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Stephen King is apparently not a fan of Twilight or Stephanie Meyer. In a USA Weekend interview King discusses the popularity of both the Twilight and Harry Potter series. He says,
Both 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.
Ouch.
In the article, which will run in the March 6-8 issue of USA Weekend, King calls Jodi Picoult "terrific" and "successful" and says that Dean Koontz can "write like hell" but sometimes he is "awful." He calls James Patterson a successful but a terrible writer. King goes on to say this about Meyer,
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.
In my humble opinion, I think King needs to get off of his high horse. Not everything he's written is terrific. Granted, I don't think the Twilight is all that great (the books get progressively worse. In fact Breaking Dawn was one of the worst books I read last year and the movie never should have been made), but I don't think King needed to call her out on it.
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