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.

Eyes of the Dragon is a light touch entry, not horror but fantasy. Salem’s Lot for traditional horror that probably won’t keep them up at night. Pet Sematary for the kids that dress in black and draw pentagrams on things.

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).

One of the rare upsides of not living in the US, as far as television is concerned, is that international rights are something very weird.

It’s not dumb to be in a youth group. It’s just a fact of life for a lot of people, and even if you’re not a super churchy person it’s nice to have peer groups. (Signed, pastor’s kid who is definitely not dumb.)

Don’t knock church youth groups. My parent never made me go to one but one of my friends in high school would get forced to go by his step dad so he started to ask me to go along as his guest.

So edgy.

Audrey served to restate that nothing is real and/or what it seems. She built what seemed to her like a comfortable enough existence, the fluke of a concept that went out the window once that world shook and trembled and once she was reminded of what she was before that. And what she was left with was just herself and…

I think the Trinity Bomb in ep8 is really important as Lynch is trying to explain the environment that the characters exist in. It’s not an environment they can resolve. They can pursue their goals but their environment will not change. Good (Laura) and Bad (Judy?) will always exist and can never be resolved.

Thank you. This was great.

i thought it was both nice and horrible. they were getting their billion years of humanist heaven and forfeiting a right to any chance of real heaven for that downloaded consciousness. i said a few billion because thats when the sun explodes, but with machine/server failure, i’m going to say maybe 50 years. less if…

Vincent Adultman: the completely stupid gift that nevertheless keeps on giving.

Would that explain Laura’s perfect scream at the end?

Vincent Adultman could have just been a ridiculously funny but narratively inert running gag but the show makes him a major element of the dynamic of the relationship between Bojack and Princess Caroline.

Vincent Adultman is one of my favorite characters. I’ve always loved the trope when it’s used well, like in Speed Racer (2008). And that BoJack knows what’s going on the entire time makes it even better.

Except for the spider monster, which is likely Judy entering Sarah, the rest of this tracks well.

The dictated signs are the best running gag in Bojack Horseman and be sure and put Bojack Horseman in italics no I don’t know how to do italics in Kinja just hit publish.

That’s a great assessment.

Because BoJack abandoned him. He never called to check on him, never came to him, nothing. He just faded away and forgot about Herb, his supposed best friend, when Herb lost everything.

Wow, I remember when BJ Horseman would have a bare minimum of 100 comments. This new site and design are terrible: I have to think the numbers are dramatically down. I can say as someone who has been posting for years that I think this is the end for me.