I hate reading God's name taken in vain (Swearing). I realize that people do it. "JC' "J' "GD' 'OMG' etc. Wish we could stop that. Or get brave and start using "Prophet F****** Mohammad!" and see how that goes over.
Maybe I keep different company than Stephen King, but the 'C' word for women (Cursing) is not part of everyday vernacular. In one instance in the boring baseball story, it's used in such a grotesque way I shook my head and I think I whispered aloud at Starbucks, "What is wrong with you, Stephen King?" I've now read it several times in this collection- and that's more times than I've heard the word used in reality in the past couple of years. It makes my skin crawl and *not* in a good Stephen King horror story way. It makes me want to put the book down and read something else.
An author not wanting to edit the 'true voice' of the characters is one thing. An author whose characters have a foul tendency toward particular words in every single story tells me more about the author than the characters.
Maybe I keep different company than Stephen King, but the 'C' word for women (Cursing) is not part of everyday vernacular. In one instance in the boring baseball story, it's used in such a grotesque way I shook my head and I think I whispered aloud at Starbucks, "What is wrong with you, Stephen King?" I've now read it several times in this collection- and that's more times than I've heard the word used in reality in the past couple of years. It makes my skin crawl and *not* in a good Stephen King horror story way. It makes me want to put the book down and read something else.
An author not wanting to edit the 'true voice' of the characters is one thing. An author whose characters have a foul tendency toward particular words in every single story tells me more about the author than the characters.