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Post by CK on Mar 17, 2007 18:47:15 GMT -5
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Post by CT on Mar 17, 2007 18:52:08 GMT -5
You can see the family likeness. Good on him i say!
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Post by CK on Mar 17, 2007 18:56:40 GMT -5
I am impressed that he tried to push his writing without exploiting his fathers name. I am not familiar with his work so I dont know if he is doing this now because he isnt any good, but you can see the resemblence!
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Post by CT on Mar 17, 2007 19:48:03 GMT -5
Well he learned from the master...
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Post by Conan on Mar 18, 2007 2:11:02 GMT -5
I have heard alot of good things about his new book Heart Shaped Box. I can see the likeness.
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Post by Canetoad on Mar 18, 2007 2:19:13 GMT -5
Yair you can. And I agree with CK on good on him for not trading of his old man's cachet. Will definitely buy this when I see it out here - certainly couldn't be any worse than the last piece of shite I read of Stephen Kings - Cell - just bloody awful.
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Post by Jen on Mar 19, 2007 13:22:43 GMT -5
I'll give it a try, and it does say something about his character that he would try to strike out on his own, instead of banking on his father's success. I actually liked Cell, Toad.... It was entertaining if trite; I think it would make a decent movie. I kind of saw it as a return to form, actually, because I hated both Dreamcatcher and From a Buick 8. I thought both of them were just horrible. But Cell wasn't nearly as good as Lisey's Story. I loved that book, but it isn't for everyone apparently, not sure many people agree with me there...LOL...
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Post by Canetoad on Mar 19, 2007 23:14:52 GMT -5
I haven't read Lisey's Story yet, and personally found Cell just dragged on interminably, and the ending was preposterous. Would have made a far better short story. Anyway, that's just me.
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Post by Jen on Apr 2, 2007 11:33:48 GMT -5
I picked Heart Shaped Box up at the library the other day, haven't started it yet, but looks promising.
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Post by HNT on Apr 4, 2007 8:49:07 GMT -5
Bank out on his own? Not trade on his fathers name? Forgive me guys, but get real. Nobody would have bothered to consider publishing him were his father not Stephen King. In the meantime, somebody fill me in on whether this is an good because the idea is so damn stupid sounding that I don't have any intention of reading this
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Post by Jen on Apr 4, 2007 11:44:20 GMT -5
I'm not sure that is fair; after all he can't help that his dad is Stephen King, and being published and actually selling books and being successful is a pretty huge difference. Then again, my cynical side does say "we know who he is now don't we"? But that also isn't necessarily his doing. Plus, I have read part of the book, and you know what? From what I have read so far, it is actually pretty good. Not great, but for a first novel, not bad at all. He has potential, and considering some of the crap I have read, I say, he deserved this chance.
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Post by HNT on Apr 5, 2007 9:24:19 GMT -5
Well, if you offer a positive review, Jen I guess I'll back off of him a bit until I get a look at the book. You do tend to have an opinion that I respect
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Post by CK on Apr 5, 2007 20:21:40 GMT -5
Bank out on his own? Not trade on his fathers name? Forgive me guys, but get real. Nobody would have bothered to consider publishing him were his father not Stephen King. In the meantime, somebody fill me in on whether this is an good because the idea is so damn stupid sounding that I don't have any intention of reading this Holy shitballs who pissed in your cheerios? LOL
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Post by HNT on Apr 6, 2007 9:17:10 GMT -5
LMAO. Yeah, I've been working on quitting smoking and it has made me a cranky prick. Sorry. BUt I still think the idea that this kid somehow wasn't trading on his father's name in order to get published is a little naive
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Post by Jen on Apr 6, 2007 12:17:39 GMT -5
[quote author=hotnoodletuna board been working on quitting smoking and it has made me a cranky prick. Sorry. BUt I still think the idea that this kid somehow wasn't trading on his father's name in order to get published is a little naive[/quote]
I think his father's name did help him to get published, but he apparently was trying to sell books without his father's name to back him up.....which is what I was talking about. But to be fair, without reading the book, how can anyone make a judgement of whether or not he would have had a chance to be published on his own? Hell without being a publisher how can anyone make that judgement? Like I said I have read a lot of crap that managed to get published without the benefit of having King's name, and this book, which I am about halfway through now is better than that.
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