Comments on: Book Review: UR by Stephen King http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/2010/03/15/review-ur/ Tales of a former indie bookseller Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:59:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lelia http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/2010/03/15/review-ur/comment-page-1/#comment-21495 Lelia Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:04:01 +0000 http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/?p=1337#comment-21495 Hey, Rob, Sorry about that---the historical mysteries blog will be up at 9AM EST. I totally agree with you about King. I have huge respect for him and will forgive him a lot but sometimes...I do think he suffers a bit from his reputation in that so many fans expect him to always be on his game but he can put out bad work just like anybody else (and I tend to think that can actually make an author more interesting). This one, though, is the worst. Hey, Rob,

Sorry about that—the historical mysteries blog will be up at 9AM EST.

I totally agree with you about King. I have huge respect for him and will forgive him a lot but sometimes…I do think he suffers a bit from his reputation in that so many fans expect him to always be on his game but he can put out bad work just like anybody else (and I tend to think that can actually make an author more interesting). This one, though, is the worst.

]]> By: Robert W. Walker http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/2010/03/15/review-ur/comment-page-1/#comment-21492 Robert W. Walker Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:43:02 +0000 http://www.cncbooks.com/blog/?p=1337#comment-21492 L - I came looking for the blog on historical mysteries as I write those myself and it wasn't here, so read your take on Stephen King's latest. I gotta say that King is the Babe Ruth of writers, hitting out more home runs and having more strike outs--a with Ruth--than anyone else as well, so it is often a toss up; a lot of inconsistency there. I love his early work myself and his Bachman books and prison tales. I admire his productivity; it is amazing how much work he puts out, a cottage industry in himself, but then once in a while you get something as awful as The Tommyknockers or the one about the killer car. He certainly has a pinchot for having mechanical toys attack us from telephones to toasters -- Oh yeah, Christine was the name of the car and the book...just not good, not like IT or The Stand. Rob Walker author, Dead On L – I came looking for the blog on historical mysteries as I write those myself and it wasn’t here, so read your take on Stephen King’s latest. I gotta say that King is the Babe Ruth of writers, hitting out more home runs and having more strike outs–a with Ruth–than anyone else as well, so it is often a toss up; a lot of inconsistency there. I love his early work myself and his Bachman books and prison tales. I admire his productivity; it is amazing how much work he puts out, a cottage industry in himself, but then once in a while you get something as awful as The Tommyknockers or the one about the killer car. He certainly has a pinchot for having mechanical toys attack us from telephones to toasters — Oh yeah, Christine was the name of the car and the book…just not good, not like IT or The Stand.

Rob Walker
author, Dead On

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