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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Perhaps it is a sneaky dig at his wife. Still I agree he should refrain as it is undignified and more demeaning to himself than to those he is criticising.
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Sorry my comment comes across that way.
Full disclosure:
I read one of TK's books, years ago. I grabbed it because TK was SK's wife, I'd read all the novels by Stephen King/Richard Bachman and my other fave authors on the shelves at the time, and I figured TK's book might be an interesting read on the plane. I was disappointed.
Nonetheless, even had I critiqued TK's book in the various forums where I do that kind of thing, I would
never have made such a scathing statement about TK as a writer (or anyone else) as Stephen King made about Stephenie Meyer.
I imagine TK's writing might have improved in the decades since I read one of her publications, but she still gets mixed reviews. (For that matter, so do J.K. Rowling and for some books, Stephen King!) I'm unsure to what degree TK suffers from comparisons to her husband, but whatever the reason for the unfavorable reivews, I'm sure neither TK or SK appreciates reviews which are unnecessarily unkind or snarky. Consequently - and because his clout might confer on him something like an "
Oprah effect" (of which I'm sure he's well aware) - I would have expected SK to take a higher road than he did with SM, when critiquing another author.