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To: nickcarraway

He comes up with good stories, is all I’m saying. His professional success speaks to that.


9 posted on 09/03/2025 6:55:33 PM PDT by rottndog (Posse Comitatus does not Trump the Constitution. )
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To: rottndog
His two main early success - 'Salem's Lot and The Shining are rewritten versions of Dracula and The Haunting of Hill House,

What I - as a reader - consider his three main faults as a writer.

1. A lot of his stories have no end game. He gets to a point at the conclusion of his stories where he tends to wrap them up too quickly. Some sort of McGuffin he pulls out of his arse to wrap it up.

2. His characters all have the same voice. No matter where the story is located, they all sound the same. And no one in really talks the way his characters talk.

3. He pushes his liberal politics in his stories. Especially since 2015, the main 'good' characters in his stories all hate Trump, and the 'bad' or whacky characters all like Trump. As a side note, anyone he writes as a Christian is portrayed as whacko-cracko.

42 posted on 09/04/2025 3:38:32 AM PDT by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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