A Conversation for James Herbert
steven king
Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Oct 12, 2002
Stephen King has a soap opera writing style i.e. most book concern issues of small town life in Castle Rock, Maine.
Herbert is more grounded in (an extreme of) reality.
stephen king
Awix Posted Oct 13, 2002
'Soap opera' doesn't really do SK's style justice, he's a much better, more subtle writer than that.
JH is, or was, cos he seems to have progressed a bit, a writer of pulp fiction, he screams horror in the readers face (to paraphrase SK - who was praising him at the time).
Or, to put it another way: The Shining is a novel about a haunted house that's really about alcoholism. The Rats is a novel about big mutant rats that's really about big mutant rats.
stephen king
Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Oct 14, 2002
Yeah, thats what I meant to say!
stephen king
creachy Posted Dec 20, 2002
i reckon that the government knows that the human race is evolving in some freaky way, and is therefore trying to cover it up. images from scans can already give good dimensions and god knows what other read outs(the deformaties being a giveaway to to the stage of evolution). so if government operatives can see these then it would be easy to install a special team of doctors to be on hand when the baby is born. mother is drugged, father distracted or seperated from baby "i am sorry your child did not make it" blah blah blah.
now they have the baby that they keep in that room until such time they can be transported to better monitoring facilities.
just a theory mind and for the record, stephen king gabbles on too much about stupid details like the size of a room the character is just walking through. this bores me and kills any tension the story could portray. jimmy is far scarier, end of story.
creachy
stephen king
Awix Posted Dec 20, 2002
What the blinky-blonky-blimey does all that conspiracy theory stuff about mutant babies have to do with the relative merits of JH and SK? 
'In various ways I've tried to suggest that horror is an optimistic experience, the mind's way of coping with terrible problems which may not be supernatural at all but totally real. Paranoia may be the last bastion of such an optimistic view - it is the mind crying out "SOMETHING rational and understandable is going on here! These things DO NOT JUST HAPPEN!" - SK
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- 2: PaulBateman (Oct 12, 2002)
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- 4: Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. (Oct 12, 2002)
- 5: Awix (Oct 13, 2002)
- 6: Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. (Oct 14, 2002)
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