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Originally Posted by issybird
I know we keep going around in the same circles here, but Stephen King really isn't my idea of a "literary" author, no matter how prolix he is.
Again, the Potter Stewart test: I know it when I see it, and Stephen King ain't it. I'm not saying that he shouldn't be read and enjoyed, but I don't think reading King and his ilk is the purpose of a literary book club.
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We'll have to disagree here. I think
Paradise Lost is one heck of a tediously dull work. Milton is one heck of a bad writer. So why it was ever nominated 5 times, I do not know. But it was and we have to deal. But it won't win. So that's the good side.
Not all books from all authors are great works. But I do feel that
The Stand is a very good work. I could have also nominated
The Green Mile. That is also a very good book.
The question I have is why nominate a dull and tedious work such as
Paradise Lost from a highly overrated author such as Milton?
I don't think a lot of King's other works are up to the literary standards of
The Stand and
The Green Mile though they are entertaining enough.