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 Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 7:53 am
Has anybody had a bad experience with a teacher talking down to you because you read SK?
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:35 am
Mmm, not a teacher yet, but some people have told me he's a pop author with no talent. I don't care if he has talent. I care that he entertains me enough that I want to read all of his books. I'd take him over Dickens or Fitzgerald any day.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:59 am
I've never had a teacher say anything but I've gotten attitude from people. Mostly literary snobs who think Sk is just horror. But if they'd stop looking down there nose and pick up one of his books, they'd know how much he rocks. The big problem I have is when people say they don't like him, but they've never even read one of his books/novellas/short stories...
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:12 am
Most people my age either haven't read anything by him and type him by his movies or have read some stuff and think he's pretty cool.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:55 pm
Eww the only people I know who read SK is my cousin and my boyfriend, and its me who tell them to read his books. Nobody laugh at me. They are impressed, they thinks the books are too big xD
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:41 am
RocketBubu Eww the only people I know who read SK is my cousin and my boyfriend, and it me who tell them to read his books. Nobody laugh of me. They are impress, they thinks the books are too big xD
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Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:57 pm
Now that that picture is permanently ingrained in my head, I have to try to go to sleep.
I never got attitude from teachers, they were just glad I read of my own free will. One guy said that he just makes stuff up and doesn't even try to be scary. I promptly asked him if he'd read any Stephen King. He said no he'd watched his movies though, and I explained that his problem lay there, seeing as how Stephen King does not direct movies, he writes books.
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:26 am
Childe_of_Darkness Now that that picture is permanently ingrained in my head, I have to try to go to sleep. I never got attitude from teachers, they were just glad I read of my own free will. One guy said that he just makes stuff up and doesn't even try to be scary. I promptly asked him if he'd read any Stephen King. He said no he'd watched his movies though, and I explained that his problem lay there, seeing as how Stephen King does not direct movies, he writes books.
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Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 10:54 am
Kaycees_Mom Childe_of_Darkness Now that that picture is permanently ingrained in my head, I have to try to go to sleep. I never got attitude from teachers, they were just glad I read of my own free will. One guy said that he just makes stuff up and doesn't even try to be scary. I promptly asked him if he'd read any Stephen King. He said no he'd watched his movies though, and I explained that his problem lay there, seeing as how Stephen King does not direct movies, he writes books. The two books that actually scared me were The Shining and Misery. Pet Semetary wasn't as scary as it was sad and disturbing. He writes about fears, yeah, but I've never gone to sleep afraid because of one of his books. The only things I ever go to sleep afraid of are my grades and someone in my family dying.
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 7:39 am
The Lunatic On The Grass Kaycees_Mom Childe_of_Darkness Now that that picture is permanently ingrained in my head, I have to try to go to sleep. I never got attitude from teachers, they were just glad I read of my own free will. One guy said that he just makes stuff up and doesn't even try to be scary. I promptly asked him if he'd read any Stephen King. He said no he'd watched his movies though, and I explained that his problem lay there, seeing as how Stephen King does not direct movies, he writes books. The two books that actually scared me were The Shining and Misery. Pet Semetary wasn't as scary as it was sad and disturbing. He writes about fears, yeah, but I've never gone to sleep afraid because of one of his books. The only things I ever go to sleep afraid of are my grades and someone in my family dying.
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Posted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:44 am
Yeah Graveyard Shift did make me more afraid of rats than is necessary. Salems Lot didn't scare me too much, though. You have to invite them in, after all.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:58 pm
Well, sort of. When I was a freshman I had a mean english teacher. I always read Stephen King for SSR. And one day she was explaining how to reciew and critisize our books. She said critisizm isn't always a bad thing and we probably wouldn't have anything bad to say about the books she told us to read. Then she said, if we were gonna critisize a book based on it's faults, we'd be reading Stephen King. I gave her a death glare, but I don't think she noticed cause I was in the corner.
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Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2007 10:53 pm
Yeah I hate that, too. I work at a bookstore, so I get exposed to a lot of people asking who my favorite author is. Most of them are middle-aged women clutching a Nora Roberts book, too.
Speaking of which, my mother's another one of those anti-SK-go-Nora people. She'll read Nora Roberts religiously, but won't read SK because Cujo scared her. Cujo! Come on, if you're going to be afraid of anything, be afraid of Pennywise, not Cujo.
I did get her to read the Green Mile, though, and she cried when Mr. Jingles died.
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Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2007 7:16 am
_Eyes_Bright_ Yeah I hate that, too. I work at a bookstore, so I get exposed to a lot of people asking who my favorite author is. Most of them are middle-aged women clutching a Nora Roberts book, too. Speaking of which, my mother's another one of those anti-SK-go-Nora people. She'll read Nora Roberts religiously, but won't read SK because Cujo scared her. Cujo! Come on, if you're going to be afraid of anything, be afraid of Pennywise, not Cujo. I did get her to read the Green Mile, though, and she cried when Mr. Jingles died. oh yeah, who didn't?
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Posted: Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:29 pm
I was caught reading Dreamcatcher in 5th grade and got told I was going to Hell by a nun.
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