So I can give you my experience of a precocious King reader, I’d definitely check with a librarian or YA expert (we used to have quite a few around here) for more expert opinion, especially on appropriateness.

Stan facing down an evil flautist instead of the dead boys from the Derry Standpipe is legitimately bothering me, that’s one of the best set pieces in the book and a brilliant bit of suburban myth/horror, taking a story of tragedy like the drowning (and King pulls no punches on the initial event either) and cranking…

The book is a massive examination of childhood that toggles between the period itself and adults remembering (under duress) what it (pronoun intentional) was like, that creates a very strong tension between the two storylines that resolves powerfully. Splitting up the stories would likely remove a lot of that, didn’t…

Can’t you read? This is set in the 80s, clearly the monster being described is Max Headroom.

This makes me happy, that young kids who don’t know King are jazzed for this and may find their way to his books as a result. He’s a great author for teens (and middle-schoolers in particular, as Katie alludes to).

The more I think about it, the more a lot of the post-finale chatter bothers me, particularly the idea that Coop trying to save Laura is hubris on his part. Many people have said that it’s a symbol of trying to retrieve an irretrievable past, that it’s a symbol of Cooper’s—and by extension, the audience’s—refusal to…

I’m holding out for a Vectrex style recap, complete with screen overlay.

My mother refrigerated bread my whole life. As a child, I could not believe how delicious bread was when I finally had it out of a bread box. I could never understand why my friend’s bread at school was always so soft looking and why restaurant bread was soft.

“Best way to keep bread fresh is stick it in the fridge.”

That’ll dry it out! Please understand that I mean no disrespect when I say that your people are monsters. 

Best way to keep bread fresh is stick it in the fridge.

Also, it’s not so much a “nostalgia-heavy video game” as it is a “Pop Up Video: I Love The 80's Edition Overlay” on a recap trailer.

Eh. What is it about this lineup of in-house op-ed talent that says looking elsewhere isn’t at least the beginnings of a good idea?

Yeah. Irony much AV Club.

The cross-posting between the Gawker sites and AV Club is going to be the death knell.

This is a Great Job Internet. It’s hard to tell that of course because it goes through the same main feed as everything else, so it is in the same place that things that should be taken seriously as AVClub content are, rather than just a repository for our usual “your mother and I need to talk to you, internet” japes.

It can be two things.

Ohh stop acting like such a Becky!

So the Times outsourcing their op-ed section to various cranks is lazy journalism but simply re-posting a bunch of vaguely-clever Twitter rejoinders is not?

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