This interview has got to be one of the best in a long time. Such great revelations in it (at least they were to me). I'll briefly touch on some.
"The Tommyknockers" -- he's disappointed with it and believes that it should be perhaps shorter. When I first read this, when I was much younger (and my age probably influenced my opinion, since younger sometimes equals more forgiving when it comes to entertainment content), I fell in love with it. I do still love it, but as time goes on, I do see flaws within the text (the actual voice in it, though, remains incredible and dazzling to me; I love its compelling nature, its self-confidence, its I-know-you'll-find-this-interesting tone). He should write a short sequel to it, just a little short story.
What exactly does he mean when he says the "Dark Tower" books were essentially first drafts, that they were never edited? Ms. Mod, please explain.
Hemingway sucks? See -- we can all have strong opinions. It's okay to criticize the classics.
King writes slower these days, and probably not as much. Here's a suggestion: please write shorter books so you can get to more ideas. (In fact, this gives me an idea -- I don't know if this has been done before, but there should be a novel about a writer who is old and dying but needs to finish a book because it is the key to positively affecting the future.)
King is worth hundreds of millions of dollars? You know, if you search for his net worth, some claim he's worth $400 million. That is entirely possible. To be honest, though, I think the number is somewhere between $150 million and $200 million. How close am I, Ms. Mod? And I'm sure a lot of his worth is tied up in, and due to, investments.
King doesn't like "Dreamcatcher." I sort of didn't, either.
I'm not sure how to interpret his comment about having a discussion with himself before beginning "Mr. Mercedes," but I sort of take it that he might have been worried that people thought he was trying to compose (and perhaps contrive) a bestselling novel to really compete with all the new self-publishing Amazon stars. Which I think is the absolute truth. And I think there is nothing wrong with that.
His former publisher thought King was second in priority to Clancy? Well, in a sense, can't blame them. From an economic potential, I think Clancy was showing more promise. Obviously, that did not stop our hero from doing what he loves and getting increasingly rich off of it. What a great life.
And what a great interview.
"The Tommyknockers" -- he's disappointed with it and believes that it should be perhaps shorter. When I first read this, when I was much younger (and my age probably influenced my opinion, since younger sometimes equals more forgiving when it comes to entertainment content), I fell in love with it. I do still love it, but as time goes on, I do see flaws within the text (the actual voice in it, though, remains incredible and dazzling to me; I love its compelling nature, its self-confidence, its I-know-you'll-find-this-interesting tone). He should write a short sequel to it, just a little short story.
What exactly does he mean when he says the "Dark Tower" books were essentially first drafts, that they were never edited? Ms. Mod, please explain.
Hemingway sucks? See -- we can all have strong opinions. It's okay to criticize the classics.
King writes slower these days, and probably not as much. Here's a suggestion: please write shorter books so you can get to more ideas. (In fact, this gives me an idea -- I don't know if this has been done before, but there should be a novel about a writer who is old and dying but needs to finish a book because it is the key to positively affecting the future.)
King is worth hundreds of millions of dollars? You know, if you search for his net worth, some claim he's worth $400 million. That is entirely possible. To be honest, though, I think the number is somewhere between $150 million and $200 million. How close am I, Ms. Mod? And I'm sure a lot of his worth is tied up in, and due to, investments.
King doesn't like "Dreamcatcher." I sort of didn't, either.
I'm not sure how to interpret his comment about having a discussion with himself before beginning "Mr. Mercedes," but I sort of take it that he might have been worried that people thought he was trying to compose (and perhaps contrive) a bestselling novel to really compete with all the new self-publishing Amazon stars. Which I think is the absolute truth. And I think there is nothing wrong with that.
His former publisher thought King was second in priority to Clancy? Well, in a sense, can't blame them. From an economic potential, I think Clancy was showing more promise. Obviously, that did not stop our hero from doing what he loves and getting increasingly rich off of it. What a great life.
And what a great interview.