According to Stephen King, J.K. Rowling is "a terrific writer" while "Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn."And he's right, if you ask me. But, his opinion goes a lot farther than mine does on the Internet. This revelation is so hilarious to me because now Stephen King is being trolled by all the little Twilight freaks in the universe. You can't insult Twilight, no matter who you are, it seems. It cracks me up. I love Stephen King, I think he's brilliant and I hate that he's considered a "horror writer." The guy is a frickin' genius. I love the way he gets his opinion on other popular writers out there by incorporating it into a fictional story, like Bag Of Bones. He also lets us know how the literary world really operates and he does it in a way that makes it seem like it's a secret between me and him. And when he talks, I listen. I love that he has trolls. Stephen Fucking King has trolls! Man.
I love him too.
ReplyDeletePat, I don't mean to sound condescending because that's not where I'm coming from. But you really do have a gift with words. Have you considered doing freelance work for magazines? You'd get paid for your stories and get the thrill of seeing your work in print.
ReplyDeleteI have never read a single Stephen King book. My brother reads all of them in the dark.
ReplyDeleteI guess I should pick one up, everyone raves about them.
Danse Macabre sounds interesting.
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Love, love Steven King.
ReplyDeleteI too love Stephen King. I hate how Hollywood tried to make his stories into movies. Most were fails except "Stand By Me" one of my most all time favorite movies. This was taken from a short story he wrote and right now can't remember the title. The Body Snatchers maybe?
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Now I'm singing Lolly Pop Lolly Pop oh Lolly Lolly Pop....
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Shawshank Redemption wasn't that bad of a movie. Misery was tolerable, too.
ReplyDeleteYeah, he'll be the first to tell you how he regrets those stupid movies now. Pet Cemetary was okay and The Shining. But, not nearly as good as his books. Oh, and Delores Clayborn, have you seen that one, escrow? It kills me that he's lumped into "horror fiction" atfer Stand By Me, Delores Clayborn, Geralds Game...on and on.
ReplyDeleteMisery, I forgot that one. That book was so fucking good.
ReplyDeleteStephen King scares my socks off....but he is a genius writer.
ReplyDeleteFunny to think about him being trolled...but that's what Trolls do.They target those gifted with far more talents and brain power than they will ever have.
'Cause they have nothing better or more productive to do with their cowardly jealous ass anonymous selves. Sad.
I forgot about Delores Clayborn. Kathy Bates saved that one.
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lolly pop lolly pop.......still singin.....aand Tommy Knockers (book) scared the shit out of me
I love Stephenie Meyer but I'm not going to bash Steven King because he doesn't like her writing style. So what.
ReplyDeleteAnd someone on here in the last couple off weeks wrote some misinformation about the Shinning. The book was based in Estes Park, CO and the main highwasy is US 36 which runs across the Rocky Mountains from Estes Park to Boulder. Stephen King wanted the movie to be filmed in Estes Park at the Stanley Hotel but the weather didn't cooperate (lack of snow)so filming was moved to Mt. Hood, OR. King has a long standing love affair with the Stanley Hotel and it's one of his favorite getaways. There is a whole display set up in the hotel regarding him and lots of personal letters of thanks that he has written the The Stanley.
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Ah, the Stanley... I have a story about that. When hubs and I were out there a couple of years back I wanted to take a looky-see inside the hotel but you had to pass by a guard shack and show proof you were a "guest" before they'd let you pass. So hubs drove around behind the hotel and found the service entrance. We zig zagged our way around to the front parking lot and walked into the great Stanley like we owned the place. LOL Beautiful hotel BTW.
ReplyDeleteescrow, good point. I was disappointed in the Overlook thing they made for the Shining. It looks nothing like the elegant Stanley. And was NOT what King described in the book. Oh, have you seen the Ghost Hunters episode where the went to The Stanley? It's pretty good. It's on You Tube.
ReplyDeleteI love King almost as much as Johnny Depp, but for entirely different reasons! LOL Misery and It, top my list but so many others are very close. I love JK Rowling too! I'm a book whore what can I say...
ReplyDeleteKing will write a book about internet trolls and knowing him they'll all die painfully under very macabre circumstances...
I agree...Stephen's a genius. I think The Green Mile was the most beautifully written book I've ever read. Love that he has trolls too. You're in good company!
