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Post by amyghost on Jul 11, 2018 21:21:54 GMT
Thanks for the heads up. I'd been thinking about reading this, but latter-day King is such godawful hack-work I figured it probably wasn't worth it. I wonder if he's going to go on a trend of mining his aging best-sellers for 'twenty years later' sequels. Since he hasn't always been shy about plagiarizing others' work, it might be high time for him to turn the treatment on himself. Examples? He's admitted in past interviews that he's recycled scenes from other works in books of his own, though he's usually played this off as 'subconscious plagiarism'; i.e., he'd read something years back, it lodged in his memory, and he later fed it back into a work without really recollecting having encountered the material previously. Could be true, but I'm leery of that explanation. One example that really stands out for me is a scene in Pet Sematary that's way too close in detail and description from a scene in Leonid Andreyev's existentialist short story 'Lazarus' for it to be a coincidence, and seems to be too close in resemblance for it to be simply something that was read ages ago and then regurgitated into King's own work. That won't satisfy you as an example, in all likelihood;I can only say that, as a pretty well-read person, I've encountered enough incidents of the 'Lazarus' sort in King's work to really believe he doesn't sometimes knowingly lift from elsewhere to adapt to his own use. I enjoy much of his earlier writing, but my own feeling his that at least some of his plagiarisms are not nearly so subconscious as he'd have the reader believe. |
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