Stephen King

Re-reading 11/22/63, and being "off the warranty" is exactly what Al says in the beginning when he recruits Jake. I love that King is doing whatever he wants and is still cracking jokes, living his best life. More on reddit.com

I hope this man lives for as long as he wants to. More on reddit.com

I saw an interview on 60 Minutes where Stephen King said that his books are the literary equivalent of a Big Mac. At the same time, I think he's a bit uneasy with that image. He's got a very working class mentality and he distrusts the literary elite, but at the same time, I think he secretly longs for their acceptance. Hell, you could write a novel about all the conflicting emotions. Personally, I think Stephen King is a really shitty writer when it comes to fashioning prose. For example, consider this sentence from Under the Dome: Then it came down on her again, like unpleasant presents raining from a poison pinata: the realization that Howie was dead. I mean, good christ that sentence is terrible. And all of his books contain multiple sentences or whole passages that are equally egregious. Still, he does have strengths. He understands fear, loathing, discomfort, depression, etc. Specifically, he understands how our outlandish fears are linked to more mundane fears. A typical King story will have a protagonist facing a mundane problem (his kids get on his nerves) which intertwines with a supernatural problem (an evil hotel is telling him to kill his kids) in an interesting way. His characterization, while often cartoonish, can be pretty psychologically insightful. He gets people. His plots are a little 'lumpy' but they hold your interest. His imagination is very strong. He generally delivers a strong ending. If you compare him to the fame and money he's earned, I'd say he's overrated. But I'm glad he's out there. More on reddit.com

Bool. The End.

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