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Stephen King on J.D. Salinger
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/01/28/...-j-d-salinger/
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And does anybody else find it a bit irksome that Stephen King is commenting on Salinger? I mean, it feels like Britney Spears talking about Chopin. Completely the wrong person to approach for an opinion on arguably one of the most influential writers of the last hundred years (not the most popular). |
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It's not unknown for people to leave materials only to be published after their death, to be fair.
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J.D. Salinger: "Keep Your Hands Off My Legacy"
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I think what King was trying to say is that he intends to bury Salinger in a pet sematary.
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There is a line between business and literature that people like King better not cross.
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Wow...such unreasonable venom directed towards Stephen King.
Stephen King is a regular columnist for EW and so it was appropriate for him to comment on the passing of a literary legend. The comparison to Britney Spears is quite demeaning...given the dark tone of his work and his considerable commercial and literary recognition, perhaps calling him Trent Reznor would have been more appropriate. You may not like Trent, but he has talent. My take on it is that Mr. King was trying to express that it was a shame to lose such a distinctive voice. He was acknowledging that it was a shame that someone who had made such a mark on culture with such a small body of work had not chosen to share more of his work with the world (since there are suggestions that he did quite possibly continue to write after he withdrew from publishing). King was also tipping his hat towards other authors whom we lost far younger, with a smaller body of work but who seemed destined for a tremendous legacy had we not lost them so young. Not that Stephen King needs to be defended. He is one of the best-selling authors of the 20th and 21st centuries. |
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Does best-selling = best quality?
Seems to me to be more of the VHS system of the literary world? :P Not the best choice available, but good enough for the masses ![]() |
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Sorry, Stephen King is better than a Britney Spears. If you want to use the musical analogy, I'd say he is a Michael Jackson in the horror genre - very talented and very popular. He really did a lot for popularizing the horror genre and some of the films based upon his books have been classics. Carrie, the shining, the green mile etc.
In all likelihood Salinger's estate will attempt to cash in on any manuscripts, for better or worse. I'll be reading whatever works are published and evaluating them on their merit, not hype. Last edited by fugazied; 01-31-2010 at 04:14 PM. |
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