Stephen King is used to talking while everybody else just listens. It must come as quite a shock to him to find that not all of his readers wish to swallow every morsel of wisdom he drops into their mouths.
“Stephen King is used to talking while everybody else just listens.”
As a published writer, I know a bit about Stephen King’s professional life.
His contract prohibits the editing of his manuscripts. They have to be published exactly the way the publisher receives them.
He also had “The Stand” republished; the newer version put back everything the original editor had removed, most of which is references to urination, defecation, and passing gas. The man is utterly obsessed with toilet matters.
Also, in “The Stand,” it was the military that created the virus that killed 90 percent of the world’s population, and it was the military that ruthlessly enforced martial law, killing innocent civilians without hesitation.
In “The Mist,” the military again brings about the end of the world. Soldiers are never heroic in King’s work.
In his nonfiction book “Danse Macabre,” King writes that when he was a long-haired college student he was once thrown out of a bar by a construction worker “with muscles on his muscles.”
I think he has a big problem with men he considers his social and intellectual inferiors, but who are physically stronger than he is.