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He is still a good writer. That doesn't change.
This is one example of a man I use to point out the fallacy in many people's thinking about the world: a person does not necessarily have a better, more accurate or more moral view of the world just because they (a) have more money than you or (b) they are more reputable for their skill or talent.
Granted those are both good things, but I encounter the sentiment often (often people aren't even aware of it) where the social proof of someone's income or reputation for a skill causes people to assume by default that person has better opinions.
It's not true. There is a tendency for opinions to probably be more informed as age, success, and intelligence go up, but it's a broad broad trend and by no means is it a way to judge any individual.
I know wealthy and otherwise talented people that say things about their politics or worldview generally that make me go: are you actually fucking retarded?
Good storyteller, mediocre writer. Also a coke sniffing pervert.
That's a pretty fair assessment. I had a debate about the scene in It with someone on Reddit a few years back. There is just no literary way to justify it as anything other than perversion. The whole coming of age metaphor can't justify it.
King is a good writer? Well, in a way. He delivers a consistent level of quality in his books, but it is not a particularly impressive level. Nothing he writes has any real originality. You never get a sense reading his work that he is breaking boundaries, or taking risks, or trying out something new, or extending himself to a place he's never been before. No, it's always the same competent prose, the same entertaining but simplistic story lines, the same set of characters from little Stevie's childhood, recycled over and over and over. Let's face it, if every Steven King book were wiped off the face of th earth, what would we lose? A little mindless entertainment, that's all.
That's probably fair. I don't think he is somebody high school seniors ought to be studying in AP English. Within the realm of horror fiction, I think he was fairly innovative. He brought a sort of humor to the gothic genre that was kind of his signature, but which I thought actually increased the effectiveness of the horror.
I like to write as well, and I take stabs at horror fiction now and again. I call his technique 'leaving the light on'. It is just something I extrapolated from reading him, and that I took with me because it seemed valuable.
The idea is no matter where you go in the haunted house, you leave the light on in the room prior to the next dark room. Lifts you up to let you down.
In terms of most contemporary fiction, would the world be hurt by its loss? Probably not. These aren't necessarily definitive of 'high culture'. That said, writing entertaining fiction that a person wants to sit down and read in their free time isn't something to dismiss either.
Most people read Dante because they had to, not because they'd give up their Sunday night to sit down for a few hours with his work. It's just a different goal.
the same set of characters from little Stevie's childhood, recycled over and over and over.
The black ones are even worse, they are always either magical and noble, or poor downtrodden victims. Never anything like average people, I guess they are the rich White liberal from an all White state's imaginative version of what black people are like.
Very well put. I know a few wealthy and otherwise talented people...and very intelligent to boot...who turn into actual retards when you utter one single word: Trump.
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