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Stephen King is a Genius, man. I reread The Stand and IT and every time, it scares me. Even when I know what's gonna happen.

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CBS Online mentioned it when Trump and Melania were getting off their private jet.

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I saw a few from Brazil but I figured this was the one you meant. This is on my bucket list but how the hell do you find one when the whole point is that it's planned in secret?

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OMG, you are so right! You think Cruz will be Trash Can man?

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It's the best dream. Everybody says so.

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But what about the ISIS monsters under our beds? I can't fucking believe she said that. Pandering to adults at the level of four year olds.

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Except for the endings. Spends hundreds, if not thousands, of pages building this elaborate world of fully realized characters that you care deeply about. Then gets bored, maybe? And wraps the whole tale up in about 10-20 pages.

See: Stand, The. It.

Love his short story collections though.

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Cool cartoon. Dean Koontes is awful. A hack. Not even as good as R.L. Stine.The endings are weak. But by the time I have read that much of the horrorscape created, I am ready for it to end quickly.

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Koontz is alright, if you only read one Koontz book. If you read several, one tends to notice how they're all the same book, with slightly different details and characters.

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Aka, how am I gonna end this? He should just pull a future George RR Martin and get people hooked on a series he will never complete

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as was said about St. Ronbo, it's not so much what he doesn't know, it's what he knows for sure that just ain't so

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I started It mid-afternoon and ended up finishing it overnight locked in the bathroom with the cat. That book scared the hell out of me.

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Is it not wonderful how Frau Drumph patronizes only the finest of US design houses?

http://www.latimes.com/fash...

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Broadcast viewers chose love, not war, on Monday night: “The Bachelorette” topped the night’s broadcast ratings in both adults 18-49 (1.9) and total viewers (6.6 million), easily outpacing the networks’ later coverage of the Republican National Convention.http://variety.com/2016/tv/...

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'Fraid that ain't a gonna happen.

http://www.huffingtonpost.c...

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I figure the speechwriter used it to embarrass them. What English majors aren't liberals, anyways?

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