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The title, Desperate Characters, comes from a sentence in Henry David Thoreau’s Walden: “The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” In the novel, Charlie and Sophie discuss Charlie's "desperation," and Otto tells Sophie that he and Charlie had recently argued over the Thoreau quote.
Desperation is a horror novel by American author Stephen King. It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, The Regulators, itself published under King's Richard Bachman pseudonym. It was also made into a TV film starring Ron Perlman, Tom Skerritt and Steven Weber in 2006. The two novels represent parallel universes relative ...
This connection, though purely speculative, would make sense as both seem to work as gateways through which malign forces of some sort manifest in the world. Also it would be far from the first time King used word-play in Dark Tower related books. --Peter K. 04:25, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
The Regulators is a novel by American author Stephen King, writing under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.It was published in 1996 at the same time as its "mirror" novel, Desperation.
Megan Nolan (born 1990) [1] is an Irish journalist, and author from County Waterford.Her debut novel, Acts of Desperation, [2] was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize [3] and was one of the four awardees of the 2022 Betty Trask Award for debut novels.
Smith's third novel, Desperation Road, was published in February 2017 by Lee Boudreaux Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company. [14] [15] Set in Mississippi, it follows Russell Gaines, who is released from Mississippi State Penitentiary after serving an eleven-year sentence. As he travels back to his hometown of McComb, his path ...
Stephen King is an American author of contemporary horror, thriller, science fiction, and fantasy. His books have sold more than 400 million copies, [1] [needs update] and many of them have been adapted into feature films, television movies, and comic books.
An adage expresses a well-known and simple truth in a few words. [8] (Similar to aphorism and proverb.) adjective Any word or phrase which modifies a noun or pronoun, grammatically added to describe, identify, or quantify the related noun or pronoun. [9] [10] adverb A descriptive word used to modify a verb, adjective, or another adverb.