[ 3 / biz / cgl / ck / diy / fa / ic / jp / lit / sci / vr / vt ] [ index / top / reports ] [ become a patron ] [ status ]
2023-11: Warosu is now out of extended maintenance.

/lit/ - Literature

View post   
File: 48 KB, 376x490, stephen-king-picture-1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228238 No.1228238 [Reply] [Original]

Stephen King: Overwritten, overlong, contrived, silly, immature

>> No.1228247

OP: insecure, pretentious, unwarranted self-importance.

>> No.1228253

Stephen King: Successful author who makes good money doing what he loves

OP: Unemployed faggot criticizing popular writers on the internet

>> No.1228267
File: 10 KB, 322x214, david_foster_wallace.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228267

DFW: convoluted, pretentious, Pynchon-lite, for hipsters.

>> No.1228291
File: 86 KB, 300x276, grrm_authorphoto.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228291

GRRM: Procrastinating fatass, also heart disease

>> No.1228315

Pynchon: A plethora of drugs

>> No.1228320
File: 32 KB, 524x720, george-orwell.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228320

Visionary, Concise, Compassionate, Political, Sincere, Human.

>> No.1228340

>>1228315
>[citation needed]
a true artist like Pynchon would never succumb to peer pressure.

>> No.1228344

ITT: OP realizes how much of a silly faggot he is.

Get back to suckin' dat penis.

>> No.1228346
File: 19 KB, 250x378, Barth, John.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228346

Self-referential, self-indulgent, self-concerned, self-inserting.

>> No.1228350
File: 31 KB, 390x263, truman_capote_photo.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228350

shit.

>> No.1228352
File: 47 KB, 493x579, 1287346567955.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228352

>mfw enormously butthurt King fans

>> No.1228356
File: 19 KB, 227x242, J frazzle.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228356

Underrated.

>> No.1228360
File: 47 KB, 400x300, he-aint-even-mad.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228360

>>1228350
>>1228350
>>1228350

>> No.1228362
File: 24 KB, 311x311, wonka.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228362

>>1228352
>mfw there's not a single stephen king fan on /lit/

>> No.1228368

I quite liked the Dark Tower septet. I also enjoy the films made from his books.
He has good, original ideas, I find, but his writing is sometimes a bit contrived or has too many stylistic effects.

>> No.1228369
File: 285 KB, 600x467, rudy_rucker.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228369

postsingularity! amazing technology... let's go score some drugs, or get drunk!

>> No.1228375
File: 28 KB, 373x480, shakespeare1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228375

decent, overrated by todays standards.

>> No.1228383
File: 53 KB, 410x599, 410px-Dickens_Gurney_head.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1228383

Charles Dickens-- It is indeed the author by this very name I have come here to describe, by no means of circumlocution or roundabout speech, that the aforementioned writer deemed it necessary to adopt a particular diction by which he is without hesitation accurately identified by the acute reader. It should henceforth be mentioned that aforementioned diction indicated above is one marked by what should not be mistaken for diffuseness, but rather a formal and comprehensive prose necessary to convey the idyllic subtleties of a time now past.

>> No.1228387

>>1228383

I think it's better to just say Dickens writes books in which there's always a butcher named Mister Cuttymeat, or a fat lady named Piggotty Hogg

>> No.1228391

Stephen King's writing is canted.

>> No.1228394

>>1228387
Perhaps, but I implore you to reread the above post in a British accent and see if you maintain that conviction.

>> No.1228396

>>1228387

I wish more books had characters with names like those.

>> No.1228408

>>1228383

That's pretty funny. I see what you did thar etc. But more to the point, who're you to say that such prose isn't genius? I enjoy reading some Dickens books simply for some of these exquisite passages of descriptive bliss.

>> No.1228426

I think stephen kings science fiction plot devices are retarded and really have no place in his stories.Dark tower turned to shit in book 2 when roland found the portals to the modern era.

>> No.1228427

>>1228408
Don't get me wrong, I love reading Dickens for the same reason. He's just got a style that's fun to parody.

>> No.1228707

>>1228267
so bishie

>> No.1229097
File: 28 KB, 346x450, 600full-vladimir-nabokov.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1229097

Vladimir Nabokov: Pedophilic freak, pretty prose

>> No.1229110

>>1228362

I haven't read anything of his for quite some time, but I think he can be a very good story teller.

>> No.1229123

Stephen King: Can't write a proper ending to save his life.

>> No.1230017
File: 200 KB, 1754x1276, nakedgod.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
1230017

Deus ex Machina.

Seriously, does he know any other way to end his stories?

>> No.1230021

>>1228707
..em...thank you.....

:3

>> No.1230425

Stephen King is like a cross between Stephenie Meyer and Rob Zombie