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"with twins - in a lot of cases, one twin will eat the other in the womb."
Never happened.
This is absolutely untrue, an old wive's tale if you will, albeit however a myth suitable for a Stephen King thread. I thought they could absorb the other twin? Yeah just checked - they can obsorb the other featus in the womb. I knew this idea didn't come from anywhere. There was a documentry on TV where a twin had obsorbed the other, they found teeth etc. Eating/obsorbing - the kids gone and the other isn't LOL 
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I found an article I read some time ago about Vanishing Twin Syndrome . Maybe that is where Stephen King got his info? If one types 'vanishing twin syndrome' in the search engine, there are a lot of sites with information on this rare condition. I have got to get to the library and check out some of Stephen King's books. Rose Red will be my first to read. Has anyone read 'Bag of Bones'. Did they make a movie of that? I really liked the book.
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'Bag of Bones' is one of my favorites - it's his best book in the last few years - that and 'Geralds Game.' It's so scary in 'Geralds Game' when the diformed guy is stood in the corner of her bedroom just watching her - ugh, that freaked me out so much. All of his books tie in with each other too, you could draw a map of where all the places are, there's lots of nods to other books in his novels too. Like in Cujo, they drive past the Overlook Hotel (or there's a mention of it for example)
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I have always wanted to like Stephen King's books. I tried to read a couple of them, and I found them to be too long for me. Not page wise, since I do read long books. I think his books would be better if he cut about 1/3 of the pages of repetition out of them. They would be tightly plotted and scarier. Just my opinion.
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Connie, with his recent books, I completley agree - go back to Carrie or something - his publisher sent it back to him repeatedly because it was originally a short story. It's a very short/compact book. Carrie Cujo Misery Cell Salem's Lot His short story books are really good too (the one with 'The Shawshank Redemption' is good.) They're all quite quick to the point. He has developed a thing for stretching his stories, I agree
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i love Stephen King Novel because i love story of that novel.
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One of my favorites is "The Stand" - which I hear they are going to make a movie out of.
I'm interested to see how they fit all of this book into a movie. They already did a miniseries on it - and that left out quite a bit.
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Michelle, Yeah, I see your point completley. My friend loves the stand and the mini series, but she said a lot was left out - so unless they make an epic lord of the rings style trilogy, I don't see how they're going to fit it all in either. The books so thick, you could use it as a door stop LOL. I remember picking it up and thinking - oh I can't be bothered LOL. I'm sure I'll get around to it one day though.
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