• kibblebits@quokk.au
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    11 hours ago

    I don’t know. His books aren’t that great. His movie adaptations are just okay.

    He has some early work that was good and got a lot of attention. It was back in the prime days of horror novels. Right place right time. That’s all.

    With the right amount of cocaine I think you or I could probably give him a run for his money

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      7 hours ago

      His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.

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      7 hours ago

      I latent agree with that for all of his books, except for the Dark Tower series. I actually think the Dark Tower series is pretty good. It’s very different from his other books though.

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        11 hours ago

        I think, in his case, the more he did the more he produced.

        However, he’s very public about having no recollection or writing many of his books.

        I wish I could say “damn, I don’t ever remember making that app. It made a million you say? Wow”