My Stephen King Problem

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I can't read Stephen King either but, as Mark says, this Dwight Allen is a slog through mud.  HOw does shit like this get published? 



-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wed, Jul 11, 2012 8:23 am
Subject: Re: My Stephen King Problem


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? 




----- Original Message -----
From: Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>
To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:07 PM
Subject: My Stephen King Problem

http://www.salon.com/2012/07/06/my_stephen_king_problem_salpart/


 
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