[denydenydeny]

“Displaying much grandiosity and pride,” they wrote in their notes. “Very impressed with self.” Eventually he fell silent. Four weeks later he emerged, shaky, fragile and subdued. “Listen, Truman,” he told Truman Capote. “It’s the most terrible, glum place you can conceivably imagine. It’s really really, really grim...."

We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson's The Intellectuals.

Stephen King says he cannot remember writing “Cujo”, he was so loaded;

I can believe that. Reading Cujo is like listening to a drunk in a bar telling a seemingly endless (literally) shaggy-dog story. It's overwritten by at least half its length.

[vladimir998]

You wrote:

“We really, really need a second volume of Paul Johnson’s The Intellectuals.”

Yes, we do!!! I’ll get working on that right now. Where’s my scotch?

[lafroste]

Oh brother. This is one of those rare threads that to respond at all would require a good sized thesis. Not today, thanks.

[kjo]

Can’t stand King...he writes for 12 year olds.