That Spooky Teddi Bear

[Spencer Thiel]

At 11:03 AM -0700 7/22/99, Richard Romeo wrote:

>dude, king writes, kubrick directs.  two different animals.  as for 
>SK taught in college, so is Madonna fer X-sake.  what does that 
>mean?  Nothing to my mind.
>
>I think what M. N was saying was that kubrick translated the story 
>into visual much better than king did.
>
>Hey, I liked King at some point, but I'm not 18 anymore.
>
>also think u can't compare the terms medicore and prolific, though 
>in some certain sense, they walk hand in hand.


I just think that it is unfair to label an author as mediocre because 
of their sheer output without looking at their work individually.  If 
one picked up Updike's recent novels, I woudl be suprised if they 
came back thinking that they were reading one of the most important 
novelists of the late 20th century.  Some of King's early stuff is 
miles better than later crap and IMHO is better than a good deal of 
"serious fiction" released today. Would Kubrick have chosen the work 
of a mediocre author to film?  Seems to me that King is in pretty 
good company: Nabokov, Terry Southern, AC Clarke, Thackery, 
Schnitzler...


Spencer (don't get me started on Daniel Steele) Thiel