Peter Straub and Stephen King Style

[michal]

It's funny, when I read Bag of Bones I could literally tell what parts were Stephen King's and which were Peter Straub's.

Being a Constant Reader for so many years I recognize Mr. King's style the way I would my my mother's cooking, but in this book -being written by two writer, is where I felt it most.

Does anyone feel the same?

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

Michal... is Bag Of Bones really the book you're talking about? SK and PS wrote The Talisman and Black House together, but Bag Of Bones is SK by himself, no collaboration.

We all float down here.

[Bluey Lunger]

didn't have a clue, michal. some suspicions. i'd have to look at my crib sheet to tell you what i thought. i think the mod said on a thread to-do w/this that they tried to mimic each other. but does that mean if in one part rebecca 9was that her name? vilas?0 uses the expression 'me foine bucko' that straub wrote it? and in another, a character exclaims, 'i'm vexed, stephen! intolerably and something or other vexed!' i think they had fun w/it. :y:

[dwalters]

I haven't read much of Peter Straub's work, but I definitely picked up on a few "King-ism's" on my recent re-read of Black House.

One thing I would be very interested to know is if Peter Straub contributed to any of the Dark Tower lingo in this book. When I see things like Ka and mention of Breakers, etc, I just assume that those parts are Sai King's contributions since the Dark Tower is his own creation, but it would be cool to hear that Straub threw around some of those terms himself. Or what would be even more interesting is if Straub, in an effort to mimic King while writing Black House, used an element from one of King's other books and King liked the idea so much he decided to include in the DT series. Something like Mr. Munshun identifying Ted Brautigan as the chief Breaker for instance...