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Originally posted by urgeok
uhmm...lets see ..
author .. with a past ... maybe an alcoholic ...
nasty things happen .. people die ...
author somewhat redeems himself ...
its not just that its his formulae
prologue
today
flashback...
today
flashback
today.
holy cow .. it all ties in togerther !!!
and his prose ...
everything explained for you in great detail.
I wish i could articulate what i mean better ..
all i can say is i read everything that came out when i was younger and then it started to dawn on me that although he was good at hooking you into wanting to 'see what comes next' it wasnt all that interesting.
I just found myself less and less involved.
Recently i went back and read one or 2 books to see if he had improved. I hated Insomnia, I hated Desperation - even worse, and i couldnt read more than 30 pages of Black House or whatever that shit was that he wrote with peter strawb.
The type is rank with smugness ... its tired and worn .. as is most of Horror fiction.
There just arent that many good authors .. i found myself reading
better authors outside the genre and once i did that - i couldnt go back to crap.
that being said - my ceiling is someone elses floor .... so its subjective ... all i can say is that i also thought King was the cats ass, until i got exposure to what i found to be were better authors.
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Do you read Classics? Because I have read a lot of them. I have been always very critical about writers in general because I have read most of the best. My brother is a writer and passed on some great books to me. Still being very well read, I think that SK is one of the better modern writers. The quality of his writing is far better than say Dean Koontz or John Saul. Even if the stories are good...........can't stand the writing.....I am just spoiled by reading so much better.
I am not a snob...............do like some trendy authors.....but if I could do better............well I don't want to waste my time, and I am NO writer. :rolleyes: