 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Thursday Theorist. Today we are talking about full dark No stars. Yeah, I first and foremost two things I want to throw out there If you want to jump to the beginning of the actual theorist video, I'll put a Number a timecode down there in the doobly-doo But first off if you are in Alabama around the Birmingham area or Hoover area I will be at the Hoover public library this Saturday Uh, what is it the 20 october 27th? If you would like to come by stop by say hello. Say what's up Meet me. You can listen to me talk. I'll be doing a talk about uh independent publishing at the Hoover public library And of course Hoover, Alabama Second thing of note is it is early as I don't know what It is for 4 a.m. As I am shooting this because I forgot to film this episode yesterday Um, why why wouldn't my up so early? Why don't I just film it later today? Well, I'm doing a buddy read a 24 hour long buddy read with my buddy Cody Tidwell Um, I'll leave links to his stuff down there in the doobly-doo But I will be trying to read for the next well starting at 9 a.m. Central standard time I'll be trying to read for the next 24 hours straight Uh, only breaks for food and bathroom. Um that kind of thing So if you'd like to join me on that weird journey, I'll also be posting a video to the channel. Hopefully if it goes well Um, if you'd like to join me for that journey, follow me on twitter Follow me on instagram links down in the doobly-doo. Let's get on with the review slash theorist stuff All right, so full dark no stars opens up with 1922. Um, I love the story I'm gonna go right ahead and say that this is uh, this collection is my favorite novella collection from steven king after Different seasons different seasons is perfect This one. I only have a slight problem with one story but uh other than that I enjoyed and it's also i'm gonna give you some history as far as the paperback and the hardcover concerned also um 1922 great If you see the adaptation I actually once again, this has happened before if you guys have watched all the thursday theorist videos I prefer the movie on netflix to the actual reading of the story just for experience Um, it's a quicker experience of course because you know unless of course you're a speed reader If you're a speed reader definitely read the story first. I mean not first but read the story forget about the movie. Um, the movie is great Uh, but the the book kind of meanders at times. Uh, it's just king being king I mean, I don't care too much for people who get who complain about steven king doing steven king things But this one does kind of meander for a novella It felt like it would have been a terrific short story That is my one complaint for the entirety of this book Um is that the first story feels a bit long even for a novella, but that's just my opinion All right, next up. We have a fair extension. Love this story In fact one of my biggest theories Coming up, uh, there's going to be a lot of disagreement about it and I love disagreement So disagree with me down there in the comments. Um, but I I really appreciate The location because this is by the uh, the airport in uh, what was the dairy? I think it is in the story I think it's dairy, but uh It is a it might actually be bangor now that i'm thinking about it, but bangor is Uh, I think king called it the bastard twin Of well dairy is the bastard twin of bangor main, which in fact is where steven king lives But uh, I enjoyed it just for the just for the content the context the content Um the the idea and spoilers, you know these videos how these videos go the spoiler It the guy's talking to the devil and yes, it's a little hokey and silly that the guy's name is elvid Which is what is an anagram for a devil or it's a it's a devil Uh, it's devil mixed up. It's elvid Uh, it's the way it's written in there and he's got things. It's really really cool I I appreciated that even though it is a little hokey. I appreciated it and love that story Next up actually I skip big driver. I apologize big driver is one of my favorite steven king novellas period I don't think I've done my top five. I'm not even sure that it'd be in my top five steven king novellas Um, in fact if I haven't I'll probably do that for tomorrow's video um for top five friday, but uh big driver I had A blast being uncomfortable in that story From the beginning rape scene all the way to when she enters the the woman's house there that the the whole thing Is terrific. It's one of his best novellas I have not seen the uh, what is it tnts or lifetime? I can't remember which uh, which one it is I haven't seen the film adaptation and I'm not too interested in it Um, I don't know why but it just doesn't call to me. So I have no interest in it um But I love Love big driver the novella and finally a good marriage, which got a lot of flak film version I couldn't even finish it. Uh people love it. I know that that's fine. Um The reason I couldn't fit it was very cringy. Um, some of the acting I didn't care for it whatsoever Um, a lot of people said it was terrifically acted. I don't agree with that But hey, that's just me just like I don't like the acting in halloween. Yes, the original john carpenter version I think it's terrible. Lady gets choked in her eyes cross. It's hilarious. But um, I like halloween Coming up on halloween. I love halloween the movie and it's it's so bad. It's good sense Raging me down there in the comments. Um You're wrong. I can't wait to read this. All right, so uh, good marriage There was a lot of controversy because it was uh, the story was inspired by the btk Killer bond. Well, actually, you know, it's bind torture kill Um killer seems redundant to say it again, but btk killer um Anywho and the I think the the dude's daughter, which is named david something. I think uh, he she came out and said, you know, you're You're Glorifying my father and I don't see it that way at all because I mean the dude's a terrible person in the book It's not like, you know, he was writing a a fan story for btk and here We're gonna jump in the dark tower connections now because this video is going on long enough, but the uh The connections here. I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave two things out. I'm gonna let you guys find two things Whoever finds those two things Maybe I'll send you something special So if you can find the two things that I don't mention I don't care if you go searching for them because they're they're hard to find The if I don't mention the two if you find the two things that I don't mention Then I'll send you something special Something really special. Okay, so jumping into it 1922 Occurs in hemmingford home nebraska. That's easy. That's where mother avigales from It's been all throughout the king burst and of course the stan ties in hard to the dark tower because of wizard and glass They end up traveling and that's also important for another story in here But we'll get that get to that in just a second um But especially the stand and wizard and glass Uh, if you if you're not familiar with it wizard and glass ties into the stand because roland and his content End up in the world of the stand after captain trips has happened so Moving on it on that note The way it's connected. We're going to go ahead and jump directly to I think it's in fair extension There is no no wait thing. I'm going to jump all the way to uh, which one is it? Oh Speaking of which I need to go back. See this is why I don't film this early in the morning the difference between the hardcover version And the paperback version here is the paperback version actually comes with an extra story called Uh under the weather under the weather is cool because there's a point in there where they're talking and a guy mentions uh that I think it's either him or somebody else runs a runs a company uh that works with Uh nausea cola or that he's the guy thinks he's drinking a nausea. I think is what it says and of course That nausea cola from that is mentioned in wizard and glass I mean you can put those two things together I think I don't think that's a big stretch of the imagination to say that that story happens in Uh and on top of that the guy's wife dies in the story of an illness and he just keeps her Yeah, there. He just keeps her Uh another thing a last one. I'm going to bring up is in the story fair extension I believe yeah, I believe that elvido's of course. I think he's rando flag I just think that that that is a thing. I think that's a hard not a hard connect I think that's a soft connect you can disagree with me But there are two people that are talking in the uh in the story And one guy says long days and pleasant nights and that's directly from the dark tower So now it is up to you to find the two that I purposefully left out I've done this in past videos also because I want you guys to play along Maybe I'll do a video right at the end of all this do a really long video Where I just mentioned all the stuff that I left out because I've been keeping notes Anyways, so please leave your stuff down there in the comments below and I'll probably send you something cool All right, so until next time. I have been e you've been you it's been another Thursday theory review I'll talk to you guys later. Bye. Bye