Re: What Ails the Short Story - Stephen King

In article <0nivf3h6a24ra83col9dvac2k5gb2vqjo3@xxxxxxx>, Josh Hill
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On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:55:17 -0700, Towse <self@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/30/books/review/King2-t.html>

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Good stuff.

You would think so. King is the fellow who gave us the giant spider at
the end of "It" and one of the crappiest miniseries ever written, "Rose
Red." And then there's his "acting."
.

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