The problem is, Stephanie Meyer DOESN'T have talent. She sucked all the vampire teenie bopper girls into literature successfully, I give her that. Somehow she pulled them away from their Jonas Brothers to read books, it's an admirable feat.
I only had to read one of her books to realize she has a severe lack of skill in prose and story-telling ability. It's truly written for teenage girls, which is a great economic group to go after, mind you.
Stephen King pumps out bullshit? I would wager that you haven't read hardly any of his recent work, and are just making assumptions. Many of his newer works (Bag of Bones, Duma Key to name but a couple) are actually quite good.
I read almost everything King puts out (along with many other authors) and he's certainly not pumping out "bullshit." Yeah, he's a very prolific writer. Something tells me if you were paid as much as he is to write you would be sitting your ass in front of the computer for four hours a day yourself.
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Originally Posted by Murder.Of.Crows
I must fall into a third category then. I hate Stephen King because he is a sell out author that pumps out bullshit and only makes the money he does because of his name. His stories are completely ridiculous as well. Now there are a few of which I have enjoyed, but 3 out of his, what, 2,000 books is a bad statistic. He irritates me because he gets away with it.
Stephanie Meyer, yes she sucks , but I seem to want to defend her. It's like Justin Beibier, I loathe his music, and I don't really care for him personally, but the kid has talent and I give him that. That talent his squandered away however and that is... well irritating. Not that I am saying that Stephen King does not have talent. Yes, he is leagues above Meyer, but fuck, he pisses me off.
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