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Originally Posted by The Villain
I get what you mean about character development. King has done a good job with that in some of his work though I would say.
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but his is too rich .. (the overripe fruit)
The thing I loved about Dickens is that he could put a very clear image of a person in your mind with very few brush strokes ..
King will describe the last hair on a person's head ... he will lock a character into a speaking style (usually some folky good old boy dialogue soaked in history and culture)
I can't articulate this very well (i'm not the writer) but I find everything is overdone .. overexplained ..
plus he keeps regenerating the same characters over and over and over again.
He clamped onto the advice 'write what you know' like a pitbull on a bone
I know it works for a hell of a lot of people .. I just suffered from over exposure too long ago. Black House - with Strawb - was the one that made me never want to read him again. I couldn't even finish it.
Salems Lot remains the one novel of his I still like