What does /lit/ think of Stephen King/Richard's The Long

>>inb4 baby's first stephen king

What?

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I feel like there is at least one big hint as to the nature of America and how things changed in every chapter but this one struck me as kind of a bombshell:

"A man with an electric bullhorn who alternately praised Garraty and advertised his own candidacy to represent the second district; a woman with a big crow in a small cage which she hugged jealously to her giant bosom; a human pyramid made out of college boys in University of New Hampshire sweatshirts; a hollowcheeked man with no teeth in an Uncle Sam suit wearing a sign which said: WE GAVE AWAY THE PANAMA CANAL TO THE COMMUNIST NIGGERS."

So far from the first n-bomb I've read in a King novel, it might be dismissed as just common bigotry, I think it's actually indicating the US invasion of Grenada never happened or failed, and clearly indicates a greater spread of communism in Central America and the Caribbean.

>>8214055
I hadn't read it previously since I was in grade school.

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This one supports sort the OP theory more directly:

"Garraty's head seemed to be playing jazz. Dave Brubeck, Thelonius Monk, Cannonball Adderly-the Banned Noisemakers that everybody kept under the table and played when the party got noisy and drunk."

Nazi Germany banned jazz in '35 as Negro Music, although so did Soviet Russia and Red China, but for different reasons and by the mid-70s they had relaxed those restrictions.

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This one is probably the most convincing of OP theory:


"In the old days, before the Change and the Squads, when there were still millionaires, they used to set up foundations and build libraries and all that good shit."

'The Change' most certainly eludes to the rise of totalitarianism in America, and could easily imply regime change, particularly as it is directly associated with the Squads as being the most evident part of that change. It is followed up by a statement which almost certainly suggests a redistribution of wealth. There are numerous indications that America remains anti-communist, and it's government has taken a fascist, national socialist position.

There are statements the reveal that WWII went on until at least 1953, that the Germans acquired nuclear weapons, possibly before the United States, and that there was horrific, Dresden style carpet bombings of the US east coast.

tfw lyin in the hammock wif ur hunnie and your boner feels like a hot stone on ur tum

>>8214279
He built her image slowly in his mind. Her small feet. Her sturdy but completely feminine legs-small calves swelling to full earthy peasant thighs. Her waist was small, her breasts full and proud. The intelligent, rounded planes of her face. Her long blond hair. Whore's hair he thought it for some reason. Once he had told her that-it had simply slipped out and he thought she would be angry, but she had not replied at all. He thought she had been secretly pleased.