Some of the later ones don't hold up as well, but the first book stands well on its own.
Posted on 12/26/2018 9:34:31 PM PST by RArtfulogerDodger
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Like the horror classic called, “A Portrait Of Dorian Gray,” current photos of Stephen King seem to reveal a more and more frightful person. If his hair were a little longer he could look terrifyingly like somebody’s granny.
Actually, he maybe looks more like a chimp.
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A lot of the things King says, seem as dumb to me as any chimp might say; if chimps could talk.
Especially when this overinflated writer of horror, neuroses, and mental illness bloviates on political topics, his utter ignorance rises like a giant sac of hot air.
We see hot air balloons a lot here in New Mexico. Hot air ballons are as common as pigeons. We also have a lot of pigeons. These birds like to crap all over where they sit, sleep, and eat.
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Stephen King’s opinions and pronouncements seem like that. Pigeons always return to their dirty roost, even though they get picked off one-by-one by hawks, falcons, and owls.
It strikes me Stephen King is just an old, ugly, pigeon bird-brain, who keeps returning to the same dirty roost, over and over. One might think he’d figure out by now that nobody cares what he says about Donald Trump from his crap-splattered perch. And that the only reason he has a place to squat is because of the blood and blowjob in “Carrie.”
Kids, the movie was way better than the book.
I mean—King was rejected like a zillion times by book editors, until somebody started making movies that were better than his books. Then he apparently noticed he could sell made-up bull-crap stories about mentally ill characters.
This is maybe why he can’t seem to get a handle on Trump. Because Trump is Not mentally ill, or demonic, as are some of King’s fictitious creations.
The difference is this: although King seems to have some kind of closeup, first-hand knowledge of mental illness and its demons, Trump is not in that category.
President Donald Trump is a stable, non-drinking, non-smoking, genius with a talent for politics and saving Earth and America.
Whereas, King, his enablers in the twisted media, and those like him, or those susceptible to his portrayals of mental disease—they seem more interested in destroying the world, along with Truth, Justice, and the American Way.
Let’s not forget—King was nearly killed by a car, got banged up with head lacerations and injuries, and had five operations in a ten day span.
But, hey—Stephen King can say whatever he wants—right up there with Streisand, Reiner, Di Nero, Waters, and other, make-believe cartoon characters.
I mean—it’s a Free Country.
Right?
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In contract = In contrast
But there's also a free streaming movie of the same name. Guess I'll try that.
I’ve always thought his writing deteriorated when he began to use a word processor. That would probably have been around the early to mid 1980s, so it’s pretty much as you stated. Have you ever considered this?
I asked you to cite the particulars because I imagine the legitimacy of grammatical rule breaking would depend on the details.
Elmore Leonard sometimes took liberties with grammar in the interest of speeding the story along, and I never heard any complaints about him.
Some of the later ones don't hold up as well, but the first book stands well on its own.
Want a balloon?
Elmore’s exceptions to the rules were of a completely different nature. He was a master of the English language, both written and—more important—as spoken. He was the most literary of all the crime/thriller writers.
I can’t bear to give his books away. They are all lined up on a convenient shelf and I read them when I want to be amused and amazed all over again and am never disappointed.
"Best crime thriller I've read in years."
Marhall Trimble, Arizona State Historian.
I continue to read Leonard’s works over and over in the hopes of learning though osmosis.
There’s one about a marine. Can’t remember the title now. It is a brilliant portrait of the nature of a marine.
Sent it to a marine freeper one time but he never even acknowledged that he received it. He had warned me he doesn’t like fiction, but he may have hated it for other reasons. I never found out.
Yochim...will check it out. Thanks!
If you’re an Elmore Leonard fan, you’ll love the FX series, Justified. It’s the most “Leonard” production ever. Outside, perhaps, of Get Shorty. Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins are magnificent.
We’re heading out to do some shooting this morning. The “range” is noted in the book, Collateral Crimes:
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Around midnight, the sky to the east became a little brighter as they approached Phoenix. Jonathan said, “So where’s the shipment going to?”
“Maricopa, a couple hours from here. Google maps shows it out in the desert west of the Ak Chin Reservation.”
“In the desert?”
“Yeah. I know the area. We go target shooting out there.
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They exited the interstate at Queen Creek Road and turned right. There was a sign telling them they were entering the Gila River Indian Community, and the landscape changed from suburbs to desert. Mark said they were on the John Wayne Parkway, which made Jonathan smile. The reason he was there was to avoid the John Wayne Airport. When they got to Maricopa, Mark made a right, then a few miles down made a left and drove across some railroad tracks onto a narrow two-lane.
“Almost there,” he said.
It seemed to Jonathan they were going deep into the desert. They had only seen a few cars since leaving the interstate, and every road they turned on seemed more remote than the last. At one point, he thought he smelled cows. They drove through some rolling hills, and when they cleared the last one, an oasis of brightly lighted buildings rose in the east.
Mark said, “That’s the Ak Chin Casino.” Jonathan nodded. Mark downshifted and they slowed to a crawl. He pointed off into the desert. “That’s where we go shooting. The road we need to turn on is up ahead, not too far.”
AP photo?
The Jewish Cochise
He died hard.
Pity
That’s a GUY??? OMG!!!!
Almost every new fiction author is rejected multiple dozens of times. (I know this from personal experience)
Getting a work of fiction published is hideously hard. There are actually many people trying to do it and most of them never manage it even with the help of professional editors and writing coaches.
Or you could go the route that my best friend used. He started writing murder mysteries in Kindle format, and a few years later ended up on the New York Times Bestseller list, at the time a little ahead of Sue Grafton.
A while back he got an email from Amazon congratulating him on selling $500,000.00 in Kindle books.
And now his books are on Audible and in paperback.
And it all started from one Kindle book self-published in 2014.
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