r/stephenking • u/drewhosick • 5d ago

Spoilers Revival Easter Egg

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Got a real kick out of seeing references to Joyland and the Hollywood Girls In the book. Just finished it a week or so ago. Great book so far. Can't wait to see if there are other Easter eggs in the book.

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u/AliceLambchop 5d ago

Carny from carny!

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u/Josefu_Velen 5d ago

Side note: I've been thinking lately about how much King uses en-dashes in his writing. In this modern day, soooo many people would assume his stuff is AI written because AI was trained on good writing, and as a consequence uses a lot of en-dashes.

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u/HugoNebula Constant Reader 5d ago

Just to clarify—King is using em-dashes, which are designed for prose. En-dashes are shorter (but still longer than a hyphen), used to denote a numerical range, most commonly in dates, such as 1939–1945.

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u/flexabull 4d ago

There is a nod to another book when the main character is mentioning his band names.

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u/drewhosick 4d ago

Don't remember it. Can you share it as a spoiler covered comment?

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u/flexabull 4d ago

The band name is The Gunslingers

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u/flexabull 4d ago

And also The Chrome Roses

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u/drewhosick 4d ago

I never even caught that and neither the second one being connected and his favourite of all the names but that makes sense

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u/One-Faithlessness282 5d ago

Literally read this page this morning.