Stephan King has recently bashed Stephanie Meyer's writing, comparing it to the Harry Potter series written by J.K. Rowling:
"The real difference is that J.K. Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn," he said. "She's not very good. People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's very exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet."
Stephen King also couldn't keep his mouth shut on other authors, Erle Gardner of the Perry Manson novels, "terrible"'; Dean Koontz, "sometimes...just awful."; and James Patterson, "A terrible writer" who is nonetheless "very successful"
Maybe Stephen should keep his author criticisms to himself before he angers tons of fans.
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