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For everyone with their nose up about Stephen King, have you ever read any of the stories I mentioned above, or is this just a knee-jerk reaction to a popular writer with a huge library of mixed quality?

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08-09-2010 , 03:43 PM

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I don't like the general genre

Kids these days...

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08-09-2010 , 03:47 PM

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i think you'll find that the POG literary sheep collective proved stephen king to be the most overrated author (and possibly the greatest living author, too, but glossing over that...). That's good enough for me.

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08-09-2010 , 04:40 PM

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The OP is unclear, when you draft an author, are you forced to only have their current catalogue of work, or would they be able to write more?

So is Shakespeare only writing Romeo and Juliet etc, or he is writing other stuff too?

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08-09-2010 , 04:45 PM

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My opinion only:

Theoretically they could probably write other stuff (especially if they died young or something), though you're going to have to demonstrate their ability to do so, and if they basically wrote all the time for 40 years it's going to be hard to argue that you get all their real stuff AND some other stuff too. At a minimum, you get everything they ever wrote.

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08-09-2010 , 05:02 PM

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Well, for Shakespeare specifically, afaik, the experts think he wrote more that has been lost. But for dead authors, I think for the most part, you get what they wrote, unless you can make a convincing case that they'd write more now.

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08-09-2010 , 05:41 PM

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King is a good choice

I knew DustinG was going to take a dead woman, I wonder is that really who he thought was most likely to be sniped

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shakespeare should count as 40+ picks since he was multiple people

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08-09-2010 , 06:54 PM

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Just did a quick scan and lol at everyone saying Shakespeare was a bad pick. I feel like its almost to the point where picking anyone BUT Shakespeare is a bad pick. His works are still celebrated today as some of the best in existence, and thats hundreds of years after he wrote them. Does anyone really think that he just happened to have a creative mind that would have only would only work in the 16th century? As if he just wouldn't be able to fit words together well given our different type of language? He just luckboxed and was born in a decade where his way of thinking happened to work? That is just absurd.

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08-09-2010 , 06:55 PM

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@ Virginia Woolf I am just speechless.

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08-09-2010 , 06:55 PM

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Tolstoy is a pretty decent pick imo. He had to go in the first round, I could have seen him anywhere in the top 11. He wrote basically two of the greatest novels ever written.

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08-09-2010 , 06:57 PM

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Stephen King is another excellent pick. With King, I think what you get is just someone who knows how to tell a story. The man just understands the concept of thrill and suspense. There are authors who understand satire, authors who understand great characters and their development or really creative plots, but King can just weave a tale. I feel like if you asked him to write a story based off an episode of seinfeld he could make it suspenseful just in how he tells it. His novels are all obviously A+, but a really great thing of his to check-out if you want to see this at its fullest are his short stories. An author with raw talent like King is just deadly.

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08-09-2010 , 07:00 PM

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I think I would have to stay Stephen King is the best story teller with whom I am familiar.

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08-09-2010 , 07:00 PM

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So I know its my pick. I am thinking.

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08-09-2010 , 07:17 PM

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08-09-2010 , 07:20 PM

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08-09-2010 , 07:42 PM

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His novels are all obviously A+, but a really great thing of his to check-out if you want to see this at its fullest are his short stories. An author with raw talent like King is just deadly.

Yeah, I agree and mentioned a couple in my post. I have to say, The Longest Walk is probably the best short story I've ever read. I'm not a huge fan of short stories, but that one was incredible. Stand by Me is, of course, an all time classic

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08-09-2010 , 07:50 PM

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I also like quitters, inc. and the ledge.

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08-09-2010 , 07:51 PM

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Oh. And "rita hayworth and shawshank redemption" ldo.

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Ok. I guess I'll take Pink Floyd.

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Ok. I guess I'll take Pink Floyd.

Just kidding. Still thinking.

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I think I would have had to rand my first pick between King and Shakespeare. Kinda sounds funny putting those two in the same sentence.

lol. but true.

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Just kidding. Still thinking.

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08-09-2010 , 08:22 PM

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Jesus you're taking ages :/

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08-09-2010 , 08:32 PM

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Wonder if anyone's going to pick the ones I would have done.....

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