Is there anyone who doesn't care about the Dark Tower Series?

[eyez0nme]

Whatever, man--you still haven't read Roald Dahl.

You are a disgrace. LMFAO.

 

[Stewart]

When I was about eight I read Dahl. Of course, that was the kiddie stuff. I have no inclination to read his adult works.

 

[eyez0nme]

The thing is, the people I mentioened - while they may be mainstream they have a considerable body of work. The people in the list of yours (the proper horror authors, not the paddlers), with the exception of Little, don't.

They don't have a great body of work, because there was none back then, lmfao. They were the pioneers of horror. If they did not exist, your list would not also.

 

[beer good]

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[Gem]

that's brilliant Beer, HERE is the video to go with the script...

 

[Shade]

I've read Dahl's adult works. He's not a horror writer.

 

[Stewart]

I remember reading one adult-ish bit of Dahl. It may have been an extract from a longer piece. It was about a landlady. I can't remember much else.

The thing that confuses me is the following statement:

They don't have a great body of work, because there was none back then, lmfao. They were the pioneers of horror.

Now, given that someone is a pioneer, doesn't mean they can't produce a body of work. And, in fact, writers such as Henry James (as mentioned by whackjob) do have a substantial body of work. He just had better things to do than horror or, more accurately, the supernatural.

 

[Zolipara]

Unfortunately, for your shltty list and mine, Roald Dahl kicks all their asses--including Bloch and King.

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[-Carlos-]

Holy smokes Zolipara! Your cryptic phrases make me dizzy.

 

[Zolipara]

I figured i'd do the polite thing and speak to eyez in his own language.

 

[Anamnesis]

Though I don't understand how anyone could find "The Drawing of the Three" weak

You must be shocked. With that said, I think Drawing of the Three was one of my least favorites because so much of it was set on Earth instead of Roland's world. Plus Detta's rants started to bug me after a while. Strangely enough, I thought Song of Susannah (also set on Earth for the most part) was great.

 

[Fenster]

I have been meaning to read that series sometime. But I'm in no hurry!

That's pretty much how I feel. I'm not big into fantasy but if King wrote it, that probably makes me more willing to try them.

 

[DiscoDan]

Oh my, what happened to this thread. . .

Getting back on subtopic within the topic, I'll agree King writes blockbusters, not exactly meaty literature, but out of all the pop authors on the bestsellers list surely some of his stuff comes the closest to it. I'm not sure what an official definition of a work of literature would sound like, but my personal one is that if you remember the book and the characters a year later, then it's probably something more than just a "good book." Take a character like Jack Torrance from The Shining, you just can't forget a character like that. Same goes for the characters of It, The Stand, and The Dark Tower and plenty others. Rememberable characters or plots that stick in your mind forever like that have to be at least fairly high on the literary scale.

Of course not all of King's stuff are as vivid (Cell, Colorado Kid, Dreamcatcher) but I'm sure even if Harper Lee wrote 50+ books they wouldn't all be Pulitzer winners.

 

[Pearl]

I have never been interested in reading this series. King, for me, is off and on. There are times when I desperatly want to read a King novel and times when I don't give a crud about him or his books.