Question about Patterson project

[AnnaMarie]

Wow. No one has read it and all this anger and hatred. I'm no Patterson fan but I wouldn't think to judge it unless I read it.

I object to fictionalizing the attempted murder of a real person.

I never liked GWB, but I thought it was completely inappropriate when someone made a movie about someone attempting to assassinate him. Lots of movies are about assassinating the POTUS, but to have fictionalized it about the (then) sitting president was completely wrong.

 

[not_nadine]

Wow. No one has read it and all this anger and hatred. I'm no Patterson fan but I wouldn't think to judge it unless I read it.

What Shoesalesman said. Bad Karma. Bad juju.

And why? Using his characters? That can't be legal. This is as bad as fake SK on amazon.

James Patterson (or his team of writers) doing fan fiction now.

 

[muskrat]

What Shoesalesman said. Bad Karma.

James Patterson (or his team of writers) doing fan fiction now.

Ain't that ALL Patterson has been doing for the last twenty years? I'm sorry, I can't respect ANY 'author' who merely hacks out an outline and hands it over to a flunky. No sir. If, after the author's name, the cover reads 'with' so and so...no. I'd rather go squeeze the Charmin--that's a better use of paper anyway.

 

[no bounce no play]

This is just wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. SK needs to pull his coattails out from under Patterson and slap Unauthorized & Unendorsed stickers on this book.

 

[Kurben]

I want to be perfectly clear. Im not judging the book, I am judging the premise which involve the assasination of a real person. Wrong. It would have been all right if he had used an imagined author, but using a real author is to ride on his name, not ok. To do it in the title and the marketing shows it is intentional and then it is in extremely poor taste. In my book nothing is right with this and then it should be stated

 

[HollyGolightly]

Imitation is the highest form of flattery. Just free publicity for our SK. It's the only Patterson book I'm mildly interested in to date.

 

[Senor_Biggles]

I'd guess it's just a bit of fun for James Patterson. King has levelled some criticism against his abilities as a writer in the past, maybe this is a little bit of a response to that.

 

[Bev Vincent]

James Patterson: The Murder of Stephen King release canceled to avoid any discomfort | EW.com

 

[not_nadine]

Well, how bout that? Makes me wonder what really happened..

 

[fljoe0]

I'm not familiar with Patterson at all other than just knowing he's a popular author. What is he doing, putting his name on books that other people write?

 

[Spideyman]

Karma at work? I'll even wish him luck with the replacement book.

 

[MadamMack]

I was going to read it . . .I still have it pre-ordered. Something tells me that Stephen would have got a kick outta of it . . .


. . .or maybe not . . .

 

[not_nadine]

Karma at work? I'll even wish him luck with the replacement book.

That's because you have a good heart, Spidey.

 

[Doc Creed]

Well, how bout that? Makes me wonder what really happened..

King sent the Library Policeman to his house.

 

[not_nadine]

He methed him up good, I'll beth.

 

[Doc Creed]

He methed him up good, I'll beth.

Yeth, he did.

 

[fljoe0]

Maybe Patterson's story is about that other Stephen King

 

[staropeace]

I love Patterson. I wish he had asked Stephen because I really wanted to read this book lol.

 

[Mr Nobody]

I'm glad Patterson changed his mind on this (or had it changed for him). Writing fiction about the murder of a real person goes beyond the bounds of taste, for me, especially as it wouldn't be exactly hard for him/the actual writer to have created a fictional character that was more or less clearly based on SK. Even a brief description along the lines of the character being the leading horror writer of the past 20, 30 or 40 years, would have made the base RL person clear.

 

[fljoe0]

Did Steve say something unflattering about Patterson? This sounds more like a take that moment than a serious idea.