The Shadow Before

October 20

Ben: I watched that video review of STEPHEN KING'S IT and now I'm apprehensive about starting DARTOWER.

Me: Why, what happened?

Ben: He is just pretty down on King in general.

Ben: Also STEPHEN KING'S IT is atrocious.

Ben: The movie, anyway.

Ben: Although Gabrielle assures me that the book is terrible (which is to say the ending is supposedly terrible, even though she liked the beginning).

Me: What did That Guy With The Glasses have to say?

Ben: Just that Stephen King has a history of copping out with endings.

Ben: Which Gabrielle corroborates.

Me: What does that mean?

Ben: You'll have to ask her!

Me: No.

Me: I mean copping out on endings.

Ben: All she has told me is that he is really good at making beginnings and middles and then his ends suck.

Me: I mean what Glasses said in the review.

Ben: Why don't you just watch it?

Me: I don't want to spoil the book.

Ben: I would ruin the terrible ending for you right now but I think it would be funnier if you just watched the review and found out for yourself.

Me: I don't care about the ending of that book because I haven't read it, I mean what he said about King endings in general because I have heard that criticism before and I'm trying to think if any of the King books I've read had cop-out endings.

Ben: He wasn't specific, and even if he had been I wouldn't have absorbed it because I have never read any King books and I have no context.

Ben: Gabrielle is apparently of the opinion that King's shorter works are better.

Me: It depends really, Wolves of the Calla is over 900 pages and I liked it a lot, whereas Insomnia is ~600 pages which is about average for King and there is just not enough story to justify it.

Ben: Is that the same INSOMNIA that was a major motion picture?

Me: No.

Me: I think that one's about Al Pacino moving to Alaska or something.

Ben: Yeah it is, and it has Robin Williams.

Me: 30 DAYS OF NIGHT

Ben: More like 30 Days of Day.

Me: 30 Afternoons of Dusk

Ben: The sequel.

October 27

Me: Yo dawg hit me back when u get dis.

Ben: Yo big daddy. 

Me: Yo dawg dat was mad fast yo. 

Ben: You know I be on the bizzle. 

Me: Anyways dis be superfluous. 

Me: We need to arrange a swap for dese goods I be packin. 

Ben: What good are you packin? 

Me: Hey yo dont be tryna back out now, you need 10,000 Pokyman cards and I need some cashmonies. 

Ben: I didn't agree to this. 

Ben: This wasn't part of the deal! 

Me: I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further. 

Ben: I pray you do, it could literally not be any worse. 

Ben: You need to "like" the comment that Paul left on the post that I left on your Facebook wall in order to complete the symmetry. 

Me: Ka is a wheel. 

Ben: What is the axis? 

Me: I DONT REMEMBER 

Ben: A wheel needs an axis otherwise it is just a disc. 

Ben: You have been lied to. 

Me: Have you finished those books yet? 

Ben: I brought the box inside and took the first book out of the box and it is sitting like a foot away waiting to be read. 

Ben: I was thinking of doing that today, actually.