No.13503
Is he a hack? I've heard people say he steals ideas and overwrites. Plus he acts like a virtue signalling faggot on twitter.
How does his literature compare to others? Do they hold up on their own or is his writing an extension of post-modernism, hence it's (((popularity)))?
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No.13504
Reddit the author. Cannot stand him and his books.
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No.13508
4 pages of child anal rape.
7 pages of children gangbang in IT
Gun in the ass
And fucking Harry Potter references in what is supposed to be his most epic story.
The Gunslighter. the first novel of the Dark Tower serie, was actually very good.
And then it's bullshit on bullshit on bullshit on pop culture references on fucking name dropping. And the story fades into a ridicule nothingness.
(Sorry for my terrible english)
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No.13515
>>13504
Great analysis. Makes me dislike him even more.
>>13508
So this is where it gets confusing. Was the Dark Tower his only decent work that he somehow managed to destroy?
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No.13517
>>13515
The Dark Tower start with a good plot.
A sorcerer is fleeing in a desert. The pistolero is pursuing him.
Demons? Sure.
Parallels universes? Sure.
A few book letter : fucking Harry Potter broom football things come in.
Fuck that.
He started a big epic thing, didn't knew how to finish it so it turned to a farce.
(Kinda like what GRR Martin did with Game of Thrones. Except 1000 times worst)
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No.13520
>>13517
>A few book letter : fucking Harry Potter broom football things come in.
Shit, that happens in a book? Boy I'm glad I jumped off that boat after the third book.
I really liked the first one, specially how ruthless the Gunslinger was. Then,afterwards, (SPOILER ALERT) Jake was brought back to life. All consequences, deleted. Oh well, time to move on to a new series!
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No.13555
>>13520
>>13517
Sounds like he didn't have an ending in mind when he wrote the first story. That's some amateur shit right there.
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No.13559
>>13503
well he's jewish so….
but Christine was good.
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No.13716
>>13503
he just writes, writes, writes and never refines his ideas.
It's like he demands you to go through a bunch of paperwork to make some sense in it.
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No.13726
>>13555
He can't do endings. La coca broke his MOIND.
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No.13825
>>13503
He took cocaine for many years. Instead of modern day porn and sugar to get your rocks off, this guy blew thousands on drugs just to get himself to write filler book after filler book.
All of the best literature has already been made.
Anything new is the chicken scratch of mental ill humans.
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No.13826
>>13825
>All of the best literature has already been made.
This is mentally retarded.
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No.13841
>>13716
Seems pretty arrogant of him.
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No.13842
tbh I think he wrote three good books:
The Gunslinger
Duma Key
Carrie
That's it.
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No.13843
>>13503
I enjoyed The Stand, the beginning of The Dark Tower, Running Man and The Long Walk. But the actual writing is never that remarkable just entertaining stories.
He does write small New England towns pretty well.
>>13716
I could see that.
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No.13958
>>13842
>Carrie
The only book of his I ever really cared for tbqh.
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No.13961
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No.13963
My friend, an indie author/self-publish, worships Stephen King. I tried getting into him and I really just couldn't. There's something about the way he writes that irritates me.
That being said, I'm trying to put my bias aside and read through a couple of his more popular novels.
I know he's not a good author, but I prefer Clive Barker's early work or anything I've read so far of Stephen King, and Barker's not exactly a literary genius.
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No.13964
>>13961
I'm not a big fan of horror. Just isn't my cup of tea.
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No.13981
>>13842
>>13843
I second these. The Gunslinger, The Running Man, and The Long Walk were all worthwhile reads. I personally think his best stuff was written back when he was a cocaine-fueled wreck. His collections of short stories are entertaining also, since they fit his pulp writing style a lot more than a 2000 page book.
Whenever the subject of Stephen King being a garbage author comes up, I'm reminded of a short story he wrote about an author(?) on the verge of suicide who tosses his papers into the wind to see how far they go. I wonder how true that story was?
