Fernbrook Resort Freelton Book Review of Stephen King’s ‘The Coop of Gallus Domesticus’

Fernbrook Resort Freelton Book Review of Stephen King’s ‘The Coop of Gallus Domesticus’

Metternich poses for a portrait between plots

The antagonist of the story is a controlling Cock that manipulates and maneuvers friends and family using machinations that Prince Klemens von Metternich would envy. Always crying ‘wolf’ and ‘poor me’ when the truth of the matter is that playing the poor ole me card gives Cock the sympathy needed to exploit others – making him the actual wolf… in a rooster’s guise.

The story revolves around the Cock’s insecurities. As a neighboring animal fixes up its den, Cock’s becomes increasingly neglected and dilapidated… and this is the root of his rage. He is to proud to lower himself to the level of menial labour. Or maybe he’s unsure of how a hammer works. Either way his coop decays.

Amon Goeth preparing to go for a recreational swing

Cock is the Amon Goeth of the chicken world, always watching and thinking evil. But a Goeth that never pulls the trigger himself. Cock’s power comes not from creating anything but by destroying everything he comes in contact with and manipulating others to pull the trigger and destroy those things that Cock envies. Manipulating others to do his destruction makes him feel powerful.

Cock works to drive the neighbor away. By spreading calumnies. By harassment. By vandalism. By petty thefts. And all through this his mate covers for him… complaining that it is not Cock that is the problem but the horrible neighbor that they are forced to suffer.

Cock plots of a pipe bomb (standard fare stolen from a John Grisham novel) because they’re quite untraceable. But his mate (a Karla Homolka type personality?) talks him out of it because of their three children. She’s not worried about the neighbors who sleep twelve feet away. She’s only worried about her chicks.

They plan a birthday celebration and invite all the other animals to their coop so that they can point out what an eyesore their neighbor’s den is. But when the den gets renovated, afraid of looking stupid, they change the venue of their festivities to save face.

Cock manipulates his mate into flaunting herself to the neighbor in some weird plan to get the neighbor thrown out of the park. But the plan backfires and the entire neighborhood all pity her while snickering at her at the same time. But our Cock doesn’t care because this drives her closer to him and gives him more power over her.





Chicken behind bars at Reading Gaol

Cock plots a burglary of the rival’s den using friends and his brother while he works on his alibi. But the unseeing eye that sees everything but itself catches the criminals. And Cock deserts his friends and family. "I had nothing to do with it," he crows, "I was working on my alibi at the time." The criminals get their just desserts, i.e. his brother loses his government job etc. etc., and Cock feels more powerful by destroying the lives of others while escaping himself unscathed.

Cock plans to poison the neighbor’s garden but, instead, manipulates his hen to vandalize the plot. And during a power blackout during the dead of night his mate is successful as he watches from a nearby window. Unfortunately a neighbor sees them and informs the local constabulary. And Chick Protective Services takes her chicks away. Making Cock feel more powerful again that he can destroy gardens and familial bonds but remain unscathed himself once more.

But the neighbor works and rebuilds the property once again.

So Cock takes his neighbor to court on a trumped up complaint and through his feather-brained poor ole me ploys he fools the judge into ruling that Cock is the aggrieved party and so the neighbor must depart.



The Cock of Fernbrook Resort?

Cock than makes the neighbor’s former den his own. And then proceeds to destroy every thing that the neighbor had built and improved, den and garden. Crowing quietly to himself all the time that he is the great and powerful Cock and that he is lord and chicken over all.

A sad mate?

His mate, seeing this, and hearing this, finally realizes that Cock is a destroyer, demolishing every thing he touches. And realizes that Cock never builds anything up or raises his level but, instead, tears every thing down, bringing every thing to his level. But having leveled everything close to her as well as him she has nowhere to go. And is forced to live out her increasingly sad remaining years in the decaying Coop of Gallus Domesticus.

What a poor sad pair of horrible boobs.

The Coop of Gallus Domesticus