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What happened? Stuck in between the other stuff in this busy little chapter: the connecting tissue between Rose, Julia, Barbie, and the dead Sheriff's wife ... the one who's discovered all the baaaad crap about the Rennies. We can see a growing relationship between the editor and the ex-soldier; she's the only one who knows about his 'outside' connection, and she knows everything about the town. Now they have to get the geiger counter out of the bomb shelter basement, and Brenda Perkins is their best shot for access.
I wonder how SK manages to keep all this straight in his head. So many people, so many plots. When I wrote the Big Ol' Long Book of my own (never again!), it was pages of outlines and doublling back just to keep it straight; King's making it doubly hard on himself by having all this happen simultaneously; we're not even 36 hours into this thing but everything's happening at once. Which -- unlike, for instant, Salem's Lot -- gives us an even greater sense of the hothouse -- of people under pressure and most of them not responding well.
Still, I have to say the whole "let's get the geiger counter" thing feels a bit like the side-quest in a video game: "To unlock this door, you need the Jewel of Abinoggi, and you must travel to the Vault of WankyDoo in Cawdor to fight the dragon Mulch and return with it ..."
Let's see if the geiger counter ever appears, and if so if it matters one bit.
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