Here comes the room 237 nonsense and the moon landing stuff.
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Martin Alvito
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It's popular fiction. Let's be real: today's popular fiction is not your grandfather's popular fiction. King does have some very strong works on his CV - Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis and The Green Mile, to name three that are very adult and possess very high quality writing.
The other thing to keep in mind is that anyone that prolific will have some clunkers. Asimov has a few - the first two Galactic Empire novels and Nemesis, off the top of my head. There are others. Even Gibson has a few that aren't up to his lofty standard.
There's a substantial audience out there that doesn't review information critically. There's a strong argument that the Warren Commission report is bogus. It fails to explain far too many details that came to light later, there were parties with motive, it wouldn't have required a large conspiracy to pull that off, and everyone involved would have had strong reason to remain silent.
It doesn't follow that the 9/11 Commission report is bogus, or that we faked the moon landing. Sure, you can't get us there and back with a slide rule and an ungodly amount of propellant. The math had been around for centuries, though. It's just that it's tedious.
Even too crazy for big Don
Have you heard the highlights of the podcast he did the other day? Literally the most insane stream of thought I’ve ever heard lol
Trump needs to keep quiet and stay away from Kanye if he wants to run again but i think the fact that a more popular celeb just bought a competing far right chat platform that is in direct competition with the one he owns will make for some wonderfully crazy soundbites over the next few weeks.
Yeah, all joking aside, the man needs professional help, absolutely not of this world.
When I look at people like John Lydon, Morrissey, Kanye etc, I suddenly find myself not minding that a lot of my favourite musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain etc died instead of turning into this kind of monstrosity
Kurt Cobain would have defo become a total
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I didn`t necessarily want to come across as a Stephen King basher but i don`t think his writing is either adult or high quality, he`s no Charles Dickens. Kings` ideas are really good- The Stand, The Talisman etc but it`s his skill as a writer that keeps him out of the big-league.
I thought Foundation by Asimov was brilliant, read it years ago and maybe it`s time to re-read it. I don`t think i`ve ever read anything by King twice but like i said, his ideas are great.
I`ve never heard of Gibson.
You take that back lol
Martin Alvito
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I'm not saying King is a strong writer by any stretch, across his body of work. I'm saying that he does have some quality output, and that it's unfair to entirely dismiss his capabilities because much of his output unapologetically panders to a mass audience. What sells big at release and what is "great" are two very different things throughout time and space, and the intersection set is not large.
It would equally be unfair to call Asimov a technically gifted writer - Bradbury, for example, blasted him out of the building on that score - but he was an extraordinarily clear one. That clarity made him prolific indeed, as he had little need to revise. In conjuction with his ideas and foresight, this made for a formidable package, but if someone writes hundreds of books they won't all be winners.
William Gibson is a legend, and for cause.
Every time your two adorable neurons shoot a little spark across the synapse, I’m always impressed by the psychobabble end-product. As to purpose:
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