 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another Top 5 Friday. Today we are in front of the Stephen King Show, so it is a Stephen King themed episode. Today we are talking about the Top 5 Stephen King Scenes for me, moi, me, myself, and I. So please don't get upset if your favorite scene isn't here, but I would love to hear from you down there in the doobly-doo on what your favorite scenes are. Some of these might be a surprise, but whenever I do any of these Top 5 Fridays, I come out to the office, come out to my collection, and I look around for the theme. Well, not for the theme. I know the theme. I'm looking around for the things that fit the theme, and these are the first five books that I grabbed. The same with any other Top 5 Friday that I do. Sometimes I miss some things that I love because I either don't own them or I didn't think about them at that point in time. Now, at number 5, number 5, Revival. The scene that I love so much in this, first let me go ahead and go back and start this over with a preface that I'm not going to be doing endings because I've already done my Top 5 favorite Stephen King endings, so what we are going to do is we are only talking about scenes that happen somewhere between the beginning and just before the end matter of the book. So in this one, it's where Rev. Jacob's spoilers for all the books on this list. I will do the time signatures down there in the description, so if you want to skip ahead, you can. So spoilers again for Revival, there's a scene in here after Charlie Jacob, the reverend's wife and child dies. I think it's been a while since I've read it, and it happens really early on in the book. I can't remember if it's a boy or a girl, or if the wife is just pregnant. I can't really remember, but it just utterly destroys this dude. And he gets up in front of his congregation and he talks about losing, he talks about his faith. He has completely lost his faith and how poisonous and bad religion is, and that scene encapsulated kind of my experience with religion. I'm not knocking you if you're religious, but that pretty much just sums up my experience with religion. I was a very devout Christian up until the point where I was 13, and then I just lost all of my faith. And it took very little, so this scene, of course, there's a lot more going on in this scene than happened in my life, but his speech is what really resonated with me. So that's number five, that scene in Revival. Next up, we have Pet Cemetery. At number four, the scene, it has to be Gage's death. Every single time I have read this book, that scene has meant something different to me. I've read the book twice since I've been a father, and I read the book once before I was a father. It was very disturbing before I was a father. It was even more so after I was a father, and it was even more so after I was a father for the second time, because I couldn't imagine losing a child. But at the same time, after my second child was born, I couldn't imagine the concept of not only losing a child, but having a child left and always seeing, this might sound terrible, maybe not, but always seeing that one child, how do you react to something like that? How do you tell your child that their sibling has passed away? I can't even imagine that. It's bad enough telling someone that you love and care for, an adult that you love and care for, that someone close has died. But to tell a child that this other human being that they have lived with, it just destroys me. It's one of the most affecting scenes Stephen King has ever written. And the brilliance of the scene, and I hear people complaining about it all the time about Stephen King's forced foreshadowing throughout the book, because he lets us know that the boy is going to die. He lets us know several times to try and not really ease the blow, but kind of just to ease you into it. It's like, things are going to get very, very ugly here in a minute, and so you don't hate me, I'm letting you know ahead of time. And I actually think it's a very smart move on his part, because if that scene had come out of absolutely nowhere, I don't think that the book would be as well regarded widely as it is, the same way with Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door. With that book, it's not as widely accepted because Jack just, he's kind of hit you with all of that content, with really no precursor precursor and no warning. All right, so next up we have at number three, The Shining. So I will forever say this, I will die on this hill forever. The scariest part of this book, really the only scary part of this book for me is the topiary animals, not the fire hose, not Jack's descent into madness, not Room 230, oh shoot, I don't forget, I can't remember what it, oh Jesus. It's all, I always want to say 217, but that's not right. Let's see, it is 217, it's like 230 something in the movie, isn't it? I can't remember. Anyway, yeah, it's 217 in the book because it adds up to 19. I'm gonna leave all that in, I don't remember all of this stuff right off the top of my head. He's got 70 some odd books. But anyways, so yeah, the topiary animals in The Shining have long disturbed me. The scene with Jack and the topiary animals is fine and it's creepy, but the one that bothers me the most, the one that always, and I'm currently rereading this, so this is very fresh in my mind, is the scene where Danny goes out and he climbs into the snow tunnel and then when he comes out, all of the topiary animals, the hedge animals, if you don't know what topiary means, the hedge animals, they've all moved. And that scene for me is not only, it is terrifying, so it's not here because it's the scariest scene, it's just so well written. It is brilliantly placed and it comes at the perfect time in the book, it's starting to get a bit monotonous and slow and then here we have the scene with Danny and the hedge animals. But the way he builds the dread, you know because beforehand Jack has seen these, well not seen, you never actually see them move in the book. It's always implied that they had moved, which is another genius joke, I think. But you have it set up with Jack