 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to Top 5 Friday. Today's episode is one of the most requested episodes we have across the channel. People comment on my Stephen King top list, my Richard Lehman, my Dean Coons, so on and so forth. And I'm finally going to go ahead and do it. I was going to wait until I actually recollected some of these books, but I decided to go ahead because the more I think about it, the more I try and go back and read the books or even going to Amazon to find used copies of the books or locally to my local used bookstore, I don't even want to pay two to three dollars for these books, which is sad. As we get older or as our tastes change, well as we get older, our tastes change. Simple as that. I really loved this author back in the day, but nowadays not so much. I've tried to pick up two of his books that I enjoyed, actually one I had never read and then another one that I enjoyed in the past and I couldn't finish either one of them. But with that caveat, or that's probably not even the right word, but with that said, I did love this author's work at some point in time. I just do not enjoy it anymore. My tastes have changed and I've gone far more to the literary side of things. So that being said, let's jump into the actual list. Today we are talking about Bentley Little. If you guys love Bentley Little, let me hear from you down there in the doobly-doo. If you don't like him, especially let me hear from you because I am of that vein nowadays. If I read these top five books again, well, I like them. I don't know, but I'm kind of scared to at this point, kind of like with my Richard Layman faves. So at number five, we have The Return. This book has one of the oddest, craziest, just absolutely mental endings I have ever read. Now the build-up as with most Bentley Little stuff is usually just a bunch of weird occurrences, a bunch of weird crap happening, and then a final denownment. But with this one, it is so epic and large in scope, even though it's set, I believe, in just one town. So much stuff happens. But another problem with Bentley Little's work is you want to know the aftermath of all this stuff, and he usually doesn't talk about that. Next up is one that I actually own two copies of, two book club edition hardcovers, and that is The House. Now this is in terrible condition. It's an old library copy. I also have an old library copy of The Town, which isn't on this list. But this one is the one that's in better condition, and it is in terrible, terrible condition. There's writing and all them kinds of stuff in here, because it is a library book. And then you got, you know, the checkout thing. But what I remember most about this one, I had so much fun because of the doors and the traveling through the houses. I really appreciated that. Another thing that really, that bothers me now that used to bother me is most of his work just kind of blends together after a while. He has maybe a total of ten characters he uses. He's kind of like Dean Coons in that aspect, where he has about ten different characters, and those characters kind of cycle out through those, through the books. Sometimes, you know, his, his oddball character will be, you know, a friend of the main character or the main character. You usually have a family going down, not a family going down. Woo! A family aspect in the book. Usually, there's two kids, that kind of thing. Either that or you have a loner, which we'll get to that later. You have a person who's just off by themselves just having a, having a bad time of things. Next up, this one, I remember enjoying it simply because of the subtext of it, the store. The store. I'm going to put this stuff up here because I don't actually own this book anymore. Most of these books got damaged during a hurricane way back when I was, you know, younger in my, I think my teens, probably around, no, maybe it was 2000s. There was water damaged. I can't remember if it was Ivan or not, but I've had two different hurricanes destroy books. I had Hurricane Opal and then Ivan, and I can't exactly remember when these things happened, but I lost all my paperbacks in just random flooding. I had them in a box out in the garage, the garage flooded, and the same of the story. But with the store, I remember the Walmart comparisons. He never actually says Walmart, but you know in the book, this book is about Walmart. And then the actual villains, I remember that very clearly. And it's another one of those really fun stories that I've kind of grown out of. Again, if you guys enjoy this stuff, enjoy this stuff. But these are the ones that I remember the most, and I just don't like his work anymore. Next up, we have The Walking, which was a great concept. I have been tired of zombie fiction or mass, whatever things like 28 days later, and they're not zombies. I think they're what rage zombie or whatever in Cell, Stephen King Cell, they were phoners. I've been tired of that genre for a long time. I don't know that I ever really liked that genre, but this is one of the most unique mass, I don't even know what to call it, because I don't remember too much about the book. But I do remember getting into it and having a significant love for the main character because it was him and his father. And this guy was just your average every day Joe. And the funniest part is the thing that sticks in my mind the most is a line where the guy is bored and he just decides to go to bed, but he masturbates beforehand and Bentley Little writes, masturbated perfunctorily before he went to bed. And for some odd reason, that one line has stuck with me. So that's an odd aside. So yeah, hello demonetization. Anyways, last, but certainly not least, I have my number one pick, which is The Ignored. This book really spoke to me at this time in my life where I was more social and more active than I had ever been in my life. And I still felt like I wasn't being seen. And that aggravated me quite a bit. And this is probably a little bit more personal than you want to know. I always wanted some kind of celebrity at the, I'm talking about this point in my life that my when I first read the book, I always wanted some kind of celebrity. And I would go on to find a little modicum, my little corner of celebrity over here. And I hated every minute of it. Even to this day, I see the numbers rising on the, I see the numbers rising for the sub count here on YouTube. And it makes me cringe. I mean, we're almost at 4,000 subs. It drips off. It's not growing as fast as it was. Because I stopped putting the links at the end of videos. I stopped putting my videos up on social media, that kind of thing. If you guys are sharing them, it's fine. But it does make me feel weird because I don't want to return to that. And I, at this point in my life, if I were to reread the ignored, I would probably look over to that character and be like, he has the life. Whereas the first time I read this book, I looked over at that character and I thought he is just like me. So that's just personal experience with these works. And that's all these lists are. I'm sure many people will disagree with several things that I have said in this video. Please disagree down there in the comments section. Don't be rude though, because then I just have to delete you. And I don't want to delete you. I want to have a conversation. But if I disagree with you too adamantly, I probably just won't comment. And your comment will be there for everyone else to read. But until next time, I have been Kenny, you've been you. This has been another Top 5 Friday. Kind of weird one too. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye bye!