In short: he doesn't know why it's appealing but he's certain it will continue to be.
Stephen King on Our History of Violence
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Most people, when they start eyeballing the other side of 60 years old (as King is) lose there taste for violent images. My own father, who lived for Die Hards and Clint Eastwood movies, wouldn’t watch anything but musicals and comedies after he was diagnosed with a terminal illness.
Add to that the fact that King feels indirectly responsible for a number of school shootings (ironic there’s another one going on right now) and withdrew his early novel Rage from publication.
I still love him.
I always thought it was ironic that Stanley Kubrick changed the hammer in The Shining to an axe to make the film more violent, and Rob Reiner changed the axe in Misery to a hammer to make it less violent.
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Originally posted by kintnerboy View PostI still love him.
I always thought it was ironic that Stanley Kubrick changed the hammer in The Shining to an axe to make the film more violent, and Rob Reiner changed the axe in Misery to a hammer to make it less violent.
He's the greatest fiction writer of the modern era. No one is even remotely close to being on his level. King is indeed a living legend.sigpic
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Originally posted by Adam Isaac View PostHe's the greatest fiction writer of the modern era. No one is even remotely close to being on his level. King is indeed a living legend.I'm like an opening band for the sun.
-- Eddie Vedder: "Push Me / Pull Me"
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Originally posted by Adam Isaac View PostHe's the greatest fiction writer of the modern era. No one is even remotely close to being on his level. King is indeed a living legend.
Because I think what you're really saying is that you like him a lot. Take it from me (and I'm a pretty well-read guy), he's nowhere close to being the best. Not by a long shot.
But if you like him, that's fine. One's man meat is another man's poison.
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