PJ Media Reports: As a total horror fanatic, author Stephen King has been one of my literary heroes for a long, long time. I’ve read a lot of his work, even the not-so-good novels that many readers found to be subpar. Heck, I even managed to find some gems in those books, enjoying the way he crafts characters and comes up with unusual concepts to base his spooky tales around. He truly is a master of the craft.
Well, he was, anyway.
King’s work shifted from great, well-developed characters and creative scenarios to being largely focused on preaching left-wing propaganda, a slippery slope he’s been zooming down for many years now. I don’t mind messaging in my fiction, so long as it is creatively presented in the story’s subtext. I might disagree with the message, but I can still enjoy a well-told yarn. But King has ditched any pretense of being a storyteller in favor of being a propagandist, a fact his latest novel makes perfectly clear.
John Nolte, an entertainment writer for Breitbart News , put out a new report covering King’s new book, “Holly,” featuring a popular character with many, many mental health quirks from his hit “Mr. Mercedes” series, and revealed that it’s basically a progressive diatribe about COVID, featuring a white couple as the novel’s antagonists. And guess what? The bad guys are racist anti-vaxxers.
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Sep 15, 2023
I gave up on him in the early 2000s when it became obvious that he was just phoning it in by that point. I decided to give him another chance and tried to read "Under the Dome". It was full of his WOKE politics just as Nolte describes this latest book. I'm done with King for good now.