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WhiskeyDisk posted...

Is this the same Steven King which has probably cranked out at least a book a year for like 40 years? The same guy that thought Maximum Overdrive should be a thing just 3 years after he published Christine?

I'm not saying he doesn't have some great ones, but he's probably got an equal amount of garbage in his catalogue, and he would be a prime example of "quantity" as a writer.

How can you compare maximum overdrive to Christine? Seriously.

Actually I think they remade Christine but the first one blew (show) and the book was just Meh.

Max Overdrive though was both a good book (or was it a short story, I forget) and a great movie (loved the soundtrack.

That was King back when most of his stuff rocked (to me at least).

And his point isn't wrong, you shouldn't give awards just to be diverse, but you also should not avoid giving them because of ethnicity or gender. Neither should factor in at all in my opinion.

That being said, if you go decades without a massive disparity in the gender/ethnicity of people who get awards, then there is a problem. More then likely it is because the people choosing the winners in the first place are not diverse enough (which makes sense if it's a minority I guess).

Havn't been a fan of most of King's work since his accident, but he is still responsible for some of my favorite literature. Dude was at least a genius and perhaps still is.

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