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Aurone
02-03-2009, 08:48 PM
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Stephen King's opinion may drive a stake through the heart of "Twilight" author, Stephenie Meyer.

In an interview with USA Weekend, the bestselling author compared Meyer with J.K. Rowling , the author of the Harry Potter series.

According to Stephen, "Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good."

While Stephen may not be a fan of Stephenie's writing, he understands the appeal of the series.

"People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because it's not overtly sexual."

He further explains, "A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet."




http://omg.yahoo.com/news/stephen-king-on-twilight-author-stephenie-meyer-can-t-write-worth-a-darn/18406?nc

I havn't read any of Meyer's work so I have no stance really.
OtepFan616
02-04-2009, 09:54 AM
Go him!!! Love that man to death. Cant really add more to what he said except movies/books like twilight make me think about pukin.
Necromancer
02-04-2009, 02:11 PM
I have read some books that King has endorsed, and I will say that his tastes do differ considerably, but I will agree with him about Meyer's work
Doc Awesome
02-04-2009, 02:20 PM
Awesome! Go King.
Sydney
02-04-2009, 02:31 PM
I find that I generally agree with King on most things. This is one of those things.
WarBeast
02-04-2009, 02:46 PM
When you've written one of the best damn modern vampire books of all time, you can lay the smackdown all you want...
Godfatha
02-04-2009, 06:12 PM
When you've written one of the best damn modern vampire books of all time, you can lay the smackdown all you want...

He's also written enough crap in his time that he should know it when he sees it.
Aurone
02-04-2009, 06:26 PM
When you've written one of the best damn modern vampire books of all time, you can lay the smackdown all you want...



He also combined Western, Scifi, Fantasy and Drama in a 7 Piece Epice Series and made them all work perfectly.
BooBerry
02-04-2009, 06:34 PM
He's also written enough crap in his time that he should know it when he sees it.

Agreed. I read this the other day and couldn't help think that with some books of his I'd rather read Twilight (with her overly descriptive settings) than IT (with its overabundance of useless backstory).

Still, he is better than she. But we also need to take into account she's writing mainly for teenage girls, not well versed adults like King.

(I don't like Harry Potter either.)
Aurone
02-04-2009, 06:41 PM
It! is my favorite Stand alone book ever.
levil666
02-04-2009, 06:46 PM
King has had some terrible stories, but in the end, it's because he can write about anything! Meyers is a glimmer in a pan that will soon fade (hopefully.) As for King, he will be remembered as one of our nations literary greats.
joykilla
02-04-2009, 07:15 PM
King is the man, enough said!
Luris Blear
02-04-2009, 08:35 PM
He also combined Western, Scifi, Fantasy and Drama in a 7 Piece Epice Series and made them all work perfectly.

The first four, anyway.

But yeah. It's nice to see King actually showing he has a strong backbone. If the majority of his horror was this brave then there would be no complaining about him at all.
ShadowPeople
05-02-2009, 04:09 PM
I have read both Kings books and the Twilight ones. I did not think that the twilight were all that bad when it game to love and sex. The sex stuff was mostly in the last book and she did not go into a whole lot of detail, I wouldn't be bothered if my sisters and her friends read Twilight, I mean most of the kids that are reading her books already know what sex is and I am sure that the ones that don't know what it is, their parents wouldn't let them read a vampire book anyway.
Abby2606
05-02-2009, 07:29 PM
King Rules! :metalbang:
IM_UndeaD
05-02-2009, 07:39 PM
King Rules! :metalbang:

:rocker:
KING
05-02-2009, 07:49 PM
haha, wow.. i've always admired the man.
SuzAnna
08-23-2009, 06:07 PM
I like both authors.. but I do prefer Stephen King. I continously read Needful Things, Thinner, Pet Semetary, and Desperation.