Why does Veeky Forums hate Stephen King? Or at the very least not think highly of him?
Why does Veeky Forums hate Stephen King? Or at the very least not think highly of him?
Christian Cruz
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Levi Wood
Too accessible. Standard Veeky Forums elitism.
Granted he has written some really shitty novels, but he's also written a few gems. It comes with the territory of having such a high output. There's also probably an anti-commercialist bent to the hate. I don't think too highly of him and I don't think I'm ever going to read him again.
Christian Jackson
Noticed a lot of self-insert wank. But then again what part of writing isn't ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
Chase Scott
What did you last read of his?
Jackson White
Quoting The Recognitions:
He's written fifty of them. If he had anything to say you'd think he would have said it by now.
Juan Wilson
This.
There is something about popularity that supposedly and inexplicably cheapens a work's value for the worldly and well read scholar of Veeky Forums.
Hudson Gray
So I would assume most people on Veeky Forums only really like his older works, so what are some of your favourites?
Samuel Peterson
Anti-pretensions are just as bad as pretensions because you're making a show of how you're not a snob like the big bad elitists. It's all posturing faggotry.
Austin Clark
Is there a single King novel that doesn't have an incredibly unsatisfying and disappointing ending? I can't think of a single one.
Michael Foster
Might as well not read anything then in an attempt not to reveal any pretentious motives, one way or the other.
Yet, perhaps you may attain the most absolute form of pretentiousness if you refrain from literature entirely.
There is no escape.