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stupid faggot

>> No.13075783
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>>13075775

>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.

Is he right?

>> No.13075784

>>13075775
does this nigga have tiny teeth and no lips or one big ass lower lip

>> No.13075795

Someone who washes their hands before bedtime cannot be trusted.

>> No.13075823

>>13075775
An insult to every Gay everywhere.

>> No.13076845

>>13075783
Damn. I didn't know he had balls.

>> No.13076849

>>13075783
>My wife's son, George
are you fucking with me?
cause if so you're brilliant 10/10

>> No.13078193

the pot calling the kettle black ...