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I just found out that a professor at my university will be offering a Stephen King course next year that will have a specific focus on the Dark Tower series.

How awesome is THAT?

What cool classes do they offer at your school?

>> No.2339354

>not immediately transferring to an overseas university

>> No.2339355

Stephen King fucking sucks, having a class on him is retarded and you probably go to a shit school.

>> No.2339353

How would a class like that even work?

>> No.2339356

>>2339353

Like any author specific course. We read selected books from his oeuvre, particularly the Gunslinger novels, discuss them, write papers on them, etc.

>> No.2339357

>>2339355
Why so defensive?

>> No.2339359

Stephen King is horrible. Stop talking like that's a good thing. You can't learn much from him anyway, I bet it will derive to just plain discussing the universe and how shit works on it as if it was real.

>> No.2339360

>>2339353
>>2339354
>>2339355

OP should have seen this coming. /lit/izens only take Pynchon and Joyce courses. Everything else is shit.

>> No.2339364

>>2339349
Should be cool.
I'm taking a TS Eliot course that will soon leave me sphinctershredded and analdead.
I think I saw a Tolkein course description in there somewhere as well as some 'contemporary sci-fi' classes.

>> No.2339372

>>2339364

I'd love to take a Tolkien class. That would be awesome. At the end of the semester we could watch the (extended) film trilogy.

>> No.2339385

I took a course last year at the university of amsterdam focusing on comic books. Nuff said

>> No.2339389

>>2339359

Did you even read 11/22/63? It's an amazing book. The NYT even put it on their "5 best books of the year" list. He is an extremely talented author who has stumbled a few times in his career, but for the most part has consistently released great books, especially the decade between '75 and '85. The Shining, The Stand, Carrie, 'Salem's Lot, It, The Long Walk, Firestarter, Christine, Pet Sematary, The Gunslinger, Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, among others. Can you even name another writer who amassed such a formidable bibliography in so few years?

>> No.2339392

His early work is pretty good but a lot after has been pretty mediocre.

>> No.2339395

>implying academic merit in stephen king novels

>> No.2339399

This is either a) a moneyspinner, fleecing idiot mezzobrows of their cash to subsidise the real literature courses, or b) a bait-and-switch, where you're offered STEPHEN KING!!11!, but instead are eased into a more diverse range of modern literature.

I hope for the sake of anyone stupid enow to take it that it's b).

>> No.2339400

>>2339392

True. He still has his moments of brilliance, though. Lisey's Story and Cell were painful, but The Green Mile, Under the Dome, and 11/22/63 harkened back to the glory days of the mid 70's/80's, and he's still going. I can't wait to see what he does next.

>> No.2339421

>In this course you'll learn to interpret King's masterpieces primary through the critical lens of deadline writing theory, utilizing twin concepts of whats-that-outside-my-window setting and cargo cult plotting and characterization.

>> No.2339423

It was illuminating reading Bag Of Bones, where King's traditional author insert had dried up creatively and was just publishing novels he'd written and "trunked" years ago for not being up to scratch.

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2339440

sage

>> No.2339442
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2339442

All right class today we're going to discuss how Stefan King-
I'm sorry?
Stefan?
Yes.
Yes, the same as Family Matters. There are clones of Feemalo Fumalo and FeedledeeMallow, and much like Multiplicity clones of clones have consecloneses. And the book we're editing today is... the draft of Dark Tower 4.5 or how I went from the Wizard of Oz to a black and white western.
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Up your nose widda rubbah hose.
Mistah King-tuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh.

>> No.2339447

>>2339442

what the fuck?

>> No.2339449

I feel sorry for you. You'll like the first book, you'll enjoy most of the second book but if you hate have the same thing hung in front of your face for dozens of pages you better brace your ass.
chapters spent on a landed airplane, infinite mentions of lobstrosities, a boy confused about something you know for 30 pages straight and he's just flat out confused, etc.

>> No.2339451

When it comes time to write essays in this course, make sure instead of a satisfying or cogent conclusion you just stop writing as soon as your minimum word count is reached, leaving as many arguments hanging as possible.

>> No.2340264

>>2339440

>sageing /lit/

You realize sageing does pretty much nothing on fast-paced boards, right? On /lit/, it's practically meaningless.

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2340271

>>2340264
>fast-paced boards
>/lit/

>> No.2340278

>>2340264

We pretty much only sage on /lit/ in a polite fashion as a sort of protest.

Such as this:

Polite sage

>> No.2341451

I read the Dark Tower. Santa Claus is the villain and all the characters ride pimped out deus ex machina.

I would take that class, though. If you liked the series, talking about it (or just geeking out) will be cool as hell. Hopefully the teacher ties it in with something alittle deeper than Stephen King, though. Bare minimum a weak "creative writing" or "collaborative storytelling" instruction.

One should not approach Stephen King with the intent to stimulate thought or attain deeper understanding.

>> No.2342075

King is awesum