Beginning in suburban Connecticut and climaxing in rural Maine, THINNER is a novel of one man's quest to find the source of his nightmare and to reverse it before he becomes…nothing at all. At Hopley's funeral, Billy decides to leave town to find the traveling carnival and attempt to convince Lempke to take the curse off.

Once the weight actually started to come off, I began to realize that I was attached to it, somehow, that I didn't really want to lose it. Knowing that it is very late, Billy begins to suspect that Heidi is having an affair. Other characters: Tints • Turps • Bunny Children • Clarabelle Cow • Horace Horsecollar • Animatronic Tick-Tock the Crocodile • Small Pete • Petetronic • Pete Pan • Beppo the Gorilla • Champ • The Three Little Pigs • Magic Brooms • A.B.E. • Lonesome Ghosts • Elliott • Clock Tower • Swamp Boys • Spirit of Wasteland • Blotworx Dragon • Prescott's Mech Richie than decides to shoot up the gypsy camp, killing Lempke's granddaughter's husband. "Thinner," the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispered, and caressed his cheek, like a lover… The next week, Billy realizes that he has lost 25 pounds.

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Old woman killed by Bill Halleck. I thought about it and how awful they were to make me do all these terrible things to save my life. Lempke tells him to eat his own pie, so he can "die clean". Even the film's director Tom Holland disliked it, as it did not have the same level of dread as the book did. One of the Gypsies. He was given a bad case of acne by Taduz Lemke as a curse. Billy skips town and tracks down the gypsies, furiously demanding for Lempke to take off the curse, but he tells him that he will die before he will take off the curse. Juggler. The film was panned by critics and fans alike, but many found praise in the film, praising Stephen King's cameo as a pharmacist (ironically named Dr. Bangor) as well as the cast, especially Joe Mantagena as Richie Ginelli, and Michael Constantine as Tadzu Lempke. Billy goes to dinner that night at the country club, and on the drive back, Heidi chastises him for eating so much. Let the Gypsies stay on his property outside Fairview. Billy believes the woman is crazy, but she continues to say that the three have been cursed. Checks on Linda when Bill & Heidi are away, Local judge who Bill Halleck was in front of when his pants started to fall down in court. – JBH Aug 15 '17 at 1:49 Overweight Halleck is a lawyer with connections, though, and gets off with a slap on the wrist. I would refuse to weigh myself, except in the morning, and then after I had taken off all my clothes. The Gypsy who puts a curse on Bill Halleck, Carey Rossington and Duncan Hopley after his daughter Susanna is hit and killed by Bill's car. I began to think about what would happen if somebody started to lose weight and couldn't stop. © Copyright © 2000 - 2020 Stephen King - All Rights Reserved. It was a pretty serious situation at first. Billy again, does not know what to think. Shot Bill Halleck in the hand with a ball bearing. This was supposed to be a form of Mickey Mouse that he would turn into if he used too much Thinner or made bad choices such as destroying enemies with Thinner, thinning the environment and townsfolk or defeating bosses with Thinner. In case you haven't noticed it, you've entered heart attack country.'

Duncan Hopley, the police chief, tells the court that he gave Billy a breathalyzer, when he didn't, and the judge declares Billy not guilty, and Billy gets off scot free. Daughter of Taduz. I did lose the weight, and pretty much quit smoking. Hopley has gotten an extremely horrendous case of facial acne, and tells Billy to take one of his guns and kill Lempke, because he believes that Lempke will never take the curse off. Ginelli's friend who took the painkillers to Bill Halleck. Assumed name used by Ginelli in Bar Harbor, Farmer that let the Gypsies stay on his property in Kenniston Hill, Doctor at Glassman clinic who looked after Bill Halleck. He is pleased at first, then worried, and finally terrified. Stephen King Wiki is a FANDOM Books Community. After his trial, a gypsy curses him with a single word, "Thinner." Committed suicide. Richie tracks down the gypsies and poisons their dogs, leaving a note that says "WHITE MAN FROM TOWN SAYS TAKE IT OFF", but the gypsies do not budge. This is a novel of unrelenting terror and growing horror; it is also a nightmarish allegory about what lies beyond the limits of prosperous American complacency and where the responsibilities of human actions ultimately lie. One of the Gypsies. He told me that I should quit smoking and lose some weight.

