An Ode to Stephen King
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I see that 'Under the Dome' will be delayed for a month on the Kindle. I mean Stephen King has always been an icon for some of us. But I have to wonder what the publishing companies are thinking about. They say they want to charge more for the hard cover edition. I am a big fan of books like Misery and Pet Semetary, books that King will probably never write again. I will probably read Under the Dome as well, but I certainly have no need or ambition to be the first to read it. I have to apoligise in a way. He has been a mentor to me and I am sure to a lot of other writers. Somewhere along the road he decided that it was somehow wrong to write books that don't fit into the literary genre in the way that some famous authors have achieved. I always looked at him as a master of craft and his 'wordy' way of writing never bothered me. Years back I read Needful Things and thought it was fantastic, but after having read him for years, I felt I had had enough of the extremely scary stuff. I never finished that book, due to the number of fantastic examples of people in the store buying those needful things. Each and everyone was a fantastic story, but I had read a lot of his books. Now I want to read another, but he hasn't written another. I saw him on video on YouTube, talking about another writer that wrote about vampires. I mean, I like to read realistic stories of vampires, the rest of the genre doesn't really interest me. But the arragance in that video, he repeated 'this terrific book about vampires molested by pedophiles, sort of turned me off. And all I could think was that somebody had better tell him that the short story stuff of late looked pretty amatuerish. His novels look wordy, without keeping you on the edge of your pants. I don't blame him for that. He said in one of the videos I watched that some had said he was biting at his own tail like a dog. He said he had written all the scarry stuff. And I thought that this amazing writer should let it go and retire. I thought about all the money. I thought I would travel, that I would somehow give up writing. He has had his era. But if he is to have more, he will have to write another Pet Semitary. And I doubt he ever will. I read a lot. Buying a book a month after it is released means absolutely nothing to me. I mean, as much as I love to read, reading a book the day it comes out has never meant anything to me, and I very much doubt that it means anything to other readers. Especially to readers who would like to see real publishers and real editors live once again.
