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I'm a casual fan of King's work. I don't generally watch the movie adaptations (I'm of the opinion that movie adaptations of other media rarely work, be the original format novel or video game or what have you - some of the recent comic book adaptations are the exception and mostly due to folks like Sam Raimi, who have a real passion for the source material). In any event, I find King's work to be good light reading - entertaining, if not exactly deep or thought-provoking. I put him in the same vein as Crichton or Clancy in that respect.
I'm not a literary snob in any sense. I don't require the books I read to have some deeper meaning or be artful in some sense; if it's a good story I read it. Stephen King writes literary pop and he's good at what he does. I don't see why there has to be any more or less to it than that.
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I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
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