/lit/ - Literature

By going to the doctors for brain damage, and Maine tick disease treatment. Should make you see that he's not that great. This said, I do appreciate his rural aesthetic.

>>13320907
He's more successful and venerated than you ever will be. You're like a 13 year old high school football playing talking trash about an elite pro football player.

>>13320938
>Financial success and fame are indicative of character and artistic integrity.
Did your father jerk off onto a flower pot? You're a blooming retard.

>>13320967
In a capitalist society, yes.

>>13320938
I didn't insult him. I insulted YOU.

>>13320938
John green is also more successful. What the fuck is your point?

>>13320938
>successful
>venerated
>comparing to other people
vanity, vanity, vanity its all vanity.

>>13320938
The good old "he makes more money than you ever will" argument. Go back to r/books faggot. Nobody needs you here

>>13320938
>YOU SEE THIS PLATE? I DO NOT HAVE AN IMAGE. I AM WORTH NOTHING!

>>13320938
Go back to r/books faggot

>>13320938
So are self-published erotica writers on Amazon. Yet I don't see you praising them as paragons of literature. Hopefully you've realized how stupid your post is, Stephen K.

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>>13321042
>j-j-just because he's more successful and has millions of readers doesn't mean he's more artistic t-t-than me!
He is a better writer than any of you.

>>13320986
>What is it about King’s writing that appeals to so many people? Clearly, King’s readers — many of whom seem to get hooked on him when they are adolescents — don’t care that the sentences he writes or the scenes he constructs are dull. There must be something in the narrative arc, or in the nature of King’s characters, that these readers can’t resist. My sense is that King appeals to the aggrieved adolescent, or the aggrieved nerdy adolescent, or the aggrieved nerdy adult, who believes that people can be divided into bad and good (the latter would, of course, include the aggrieved adolescent or adult), a reader who would rather not consider the proposition that we are all, each of us, nice good people awash in problems and entirely capable of evil. King coddles his readers, all nice, good, ordinary, likeable people (just like the heroes of his books), though this doesn’t completely explain why these readers are so tolerant of the bloat in these novels, why they will let King go on for a couple hundred pages about some matter that has no vital connection to the subject of the book.

>My wife's son, George, who is now twenty-four, read a little King in high school, but he hasn’t gone back to him since then. After you’ve read Roberto Bolaño and Denis Johnson and David Foster Wallace and Thomas Pynchon, as my son has, why would you return to Stephen King? King may be an adequate enough escape from life, if that’s all you require from a book of fiction, but his work (or what I’ve read of it) is a far cry from literature, which, at its best, is, sentence by sentence, a revelation about life.

>>13321097
>I don't have my own opinion, so I need to regurgitate the opinions of some fat old slob who is simply jealous that King is read by hundreds of millions and he is not.

>>13320900
you'd better not start with that "genious"

>>13320938
ad populum argument. fuck off faggot

>>13321065
Name one post of those which you replied to where the poster claims to have literary talent or to be themself a better writer than Stephen King. I'll give you a protip Mr. King, you can't.

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COPE

>>13321204
Woah there tiger! You really got us all with that one little tyke. Now run along to grandma so she can give you a big kiss and another gold star to add to your collection of "ironic shitposts". The adults need their space to talk, and ughhhh! Damn that's ripe! Get grandma to change your diaper too.

>>13321240
COPE

>>13321097
>My wife's son.
Life immitates art once again.

>>13320900
Nightshift and Skeleton Crew. Then quit.

>>13321097
Stephen King writes about Americana. Of course unamerican humanoids hate him.