Comments on: Thank God this is not chick lit

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:38:20 +0000

And I concur 100% on oogie chick lit. Except for Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum books. But that’s it.

And there’s no argument about the merits of King’s writing 🙂

By: jodi

jodi — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:57:55 +0000

I’m not arguing the merits of King’s writing (I’ll let Kelly do that). I’m just saying that B&N stocks so many of his books that you can’t find anything else, and really this wasn’t supposed to be about that.

I’m saying Chick Lit is bad and was women we should boycott it. That’s what I’m talking about.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:53:39 +0000

Hey now, Stephen King addressed his style in the book “It”. He had one character, Bill Denbrough, closely mirror his beginnings: After having a writing assignment evicerated by a teacher who wrote that it was “crap” and “pulp”, he submitted the same story to a men’s magazine where it was lauded and published immediately, even paying him $200 for it.

He also had the character immersed in the middle of a 70 minute discussion about one “important story” (about a cow’s examination of a discarded engine block in a deserted field, possibly after a nuclear war) in which the author of the story insists that the vigneete is a socio-political statement in the manner of the early Orwell. Most of the class–and the instructor–agrees, but still the discussion drones on. King has his character say, “I don’t understand this at all. I don’t understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics… culture… history… aren’t those the natural ingredients of any story, if it’s told well? I mean…can’t you guys just let a story be a story?”

I guess I agree in a way. Popcorn trash novels have their place just as the more important works do. Is that so bad?

By: kelly

kelly — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:16:36 +0000

Hey now, what did Stephen ever do to you?

Just kidding. What offends me is that you put King’s name next to Grisham. *shiver.*

By: NBFB

NBFB — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 16:23:16 +0000

I’ve heard the next Potter book will be called:

“Harry Potter and the Sequel of Profitability”