Did anyone else submit Father Callahan from Salem's lot/The dark tower? I need to know if I'm the only person who is insane about that old man
so far just one but I do love your submission
Old irish priest with an alcoholism problem who works in a regular small town in Maine. His life is pretty normal until a vampire tries to take over the town and he togheter with a group of others fights him in order to save the town.
During the fight he has a crisis of faith when he sees that his crucifix does nothing against the vampire and he is forced to drink the blood of the moster and is later marked with his crucifix on the forehead by him.
Now a broken man he abbandons the cloth and flees to New York where he gives completly in to his alcoholism and discovers that there are other vampires and starts to quietly eliminate them. He lives for a while as a homeless man before finding himself working in a shelter. Here he start to rebuild his life but before long he is forced to flee the city when the vampires find out his identity and start to go after him. He start to travel the streets of the USA passing unseen through different worlds doing the odd jobs he can find to survive and killing the occasional vampire when he crosses paths with them.
Eventually goes back to NY when he hears an old friend of his is about to die, after a visit to the hospital he leaves the city for good and wandering through the world he finds himself in another small town where he decide to sette down and build a church hoping against all hope to find redemption.
Here he meets the gunslingers and after helping them protect the town after an invasion joins their group and helps them reach New York to get them to the next step of their quest.
Here he will meet his end sacrificing himself against a horde of vampires in a restaurant in order to allow the one of the gunslingers to save himself. In the end he finds his faith again not in God but in himself and is able to take out the oldest and most powerful of the vampires as he dies.
I'm so fucking sorry for writing this much about his life story but like honest to God I love this old man so much he means a lot to me and I belive he is one the best character ever put to paper with an amazing carachter arc that spans multiple books and is about how yes faith in something higher can be important and can help you but in the end you need to have faith in yourself above all because it's not something higher that makes you a good person but your choices and action so even in the darkest moments when you feel like shit and like an unlovable beign who deserves to die you can still find the strenght to pullman yourself out of hell. So yeah sorry not sorry for writing this much this just opend the floodgates for me.
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Reading List - 2024
Currently Reading:
Awakening the Heroes Within by Carol S. Pearson
Champions of the Rosary by Donald H. Calloway
The Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft
Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay by Matt McGinn
Books Read:
The Complete Book of Kitchen Collecting by Barbera E. Mauzy
Dreaming the Biosphere by Rebecca Reider
Frog and Toad are Friends by Arnold Lobel
Funny Number Tricks by Rose Wyler
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Hammer of the Gods by Stephen Davis
Jungian Archetypes: Jung, Gödel, and the History of Archetypes by Robin Robertson
Out of the Silent Planet by C. S. Lewis
Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices by Thomas Brooks
Reflections on Evolution by Fredrick Sproull
Time for Bed, Sleepyheads by Normand Chartier
Future Reading:
A Girl of the Limberlost by Gene Stratton-Porter
Adventures in Cryptozoology Vol. 1 by Richard Freeman
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Always Running by Luis J. Rodriguez
Ancient Mysteries, Modern Visions by Philip S. Callahan
The Anti-Mary Exposed by Carrie Gress
The Arm of the Starfish by Madeleine L'Engle
The Art Nouveau Style by Stephan Tschudi Madsen
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
The Call of the Wild by Jack London
The Cairngorms by Patrick Baker
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Cubism by Guillaume Apollinaire
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Evolution by Nowell Stebbing
Expressionism by Ashley Bassie
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods by Hal Johnson
Found in a Bookshop by Stephanie Butland
Frankenstein by Mary Shelly
Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter
Fundamentals of Character Design by Various Authors
Graceling by Kristin Cashore
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miquel de Cervantes Saavedra
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Humorous Ghost Stories by Various Authors
Illuminated Manuscripts by Tamara Woronowa
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells
Joan Miro by Joan Miro
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
Keeper of the Bees by Gene Stratton-Porter
Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey
Living by the Sword by Eric Demski
The Longest Cocktail Party by Richard DiLello
Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis
Otis Spofford by Beverly Clearly
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
The Silmarillion by J R R Tolkien
Strange Love by Ann Aguirre
Sweet Sweet Revenge LTD by Jonas Jonasson
The River by Gary Paulsen
Things My Son Needs to Know About the World by Fredrik Backman
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
We Are Where the Nightmares Go and Other Stories by C. Robert Cargill
The Weiser Field Guide to Cryptozoology by Deena West Budd
The White Mountains by John Christopher
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1776 actors I can see in other roles in other musicals:
David Ford: Javert in Les Mis
Donald Madden: Shakespeare in Something Rotten
Ken Howard: Bert in Mary Poppins
William Daniels: Nick Bottom in Something Rotten
Rex Robbins: Lord Farquaad in Shrek
Howard da Silva: Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly
Ralston Hill: Bud Frump in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
Emory Bass: King George in Hamilton
Jonathan Moore: Fiyero in Wicked
John Cullum: Max Bialystock in The Producers
James Noble: The Baker in Into the Woods
Leo Leyden: Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ron Holgate: Herbie in Gypsy
Ray Middleton: King Arthur in Spamalot
Patrick Hines: Patrick in SpongeBob
William Hansen: Man in the Yellow Suit in Tuck Everlasting
John Meyhers: Maurice in Beauty and the Beast
Howard Caine: Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof
Daniel Keyes: Mendel in Falsettos
Charles Rule: Callahan in Legally Blonde
Virginia Vestoff: Miss Honey in Matilda
Blythe Danner: Cady Heron in Mean Girls
William Duell: Rooster Hannigan in Annie
Stephen Nathan: Evan Hansen in Dear Evan Hansen
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