The name of a Stephen king book ... i think...

[Dreddnaught]

Hi, so there I was the other day, putting in my contact lenses, and in the middle of poking my eye, I had a kind of deja-vu rush of blood to the head, and I suddenly thought of a scene from a book I know I've read.

Some guy gets attacked, I don't remember how, why, or by who, but he feels his eyeball pop.

Thats the most vivid part of the memory, just the eyeball popping, and I'm sure it was from a Stephen King novel I read years ago.

Only thing is, I'll be damned if I can remember which one, and it's seriously bugging me now.

Help !

[Fibonacci]

Have a google with
"stephen king eyeball pop out"
you should find it

[Dreddnaught]

I tried that but no luck, however I think I remember what it is now.

After a week of intense thinking about it, I'm pretty sure it's from The Stand, when the Judge gets shot during his spying mission.

I can't find my copy, so can anyone who's read this confim it ?

Though I'm pretty sure that's it......

[valsuey]

I think its from The Dark Half but I could be wrong.

[tubeway]

The Judge was shot three times in the Stand

Dave Roberts shot him just below the stomach

Bobby Terry shot him just above the eye - taking off the top of his skull

Bobby Terry shoots him just below his lower teeth  - shattering his jaw

I do remember an eye popping in a Steven King book  - but I have most of them so I need a bit of a clue to look it up for you.

[bexbex78]

Rose Madder...I am sure of it. The crazy guys wife defends herself and pops his eye out...I think this may be when he is a bull in the maze

[Dreddnaught]

Well, I've never read Rose Madder, so it's no thte one I'm thinking of.

It might have been the Judge, I'm still trying to find my copy of the Stand.

But just to add fueal to the debate, I remember the character knowing that this was his time to die, and I remember reading he felt the gooey inside of his eye run out.

But I'm almost positive now that its from The Stand.

[tubeway]

In the stand trashcan man only has one eye at the end - but I dont know how he lost an eye - it could have been when he blows up the gas tanks.

[Dreddnaught]

Nope, it's definately not that.

It's like the guys head either gets crushed or gets shot or struck violently, and he feels his eyeball pop and the gush of fluid from inside it.

I'm going to have to end up re-reading a lot of Stephen King due to this.....

[brewcrew]

I think it's in the Dark Half also. At the beginning of the book, on page 13, he writes (as George Stark) about popping someone's eye. Also, on page 9, the surgeon operating on Thad (when he was a child) pops the eye that was growing in his brain.

[annaphillips]

it the dark half, i'm positive.

[Dreddnaught]

It can't be, I haven't read The Dark Half.