If this guy dies today, or this week, do you think he'll be remembered in the next few decades? And if he doesn't, do you think that that says something about him or about our reading culture? I mean, allow me to be honest: should King be forgotten in the sands of time? I know he's not the best even in his genre, but the guy's ouvré is huge and he has had some lasting effects in contemporary horror literature.
When a man reaches the success of King you find his entire family think they can write or have a entitlement to do so. Down to the fucking dog.
>>25282839at the very least he indirectly made some of the biggest movie classics
>>25282839>If this guy dies today, or this week, do you think he'll be remembered in the next few decades?Being a pedophile.
>>25282839Yeah? We'd definitely still be talking about him today if he'd died in the 80s.
>>25282839I strongly think he will be remembered via a faux legacy where people will remember his works in the sense that they will remember the adaptions, rather than the books themselves.Like, the guy pumped that by selling the rights of his books left and right to literally anyone. If you contact him saying you want to make an indie adaptation of one of his works he will sell them you no matter the price, no questions asked.
>>25282839honestly yes, he has dominated the horror genre in pulp literature, movies, TV and even some great comics out of his IP since the late 1970s. He's firmly 20th century imo but he was a titan during America's hey day before internet media took over.
>>25282839name one good thing he's written
>>25283436The one about the evil Chinese shill lol
>>25283436fuck that was the wrong gifthought it was the >I don't even know where to start with you gif
>>25283436Herman Wouk is Still Alive
>>25283441can you post the idk where to start with you gif so I can save it <3 I love you team fortress 2 <3
>>25283463can't find it in my meme folder, here's one with a watermarkbest i can do
>>25282881That'll be his most lasting legacy
>>25282839He’ll be the modern Poe. Mid horror and suspense stories endlessly mined for adaptations and remakes. He’s already been a hasbeen for decades and they’ve run a cycle of remakes already. Theee’s just too much shit to mine, even the short stories like the cursed monkey one has several adaptations. >hurr durr Poe is betterThe fuck he is, you spineless toad just following whatever bullshit canonization exists, you’ll bend the knee once the next hall of inductees comes around anyway.
>>2528343611/22/63
>>25282839I just learned about the TV miniseries of the Shining and now I can't take him seriously anymore
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>>25282839Haven't people already forgot about Cormac Mccarthy? Who's this guy compared to Mccarthy when even him was forgotten? lol
>>25283436That short story about the tiger
>>25283436The Dark Tower Octalogy is actually pretty good
>>25283764at least Poe knew how to right. King is a hack and that his writing got popular at all is an incredible indictment of the American people
>>25285715dearie me that was an embarrasing typo. obviously I meant write
He will definitely be remembered as one of the great american writers. The sheer volume of his work combined with the ludicrous amount of movie adaptations will make sure that his name lives on in popular awareness as an institution of its own, and later critics will be less averse to admitting that he actually is a highly talented writer who could tap into a certain part of the american psyche and the "american condition" like noone else before or since.Honestly, the only thing holding people back from doing it now is the institutionalized derision for anything that fits a genre other than "postmodernist middle-aged adultery in the midwest" or "asian american woman"
>>25282839The movie adaptations of his works will help carry his memory for a good few decades I'd sayI'm not sure who else would be a good comparison. An author not well regarded but remembered decades after his death for adaptations
>>25286089>An author not well regarded but remembered decades after his death for adaptationsfor what it's worth there are like thousands of novel adaptations, its just most dont know or care about the novel and author
>>25285716you may feel like your ironic dumb mistake invalidates your argumentbut what really does it is calling a prolific, consistently successful author who wrote at least a handful of classic books that a lot of people evidently loved and shaped popular culture in a way that few writers will ever do a "hack"although calling everyone around you dumb when you can't "right" is funny, yes
>>25282839IT, Shining, and to a lesser extent Dark Tower will get a variety of film/TV remakes and adaptions over the coming decades, and will probably be his longest enduring legacy; everything else will slowly be forgotten outside of niche followings. His name will frequently crop up in studies of late 20th/very early 21st century American culture but no one will really know him a hundred years from now
he'll be remembered the same way people remember socrates or beethoven today, just the name of some old fancy person even though no one reads or listens to them.