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No.13993
I only read Cujo and IT but they were both spoiled by the same problem, in that he adds tonnes of filler shit that he doesn't need to. Cujo could have honestly been about 50 pages long
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No.13999
>>13503
He has the ability to start an interesting work and then completly butcher it. The Stand was very good until he pointless integrated magic into it. Dark Tower was great at the start, then by the third and fourth book it was fucked. I think the only reason he's considered a great writer is the sheer volume he puts out.
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No.14001
I made it 30 pages into Christine and then gave up, boring as paint.
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No.14019
>>13993
WHY DID WE NEED TO HEAR ABOUT THE GUY BREAKING INTO THEIR HOUSE AND MASTURBATING WHILE THEY WERE STUCK IN A CAR WITH A RABIES DOG OUTSIDE IN 107 DEGREE HEAT? FUCK HE JUST SHOOTS HIMSELF IN THE FOOT CONSTANTLY.
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No.14060
>>13503
He caught the ego cancer. Gradually. :(
You know - "If you tell a guy he's a pig every day, eventually he will start to grunt. If you tell him he's the greatest genius every day, the result will be exactly the same." It's called convergence.
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No.14065
Clive Barker is better tbqh
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No.14068
>>14060
Great analogy. We must resort to calling him a hack on a daily basis to chop away on his inflated ego.
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No.14070
>>14068
What would this accomplish? He already mostly became a hack.
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No.14071
For me, his style of writing is too bland and dull. It's very indistinct and average. Also, he unironically uses onomatopoeia like a 5-year-old in his endless and ineffective attempts to frighten (bzzzzz! creeeeak! ziiiiiing!)
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No.14080
So very boring. Reading one of his books is like watching paint dry.
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No.14090
>>13964
His "horror" is hardly horror, its more or less unironic parody at its best.
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No.14429
>>14090
it's suspense in my opinion, like it's not scary but stuff is happening. people who are actually scared of his books, I can't even put it in words.
Eyes of the Dragon is my favorite Steven King book, and it's way different from his other works. I might read The Gunslinger after this thread
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No.14433
>>13503
Each time he acts high and mighty on twitter, remind him that he had the boys from the losers club gangbang beverly.
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No.14498
He tends to write the same story over and over just with a different monster.
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No.14500
>>13503
I think I only ever read Dolores Claiborne and that was a pile of shit that was at least four times longer than it needed to be. I think that pretty much turned me off Stephen King's shit for good.
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No.14516
>>13555
He never does. Writes by the seat of his pants.
>>13999
>He has the ability to start an interesting work and then completly butcher it.
Desperation the sentence. What a fucking terrible book.
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No.14572
Something something something, tweenage sewer orgy.
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No.14597
His ideas for stories are pretty good, but his books are trash. I think he's the only writer who consistently has screen adaptations made that are better than the book they're based on
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No.14603
He has a couple I like:
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower through book 3-4 is alright)
The Stand
Salem's Lot
Firestarter
Cycle of the Werewolf, but it's not really a standard novella
>>13555
IIRC, The Gunslinger started out as short stories that he ended up joining together into a novel. The second book came out like a decade after the first short story was published, so he probably didn't envision it as a series to begin with.
>>13999
I actually like the magic because it amplifies the Good vs. Evil aspect and isn't widespread. The Stand's main issue is that it suffers from serious bloat, mostly because there are more characters than King knows what to do with.
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No.15981
>>14603 No, the first Gunslinger was touted right from the start to be an epic continuing series. I vaguely remember from the first edition introduction that his inspiration was The Good the Bad and the Ugly, and he wanted to create his own magnum opus.
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No.15997
>>14572
Your post is the most reddit thing I've seen in weeks.
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No.16018
He wrote the same book over and over again. He's a best-selling asshole. It all deoends on wheter you like bestsellers or not.
Carrie was "decent" but I wouldn't call it good
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