ReplyDeleteIs it okay if I think he's sexy? I do. But, he's faithful to his wife and I think Tabitha King is a genuis too, so I try not to think of him naked.
ReplyDeleteHas anyone else read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon? I really liked that one.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, he is very different. You have to be a bit crazy to be that huge a genious. No normal, everyday thinker is like that. It's much deeper than that. Twisted and abnormal. Otherwise how could they write the way they way they do? Like Oscar Wilde. Love his writings. Not comparing them. No way. And he is cute. I always thot he was cute! And didn't the person that hit him when he was walking, die or something? Like in a strange way? Or is that a rumor?
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Oh yay! Now do one on Steinbeck! lol.
ReplyDeleteStephen shouldn't worry. He'll be around longer than what's-her-name and God knows 'Salem's lot was 10 times better than Twilight.
I have read all of his books except the Dark Tower (is that what it was called?) series. Every single one. I loved more then others
ReplyDeleteTabitha is an author in her own right. She wrote a book about mystery and dollhouses. I forgot what it was called. It was a pretty good book also.
Coming from someone who does not love the horror genre, I have to say I love Stephen King. I was unable to finish Needful Things because I was just too freaked out.
ReplyDeleteEvery word and detail in a Stephen King book has significance. He doesn't dumb down for his audience. Dolores Claiborn is inspired writing.
I love his general sense of humour and how he doesn't take his fame seriously.
Stephen King quotes:
"It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost"
"People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk"
"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool"
PS: Nice to see you're in the company of an excellent writer regarding the troll thing, DD. It suits you
ReplyDeleteI think J.K. Rowling's writing is mediocre. I never got the hype for the Harry Potter books. I'm actually surprised to hear King praise Rowling, because I've talked to a lot of people who actually *like* Harry Potter and often they do admit Rowling is not the greatest writer out there.
ReplyDeleteI have never even picked up a "Twilight" book so I have no opinion on Stephenie Meyer's writing.
King is my favourite American author and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is one of my favourite all-time books.
ReplyDeleteHer odyssey across the wilds of - where was it, New Hampshire? - is forever vividly imprinted on my imagination. The sense of solitude he evokes as the girl makes her way across the varied landscape...the way he conveys the deep tranquillity and peace of the ever-changing yet essentially impersonal landscape with moments of terror and despair...utterly compelling.
There's a part towards the end, when she eats something that gives her a bit of a buzz, I forget what exactly. But his description of how she perceives her surroundings during those moments - from the way the afternoon sun slants into the clearing, to the being she hallucinates, is Pure. Magic. Pure magic. Such a sense of deep joy and silence, of "being-ness"... yet underneath remains the pressure or urgency of the girl's increasingly desperate situation. Truly superb writing.
Stephen King is far far more than a horror writer. IMO he holds up a mirror of our culture and our selves and invites us to look deep, for good or ill. He doesn't even need the "horror" elements in his stories to make them riveting and relevant. But I'm glad he always adds some form of "other-ness" to the mix because to me, the supernatural events he sprinkles throughout his stories are both a deep swirl of flavour and the icing on the cake.
Yum! LOL.
By the way, I'm reading Under the Dome right now. Hardcover, cost me 40 bucks up here in Canada.
ReplyDeleteI don't wanna spoil it for anyone so I'll just say this - it's another cracking good story.
Stephen King is an amazing author.
ReplyDeleteHe knows what he is talking about. As for J.K. Rowling, I personally think she just ripped everything from C.S. Lewis. I don't care about Harry Potter, but I have read two of the books. And I have to admit that she is a GOOD WRITER.
I only managed getting through about 5 pages of Twilight, before rolling my eyes and deleting it off of my Kindle.
Meyer's is a terrible, no wait, GOD AWFUL writer!
Are you kidding me??? Even the story is lame! Come on, its like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Except Buffy is named Bella, and Bella has absolutely no spine, is not a slayer, and she likes being verbally abused by her boyfriend.
Seriously?? This is the garbage young teenage girls are reading??? I am 25 years old, and I think it's absolute trash!
The message of Twilight is this: "Give up everything in life for your man. He is ALL THAT MATTERS."
And to those older women and moms who love these books.
They clearly have no idea what they are reading, and are probably not doing so hot when they are swooning over a creepy, and overbearing bloodsucker that SPARKLES.