Stephen King, moron
Is whining the “Rich people don’t get taxed enough! And Chris Christie is FAT!” tune.
Look. I’ve read a lot of his books. It’s clear to me- has been since even before he admitted it- that he wrote most of his best work under the influence of peruvian marching powder. I could give two shits.
When you don’t actually have to- you know, labor for something, it’s all easy come, easy go. King sat in a room and typed away his pubescent fantasies and nightmares, and turned himself into a millionaire doing so.
I’m not saying writing is easy, but what King does can barely be called writing, really. It’s formulaic and predictable, and eventually becomes a simple matter of laying out the all too familiar plot and filling in details and making up new names.
It’s not advertised as anything else, so I can’t fault that.
Let me explain a little something to you, Stevie baby. By your own admission you were an unemployed english teacher living in a trailer park when you hit it big, and the bottomline is, while you have diligently pounded out millions of words a greedy public lapped up, you never did an actual days work in your life.
Other people do.
Your snide ignorance aside, before you start giving away other people’s money- money they actually had to- you know, work for- you might consider shutting your yap. Or if you really want to be taxed more, then write the .gov a check.
Oh, it won’t be ‘Fair” if you do it and not everyone else is forced to?
I see.
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Here’s a link for ya, Stevie: How do you make a contribution to reduce the debt?
Now go away and leave the rest of us alone. Which won’t be hard for me; never read a Stephen King novel in my life.
Is it possible to be both unemployed and an English teacher at the same time?
yes. You can be an unemployed anything. If you have an education (as he had) and a teaching certificate (Which he had) you’re technically a teacher. He wasn’t of course an unemployed gynecologist, for which he had no qualifications.
I have to comment on this.
WRITING FICTION IS NOT HONEST LABOR.
Okay? I’ve been working on a novel that Og convinced me can be published as-is–and when I’m working on it I have to REMIND myself that “This is work, I’m doing!”
Heinlein had the same opinion of writing fiction–it was what he did so he didn’t have to do honest work.
…and yeah, Stephen King is a moron.
I would never cast aspersion on anything someone found as a way to make a buck. I think what you have done is excellent, Ed, and well worth a real comparison to the best King has to offer. And I know writing isn’t always easy, but as you point out, it’s also not slinging burgers or folding empty cardboard boxes in a warehouse or crawling through grime to fix a car/machine/whatever. if King had to labor for his bread, he’d be less disposed to give away other’s, methinks.
Hey, I didn’t think you were casting aspersions. I was agreeing with you: Stephen King has not exactly slaved away for the last 30 years, not when he can hit random keys on a typewriter for 30 minutes and sell 40,000,000 copies of the output.
And yeah, when you’re as rich as he is, you kind of lose touch with the fact that most people have to, y’know, work to pay their bills, and make hard choices over how the money is spent because there’s not enough of it to do everything….
Oh, i got you loud and clear, i just wanted to put it out there that i know writing is also work.
I actually read “The Tommyknockers” to see if was really that bad. I was not disappointed. I believe that Steverino is a damaged unit, probably from childhood abuse. He writes like he gets paid by the word.
Russ
Stephen King was a year ahead of me in school. I think it is amazing that he has sold so many books. I have not helped, as I have no interest in his writing, even though he mentions many places in dear old Maine. His analogies are those of someone who watched Saturday morning cartoons. Certainly not from life experience, as he never left the college campus. Just the right formula , though, it turns out, to sell millions of books.
How that qualifies him to comment on anything, is beyond me.
One of King’s early jobs was at an industrial laundry (his short story “The Mangler” is based on this work), which is not a job for weenies by any stretch of the imagination. To state, then, that he’s never worked a day in his life is an exaggeration. He definitely had great success at an early age. My own quarrel with him is that, having accumulated great wealth, he isn’t leading by example, i.e., donating his wealth to causes of his own choosing, but is instead insisting that his wealth be taken from him (and unwilling others) to be distributed as government sees fit.
A laundry?
I stand corrected. King once had a job held by teenage boys on summer break. He certainly didn’t have to support a family on it for 30 years.
I’ve read two of his books: they’re ok. Apparently he’s fallen into the trap of thinking “Because I can do ‘X’, I should tell people what to do!”
Didn’t he also make some idiotic comments about “If you don’t go to school you end up in the military” about the same time John Effing Kerry did?
And yeah, King, if you think you’re not paying enough, get out your damned checkbook and start writing.
Or shut the hell up.