I went to see the doctor and he told me 'Listen, man, your triglycerides are really high. Billy grills the judge's wife, who tells him that Lempke also touched the judge, and whispered "lizard".

He is both beneficiary and victim of the American Good Life: he has an expensive home, a nice family, and a rewarding job…but he is also fifty pounds overweight, and, as his doctor keeps reminding him, he is thirty-six years old-edging into heart attack country. "I used to weigh 236 pounds, and I smoked heavily. Billy is stricken with grief and begins to commit suicide with the pie, when he hears the doorbell. When Billy gets home, he sees that a local doctor named Mike Houston is leaving. Heidi denies this, and tells Billy that he should check him into the clinic. Billy leaves the scene and phones Richie, asking for his help. In a bar in Old Orchard, and told Bill Halleck about seeing Taduz Lemke. Girl who spoke to Bill Halleck in the park. Books: Epic Mickey: The Graphic Novel • Epic Mickey: Tales of Wasteland • The Art of Epic Mickey, Antagonists: The Shadow Blot • The Mad Doctor • Blotlings • Animatronic Captain Hook • Beetleworx • Blotworx • False Shadow Blot • Mizrabel • Gremlin Prescott Everyone is amazed, and Heidi believes it is guilt. I used transform in FireFox 54 for the text in a SELECT element. I spent a very angry weekend off by myself.

Fairview chief of police. Assign a stroke to the type (I used a 4 point stroke) Expand your type (Object menu -> Expand). Then Billy Halleck sideswipes an old Gypsy woman as she is crossing the street in their quiet little southern Connecticut town of Fairview, and everything in his pleasant, upwardly mobile life changes. The SELECT element takes the same space, even though it's considerably smaller horizontally. Read it-and you may never diet again. In the movie, Billy kills himself and the doctor who he thought was having an affair with his wife. Distracted by this, Billy winds up running over an old gypsy woman from the traveling gypsy carnival. Rented property of Mr. Parsons to the Gypsies and blackmailed Bill Halleck when Bill tried to find the location of the Gypsies. Revoked the Gypsies' fire permit to get them to move on from Fairview. This idea was later shelved and changed to the "Scrapper Mickey", before the idea was eventually removed entirely. CHARACTERS The Family RENEE — Early forties.

Police officer at the scene when Bill Halleck killed Susanna Lemke. On the way out of the coroner's inquist, the old gypsy's father, Tadzu Lempke, a 106 year old man, brushes Billy's cheek and says "thinner". Then I remembered all the things I did when I weighed a lot. Halleck begins to lose weight uncontrollably and must pursue the band of gypsies who are responsible for his dwindling condition. "Thinner Than Water," well, is. One of the Gypsies. He eats and eats but the weight flies off. Linda Halleck's phys ed and cheerleading teacher, Lived in Bangor, Maine and rented his property to the Gypsies through Biff Quigley. He was found murdered.

Billy Halleck, good husband, loving father, lives in Connecticut and practices law in New York City. Michael's daughter and friend of Linda Halleck. Billy refuses, and as he leaves, Hopley commits suicide with the weapon.
Law firm partner in Greely, Penschley, Kinder and Halleck.

Deleted Characters: Storm Blot • Thinner Mickey.

Billy then begs, but Lempke does not budge. It was directed by Tom Holland, of Child's Play and Fright Night fame, who earlier directed the film adaptation of The Langoliers. Bartender in the Seven Seas bar in Old Orchard. Heidi and Dr. Mike Houston discuss about Billy's deteriorating mental condition and Billy deduces that they will commit him. Teams. Richie agrees, and tells her to tell Lempke to meet Billy at the nearby lighthouse. Billy Halleck, an arrogant and morbidly obese lawyer in Connecticut, has recently fought an agonizing court case in which he was charged with vehicular manslaughter. While he is driving, Billy discovers that the judge has died, leaving Billy completely alone. Father of Linda and husband of Heidi. Billy gains weight back and goes downstairs where he discovers that his daughter has actually eaten some of the pie.

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