and you think maybe Jack is going to end up being attacked by the hedge animals, but then Danny ends up, he's the one who ends up and while he's out there, you know what's coming. That's the best part about it, you know what's coming. You know he's out there with these dang things that move because Jack had the same experience earlier on in the book. I think it's fantastic. Yeah, that's number three. Okay, at number two, this might be controversial opinion. I don't know. Anytime I think about this book, this absolutely beast of a book, this absolute unit of a book, this is the scene that comes to mind. I am not a huge fan of this book because the middle of it is so, so boring to me, but it's the scene in the stand with the kid and trash can man and trash. Mind your ears children if you're upset, but he rapes trash with the kid rapes trash with a handgun. I think it's a pistol. Is it a revolver? I think it's a revolver, but please let me know down there in the doobly-doo whether or not I'm wrong. That scene really bothered me. It's not only the rape, but it is the object that is used to rape. It's a disgusting scene. It's one of those things that just made me feel wholly uncomfortable. That scene to me is more powerful and more poignant than anything Richard Layman has ever written as far as rapey scenes are concerned or even Dean Coons, anybody else. That scene really, really bothered me. It has nothing to do with two dudes. It has nothing to do with that. It has to do with the utter assault and the violation that happens to trash. Trash has always been one of my favorite characters in the Stephen King universe. You see his descent into madness just like with Jack Torrance. Stephen King has always done that well by the way. Trash was crazy to begin with, but it gets even worse. I can't wait to find out whether or not the scene is in the original version of the stand because I have not read it yet, but I will be reading it in November. If anybody wants to or is already looking forward to it, we're going to do the stand. We'll probably start the stand on November 1st. I don't know if we'll be doing a chapter a day. I don't know how long we're going to go because there's certain sections of this book that I can read, 100 pages at a time, easy. There's also certain sections of this book that I can't stand, so it'll be like a 10 page a day kind of thing. But yeah, number two is the scene with Trash and the kid, the rape scene. I know it's weird to say it's my favorite scene, but it's one of the most affecting scenes for me. It's just one of those things that sticks in your mind. It just roots in. It's insidious and it just sticks there. Okay, so at number one, which is kind of themed for the week. I mean, we all know what comes out this week. We all pretty much know what book this is because it is my favorite Stephen King book. In fact, I was thinking about doing a top five scenes from this, but I want to wait until the second movie gets farther out. But yes, it is from it. The number one scene on this list for me, and I know there's a lot of people who disagree with this, but it's the mummy scene. Out there in the snow, in the ice, in the cold, Ben on the bridge, looking down and seeing the mummy, and then the crawling, the whole scene is ingenious. I feel once again, this is all subjective opinions. The only reason I'm harping on this is my opinion because I've had three comments in the past week say the scene isn't all that great. For me, it is. The scene, I feel the scene is the most terrifying and the best written scene in the book. Only, well, I don't want to go into what else I would put on this list because I would love to do just the top five scenes of this book, period, if I could mail it down to just five scenes. But anytime I think of this scene, that's the one that pop, sorry, this book. Anytime I think of this book, that's the scene that pops into my head. There's something so ominous and bothersome, and I hope I have not yet, this is being filmed earlier in the week, so I have not seen it chapter two, but I'm really hoping that the scene is in there, or they figure out some way of doing the scene, either with the adults or whatever it is, because it's one of my favorite scenes. I'm hoping the scene with Adrienne Mellon is in it. There's so much that I want to see in there, but I would especially love to see Michetti, especially him, do this scene justice. But I'm not entirely sure why the scene works so well for me, and there's a lot of dread involved. In fact, there's a lot of dread in most of the stuff that sticks with me. More so than scenes, maybe like, you know, the rape of trash. Those scenes that are not really there, but they're implied. Now, there is a lot in the scene that is shown, but the dread building up to that moment, and then the final end of that scene, I feel is just absolutely amazing. So you know how we do. Let me know your top five Stephen King scenes down there in the doobly-doo, and let me know what you think of these these individual scenes and if that maybe they fall on your list as well. Or if you don't like them, let me know why you don't like them. I don't mind different opinions as long as you're not rude about it. But until next time, I have been E, you've been U, this has been another book, no, it's another book review. It's a top five Friday. I'll talk to you guys later. Bye-bye. Hey, by the way, I will be doing a review of It chapter two tonight. When I get, well, the night that I go see it, the night that I get back, I would be putting the the review up. I'm not sure at this point in time if I'm going Thursday or Friday, but as soon as I see it, I will come home and give you guys a review. I may even try to talk Shell into it so we can get another point of view from someone who hasn't actually read the book. But yeah, so I'm super, super excited. And if you guys have seen it, let me know what you thought down there. But please, please, please with the spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't. And also for me, just in case I haven't seen it yet, please put spoiler alert for It movie at the beginning of your comments. Thanks. Bye.