/lit/ - Literature

I read Under the Dome and 11/22/63 recently and wanted to talk about them. Also general Stephen Kind thread since that might make the thread die slower

>Decide I'll listen to King. After all, he's prolific.
>Try to write a first draft without outlining.
>No idea what the fuck I'm doing
>Get 10,000 words
>No fucking idea what to do next
>The story is 90% complete, full of holes, poorly paced, and the dialogue is shit
This faggot is lying. He's giving false advice to weed out the competition.

What's your favorite by Stephen King? I find it very hard to pick between It and The Stand. The Dark Tower is also up there, at least the first four books and the ending.

I want to be as rich as him, how do I do it /lit/?

>>20500393

>”My only regret in my literary career is that I did not write Call of the Crocodile.”

-Stephen King

Holy crap.

Why are so many of his characters alcoholic writers who live in Maine?

No, this is not bait. Harold Bloom was right when he called King "Cervanes compared to [DFW]". Unfortunately, that's all he was right about on King.
There is no higher artist today. McCarthy is strong but has nothing on King's characters. "It" is of course the exemplar, but the Shining (sadly unadaptable even by the masterful Kubrick, as good as his attempt was) is another strong point. And who could forget the Gunslinger?
But where King excels is prose. Salem's Lot and his early short stories are unmatched even by the likes of DeLillo. King manages to capture Melville and Poe, but he is a style all of his own. He manages to capture the subliminal awe of Lovecraft without the latter's purple prose.
The Bataillian treatises of Clive Barker might seem brainier at first, but King's thematic focus is much more subtle, yet much more profound: the haunting of Cold War era American culture. He manages to evoke nostalgia while subverting said nostalgia, often symbolically but sometimes literally; the Shining is commentary on the rampant consumerist alcoholism of that era, for instance. Rather than Barker, King's real thematic equals are Dostoevsky and Tolstoy.
King has proven, once and for all, more than Le Guin, Tolkien, Chandler, or Wolfe, that "genre" can be serious literature.

>>19614966
anon i am happy for you, but this just sounds like a shitty version of steven king