| Re: How good is Stephen King as a writer?
Stephen King does have a simple style of writing, but that is also his charm. You don't have to think, examine and be a literary genious to read his stuff. What I love most about king is the way that he takes every day people, every day lives, and exagerates them, makes them more than what they are. I also adore the way he ties everything together, especially if you read him as bachman, and if you pay close attention in dark tower, there are plots and strings that tie the books together, the lives that he creates.
The absurdities and inconsistencies are there, but they are often woven in a manner that you have to be looking for them, and even then they are still plausible.
Books I hate:
The Green Mile, Rose Madder, Dolores Clairborne, and a lot of others that are just boring as hell to read.
I like him best as Bachman, and in my eyes the only books that I truly adore are the Dark Tower Series, because it is simply a beautiful story filled with people who are thrust into extraordinary circumstances and triumph, at least I think they will...eventually...
Im not saying he is the greatest, but he was the first author that made me want to read, along with Weis, Hickman and Yolen, when I was young. |