Is Stephen King a good author?
>Grinch physiognomy Tell this hack to pack it up to Whoville
Yes, his short stories rule. Night Shift and Skeleton Crew.
I liked Carrie and Salem's Lot.
>>24848659He's not a good author but he is an innovator. Stephen King was writing AI slop before there were personal computers.
>>24848659He's going to be remembered as the honorary genre writer to make it into the canon, as the man who basically invented modern genre fiction and somehow got his writing style adapted into every university creative writing class.
>>24848659No, and if you think he is then you're a simpleton.
>>24848662kek
>>24848659he's the "writer's barely disguised fetish" meme, using horror.
>>24848659>The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.Does that answer your question?
>>24849105Seems fine
He's great, I enjoy his fiction, whether he is overrated or not is up to you but I think he's earned his place as a writer.
>>24848710yep
>>24848659I hate him because he copyrights good set ups or premise and then shits the bed, and you're legally not allowed to do a rewrite of it because it's still 50% similar.
I'm really enjoying The Stand. Am I a pleb?
>>24848659Sure, sometimes. Some of his book are good, some are bad and some are absolute slop.
If one defines an "author" as a professional writer, that is, one whose goal is to achieve fame and wealth by the craft of writing, then yes, he is a very successful author.If you mean "good author"in the sense that his books are of good quality, then no. King is a hack. Though I suppose his editors share some of the blame, after all an author is seldom ever solely responsible for the final product. King's responsibility in that regard is to produce a manuscript, and it is the editor's job to make it into something appropriate for the market. If King's books are bloated and tedious in their final version he gets 50% of the blame for that.
>>24848659>isnope>>24848450
Good? No.
>>24849105>Speech destroys the functions of love, I think—that’s a hell of a thing for a writer to say, I guess, but I believe it to be true. If you speak to tell a deer you mean it no harm, it glides away with a single flip of its tail. The word is the harm. Love isn’t what these asshole poets like McKuen want you to think it is. Love has teeth; they bite; the wounds never close. No word, no combination of words, can close those lovebites. It’s the other way around, that’s the joke. If those wounds dry up, the words die with them. Take it from me. I’ve made my life from the words, and I know that is so.This is a better example. He can be pretty good at times. He's actually underrated by literary types.
