Posted on 08/23/2011 12:07:39 PM PDT by ZGuy
Stephen King is offering an antidote to what he sees as the biases of right-wing radio talk shows by hiring a former Green Party vice presidential candidate to co-host a morning talk show on two stations he owns.
In a rare public appearance, the horror writer held a news conference Tuesday in Bangor, Maine, at the headquarters of his three-station Zone Radio network.
"The Pulse Morning Show" will be co-hosted by 50-year-old Pat LaMarche and 43-year-old Don Cookson, a former television reporter. LaMarche ran for vice president as a member of the Green Party in 2004.
During the news conference King said, "We're a little to the left, but we're right."
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I’ll give you give. You’re very good at snark. How that fits into the Golden Rule I don’t know. But you’re very good at it. It’s not a skill/talent I envy, though.
Kids picked up a bargain-bin SK novel of fairly recent vintage, not sure of the name. Something with five novella-length stories, like the Bachman books. I’ll watch out for that.
No prob looking back on it youu got a point.
One of the books of King’s that is well worth reading is called “On Writing.” It’s probably the best I’ve read on what goes into the novel writing process, his at least. Most of his books have symbolism towards sacrifice and bloodshed, things that Christians might actually warm up to (Carrie comes to mind). He realizes his books aren’t for everyone and I think he’s bitter towards Christians who call him the Devil Incarnate for his writings.
He talks about his addictions and calls it just that. He scolds artists who make excuses for their addictions and say it’s part of the artist temperament. He doesn’t remember writing Cujo because he was strung out, and his wife gave him an ultimatum, which is why he broke free. He’s puzzled at the One Hit Wonder writers such as Salinger and others. “what do they do all day?”
Fascinating read into his mind and thinking. I think I’ve only read one of his books and it was a tamer novel.
You’re eagerness to judge me is breathtaking. And all because I don’t bow down to The Strand? Wow.
Have you never read this Scripture:
Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?
Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
You are telling me that a liberal atheist can write a Christian novel. I’m saying that is like a thorn bush bringing forth grapes—it doesn’t happen. Just because I disagree with you, you have become nasty. That is a strange kind of religion. Your Bible must command you to judge others and then snark on them. Mine commands the opposite.
‘Carrie’ scared the chit out of me in High School...the movie was really something else, especially the ending! Eeeek! And I will give him full credit for ‘The Shining.’ And then he just got exponentially weirder with each passing book.
‘Night Shift’ is a great collection of creepy short stories...
But, that’s it for me. :)
That's not the case at all. In The Stand, both God and evil are very real and there are very few committed believers.
A couple of instances that I can think of where God shows his existence: 1) He responds to Mother Abigail's prayers to drive away the weasels that were attacking her and 2) showing Mother Abigail where the people should congregate. None of the characters in the story knew it, but Boulder was the one city that had been pretty much cleared of people, so there weren't the problems there associated with tons of dead people lying around. When the plague was spreading, there was a panic spread that it may be caused by some nearby government facility and the bulk of the people fled from that area.
Hmm, he might be on to something. Hearing lefties talk can be just as scary as a good horror novel!
I didn’t mean to imply there wasn’t evil depicted in the story. How could anyone watch the movie and miss the evil?
I don't see what that has to do with my refuting your contention of it being a Godless world.
“Now if King hosted a show himself, he’d have a shot at getting some ratings.”
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Sure, among his fellow elitist, northeastern Commies.
Actually, I said my impression of the movie was that it depicted a godless world, yet also featured true believers. That was my impression, and I asked for input on it. To be honest, the tone of the thread hasn’t been conducive to discussion. I’m really not inclined to pursue the matter. I’m not a King expert, and I’ve mentioned several times I’m not as familiar with his stories as many posting on the thread. I think I should let it go at that.
I’ll just add this. The worldview of Christians is not one of darkness. We have come out of darkness into divine light. We can’t write of a dark world since that’s not the one we live in. We can depict evil and truly wicked people, as well as catastrophes and other tragedies and disasters. But underlying it all is the kind of Light that God, with the Advent of His Son, brought to believers everywhere. This is why I can’t write ‘dark fantasy’, though it is very popular. It’s simply incompatible with a world in which God is both Good and Omnipotent.
King’s work has always struck me as dark. Dark in the literary sense, I mean. Perhaps your impression of his novels differs. We can agree to disagree.
I hope that’s satisfactory, because I don’t want to get mired in the argument any further.
I have always thought he and Garrison Keillor look like twins. ....shudder...
Read “The Regulators” he did under his pen name “Richard Bachman”...................Scary as hell............
One correction. Evidently King was raised a Methodist [guessing, United Methodist]. He has since rejected ‘organized religion’ and doesn’t think we can know much about God, but he’s never claimed to be an atheist.
I’m still reading my way through Elmore Leonard’s novels. King will have to wait.
I quit reading King when he painted pro-lifers as sociopathic, inbred mouth breathers.
Anyone who has read “Insomnia” knows what I mean.
King’s work has always struck me as dark. Dark in the literary sense, I mean. Perhaps your impression of his novels differs. We can agree to disagree.
Actually, I'd agree with what you say about King. I haven't read all of his books (and never will) but particularly in the books The Stand and Desparation, God clearly exists, but it's the God of Abraham and Job and a God willing to rain fire and brimstone down on cities. I don't see that King has ever recognized that that is just the old version of God. The new and improved God, since the upgrade, is all sweetness and light while the old, buggy version has been mothballed.
That is a very interesting analysis. It makes me wonder if anyone has ever analyzed the theology in King’s novels. Not just Desperation and The Stand, but all of them. I wonder what his composite theological worldview, as depicted in his fiction, looks like. Also, he hasn’t always been quite this liberal, has he? Isn’t he trending further moonbat left as he ages? Or am I just out of the loop?
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