if you read DT first, everything else you read by him will remind you of it.
No kidding -- although let's face it, he deliberately ties so damn much of his other work into that mythos you'd be hard pressed not to be reminded. One of these days I'm gonna read 'Salem's Lot. (And . . . probably spend a lot of time going "DO I DAZZLE YOU?" at inappropriate moments.)
The only person I can think of who fits into that same pattern is Terry Pratchett
That's a really excellent comparison, in particular because I think Pratchett also writes about himself a lot the way King does. (Thinking specifically here about Thud! and Vimes-as-father; I get the sense that King has been writing his autobiography as he lives it, whereas Pratchett goes back and pulls from past experience more.)
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Re: *BABBLES*
Date: 2009-01-06 11:13 pm (UTC)No kidding -- although let's face it, he deliberately ties so damn much of his other work into that mythos you'd be hard pressed not to be reminded. One of these days I'm gonna read 'Salem's Lot. (And . . . probably spend a lot of time going "DO I DAZZLE YOU?" at inappropriate moments.)
The only person I can think of who fits into that same pattern is Terry Pratchett
That's a really excellent comparison, in particular because I think Pratchett also writes about himself a lot the way King does. (Thinking specifically here about Thud! and Vimes-as-father; I get the sense that King has been writing his autobiography as he lives it, whereas Pratchett goes back and pulls from past experience more.)