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Originally posted by jenna26
That is why I like King so much I think. His characters are, in general, much more interesting, complex and realistic then most other popular writer's. No, I don't believe he is a great writer. He does have great ideas though and his characters almost jump off the page. I read Koontz, for instance, but his characters do not have the same depth. They are all romanticized to the point of absurdity. And King has never fallen into that trap.
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i think he falls into a different trap though ... he gives too much detail on his characters in my opinion .. he might as well include their pictures ..
there is a type of writing i find so much skillful - dickens is the best example i can think of - where the writer gives you key clues to a character ... pure characterizations .. that allow you to piece the rest of the character together in your imagination ...
They build an efficient framework in 1/100 of the words king would take to do it, but so deftly that you can still see the characters .. as you visualize them.
Maybe i should be more appreciative of the way king does it ...with pages and pages of information - but for some reason I'm not.
I thought Desperation was aptly named as well ...