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"What the fuck"
Saved you a click and way too much scrolling
There's an article?
I probably can't afford that car, but I definitely can't afford that blender.
Man, how do you guys survive an ad-unfiltered internet?
Crouch in the corner and hope it forgets about us.
I guessed right 🤣
thank you!!!
To save you visiting the hellscape that is The Independent: those 3 words were "What the fuck?" Nothing really remarkable.
Could have fit that right in the headline without even increasing the number of words.
Thank you for your service.
Every book report in high school where I could choose the author was a Stephen King novel and I turned out fine. And in Florida too. Class of 1991. 😁. BRD.
Back in the ‘80’s I had a high school English teacher that had us read his Night Shift short stories. The entire class loved it.
Night Shift is fantastic.
But, are you religious and support the right like it's your job?
Not at all.
Welp, then according to their plan, you didn't turn out fine, you're the problem. Good for you though, I'm hoping your state turns it around quickly because I really want to live there. It's beautiful and I love the weather there, I just can't deal with the bullshit they're doing.
I read The Stand and It before high school, and lots of other mature books with "inappropriate" material. It resulted in improved reading skills.
Definitely don’t tell kids about libgen.
"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
Love that book. There's some sad sex in it and a very unsympathetic preacher, but overall pretty tame by King standards.
The sex in It was a but weird but 23?
Did you forget about the shit weasels in Dreamcatcher, the various instances of SA in Hearts in Atlantis, the forced abortion in the Gunslinger, insomnia, and so forth
I'm not for banning any books, but with that said, Stephen King has some very fucked up books, like the one where the 10-year-olds have a spontaneous orgy at the end of It.
Technically it was a train, and they were experiencing a transcendent connection across time with their older selves, in a deliberately unsettling and transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror -- an eldritch carrion-eater who feeds on destroying the souls of children -- as a way of reclaiming strength from vulnerability. At any rate, depiction is not endorsement.
But yes, considering how many actual adults misinterpret and mischaracterize that scene, I don't recommend that particular book to children -- not because they'll be damaged by it, but because they won't have the wisdom of age to understand it.
This guy book reviews
I read IT in the 8th grade and I didn't really get the whole "transgressive scene meant to evoke the rawness of adolescence being laid bare before the worst cosmic horror" part, but I did understand that they were doing it as a way to 'ground' themselves to reality. And as a 13 year old boy, I thought it was kinda hot.
Yeah. It was horrible but literally “need to grow up fast” as a kind of pseudo protection from the demon that is pennywise.
The entire book is a series of horrors. Another story that hits just as hard but in a different way is Needful Things. Definitely an apt metaphor for how people can be cajoled and manipulated into doing heinous things.
It’s definitely messed up just like the old vampire in the body of a 13 year old in the Diaries of a Vampire series.
It’s fair to have an issue with it but what about all the other books?
I bet I can guess what they don’t like about them and that isn’t it
Technically, it was Stephen King being high out of his mind on cocaine and booze. He'll be the first to admit it.
I think high schoolers can handle that. But I guess when you're in a state where the intention is to prevent young people from understanding sex, it starts to make sense.
Now violence on the other hand... No problem there.
The books shouldn’t be banned in high schools for sure. I could see the argument for middle schools, and the books should never see anyone under 12.
I turned out mostly ok and was reading King well before 12. There were quite a few things I didn't understand yet but it didn't make me want to go out and assault people or something
I could have done it in 2 words and I'm no great writer.
best i can do is 1 and yes it is "fuck"
"The skibidi toilet"
“Skibidi toilet Ohio”, even.
