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0.5 x 6.25 x 9.25 inches

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12.5 ounces

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English

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0791061787

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December 13, 2006

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Amber Louise Duncan

Bloom is a leading critic of literature and scholar. ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2015

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Bloom is a leading critic of literature and scholar. As a Stephen King fan and graduate student of literature, this is a must have!

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Benj10

Misunderstanding Critical Analysis

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2011

Anyone who knows anything about Bloom and his ongoing war with Stephen King would not be surprised by this book, nor need they be. But the outrage is not needed, nor is it really logical. Bloom has stated previously that he has no particular taste for lack luster literature, and by such i mean King's Prose. The number of novels sold by King mean nothing to Bloom (He also dislikes Poe), Now, King can 'dream everybody's nightmare'(a quote he used for Poe) but his prose, how he conveys the development of his stories, that is the heart of what Bloom rages against. People state that they can't see where his angle is and i find this absurd, it's clear, very clear. The words on the page of a Steven King novel are not up to par with the standards of academia. I read once that society creates the cannon, i disagree, the cannon should create the society. In an age where Shakespeare is dumbed down for the masses (i speak of the irrelevant and insulting prose renditions of Shakespeare, and of Milton for that fact too.) High literature is what Bloom says we should aspire to, and why not? Shakespeare, Milton, Pynchon, Whitman, Keats, Shelley, these artists forced their own reality over ours and in effect recreated our reality in them, why shouldn't modern artists do likewise? Now, here is where i dissent from Bloom. I have read King, and in particular i loved Salem's Lot. Why? I felt King hit a vein deeper than he was ever able to again, and that wain was conveyed through a well developed story. Though once again his prose was poor compared to the likes of Pynchon and Wallace, but i admired the story. I can see the forest for the trees. And about bringing JK Rowling into this, what? Bloom has a documented war with her too, but it is likewise with King, the Prose doesnt meet the aspirations.

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Ludwig Strauss

Accurate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 9, 2001

Albeit expensive, this compilation of criticism is worth every penny solely because of Mr. Bloom's pessimistic assessment of what he calls the "King phenomenom."
(Not verbatim) Stephen King marks the death of the Literate Reader in America.

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Annie Nomous

Old man yells at Stephen King shaped cloud.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2019

Imagine creating a career whining about the career's of others, who, have become cultural icons and successful because they have a massive body of work that...sells. <That's some semblance of a salient metric for being good.

There are plenty enough redundancies in here, so if you're going to write a book complaining about the prose of another author. . .maybe don't write like you're in 6th grade.

I once heard when Eskimo elders can't hunt and be useful, they're put out on a canoe and pushed off into the icy waters. Doubt that's true, but I feel we ought to give Bloom a similar treatment. He's not useful.

Does amazon sell canoes?

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Fenrix

I cannot recommend this to anyone other than academics who want to feel smugly superior by reading "proper literature"

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 27, 2014

This is a collection of academic essays about the works of Stephen King. This is a subject that interests me, so I was hoping for more than what I got. The essays were either smugly academic, insufficiently rigorous, or unenlightening. Quite frequently, they were dreadfully dull. Some of the clever and eloquent insults in the Editor's Note and Foreword were the high point of the entire exercise.

The unenlightening were things that I already derived from his work, without the need for additional outside reading. The smugly academic were frequently dismissive and proud of their vocabulary that is useful only in the world of academia. (I have a pretty substantial vocabulary, but often encountered a word that seemed to carry a specific definition in the world of literary critique.)

I had hoped for tougher rigor from this collection of academic essays. The one that really got my dander up, was the Misery essay. This one includes a monstrous logical fallacy that posits that since King has issues with extreme fans (like ones that break into your house) that he hates all his fans. It's clear that the author of the essay holds both King and his readers in disdain, and is only too willing to accept poor logical leaps to write a negative screed.

I cannot recommend this to anyone other than academics who want to feel smugly superior by reading "proper literature" while looking down on popular fiction.

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S. Taylor

Salute to the King!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 3, 2004

Stephen King will not be read in hundred years, huh? A good example of staying power is H.P. Lovecraft, who published a few things before his death. No one knew who the heck he was. Now, close to a hundred years (close enough) from his first publshed work, he is still widely read and revered in many circles. Stephen King has been named in the top 100 Pop Culture Icons, and films inspired by his work will live forvever. "Shawshank Redemption", "Dolores Claiborne", "The Green Mile", "Stand by Me" films will last. He will last. He has won the most awards of any author alive! King is celebrated throughout the world because of his unique writing. Without him...my these critics just do not know how much he has influenced writers from all genres. Dennis Lehane, Michael Connely, James Patterson, Stewart O'Nan, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson cite King as an influence. "Literary" authors of all countries count him as an influence. What he has contributed is your opinion Harold Bloom/others, but my God, King just received the National Book Award for DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS. The highest honor. Walter Mosely introduced him at the awards ceremony! Saying that King will not survive and be around a hundred years from now is like saying Harry Potter won't be read a hundred years from now. Sour grapes. Read King's books. Find out for yourself.

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