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Originally Posted by demonrail666
As a novelist, I actually think that Stephen King deserves a far greater reputatoin than the genre(s) he's chosen to write in have so far allowed him.
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I knew it! While this thread is full of people railing against everyone from Shakespeare to Steinbeck, Kerouac to Joyce, I call Stephen King a hack and somebody has to defend him.
There is nothing wrong with his genre - there have been many great horror authors from Poe to Stoker, Lovecraft to Robert Bloch. The problem is his cliched writing and the way he churns out formulaic books designed to turn instantly into best-sellers and predictable movies. Given how hugely successful he is, he's the definition of overrated.