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Awix Started conversation Oct 13, 2002
Surprised to see you haven't been ACEd yet.
Still, never mind.
You say nice things about my friend Catwoman, even if you don't like Stephen King. You alright by me, by golly.
Welcome to Hootoo.
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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Oct 13, 2002
Well actually I do like S.K. a lot, it's just that I was pointing out that his books (apart from the Stand, Gunslinger stuff etc.) always seem to based on the same theme; small kids take on a big old thing, forget they did it then remember 25 years later only to relaunch an attack on the big old thing they faught in their childhood. Thought Dreamcatcher was good but followed the same basic premise as It.
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Awix Posted Oct 14, 2002
That's odd, I haven't read all of King by any means but that particular plot outline only seems to fit It... I mean, it doesn't really describe Dead Zone, or Christine, or The Shining (you can tell I haven't read any of the new stuff can't you? 
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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Oct 14, 2002
Well Dreamcatcher wqas the one written after the accident. Trouble is King is on his plateu(?) there is not really anything he can do to improve his writing syle or his technique. Having said that Hearts in Atlantis is a good read, as are Rose Madder and Delores Claiborne. Terry Pratchett does however change, if not improve his writing style with each subsequent novel. His new novel is coming out soon, its on the Harper Collins site and is about Vimes being caught in a temporal causality loop and causing multiple quantum irregularities with the watch.
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Awix Posted Oct 15, 2002
Wasn't Dreamcatcher at least written pre-accident? I thought the only 100% new thing he'd written since then was Buick 8. I've heard a lot of stuff about how everything post-accident was literally a rewrite of old stuff or whatever, and how his self-confidence was gone (hence the talk of his retirement (boo).
Haven't read a new Pratchett in nearly three years. Virtually a hanging offence on this site (whatever you do don't tell my friend Greebo).
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Jose Minge, Chair and Keeper of The Imperial Deafness, don't you know. Posted Oct 15, 2002
Im just going by the authors notes here, you may well be right though
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