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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/BrieLarson [[WhatCouldHaveBeen auditioned for the role of Carol for the movie adaptation]], and eighteen years later got to play [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 another Carol]].
** Years later, King would write a story called "Bad Little Kid," about a demonic brat whose physical description almost perfectly matches Ronnie Malenfant's (and whose surname literally means "bad kid").
** Years later, King would write a story called "Bad Little Kid," about a demonic brat whose physical description almost perfectly matches Ronnie Malenfant's (and whose surname literally means "bad kid").
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** Years later, King would write a story called "Bad Little Kid," about a demonic brat whose physical description almost perfectly matches Ronnie Malenfant's (and whose surname literally means "bad kid").
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it's deliberate artistic license, not a mistake
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired. King acknowledges this in the afterward, saying the show fit so much better than anything else from the period he could think of that he went ahead with it anyway.
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Misuse- controversy about the baby boomer generation has been around a lot longer than 2019.
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* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam's effects and the Baby Boomer's failure to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("Hearts in Atlantis").
* ValuesResonance: Following the "Okay Boomer" meme gaining popularity in 2019, King's critical look at the generation is even more relevant than it was when he wrote it.
* ValuesResonance: Following the "Okay Boomer" meme gaining popularity in 2019, King's critical look at the generation is even more relevant than it was when he wrote it.
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* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam's effects and the Baby Boomer's failure to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("Hearts in Atlantis").
* ValuesResonance: Following the "Okay Boomer" meme gaining popularity in 2019, King's critical look at the generation is even more relevant than it was when he wrote it.Atlantis").
* ValuesResonance: Following the "Okay Boomer" meme gaining popularity in 2019, King's critical look at the generation is even more relevant than it was when he wrote it.
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* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/BrieLarson [[WhatCouldHaveBeen auditioned for the role of Carol for the movie adaptation]], and eighteen years later got to play [[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 another Carol]].
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired. King acknowledges this in the afterward, saying the show fit so much better than anything else from the period he could think of that that he went ahead with it anyway.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired. King acknowledges this in the afterward, saying the show fit so much better than anything else from the period he could think of that that he went ahead with it anyway.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired. King acknowledges this in the afterward, saying the show fit so much better than anything else from the period he could think of that that he went ahead with it anyway.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/ThePrisoner'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/ThePrisoner'', ''Series/{{The Prisoner 1967}}'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: Pete and Carol bond over being fans of ''Series/ThePrisoner'', despite the story being set a year before the series aired.
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* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam's effects and the Baby Boomer's failure to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter").
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* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam's effects and the Baby Boomer's failure to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter").("Hearts in Atlantis").
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* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam and the Baby Boomer's failure as a generation to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter").
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* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam Vietnam's effects and the Baby Boomer's failure as a generation to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter").Hunter").
* ValuesResonance: Following the "Okay Boomer" meme gaining popularity in 2019, King's critical look at the generation is even more relevant than it was when he wrote it.
* ValuesResonance: Following the "Okay Boomer" meme gaining popularity in 2019, King's critical look at the generation is even more relevant than it was when he wrote it.
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The implication in the end of the book, that based on the book page that Carol & Bobby received, that Ted's last message to Carol was to tell her to keep being strong as he let her know that her college love Peter is dead. How else could Ted have gotten Peter's book with the message she had written?]]
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The implication in the end of the book, that based on the book page that Carol & Bobby received, that Ted's last message to Carol was to tell her to keep being strong as he let her know that her college love Peter is dead. How else could Ted have gotten Peter's book with the message she had written?]]written?]]
* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam and the Baby Boomer's failure as a generation to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter").
* SlowPacedBeginning: While the first novella isn't boring, the themes about Vietnam and the Baby Boomer's failure as a generation to make real social change don't begin to appear until the second story ("The Heart is a Lonely Hunter").
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* TearJerker: [[spoiler:The implication in the end of the book, that based on the book page that Carol & Bobby received, that Ted's last message to Carol was to tell her to keep being strong as he let her know that her college love Peter is dead. How else could Ted have gotten Peter's book with the message she had written?]]
