Man, someone who isn’t a mostly faceless blogger finally said it: Stephenie Meyer’s prose is for milquetoast for toddlers.
Legendary horror and drama author, Stephen King, has said enough already and called the “Twilight” author out.
“Both J.K. Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.”King said, comparing the ‘Harry Potter’ author to Meyer in an interview with USA Today.
The attack basically comes out of nowhere and is King’s response to whether his career has influenced young readers. Maybe it was just bursting to get out.
“I think [my work] has some kind of formative influence, the same way reading Richard Matheson had an influence on me,” King said about his own work.
The horror author basically says the “Twilight” material is warm, safe milk that says nothing. “People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it’s very clear that she’s writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books.”
Why do the books do so well? King suggests it’s because the dry-humping tweens are ignorant and know zero about real romance thus the longing they connect to.
“[The books are] exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening, because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.”
Stephenie Meyer you’ve just been put on blast. Care to respond?