Aquila89 wrote:Stephen King just did an AMA on reddit, and when he was asked which one his novels is his favorite, he responded... Lisey's Story.
Well... he once said that writers are often the worst judges of their own work...
Never even read it. Shit, never even heard of it.
By the way, why does Stephen King has such a tremendous hatedom? I know, he's pretty much a craftsman now, but back in the early days you could tell he wrote because he
had to, not because he got payed a bajillion dollars for every novel. And even his latest, post-sellout books... I genuinely like some of them, and even the ones I don't like I have to admit are very well-written.
Say what you want, but the man knows how to write characters. And a thing or two about worldbuilding. And he possesses a unique trait of being able to pull off even the most silly and outlandish shit like talking trains or zombie dogs with a straight face in such a way that you never once stop to think "wait, this is absolutely bananas" until the first time you have to describe it to someone. Point is, Stephen King is very, very talented, and there's no real reason to hate him so much besides his being so damn popular.
Vodkov isn't my real last name, but I fucking wish it was.