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Originally Posted by urgeok2
i'm never reading a stephen king book again.
havent been a fan for many many years. i find his prose to be overconfident, smug. And i really don't care that he's exorcising every demon he's ever had in print - i never need to read about another screw up writer looking for redemption again.
so everyone told me 'read cell, it's really good"
so i read it.
blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
in all fairness i think horror fiction is the worst genre of writing in existence.
sounds odd coming from both a rabid reader and a rabid horror fan - but for me it's true.
I find it's written the way low budget horror films are made ..
cardboard thin cliched characters you couldn't care less about, rushed plot developement to get to the juicy bits, and unsatisfactory conclusions.
i find the genre is far more sucessful in short story format.
i enjoy clive Barkers books of blood - cant stand his novels.
one guy did impress me though - Jack Ketchum .. I read o ne of his and he seemed to have his finger on what made a horror novel real. cant remember the name of it but it was a raw read, sort of like The Hills Have Eyes
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I think you're right that horror fiction is tough to pull off and please everybody, even Poe couldn't do it. Remember that Mark Twain said, "To me his prose is unreadable--like Jane Austen's. No, there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's." about Poe.
Urge, have you read American Psycho or House of Leaves?