Stephen King on Our History of Violence

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  • Stephen King on Our History of Violence

    In short: he doesn't know why it's appealing but he's certain it will continue to be.

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    Huh... roughly eight hundred words without really saying anything. Ol' Steve-o must be hanging out with Anne Rice these days
    "Forget it, Jake. It's Hollywood."

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      Re: Stephen King on Our History of Violence

      King has rather had a handle on that himself for quite some time.

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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 Signal30 View Post
          Huh... roughly eight hundred words without really saying anything. Ol' Steve-o must be hanging out with Anne Rice these days

          He was probably doing someone a favor.
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            Originally posted by kintnerboy View Post
            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.

            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.
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              Re: Stephen King on Our History of Violence

              Originally posted by Adam Isaac View Post
              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.
              Most popular? Yes. Greatest? Um, no. That would be Don Delillo.
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                Re: Stephen King on Our History of Violence

                Originally posted by Adam Isaac View Post
                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.
                Hate to do it to you, Adam, but this is based on your extensive reading of the works of most of the major fiction writers of, say, the past thirty years?

                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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