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dorindaOh good gravy.
I was reading a review of Stephen King's newest book "Mr. Mercedes" on the A.V. Club.
The review is mostly pretty positive, but in a list of the book's problems, it includes this:
"But even when he’s being surprising, he’s also bringing in predictable King-isms, including an Internet-savvy black teenager who for some reason loves to speak in a “yas massa” Southern slave patois"
...WHAAAAAAAAAAT
WHAT WHAT WHAT. WHAT. W.A.T.
Why can't he stop doing that. Just stop. Doing. That. Someone make him stopdoingthat. I would chip in for a team of mercenaries if they could make him stop doing that. If his editors are unable to knock him down and tie him up long enough to make him stop, or his wife, who by King's account is a sharp take-no-shit first reader, I wish they could tell me WHY NOT.
I mean, it's like he has a compulsion. It's like there needs to be an intervention. Sometimes he has a "reason" in his books for that bullshit, like in the Gunslinger books where it still always bugged me. And Richie Tozier is a white kid thoroughly steeped in the racism of his time period (though whether King realized that is unclear). And John Coffey is simple, and Mother Abigail is old, and and and. Nevertheless, I just don't care, by now it is completely ridiculous and he needs to cut it out.
In short: X________X
I was reading a review of Stephen King's newest book "Mr. Mercedes" on the A.V. Club.
The review is mostly pretty positive, but in a list of the book's problems, it includes this:
"But even when he’s being surprising, he’s also bringing in predictable King-isms, including an Internet-savvy black teenager who for some reason loves to speak in a “yas massa” Southern slave patois"
...WHAAAAAAAAAAT
WHAT WHAT WHAT. WHAT. W.A.T.
Why can't he stop doing that. Just stop. Doing. That. Someone make him stopdoingthat. I would chip in for a team of mercenaries if they could make him stop doing that. If his editors are unable to knock him down and tie him up long enough to make him stop, or his wife, who by King's account is a sharp take-no-shit first reader, I wish they could tell me WHY NOT.
I mean, it's like he has a compulsion. It's like there needs to be an intervention. Sometimes he has a "reason" in his books for that bullshit, like in the Gunslinger books where it still always bugged me. And Richie Tozier is a white kid thoroughly steeped in the racism of his time period (though whether King realized that is unclear). And John Coffey is simple, and Mother Abigail is old, and and and. Nevertheless, I just don't care, by now it is completely ridiculous and he needs to cut it out.
In short: X________X
