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I see the similarity, certainly. However, the comparison only proves to me that King has something that she does not.
I've read very little of his fiction, but I am utterly sold on him from his non-fiction. Any time I read his column in Entertainment Weekly, The Pop Of King, I would be referencing it for years when a subject he spoke about came up in conversation. The only thing I say more often than, "I read this Stephen King essay about that" is, "Did you see the South Park episode about that?"
I also loathed Dreamcatcher, but that's over ten years old, isn't it? It isn't exactly a "recent" book. A lot of folks liked "Cell", and while i felt the ending was a letdown most of the rest looked like the old Stephen. And since Dreamcatcher and the last 3 Dark Tower books, he's written Bag of Bones and Duma Key, which I thought were both very good.
there WAS a space in there where I think his getting sober at the same time as his accident left him struggling, but I think he's done quite a bit sonce then, and dreamcatcher was his first post-accident work, IIRC
I'm re-re-re-re-reading On Writing wherein King states that he had eleven years of sobriety before his accident, which happened in June of 1999.
Cuz he's a good and highly prolific writer who has sold a scheissload of books and is a considerable egotist and narcissist and likes to be on camera.
caw