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I never read a Stephen King book.
And I never will.
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good for you
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That's too bad -- your missing out.
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Read Dean R Koontz. Hes much better author, plus hes not nearly as wordy as King.
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Neither have I, I'm not much of a reader though.
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your missing out some good reading
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I'm not a fan of some of his books (The Dark Tower series, for instance) but The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption (called something else IIRC), Carrie, Cujo, and others I really like. Right now I'm reading Duma Key and enjoying it. You can tell he pulled a lot out of his experience with getting hit when he was walking several years ago - some VERY graphic details about pain :(
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you can read?
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salem's lot was great book.
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I never had the urge to read any of his work
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I fucking love him :)
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I was just about to post pretty much the exact same thing... I used to like reading King... Then I got into Koontz and much prefer him for the exact same reason... Less wordy :) |
I like Koontz too - you can read both :)
("Hi, I'm Peaches and I'm addicted to reading." "Welcome, Peaches.") |
i just watched "The Mist" and the ending was really
frustrating. |
Stephen King used to write for porno mags and live in a trailer before he "hit it big".
Not too many people know that. |
same here . ..
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Read The Dark Tower - it's much more than just awesome!
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I still like him a lot.
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I'm about 3/4 of the way through the Dark Tower series. Love his writing.
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Dean Koontz, on his very best day, could never write a book that even approaches The Shining, Salem's Lot, The Body, Pet Semetary... any of a half-dozen King books. I have plenty of material from both and they're not on the same level or anywhere remotely close to it.
Koontz is clumsily political (on the right wing side) and every other novel features some good guy who has a 'psychic connection' to the bad guy. I read him because there's a real scarcity of good horror genre novelists, but honestly... he's repetitive and just not that good. |
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What qualifies you as a fucking literary critic? And since when did it become a competition between the authors? |
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I read King until I got into highschool. By then he was already on the strange-fetish-tied-and-gonna-die-and-be-eaten fetish. Deloris Clayborne was, and shall be my last.
That said, I quite enjoyed "The Stand", but "It" was pretty stupid. |
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Why the attitude? |
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You don't see the irony of someone who once took a college class in 'comparative literature' dismissing a best-selling author by simply saying "He's not that good,"? True, Koontz has some repetition - quite a number of prolific authors often revisit the same creative well over the span of a career. Just like a photographer, painter, performer or any other creative artist. I grew up with Stephen King, later shifted gears to enjoy Dean Koontz - and think both authors have a marvelous storytelling gift that isn't easily dismissed. I just don't understand why people have such a tendency to turn everything in to a competition/comparison. And yes, I also took several English lit courses in college myself back-in-the-day. But I don't feel it qualifies me as any sort of critic to accomplished authors. |
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I'm not saying that SK is the greatest writer that ever lived, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion in this kind of thing anyway, but imho he's the best HORROR writer that ever lived. Matheson probably had greater overall ideas, but he can't match SK in execution. |
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For me DK is just something to read when there's nothing better out there, a time killer. I'm not saying YOU can't like him, but I think it's a little ridiculous to try to put him on the same platform as SK. |
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HAHAHAH. DK vs SK is the nerd's Tool vs Radiohead.
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