Is he, dare I say it, the most overrated author of all time?

I have a fear of driving, get off my fucking back.

>so many praising King
He said in an interview one time that all of his works are the equivalent to airport readings

>Nobody including King ever claimed that he's some kind of god of literature.

People say this, yet he complains that critics and academia don't take him seriously, and his books are filled with potshots taken at book snobs.

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Most overrated? No, not even close. Nobody considers him as much more than just a popular author with some enjoyable reads. He's also far from the worst among popular mainstream authors. While his works are heavily flawed, they at least were creative enough to permeate into our pop culture zeitgeist, something very few of his contemporaries can say.

Also, King > Koontz

It's the truth. Take your bitch ass outta here.

What's the point of making these threads every day?
Easy lit sells. Easy, well-marketed lit bestsells.
King, Rowling, and Cussler don't have me in their target demographic, and they're not in my taste either. So I don't buy them.
Think of it like television. Spongebob Squarepants is (I assume) an immensely high-earning program, but I don't have to feel offended by its success just because it's not marketed to me.

I agree with the person that said Umberto Eco.

This.

Veeky Forums is too elitist regarding work they didn't even do themselves.

I enjoy reading him, although the ending to the dark tower series was a dud

No, that's Hesse.

you LITERALLY live in a day and age where Rupi Kaur and John Green exist, and you want to pick on Stephen King for being overrated?

You need to re-assess yourself.

Reminder that Stephen King is a closet pedophile.

He wouldn't if he wasn't such a fucking liberal faggot.

Might be true if you're talking about his fiction

>Veeky Forums is too elitist regarding work they didn't even do themselves.
this place is full of daydreamers daydreaming about how great their work would be if they ever actually created anything.

the most overrated author is dan brown. the fucker shouldnt be allowed near a word processor.

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He can't be overrated since he's writing popular YA novels for the masses.

Is it better than writing fanfiction?

is fantasizing about how much potential your non-existent writing project could be better than writing utter garbage? not sure, man. I'd say it's good that they are able to create something but fanfiction seems like a symptom of autism or at the very least a tenuous connection to reality.

>a symptom of autism or at the very least a tenuous connection to reality.
Isn't it the same for every piece of fiction though? You're basically transporting yourself to another world.

i can see how it would be good practice for new writers, the problem is if it ends up being one of those HarryxDraco but they're my little ponies type of smut fanfiction. Excluding that, it can be interesting to have someone who knows what they're doing give its own take on someone else's idea

He isn't generally considered a very good author, though.

>that one where Harry gets Optimus Prime pregnant
Was it autism of genial parody brilliance?

>Isn't it the same for every piece of fiction though? You're basically transporting yourself to another world.
fine, but we're getting off topic. my original point was that most of the people here fancy themselves as writers but they dont really write anything. they're just a bunch of critics. There's nothing wrong with being a critic but what bothers me is that every critic here has it in their head that they could write better than stephen king when they've never written a novel themselves.

I haven't delved that deep user, and pray for the sake of what little innocence is left, that i never will

Sounds like you've read a lot of his work...

No, but he's the most successful.