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Posted: 9/28/2013 5:07:22 PM EDT
Hive mind assistance is required, and with the breadth of knowledge here I am pretty confident I can get it!
I'm trying to find a novel I read decades ago. I believe it was written by a notable sci-fi author and I thought it may have been Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury but after reading a synopsis, I'm doubting that it is so. What I can remember is that the main character was a boy (pre- or early teens) and kids were going missing in a woods that ran through the town. I seem to recall there was a ravine or a hill in the woods, something to do with the protaganist running to get away from whatever was in the woods and fighting elevation changes. I also seem to recall that the kid(s) knew that the woods were dangerous but used them anyway, always thinking that they wouldn't be the one(s) to get taken. Hive Mind... any ideas? |
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Posted: 9/28/2013 5:34:42 PM EDT
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Sounds vaguely like Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury.
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Posted: 9/28/2013 5:40:29 PM EDT
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Thanks for the response, but reading Wikipedia synopsis, that is not it.
I'm trying to find a novel to read tomorrow and this one is stuck in my mind. |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 4:57:09 AM EDT
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Bump for the day crew and one last chance.
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Posted: 9/29/2013 4:59:24 AM EDT
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Were the woods in Maine?
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:07:58 AM EDT
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That isn't a lot to go on. Any more details?
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:10:11 AM EDT
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It's not The Girl who Liked Tom Gordon. That's 20 years or more too new to be the one I'm trying to remember.
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:11:37 AM EDT
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That isn't a lot to go on. Any more details? Unfortunately, no. Does anyone know if Dandelion Wine may have had this in it? |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:14:51 AM EDT
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That isn't a lot to go on. Any more details? Unfortunately, no. Does anyone know if Dandelion Wine may have had this in it? crap. my copy is packed in the storage unit. i'll wiki it Yeah that might be it. Chapter 10 The Night. It features a ravine and someone who's missing. |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:16:47 AM EDT
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Were the woods in Maine? Are you thinking Steven King? One of them had a bunch of kids who played in the Ravine and River over the guard rail to the highway. The one with the pyscho clown that destroyed the town every 50 years. Kids kill him with a silver bullet from a slingshot, molded from a silver dollar. Name is lost on me |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:20:09 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: One of them had a bunch of kids who played in the Ravine and River over the guard rail to the highway. The one with the pyscho clown that destroyed the town every 50 years. Kids kill him with a silver bullet from a slingshot, molded from a silver dollar. Name is lost on me Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Were the woods in Maine? Are you thinking Steven King? One of them had a bunch of kids who played in the Ravine and River over the guard rail to the highway. The one with the pyscho clown that destroyed the town every 50 years. Kids kill him with a silver bullet from a slingshot, molded from a silver dollar. Name is lost on me It sounds familiar, I'm sure I've read It, but I simply can't remember what It was called  |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:24:10 AM EDT
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It sounds familiar, I'm sure I've read It, but I simply can't remember what It was called
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Were the woods in Maine? Are you thinking Steven King? One of them had a bunch of kids who played in the Ravine and River over the guard rail to the highway. The one with the pyscho clown that destroyed the town every 50 years. Kids kill him with a silver bullet from a slingshot, molded from a silver dollar. Name is lost on me It sounds familiar, I'm sure I've read It, but I simply can't remember what It was called
Kids come back 50 years later to fight the clown again, who is actually a spider. One is an architect with the silver dollars, one is the town Liberian, The fat kid got skinny eating salad. |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:24:15 AM EDT
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Are you thinking Steven King? crap. my copy is packed in the storage unit. i'll wiki it Yeah that might be it. Chapter 10 The Night. It features a ravine and someone who's missing. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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That isn't a lot to go on. Any more details? Unfortunately, no. Does anyone know if Dandelion Wine may have had this in it? crap. my copy is packed in the storage unit. i'll wiki it Yeah that might be it. Chapter 10 The Night. It features a ravine and someone who's missing. Geekz0r, I'll give that a shot. My first recollection was that it was Dandelion Wine so I'm hopeful you're right. Thanks, all. |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:25:52 AM EDT
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CarbineDad, you are thinking of IT by Stephen King.
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:29:38 AM EDT
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CarbineDad, you are thinking of IT by Stephen King. Thanks, had kids in a Ravine and my brain locked there 
ETA: I read that once, probably in 1986 or 87 looking a wiki I have a life long goal of never going to Maine. Read way to many Stephen King books in the 80s 
No seriously, don't want to go to Maine. 
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:37:03 AM EDT
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CarbineDad, I've been there a couple times on vacation. Stay on the coast and you'll fine.
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:39:35 AM EDT
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CarbineDad, I've been there a couple times on vacation. Stay on the coast and you'll fine.
I have never been closer than Albany New York
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:40:18 AM EDT
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He was blind the entire time.
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:41:31 AM EDT
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good luck. i know what it's like to try to find a book when you don't remember the author or title. back in the early 90s I didn't have the internet to help (not that it was very advanced back then anyway) ... I tried that. All I knew was the color of the binder and a line from the blurb on the back of the book.
it took me 5 years to find it. granted i wasn't searching constantly, just every time i went to a book store... but yeah, 5 years. 
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Posted: 9/29/2013 5:42:53 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: He was blind the entire time. |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 6:23:12 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Kids come back 50 years later to fight the clown again, who is actually a spider. One is an architect with the silver dollars, one is the town Liberian, The fat kid got skinny eating salad. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It sounds familiar, I'm sure I've read It, but I simply can't remember what It was called Kids come back 50 years later to fight the clown again, who is actually a spider. One is an architect with the silver dollars, one is the town Liberian, The fat kid got skinny eating salad. Yep. I see someone has already identified It though |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 6:40:02 AM EDT
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What you did there, I see it.
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Posted: 9/29/2013 6:45:41 AM EDT
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No, he was Keyser Soze the entire time. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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He was blind the entire time. Keyser Soze was dead? |
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Posted: 9/29/2013 6:47:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Kids come back 50 years later to fight the clown again, who is actually a spider. One is an architect with the silver dollars, one is the town Liberian, The fat kid got skinny eating salad. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Were the woods in Maine? Are you thinking Steven King? One of them had a bunch of kids who played in the Ravine and River over the guard rail to the highway. The one with the pyscho clown that destroyed the town every 50 years. Kids kill him with a silver bullet from a slingshot, molded from a silver dollar. Name is lost on me It sounds familiar, I'm sure I've read It, but I simply can't remember what It was called Kids come back 50 years later to fight the clown again, who is actually a spider. One is an architect with the silver dollars, one is the town Liberian, The fat kid got skinny eating salad. Racist book is racist. |
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