My Stephen King Problem

[jochen stremmel]

That's okay, Mark. I cannot read the Horror-King, had to read the
German translations as out of house editor between 1995 and 2000, a
punishment, really. But of his Bachman novellas I read ROADWORK with
great pleasure in 1989, and have good memories of reading THE BODY.

J


2012/7/11 Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> My problem:
> I would rather read Stephen King, whom I cannot read, than this guy any day.
>
> Horror as the subtext of life in these United States is why one might read him. (As well as for his
> presentation of small town, mostly Maine, life.)
>
> In another of those critical compendia that Bloom put his name to--he expresses his massive distaste in his intro---
> it is universal fears, myths involving death, that King has tapped into. Pet Semetary. (Doesn't the writer here
> wilfully miss King's meaning when King says it won't be published. King knew ANY publisher would publish
> anything he wrote; he meant he was too afraid to publish it.)
>
> A better reader than this guy, Michael Wood, devoted a whole book to King. Tapping into US,
> with mythic power (at times). Although I think he finds him ultimately not good enough.(just
> browsed in the book once)
>
> But, c'mon. "Carrie: is a powerful....story? Myth of adolescence, female and therefore rare?
>
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> http://www.salon.com/2012/07/06/my_stephen_king_problem_salpart/
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