[ SECRET POST #5354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5354 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I think his ideas are good, mostly. His execution is hit or miss. His atmospheres and settings are great. His character writing is laughably awful.

One of the criteria I use for if a writer is good at character is "is there enough depth here for me to roleplay this if I wanted to?" and King's works - even the ones meant to be emotional or character driven are always a miss on that. He includes a ton of realistic detail about a character and describes them - arguably over-describes them - in terms of habits and quirks, but I recall basically none of them as a fictional "individual" with a name, drives, emotions, dreams, principles, or any sort of interesting personality. They're surface level plot drivers, nothing more. Which you could argue is permissible in the horror genre, but horror isn't all he writes.

He never answers the question: "why should I care what happens to these particular people, besides the fact that they are generic humans like me which things are happening to?" And generic, interchangeable humans aren't what a lot of people read fiction for. Especially people in fandom who love to attach to characters they care about.