Mr. Helpful has some helpful words for Stephen King, after sitting through the new movie based on one of his stories, Dreamcatcher. Sample:
1. The crippled/shunned/outcast/socially unacceptable/retard character who actually possesses numerous redeeming traits and ends up being the savior of us all. A lot of times, King makes this character a child and whenever I see this idiotic plot device, I immediately think of that scene in the Cohen brothers marvelous Barton Fink where the assistant to a "great" writer describes the routine plot machinations as involving a "waif" or a "helpless female" or an "orphan" or sometimes all three. King obviously has great empathy for the less fortunate amongst us but let me just say to him one of the great truths of life which is "so what, you fucking egomaniac??!!"
Stellar.
Posted by Andrea Harris at March 24, 2003 01:35 AMPerfect.
King's work has been bothering me for some time, and that finally exposed why.
Same reason I never could get into the Thomas Covenant crap Donaldson churned out.
Posted by: Eichra Oren at March 24, 2003 at 01:49 PMCan't say I ever cared for Steven King.... essentially because all his novels DRAG THEIR NARRATIVE ASS in the middle. You spend your time reading the middle third of the book being bored to death.
Posted by: RHJunior at March 25, 2003 at 12:29 AM