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| '''Robert Lawrence [[Chris and Race#Jews|Stine]]''', famed author of the children's horror series ''Goosebumps'', is frequently cited by Chris as a major literary influence.<ref>[[Mumble 4]]</ref> To be painfully honest, besides ''Of Mice and Men'' and ''Catcher in the Rye'' (which were definitely required reading in whatever [[English]] course he took, since there'd be no other way he'd have even heard of them), Mr. Stine's novels are Chris's ''only'' literary influence. This means that all of [[Clyde Cash]]'s [[Mumble 4|''Fight Club'' references]] fly right over his [[Hair|greasy little head]] and out into the [[Time Void]]. | | '''Robert Lawrence [[Chris and Race#Jews|Stine]]''', famed author of the childrens' horror series ''Goosebumps'', is frequently cited by Chris as a major literary influence.<ref>[[Mumble 4]]</ref> |
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| [[Image:RLSTINE.jpg|thumb|Christian posing as a harmless young boy with his favorite book.]]
| | Whereas most children get over R.L Stine novels by the end of primary school once they discover meatier and more sophisticated fiction in line with their intellectual and emotional development, Chris remained an ardent fan of his work well into high school. Any inferences one may make from this are entirely correct. |
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| Why is it that Chris made the effort to actually read Stine's many mediocre paperbacks? Besides [[A Week With Christian Chandler|reading them to avoid paying attention in class]], it's easily explained by his personality. Ponder for a moment the hypercommercialized fandoms that make up every other facet of Chris's miserable existence: [[Sonic]], [[Pokémon]], [[My Little Pony]], [[Yu-Gi-Oh!]], [[Sonichu (comic)|arts'n'crafts]], [[My big 18th party (story)|Good Burger]], [[Lego]], [[LittleBigPlanet|video games completely lacking in adult themes]], [[The Adventures of The American Rabbit|etc.]] Chris's interests form the most childish collage of failure ever to be held by a human being. It isn't hard to believe that whatever slight thirst for the written word he possesses can be easily quenched by a bunch of grade-school level novels — though [[Autism|autistic]], [[Chris and sex|sexually frustrated]] man-children are probably not the demographic R.L. Stine was going for.
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| But it might be a deeper connection than simply bad taste.
| | Chris saluted R.L Stine in his [[KCWC Top 10 Dedication Special]] naming him as an "inspiration" in high school. |
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| {{quote|[[Donald Duck impersonation|I feel happy to terrify kids.]]|R.L. Stine}}
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| {{quote|[[Chris and remorse|I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!]]|R.L. Stine}}
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| {{quote|[[Rosechu (species)|I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block. ]]|R.L. Stine}}
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| ==Literary influence==
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| Despite being 28, Chris still cites Stine as his favorite author. Worse, he seems to know R.L. Stine primarily or exclusively through the ''Goosebumps'' and ''Fear Street'' series, and seems unaware or uninterested in Stine's more gruesome, violent, and slightly realistic teenage novels. Stine's not the best novelist around by a long shot; if Chris had to choose one author to read forever, he backed the wrong horse. The ''Goosebumps'' and ''Fear Street'' books are full of bizarre, nonsensical plot twists, simplistic characters, groaner puns, and ridiculous deus/diabolus ex machinae to either spring characters out of trouble or get them in even deeper. Sound familiar? Chris's favorite ''Goosebumps'' story is ''The Haunted Mask''.<ref>[[Mailbag 4]]</ref> The reason why: Chris identifies himself with the protagonist Carly Beth, who is also easy troll bait. No surprise here.
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| Bear in mind, also, that these books are aimed at children no older than 10 who like goofy stuff like that and wouldn't understand anything deeper. Most who kept reading after grade school moved on to more challenging fare, like ''Harry Potter'', as they grew up. Chris, though, stayed with Stine through thick and thin, well into high school and seemingly beyond. Through a combination of laziness and [[PS3|fanboyish]] [[Hex Bawx|hostility]] (according to the Dark Christian [[The Wall of Originals|Pokémon card]], he hated Harry Potter purely because it was replacing Pokémon in popularity), he didn't bite any other literary hooks that came his way. What is likely is that he may have tried to read ''Harry Potter'', but the advanced writing style and literary devices were too complex for his autistic mind, so he condemned the series. Thus he has no familiarity with adult (let alone, ''adolescent'') literature, nor any apparent interest. He has no grasp of symbolism, subtlety, foreshadowing, or any other literary technique or style. He might not even read anything outside of ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' comics and hentai manga nowadays, if he reads at all. As any published author can tell you, writing from such a severely restricted reference pool is a recipe for [[Sonichu (comic)|disaster]].
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| R.L. Stine once exhorted his fans to read all kinds of books from different authors and genres. This is yet another piece of good advice to fall on Chris's deaf ears. Chris is so incapable of venturing outside his comfort zone that he couldn't even leave the fantasy world of ''Sonic the Hedgehog'' while reading the books. On page 24 of [[Sonichu 7]], Chris revealed that while reading ''Goosebumps'', he would imagine characters from the story being portrayed by figures from the Sonic video game series.
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| ==In summation==
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| The [[Honest Content|HONEST TRUTH]] is that Chris is a 28-year-old preteen who is either unable or unwilling to grow up and read big boy books.
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They even look the same GODDAMN!
Robert Lawrence Stine, famed author of the childrens' horror series Goosebumps, is frequently cited by Chris as a major literary influence.[1]
Whereas most children get over R.L Stine novels by the end of primary school once they discover meatier and more sophisticated fiction in line with their intellectual and emotional development, Chris remained an ardent fan of his work well into high school. Any inferences one may make from this are entirely correct.
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Chris saluted R.L Stine in his KCWC Top 10 Dedication Special naming him as an "inspiration" in high school.
Christian posing as a harmless young boy with his favorite book.
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