Scape Goat TRTT Part 5: A Good Day to Ken Hard

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IMO, 'It' is a great book because of its bang-on portrayal of childhood as well as the loss of childhood, the horror elements are really just a clothesline.
I like his horror books, but they've generally been cut to shreds to fit in a neat 90-120 minute movie. It's why it's good IT is only the first half the story and why the original IT and The Stand as his books did well, as they were mini-series so you had time for character development, not just scare the audience. Shawshank and Stand by Me as based on short stories didn't suffer the editing leaving half the story out fate.
 

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FMD. Here's a glimpse into my dumb ass family. I cop this shit every day.

Every. Single. Day. Farken.

From my dopey cousin who did twenty years for murdering his stepfather, stabbing him 20+ times and throwing him off a balcony in a drug-induced psychosis, then upon release, stepped in front of train but miraculously survived and now gets a 750 quid a week pension to Facebook all day, every day...

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*I'm worried coz this campaigner is serious.
Now who would "take the puss"?
 

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Lol RAH site development plan has fallen through, hello Le Cornu Part 2: This Time It's on North Terrace.
Lol, so more for the Gardens, some educational buildings so somethinf is actually occupied, plus adding to the empty office glut in the city. I will be shocked if it gets a hotel or apartments.

Worse than Le Cornu's, in that this is the most prime real estate in the city that'll come up, with working from a largely clean slate, for the next few decades and the government can't prevent ******* up, what should be a line of developers wanting in on such a location. Never change ALP, never change SA.
 

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Whats it meant to be? Is it a churchy group or something?
Someone on the YouTube comments suggest it was a 'furries' rave but it certainly has a churchy vibe about it. You do see some suspect chewing faces later in the video so they're not all little angels.

There's one bit where the music is pumping and the crowd are getting into it and the MC guy decides to cut the music to make a statement about the dangers of glow sticks. Bad Timing Dude should be a meme.
 

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I enjoyed Under the Dome until the ending, which is a common Steven King issue. I felt for the poor suckers that watched the TV show knowing what they had in store.
Yeah, it was actually a good novel until the final third.
But the final third was that bad, it undid all of the rest of the novel for me...
 

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He's no Richard Bachman that's for sure.
You cold-blooded bastard! I'll tell you what I think of it: I live to see you eat that contract, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!

* could double as what I think of Ken's new contract.
 
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King's short stories and novellas are ok but kujo was terrible

He seems to like to put infidelity into stories then punish characters for being unfaithful, bit tropish

His best works are simple character studies?
 

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King's short stories and novellas are ok but kujo was terrible

He seems to like to put infidelity into stories then punish characters for being unfaithful, bit tropish

His best works are simple character studies?
OMG anyone who hasn't read the short story 'Survivor Type' in the collection 'Skeleton Crew'.... do that thing.
 
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OMG anyone who hasn't read the short story 'Survivor Type' in the collection 'Skeleton Crew'.... do that thing.
ok noted.
i think my favorite was the collection that had them in the airport (they made a miniseries i haven't seen) and also the library policeman which was stupid funny

oh the JFK one was not bad
 

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OMG anyone who hasn't read the short story 'Survivor Type' in the collection 'Skeleton Crew'.... do that thing.
Brutal.

SC was a good collection of short stories.
My younger brother had one of those clapping monkey things that was on the cover which added a dimension to that story for me.
 
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