Full Dark, No Stars
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Full Dark, No Stars
Yet another collection of novellas, that seem very familliar. Ive grown tired of Kings self-cannibalistic style, and have cancelled my membership to the club. Not because of this book alone, this has been a long time coming. They werent bad stories but they give me the feeling that he had written them, and I had read them all before. He just came up with new names, and settings, for stories that he had already penned. If youve never read any of his older stuff you will probably like them just fine, unfotunately I didnt.
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It was the accident. I know it's a cliche, but it's true. Before that, he had a high standard and a high percentage of his work was excellent.Akasri wrote:I used to read ever SK book the instant it came out. And I was never disappointed. Then after about Insomnia, it really started going downhill. I just can't bring myself to read him any more
After the accident, he's been more hit-and-miss. I really think that Stephen King became aware of his own mortality and it has affected his writing (or maybe his standards).
He still produces good work. I think Full Dark, No Stars is good. Duma Key was good. Blockade Billy was good.
Then there is the bad stuff. Under the Dome, Cell, Dark Tower 7. Awful clunkers.
My favorite King book is It...but I think he reached his peak around the time of Dark Tower 3. But things definitely took a downward slide with the accident.
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I don't know...even early on he was occasionally recycling some ideas.
But how big/creative can one brain BE? Last I looked he had published almost 200 works, and almost half of them were novels...I only read his books now when they show up in a library and I have nothing else...but still, MAN, that's a lot of words, and a fair number of really cool ideas.
But how big/creative can one brain BE? Last I looked he had published almost 200 works, and almost half of them were novels...I only read his books now when they show up in a library and I have nothing else...but still, MAN, that's a lot of words, and a fair number of really cool ideas.
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the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
I'll argue that Duma Key is as good as anything else he's written.
But yes, the overall quality of King's work has deteriorated since the accident.
But yes, the overall quality of King's work has deteriorated since the accident.
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Lisey's Story?Avatar wrote:Personally, I thought Cell was pretty good. The one that came out around the same time, not so much. (Can't even remember its name.)
Haven't liked much by him since before Bag of Bones. DT7, I liked though. A few low points, but on the whole it grew on me.
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