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# the concepts are much better than the actull stories, which are a bit hammy
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:21, archived)
# It is often the rather bumbling acount of some over-intelectual fool
who deserves horrific death, true, but there's a certain charm to the clumsy feel to the prose. He holds my interest way better than that over-exposed second rate author Stephen King.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:23, archived)
# i honestly think the world would've been better served
if he hadn't had his breakdown at an early age, and had gone off to get a conventional university education like he planned.
i still think he would've written stories. only they'd have been better ones
(still, his style does improve a bit in his later, longer stories)
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:29, archived)
# He was an extremely messed up individual, yeah.
Shame really, and I absolutely agree, I've got a huge collection of them laid out chronologically and there's a massive quality difference between the early and late stories.
(, Sat 1 Dec 2007, 16:32, archived)