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Originally Posted by urgeok2
but his is too rich .. (the overripe fruit)
The thing I loved about Dickens is that he could put a very clear image of a person in your mind with very few brush strokes ..
King will describe the last hair on a person's head ... he will lock a character into a speaking style (usually some folky good old boy dialogue soaked in history and culture)
I can't articulate this very well (i'm not the writer) but I find everything is overdone .. overexplained ..
plus he keeps regenerating the same characters over and over and over again.
He clamped onto the advice 'write what you know' like a pitbull on a bone
I know it works for a hell of a lot of people .. I just suffered from over exposure too long ago. Black House - with Strawb - was the one that made me never want to read him again. I couldn't even finish it.
Salems Lot remains the one novel of his I still like
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I agree that he does over describe his characters. Sometimes he puts in elements that to me see unnecessary.
I'm more interested in the story though and a writers voice. Its hard for me to get into a book if I can't stand their particular style. Kings writing flows nicely for me and I can get lost in his books.
He does utilize the sane character type over and over again though. Writer from Maine seems to be his go to move.
Character development is important to me too just not the number one thing I look for.
I locked Salem's Lot. One of my favorites from him.