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Book Protagonist that SUCK!!!
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RE: Book Protagonist that SUCK!!!
He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.

I haven't read much of him, though. Only Christine, I think.
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RE: Book Protagonist that SUCK!!!
(July 13, 2016 at 5:06 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.
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Well - most of King's protagonists are  teachers, and/or alcoholic, burned out writers. We know he used to work as a teacher, while publishing his early work. I have no idea, what could have inspired the rest... Tongue
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
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RE: Book Protagonist that SUCK!!!
(July 13, 2016 at 5:23 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote:
(July 13, 2016 at 5:06 am)Excited Penguin Wrote: He isn't necessarily putting himself in his stories, it might just be a type of character he enjoys writing about.
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Well - most of King's protagonists are  teachers, and/or alcoholic, burned out writers. We know he used to work as a teacher, while publishing his early work. I have no idea, what could have inspired the rest... Tongue
Every fiction book ever written comes from the imagination of the author, so what is so crazy about some protagonists being like himself? I think you're focusing on the wrong thing. Are the stories any good? If they are, you shouldn't really care too much about who the author is and how similar he is to some of his characters.

As a writer, you imagine yourself, to an extent, in the shoes of every character, in order to make the dialogue flow naturally and other stuff like that. But with POV or main characters even more so, it's impossible to write without doing it. So what I'm saying is, I don't think he's writing about himself so much as some idealized version of himself, which, granted, shouldn't be so obvious as you seem to think it is, but is also inescapable in a way.
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