Steve is not the best writer ever...

[Srbo]

Or at least the moments where I found Stephen King.

The moments when forces...or the Big Wheel... knew where Steves work was...
Horrible.

Maybe that`s were his work fitted in.

In that moment...blood...a 15 year old girl with a granade geller in her neck...me being so young when I saw that...
All the tears...all the hurt...the Pain...

I found him.
On a coffetable, just sitting there...The Stand..like it was an everyday afternoon and you go to your favorite library and get your favorite book...and you sit down for a reading...

'Want` tea? Cookies too, thank you...oh, no problem, darling, the tip is gonna be generous...'

Accidently...the writer wrote just that...what you have been thinking about...

How did he know...is a question never to be answered...
He doesn`t know himself...

Why I found it...also...
Same thing. Not to be answered...

I know he is not the best...but...

Neither am I.

But, I love his work just as much as I love myself...and..is there anyone who doesn`t like himself ?
Not the best, but, hey, we do exist...

Not the best...but the best that I know of...

So...the best anyway...or I`d like to believe so...

[Prince of Darkness]

Hi,

Seb (see, I called you that again ), is this some form of Calla-folken poetry?



Long days and pleasant nights

[Todash]

Hear, hear! I actually do think Steve is the best, though knowing myself as I do, I suspect quite strongly that I am not. Regardless, I am quite fond of both of us.

[JohnDalglish]

Not the best...but the best that I know of...

So...the best anyway...or I`d like to believe so...

Hi,

Thankee for a great post, Srbo.

Well, I firmly believe that he is one of a small pantheon of writers that I truly consider great, and (possibly) the only novelist among them.

Homer - Was he a novelist, a blind poet or an Athenian committee transcribing stories from a much older oral tradition?
We'll never know and it doesn't really matter anyway, but everything since, including Beowulf, LOTR and the Dark Tower, owes something to Homer.

William Shakespeare - A playwriter who wrote works with performance in mind, and I feel that criticising Shakespeare on the grounds of his written work is a bit like criticising Sai King on the grounds of his movies alone.
Right writer -Wrong medium.

Robert Burns - The Ploughman Poet; not just a Scottish icon, but the voice of the common man, and the most celebrated writer in history if you judge by the number of statues and monuments devoted to him, and the worldwide celebration of his birthday and the universal singing of 'Auld Lang Syne' to welcome in the New Year.

Bo Dylan - A songwriter, and you only have to notice the number of times Sai King quotes him to understand the tremendous impact his freeflowing lyrics and music had on m-m-m-my generation.

And Stephen King - Head and shoulders the greatest novelist in history IMO and also (thankfully) the most prolific of these sceptered few writers.

Consider - The complete works of Homer, Shakespeare, Burns and Dylan can each be printed in a single volume.

Sai King's complete works can't even be stored on a single BOOKSHELF!

Long days and pleasant nights

[Anton177]

I don't think being the best really matters, it's about being favourite and respected.

If something is your favourite... you usually think it's the best; you usually enjoy it with a lot of passion; that's all that matters.

[Srbo]

Hi, Pence of Deekness

See, it fits. Superb name, too.

Thank you, thank you, for calling this poetry. An emotional praise always is potery, wheter it`s good or( rather ) badly written.
The wolfs are howling....

Todash, or may I call you El Duderina, as not to get too personal, since there is a warning already on these sciptures, well said, well said...if it wasn`t for Steve, we know it would have been you...the BIG ONE, never to be forgotten.

Sai John Dalglish...oh, those other poor people...
" They can take everything else from us, but they can`t take our FREEDOM! "
( shouts I going to the guilllotine being accused of witchcraft and loving Stephen Kings work..oh no, my dear brother, not by you but by the traitors of this land !...and Mel Gibson dies...somwhere behind me, in the distance )...

And Anton, my friend. It matters!
"It matters!"
Shouts the poet !

And than goes to by himself a hamburger...better double cheese than no cheese at all!

[Gelata]

I don't think being the best really matters, it's about being favourite and respected.

If something is your favourite... you usually think it's the best; you usually enjoy it with a lot of passion; that's all that matters.

I think you're right, Anton. I don't mind if King gets a Nobel Prize or if he praised by the 'intellectuals' or not. I only mind he writes the way he does.

[JAPerry]

I think he would agree with you. That's why I like him. Talented and humble don't often mix.

[Kurt Rambis throwback]

Frank Herbert

[marew1]

Best is in the Eye of the Beholder. I'm glad SK continued my interest in reading and coining the term "Constant Reader"!