The Beauty of Stephen King: "The Last Rung on the Ladder"
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- čas přidán 31. 08. 2023
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Good evening, Constant Reader... Welcome back to the Stephen King Book Club!
Tonight we will be discussing one of Stephen King's more dramatic stories -- one that doesn't have anything supernatural... or even scary... (well, maybe it's a little scary...) Instead we're focused on a tender story of a very close-call during childhood... and a final goodbye during adulthood.
The story "The Last Run on the Ladder" is from Stephen King's short fiction collection NIGHT SHIFT...
Also, for this episode, we reached out to the Book Club members to find out if they ever took any risks during their younger years... you know, like walking across a rafter in an old barn and then jumping sixty feet down into a haystack? - Zábava
This was one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking stories Stephen King has ever written.
I fell in love with SK in the 5 th grade in 85. The world's he provides are amazing. ❤
Only king encapsulates that specific childhood wonder and fear, monsters under the bed or in the sewers. The Green mile was beautifully written
Sorry, I got the numbers wrong.
Yessir, it certainly was a masterpiece! The Shawshank Redemption was as well.
@@sharonscott3999 agreed, funny how his prison pieces seem to stick out to me , like hrs recreating a modern count of Monte ctisto, the underlying theme is hope
We used to go into abandoned houses, ride down steep hills in shopping carts (my favorite), climb trees on private property, and try to get the construction machinery to work around our development at night.
Yeah, the 80s were fun.
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Aw... the 80s! What a time to be a kid!
Ive read stephen King for years. Now, im writing my own short stories and books.
That's awesome!
When I was 14 my father ended his life by jumping from a bridge. I never before now realized that maybe he wasn't feeling sorrow that long ago day. Maybe it was relief and maybe it was joy
OMG. Im so very sorry 😢❤
One of my absolute favorites of King's.
My younger brother fell in between some hay bales once. We were at my great-grandparents’ farm, you see, and we were just sitting on hay bales in their barn when he fell between them. He wasn’t hurt, and we were able to get him out quickly enough, but it was like he was there one moment, then gone the next. Crazy shit, man.
mrnice7470, you’re so spot on! I grew up with Stephen King. I never lost a minute of sleep. Except, when I couldn’t put the book down!
Being a Long Beach WA Peninsula kid, I agree Mr Narrator. His stories bring me home ❤
I remember reading Night Shift in 1985 when I was 14. This story really got to me. I thought about it for a long time after I read it. It really left an impression on me. I read Carrie in 1979 and then write after that The Shining, his books have traveled with me most of my life , living in 6 states and over seas ❤❤❤❤ We are now residing in the Appalachia 🥰🥰😂😂
There is nobody could put that much depth into a short story than Stephen King!!!
One of my favorite stories is Word Processor of the Gods, it is very TWILIGHT Zone like with a touch of EC comics.
Once, when i was a child, me and my best friend climbed up into the hay loft of our barn, it was only about 18-20' high. As soon as we stepped away from the ladder, we noticed that there was a huge hornet nest right above the ladder. And i guess all the noise we made made them MAD! They started swarming and stinging us, and we could not make it to the ladder. Our only option was to jump out of the loft door. we looked down from the edge, which looked about 100' high. Luckily, There was a bale of last years hay down in the lot. I closed my eyes, held my breath and lept for the hay. After falling and rolling for what seemed like forever, I got up and dusted myself off. I learned a valuable lesson that day. Always check your environment before hemming yourself in!
Ouch! I remember being chase by a swarm of hornets! (Didn't have to jump out of a barn, though!)
Thank you for these! Keep em coming!
I love King stories when people are reminiscing! I just revisited The Man in the Black Suit!
Who's ready for Holly?!
Can’t wait! 🎉
I reread this a few wks ago because of you!
The Dark Half and Pet Semetary were the first of kings novels I've ever read. I really do enjoy these analysis videos you make of stephen kings works. 🙂❤📚
I love the Richard Bachman books too. Desperation and I believe The Dark Half, I may be wrong. I can’t think of it!
@@sharonscott3999 I think you may be thinking of desperation and the regulators maybe? I know the first version of the dark half I read had stephen kings name on the front cover. 🙂❤📚
Oooohhoooohooo...settling into bed for this one. Thanks for keeping me up!
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❤ a lovely story for a chilly autumn evening by the fire.
An old bridge over Yakima has a few legends of its own, glad you kids were ok 😊
This is my favorite SK story. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thats a tall hay loft. Id hate to have to throw hay up there!
Oh I love your inclusion of comments/real stories.
Thanks... this was a fun one to make... and I loved adding some of the Book Club members stories... (as well as my own)
always loved this story and Mrs Todd’s Shortcut
You may be pleased to know Mrs. Todd makes an appearance in "Strange Resort: Survivor's Type"
sad story. i read it back in like '82. never 4got it
I remember being allowed to run alone or with my sister and cousins all over a camping ground near the coast. We'd be told to be back before it got dark and handed flashlights as most times on the way back is when it went from sundown to pitch in 0 seconds lol. But that was in the 80s and 90s so it might be different now.
Chopper , sic Balls !
Bite shit Choppy!
So glad i found this channel
That was just so heart breaking
Great Great story
Glad you enjoyed it
I recall reading and loving this short story long ago. Loved your exploration of it.
Thank you so much!
This is wonderful!
Never took any crazy risks when I was a kid, and I grew up in areas of the South, before we settled in Ohio.
Grew up on a farm in Illinois ...So many Barn stories
This is actually my favorite story in the book
It's simple yet powerful -- and some of my favorite prose by King.
Hit the hay
Fun and sad❤
Did you grow up in Yakima? I did! Eisenhower class of '93.
Nice! I grew up in western Washington... but my grandparents had a place in Cle Elum so I spent a lot of my summers there :)
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Stephen King isn't horror, his stories are just twisted.
And, ahem, horrifying!
My cousins and I also jumped from the barn into the hay. Sonny and Toni went before I did. We all came through the day without getting hurt, but my mom and aunts were mad enough to spank us. But it was not the most dangerous thing I did, and I don't feel like revealing it now. Heh heh heh
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I started to respond to the question about the scariest thing we did as a child for fun but, I didn’t. My response was about taking a boat to a very old lighthouse, perched on rust and barnacle crusted, spidery legs above an island of stark white sand, small enough to be swallowed entirely by the great dark ocean when the tide came in at night, surrounded by the brittle, alien beauty of sharp coral reefs and a lone, dark shape slicing silently through the clear sea. I started typing it out and it suddenly started swelling into a full essay. I copied it from the text box onto the notepad and now it’s on Word growing into a fictional story. As Stephen King might say, it grew legs.
I can already tell from your setting description... it's going to be a great story!
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 Thanks much for the inspiration and encouraging words! A motivational compliment coming from so skillful a storyteller, as you - Write on!
That’s pretty good!
I must admit I like Bradbury's stories about ' childhood ' better... maybe I'm just from a slightly different generation
Bradbury's stories are amazing (whether about childhood or Mars!)
@@stephenkingbookclub1054 I absolutely agree 👍....he was (and still is) a National Treasure.... Peace