funny and I wonder But toward the end of the book toward the second half of the book not toward the end But toward the second half of the book it gets really really clean And you don't find anything and I'm wondering if maybe Tabby was out of town or something for like the first half of the Book or maybe the second half because Tabitha works was like his number one editor She always does the first draft nowadays. I think Joe Hill does a lot of his stuff But the and I think maybe even Owen might help. I'm not sure and I say Leading boys alone let them write their own stuff anyways, so The but I was I was shocked by how many errors there are because you just don't find that many errors Now yes early King you're gonna find a typo here and there you're gonna find missing words missing letters All that stuff because he worked on a typewriter and they put after a certain period of time They pretty much it just accepted whatever he he brought in because it was usually going to be clean and decent And I'm wondering if that's what happened here. I don't know but I thought I found it really shocking that there were so Many errors, especially when rage and the long walk are so clean And yes again I know there are errors in our books in that book, but this not there's not an error on every single page like this one Finally next week where you're gonna be doing the running man so That that one it we may or may not have an episode next week Because it is I'm gonna try and read it slowly like this one only so many pages And I hope to get it done by next Wednesday So I can do a review followed by Thursday theorist if you don't see it Thursday theorist I will still have a video up But I'm apologizing in advance because I'm not 100% sure I'm gonna be able to get through it in a week Because I have a lot of other things going on. Okay, so I'm apologizing in advance if you don't see me But did I miss anything in road work this time? I'm gonna go ahead and say I don't think I did But if I did that I'm not But basically what I'm saying is I didn't specifically leave anything out for you guys to find like I normally do But if I missed anything, let me know in the comments down below But until next time I have any you've been you this been Thursday theorist. I'll talk to you guys later Bye-bye