Comments on: Under the Dome – book preview http://www.off-grid.net/2009/11/07/under-the-dome-book-preview/ off the grid real estate, survival,preppers, solar, self-sufficient, eco-village, low-impact, zero-carbon, Renewable energy,ships, Fuel Cells, batteries, Solar panels, Wind turbines, MicroHydro, Biomass, Bushcraft Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:28:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Nate http://www.off-grid.net/2009/11/07/under-the-dome-book-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-242119 Nate Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:05:53 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/?p=4192#comment-242119 Negativity is such an interesting phenomenon. Negativity is such an interesting phenomenon.

]]> By: The King In Yellow? http://www.off-grid.net/2009/11/07/under-the-dome-book-preview/comment-page-1/#comment-241865 The King In Yellow? Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:28:42 +0000 http://www.off-grid.net/?p=4192#comment-241865 If King's books appear increasingly bloated, more superficial and less than "stylistically complete" it's probably due directly to fame and associated editorial freedom. Where his earlier books passed through the hands of working editors, his latest efforts (some of which aren't even issued as traditional books) appear to be disgorged whole with minimal interference from publishers. For example, compare the original edition of THE STAND to the later, much larger edition, replete with rewritten bits and large sections cut King's editors. It's not that he's run out of ideas, but he's getting lazy and he's become so big that he apparently doesn't have to - or desire to - listen to anybody else's suggestions. When an author begins to resurrect ideas from the mid '70s that weren't good enough to complete and release even as Bachman titles at the time, and starts reissuing previously published series as graphic novels, the thrill (at least for me) has clearly gone. If King’s books appear increasingly bloated, more superficial and less than “stylistically complete” it’s probably due directly to fame and associated editorial freedom. Where his earlier books passed through the hands of working editors, his latest efforts (some of which aren’t even issued as traditional books) appear to be disgorged whole with minimal interference from publishers. For example, compare the original edition of THE STAND to the later, much larger edition, replete with rewritten bits and large sections cut King’s editors.

It’s not that he’s run out of ideas, but he’s getting lazy and he’s become so big that he apparently doesn’t have to – or desire to – listen to anybody else’s suggestions.

When an author begins to resurrect ideas from the mid ’70s that weren’t good enough to complete and release even as Bachman titles at the time, and starts reissuing previously published series as graphic novels, the thrill (at least for me) has clearly gone.

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