10 Things Only Stephen King Fans Will Understand
1. Loving How Vocal He Is About Hating Twilight
It's no secret that many horror fans were frustrated by the worldwide success of Twilight. It's not even about disconnecting vampires from horror...it's about how terribly the books are written.
The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer cant write worth a darn. In the case of Stephenie Meyer, its very clear that shes writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. Its exciting and its thrilling and its not particularly threatening, because theyre not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, thats a shorthand for all the feelings that theyre not ready to deal with yet.Hearing King publicly slam the series, then, is infinitely satisfying every single time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22IClbUjL5I