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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 0:19:55 GMT
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. Ok. I had never heard of this with him before.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2018 21:20:23 GMT
Confusion Is Next was an OK book about Sonic Youth. However, when I was in Paris, I decided I had to have a French language book, and chose the French version of this. Completely pointless; I wasn't going to read it.
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