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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I'd blame King. I think he long ago reached the point where no editor dared touch his work. (When you have sales like King's, you can insist on being published as is, and make it stick, because the publisher will be afraid you'll jump ship for another house if they don't cave in.)
Tom Clancy is another in that category. The last Jack Ryan book badly needed editing -- there was at least one plot thread that went nowhere and could have been excised without notice -- but I don't think anyone dared point that out to him.
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Dennis
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I suppose that's true, although it's harder to blame King, if only because I can't really expect him to know much about medical diagnostics and technology. So, I can see him making those sorts of stupid goofs ... and that's why they have editors ... right? To check that stuff??
I wrote to SK after the mistake in "Carrie." I got a very nice note back from him. Man that was a long time ago. It would be like me to have kept it, but I have no idea in which box (crowded into the extra garage with all the other boxes full of the junk of a misspent life) it's in.