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Would you pleas summarize th The Waste Lands by Stephen King.
Can you tell me waht was the main conflict and how conflict was resolved? What are Characters name in this stoey? Please.....!

― Liz Allien, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you supposed to have read this for a book report, and you want us to do all the work? You don't even know the characters names?

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I think there was a big dog named Cujo in that book. And a monkey too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

And the monkey had a car that was in love with it who would, like, totally wail on the monkey's foes, right?

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/books_magazines/print_books/dark_tower_3_the_waste_lands_stephen_king/

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=The+Waste+Lands+Stephen+King&btnG=Google+Search

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Teresias is a blind, hermaphroditic seer who casts bird bones to glean the future. Madame Sosostris is into the tarot. The thing in the middle about the girl getting pregnant is meant to display the poet's fear of the vernacularization of the English language. The Grail is holy. Be the rain. It pays to be Ezra Pound's friend. The Crimson King is gleaped from the band.

― otto, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 04:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Chianti, chianti, chianti...

Strange that Eliot wasn't into liver.

― SRH (Skrik), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't this series about four boys who embark on an adventure with a sadistic clown, only to end up in a cabin in the middle of Maine where a crazy lady breaks their legs? Then they all start chanting "red rum" and get wasted on a bottle of Captain Morgan's? That's right. And then they go to prison where they carve soapstone figurines and weave dreamcatchers.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds like my life.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 13:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There was also a giant spider and a battered woman named Rose who had a cool picture in her room in Kingdom Hospital. I think she was the mother of the boys chasing the clown.

― dr. b. (dr. b.), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I feel kind of bad we didn't really help poor Liz out. I mean, I've never read The Waste Lands so I can't tell if any of the answers posted are the truth. I know that mine was a lie. Michael posted a couple helpful links but none of us actually spelled out plot/characters for her. ... Well, this just goes to show you that we don't play around at ILB. If you want to know about the book(s), you've got to read it yourself. There are no free rides, etc, etc. ... Although, if you send me $50 cash, I'll read them all and write the report for you. I can be bought.

― Vermont Girl (Vermont Girl), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Datta. Dayadhvam. Damyata.
Shantih shantih shantih

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

VG, we should start a nation-wide book report guild for the lazy/inept/partially literate. I sort of did something like that in high school. "I'll help you on your French and English papers if you'll explain this f***ing trig homework to me."

BTW, how does one end up here at ILB instead of all those useful Google results. Boggling of the mind really.

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I helped a kid with their homework on ILE once:

Jolly Ranchers

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll help, but only indirectly. Liz, if this is for some school report, knock your teacher's knickers sideways by tying in King's Waste Lands with its inspiration: Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came." You will be advanced a grade if you incorporate Browning's inspiration--King Lear--in which Edgar sings

Child Rowland to the dark tower came,
His word was still--Fie, foh, and fum,
I smell the blood of a British man.

I'm done helping. Now get to work.

― otto, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, you guys! April is the cruellest month, Liz. And it's only March.

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Why didn't liz just read the book instead of just open herself up to such ridicule.

P.S you forgot the giant bull and the little bald doctors.

― sally (sally), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I.
In April one seldom feels cheerful;
Dry stones, sun and dust make me fearful;
Clairvoyants distress me,
Commuters depress me--
Met Stetson and gave him an earful.

II.
She sat on a mighty fine chair,
Sparks flew as she tidied her hair;
She asks many questions,
I make few suggestions--
Bad as Albert and Lil--what a pair!

III.
The Thames runs, bones rattle, rats creep;
Tiresias fancies a peep--
A typist is laid,
A record is played--
Wei la la. After this it gets deep.

IV.
A Phoenician called Phlebas forgot
About birds and his business--the lot.
Which is no surprise,
Since he met his demise
And was left in the ocean to rot.

V.
No water. Dry rocks and dry throats.
Then thunder, a shower of quotes!
From The Sanskrit to Dante.
Da. Damyata. Shantih.
I hope you'll make sense of the notes.

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Saturday, 27 March 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Was that a poem or have I gone mad?

― sally (sally), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Is that a critique of The Wasteland? The original confused the hell out of me.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Monday, 29 March 2004 10:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasteland Limericks!

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Monday, 29 March 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a critique so much as a reader's guide. Who wrote it, Leee? I'm pretty sure I've seen it before.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I attempted to rewrite Paradise Lost as a sestina (the form was actually more complicated than that) but I only got as far, in the sestina, as I had gotten in the book: about four books in. Ah well!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Wendy Cope, who, I think, writes a lot of poetic parodies.

― Vitamin Leee (Leee), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Ah, Wendy Cope. I like her a lot. Particularly "Giving Up Smoking"

There's not a Shakespeare sonnet
Or a Beethoven quartet
That's easier to like than you
Or harder to forget

You think that sounds extravagant?
I haven't finished yet
I like you more than I should like
To have a cigarette

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 30 March 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Liz, Sweetie, where are you? We care! Has this helped at all?

― pepektheassassin (pepektheassassin), Thursday, 1 April 2004 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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