Fair comment. I mainly find with King (and Gaiman too) is that all their characters, even the “bad guys”, sound like hokey, salt of the earth, wid-west caricatures who will tell you their life story immediately. Its like everyone in the novel grew up in the same county in Wisconsin. 

My main issue with King is that his stories drown in his corny and unconvincing dialogue. It seems like every character is weirdly chatty, and uses quaint colloquialisms that King clearly just made up on the spot. And he admits in his book On Writing he doesn’t outline, and just sits down and writes whatever comes…

I think calling King “gifted” is pushing it. I read a lot of King as a teen and into my early twenties and was really drawn to his bizarre ideas and interesting plots. But I tried to read him again lately, both his older and contemporary stuff, and I realized he is a terrible, terrible writer but I didn’t know any…

If the Wikipedia entry for “cankles” is missing a photo I’m pretty sure we can use hers.

I just read American Gods and got the same impression from Gaiman’s writing. He generally doesn’t bother to say if a character is white, but if a character is not white we know about it in the first sentence they’re introduced.

King can get a bit cringe with his portrayal of black characters. Most notably that every character that is white is presumed to be white but when they’re not they’re identified as not-white, so even if the character is just pumping gas its important we know they’re a black gas jockey. 

sigh, the 2000's really were a dumb, awful decade. Want proof? Go look at any “best of ” the decade playlist on spotify. The 2000's has about a 4-1 ratio of shit to good songs.

Pedos are one of the most irreformable category of criminals, and are often the most manipulative and devious. This is a good example. I can’t *know* this commenter is attracted to minors, but if I was placing bets I’d say he was, and his reasoning shows how horrendous these people are. They can rationalize their…

That’s really the nub, eh? You see people on twitter who call themselves minor attracted persons and I get the vibe he’s one of them. I just can’t see how anyone would suggest that using age as a determining factor for why you shouldn’t screw a kid is “lazy at best”. Think about that. Saying an adult shouldn’t get…

“Perpetuating discrimination” and “encouraging negative outcomes” are extremely debatable allegations given what we’re talking about. Did Jared Leto winning an Oscar portraying a trans women discriminate against trans people and create negative outcomes for them? That’s an absurd allegation. You’re using unfounded…

Screech was too cartoonish to import into this. I can’t see his place, unless you were going for the gritty post-modern treatment, which they’re not. 

It’s bullshit to get mobbed for appreciating literature, but it’s also a weird book to pick as your “favorite”. Someone needs to get that celeb a library card. 

You have to understand something - generally speaking, the only people who offer an intellectual defence for screwing kids based on their potential level of maturity are people who want to, well, screw kids. The Venn diagram on this one is likely very near a complete circle. And there is zero appetite for social…

I’m a die hard liberal but I also accept some things are so objectively scarring and damaging to society and people that maybe it’s best if we just don’t go there. Discussions about whether 12 year olds have sufficient agency to screw adults is one of the few items on my “nope” list. That being said, I think its…

Jesus Chris, what a train wreck of a summary of that book. 

While not a full defence, Sorvino’s character was at least 16 or 17 as opposed to 12, so while not cool, significantly less gross. 

And all I’m saying is that you’re playing with other people’s chips. No one has to risk their investments just because some people think it’s the right thing to do. I just don’t hold people to that standard. 

It might not be right but it doesn’t appear they have any evidence he went there intending to shoot people as opposed to just being one of the stand your ground chuds, and I’ve watched all the video of the second set of shootings and there is zero chance they get him for murder on the second guy. He was running away…

Hey, it’s a public service to be creating content that keeps people inside their homes. Lesser evil and all that. 

You keep teaching me squirt, one day I’ll come around.