june gloom on 6/2/2009 at 03:09
King's problem is that he's always mostly written for himself and he's an old man now.
pavlovscat on 6/2/2009 at 04:33
I read Patterson when I need something inane to turn my mind off when it won't stop. It works really well.
Tocky on 6/2/2009 at 05:04
At the very least Meyer will get teenage girls to read something besides text messages and a very small percentage will go on to read better things. Something similar was said about King a long time ago. Though I don't mean to imply that she has anywhere to go herself but in a flatline of insipidness.
I don't care what anyone says, "The Shawshank Redemption" was one of the most well rounded and inventive stories I've ever read. And "Needful Things" was wicked enough to have been written by the devil. There was a lot of promise to his early work that moldered while he raked mounds of cash. I hope in his later years he can recapture some of it. I'm rooting for him. He has some character and heart to him.
I can work up nothing nice to say about any of the other authors mentioned here who truly are hacks.
I also want to say that Muzman was stake in the heart dead on.
june gloom on 6/2/2009 at 11:01
King's very best work is everything up to just before they threw out all his drugs in the 80s.
Though I admit that 1408 is so far the only King story to scare the shit out of me, and in a McDonald's on a bright spring morning at that.
Eabin on 6/2/2009 at 11:10
Anyone read The Dark Tower series? It's still one of my favorite titles. And I had to sit through the whole of Twilight surrounded by an army of teenies. I have seen worse (*cough* Ultraviolet *cough*), but let's just say I'm not going to pay for watching the sequel...
Jason Moyer on 6/2/2009 at 12:00
Stephen King criticizing a pre-teen author sounds about right. Next up, we have Anne Rice criticizing Tolkien for being pointlessly verbose followed by Clive Barker criticizing Richard Simmons for being too gay.
So is Stephanie Meyer basically this week's Poppy Z Brite without the overt homosexuality?
Edit: Oh, and Stephen King = horrible novels and great movies
Kolya on 6/2/2009 at 14:09
Stephen King really has a very visual style. To the point where you think he wrote that with a subsequent film in mind. Apart from this his writing is embarrassingly clumsy for such a well known author.
Quote Posted by Tocky
At the very least Meyer will get teenage girls to read something besides text messages and a very small percentage will go on to read better things.
Adultism FTW. :rolleyes:
Vivian on 6/2/2009 at 14:35
This so-called 'stephenie meyer' is obviously just a vaguely pagan-looking shill for whatever shady cooperate robots worked out that non-threateningly vague sexuality + mincey vampires wearing gap = $$$$$. I mean, is this stuff aimed at people who found Anne Rice a bit over-intellectualised? I don't endorse the use of the word gay in the pejorative sense, but Twilight is an almost perfect fit for it. Gay gay gay.
Queue on 6/2/2009 at 14:36
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fett on 6/2/2009 at 14:38
Ghey
