: I've got to say that I COMPLETELY disagree with your opinion of King's
: abilities. I think he has trouble with screenplays... but his
: novel-writing skills are up there with the best. The fact that he writes a
: LOT doesn't make what he writes bad.
The thing with Stephen King is that he copies himself all the time. Every now and then he publish something decent, followed by 20 clones of the same thing. He writes for the money, that's the way it is.
Next time you have some free time, Claude, try reading something from Victor Hugo (Notre-dame de Paris,) Edgar Allan Poe (The Tell-Tale Heart,) Fyodor Dostoyevsky (House of the Dead,) Ernest Hemingway (Death in the Afternoon,) William Faulkner (The Sound and the Fury,) Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird) or anyone else that actually care about what they produce.
That excludes people like Anne Rice, Ken Follett, Frank Herbert and especially John Grisham and Tom Clancy.
