Stephen King Infected

[Jolly]

Suffering from TDS...

https://ijr.com/stephen-king-taunts-conservatives-unhealthy-obsession-trump-spills-newest-book/

[Horace]

He has long demonstrated that peculiar gift of being a true believer in every mainstream cultural idea.

[Copper]

effete intellectual snob

[Wim]

I actually met the guy once in France. He seemed a nice and thoughtful person though.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Copper said in Stephen King Infected:

effete intellectual snob

Not at all.

I've talked to him twice at this point. He's a lefty Mainer through and through, so yeah, he's on the TDS bandwagon, but he's not a snob.

Also, that writer's a dipshit. Holly is a follow-up to the Bill Hodges story, which has always been heavily influenced by current events. It's not at all an outlier, especially for that series.

[Copper]

@Aqua-Letifer said in Stephen King Infected:

a lefty Mainer

Sorry, this was a little more obscure than usual.

Back in the day, Mr. King was known to be against the Viet Nam war

A Baltimore man and VP, Spiro Agnew used to call those anti-war types, especially 4Fs like Mr. King, "effete intellectual snobs".

I remember Mr. King this way.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Copper said in Stephen King Infected:

@Aqua-Letifer said in Stephen King Infected:

a lefty Mainer

Sorry, this was a little more obscure than usual.

Back in the day, Mr. King was known to be against the Viet Nam war

A Baltimore man and VP, Spiro Agnew used to call those anti-war types, especially 4Fs like Mr. King, "effete intellectual snobs".

I remember Mr. King this way.

Know anything about how he grew up? Or started his career? Have you read anything by him literally at all?

If you would, you'd know that he's political AF but by no means a snob.

[Doctor Phibes]

He appears to have gone from being dismissed as too lowbrow to being dismissed as being elitist.

No mean feat.