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"Mostly seen from people who draw shitty anime art, make shitty bedroom music projects or people clamoring to be the next Stephen King when they struggle to write more than 3 pages a day"
"Stephen King is lucky that Kubrick changed the Shining because Stephen King is terrible at endings. The Shining is probably the most famous and iconic horror story of all time and if he had kept to the Stephen King script then the ending would have been terrible. Stephen King is so good at setting u"
"I don't know why, but Reddit thinks I wanted to see r/bookshelf in my feed, in which shitlibs post photos of their bookporn. This bookporn consists mainly of hardcover YA dreck, fantasy (non-problematic only, thank you), and Stephen King."
"sometimes i want to read without having to think about anything but i can't bring myself to read, like, stephen king
stuff like donna tartt and jeffery eugenides"
"It is no coincidence that horror writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King were both native New Englanders: they were both exposed to the darkness that humanity was capable of and it colored their worldviews accordingly."
"I know Stephen King is kind of a schlocky writer, but I've always appreciated Pet Sematary as maybe his best work. And the message of it, obvious as it may be, sometimes dead is better."
"I don't find his work appealing whatsoever. and I felt this way even before I found out how frequently he writes about preteen sex. Is it just the kind of thing where he did a couple good novels and so people mistook the rest of his work for good literature?"
"sometimes i want to read without having to think about anything but i can't bring myself to read, like, stephen king"
"horror writers like H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King were both native New Englanders: they were both exposed to the darkness that humanity was capable of"
"I don't find his work appealing whatsoever. and I felt this way even before I found out how frequently he writes about preteen sex."
"For me it's the thriller/horror fiction that my parents read -- that is, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Dan Simmons, and obviously Stephen King."
"stephen king wrote that it essentially has to be innate or whatever and not knowing if i have the spark or not frustrates me greatly"
"The introduction written by Stephen King does a fine job of setting the stage for Houellebecq."