Man, I really admire King as a craftsman and as a storyteller, but yeah, something’s off-kilter with his muse these days. In addition to the way he insists on writing today’s teens as though they’d grown up when Eisenhower was in office (though he avoided that in LATER somehow…), there’s his confounding insistence on larding common dialogue with endless digressions and “witticisms.”
A character: Gonna go take a piss. I’ll be back.
A King character: Well, pard, like my grandpap used to say — it’s better to take a leak than to spring a leak, you hear me? And he knew for sure ‘cause that man could fill an adult diaper in no time flat. I figger I got a few more years before I gotta pad my pecker and I’m gonna enjoy every piss in its right time, in the meantime. Be back quicker than it takes to unhook your best gal’s bra.
Man, I really admire King as a craftsman and as a storyteller, but yeah, something’s off-kilter with his muse these days. In addition to the way he insists on writing today’s teens as though they’d grown up when Eisenhower was in office (though he avoided that in LATER somehow…), there’s his confounding insistence on larding common dialogue with endless digressions and “witticisms.”