 Hello everybody, E here. Welcome back to another spoiler discussion. Sorry it's so dark in here. I can't figure out the lights today, so maybe this is gonna be more of a podcast than it will be a video. It might be just because I'm so bright that the camera can't figure it out, but sit back and relax. We're gonna talk about spoilers for Richard Layman. No, Richard Bachman's book, Blaze, which is of course Stephen King's pseudonym. Not Blaze, but Richard Bachman. Sorry, I'm tired. I'm trying to get these videos done before I go on vacation, and this is the 9th video of the day because I have some surprise videos for you. And these books are gonna be pop, these books, these videos are gonna be popping up every Thursday while I'm gone, so you'll have at least a video on Thursday. So anyways, this book was a lot of fun for me, and I've already talked about in the spoiler discussion, not spoiler discussion, in the book review, and in the Thursday theorist why I like this book very vaguely, but I went into more detail about why I didn't like it. Now I'm gonna go into more detail about the spoilers as far as what I didn't like and what I did like. The didn't like, I'm gonna go ahead and get out of the way, which is there's some plot, there's some very, very convenient things going on here, especially with the kidnapping of the kid, how he gets out of it, he had a problem getting into it, but he got out with a baby in hand, leaving the baby alonious, the baby gets hurt and whatnot. There was a whole lot of convenience, especially with the, there's a scene where the, spoiler alert, it's a spoiler discussion, I'm just gonna go and say it, there's a scene in there where the, I can't remember the guy's name, but it's, they're running their first gag is what they call it, George and Blazar, and it drops his wallet, nobody sees the guy drop his wallet, but nobody sees Blaze looking at him, nobody sees Blaze watching the guy, the guy picks up Blaze's wallet, even though he's picking up a wallet and looking around, he doesn't see Blaze watching him, which was weird to me, and then the whole time that he's taught, they're arguing, the guy barely defends himself, he hit at all, he just gives one line like, hey I found it on the floor and that's all he ever said, I had some issues with that whole scene, it felt like Stephen King was just trying to get through that part as quickly as possible, whereas he went into so much great detail with other things, that one kind of stuck out like a sore thumb, I'm not saying things like that don't actually happen, or that that wouldn't work, it just seemed a little too convenient, there were other conveniences throughout the book that bothered me, they are completely slipping in my mind right now, probably think about them while I'm talking about the other stuff, but the stuff that I liked is the whole deal with how Blaze became like he was, the dent in his forehead, the way his father threw him down the stairs, that part, the Ann part, the girl that he has sex with, who has the baby who grows up to go to Harvard, I think it is, I really loved that whole section, that was very well done, all the flashback stuff I loved, some things while it was happening is I really enjoyed Blaze and Joe's relationship, him and the baby, I really enjoyed that, there was a section where I was like, you're not supposed to feed a baby, well evaporated milk, are you? I had to ask my wife, my wife was like, no you're not, I had two kids, of course we never gave them evaporated milk, but it was one of those things that seemed, was it the character? I thought it was funny because of course the character is going to do something like that, canned milk or whatever, he's going to try that out, but he also goes to a baby supply store, so can you give a baby evaporated milk or maybe a sweetened condensed milk, either way, I thought that was strange or funny, there's the whole scene with Blaze and John Cheltsman, I think is the way you pronounce it, that whole section was fantastic, I think I even teared up when he mentioned John dying of rheumatic fever, I think it was later on, but John was a favorite character of mine, I even came to like George just a little bit, George seemed like that guy that had never gotten up in life and he was just utterly miserable, but also he had that friendship with Blades and maybe I was reading too much into it, George might just be an utter douchebag in the book, but I felt a little more forgiving of him this time around, where as the first time he reminded me of my father and I absolutely hated the character because I didn't have a good relationship with my father, but in this one, there seem to be a lot more, the politics in this book are interesting also because the bad guys as it were, Blaze and George, I keep wanting to call them Henry, I don't know why, George and Blaze, they're Democrats and I guess George is always complaining about Republicans, so I thought that was funny because this was written back when King's politics were much different. Another thing that I enjoyed about the book is the way it ends, it does have a happy ending kinda, in the same way that Insomnia has a happy ending, you have your main character die but it's for a good cause, I really honestly thought both times, I don't know how in the world that's possible, both times I expected Joe to die, I kept expecting, I remember the first time reading it, knowing, absolutely knowing that he was going to get smothered or crushed to Blaze's chest and he never did, it came close when he wrapped him up in the blanket, I was like, there it is, there it is, he's going to die, but no, he let the kid live this time, so I was taken aback by that, kinda like if you only write sad endings where everybody dies, the happy ending is a surprise, that kinda deal, I'm telling all myself because, anyways, but with this book, I kinda understand where people are coming from with all the hate for this book because it's not or it's barely even suspense, even though those last 100 pages are amazing and I couldn't stop reading, the whole plan when I read this book was 30 pages a day, that went right out the window once I got to the final 100 pages, I think I did the final 120 in the last day, but it was the last 100 pages that I could not stop reading, it is so hot out here, y'all, sorry, I know I'm wiping and touching my face a lot, but it is so hot out here, I think it's a 109 heat index right now, which is funny, it looks dark in here, but it's pure daylight, I think it's just because I have the camera set to auto and I'm so bright that it's darkening everything, I don't know, but yeah, so that's pretty much all I really have to talk about as far as the spoiler discussion is concerned, I really liked this book, if you didn't like this book, give me details on why you didn't like the book, maybe I missed something, maybe I caught something the first time that I completely missed this time because I was enjoying myself so much, it has been well over a decade since I read the book, I think I read it around the time it first came out, I actually got it at the library because I didn't want to buy it, because I read the inside, he says, hey, I want to catch you while you still have your store slip, I remember that much. Let's see here, let me go ahead and read this real quick section. Dear constant reader, this is a Trump novel, okay? I want you to know that while you still got your sales slip and me knowing what a Trump novel is in the Stephen King universe, I definitely don't want to buy it, so I believe that I read it as a library borrow first and then I ended up buying it somewhere down the road and I still have a first edition and then I had this writing paper back. If you watch the live streams, I was talking about how this one has chocolate fingerprints in it and of course now that I've mentioned that, I can't find a single one of them and I know for a fact that it was here, it was here, I don't know, okay, maybe this is it, maybe, no, no, well I don't even know if you can see it, you see that, yeah, you can see it, that stuff and someone was like, bruh, that's doo-doo, no, it's not doo-doo, it smells like chocolate, so yeah, there's chocolate fingerprints throughout, which is nasty, because now I guess somebody's chocolate fingerprints all through my book, but this is a, this is my reader's copy, I'll never get rid of it. I even did the writing just to go ahead and upset some people I wrote all in the book too. Ooh, what is he doing? Yeah, so did you like Blaze? Let me know, especially if you didn't like Blaze, please tell me why. Be respectful, of course, down there, they'll be like, oh yeah, I love, I hated the book he said, you know, that kind of thing is what I mean by disrespectful. I don't mind you going, this fucking book sucked or this fucking book was great, I don't mind those kind of things. But, or calling, you know, me or other people idiots for enjoying the book or whatever, just let me know why you didn't like it, go into detail, this is a spoiler discussion video, so if people go down into the doo-doo and get spoiled, that's their fault, not yours. But until next time, I have been E, you have been U, this has been another spoiler discussion video, I'll talk to you guys later, bye bye.