how would you compare edgar allan poe and stephen king?
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To me it seems Poe can write stories that can really scare you without the use of the gore and graphics that King does... Dont get me wrong, I like King and his style of writing but I beleive that Poe can do something that few writers today can do or understand.... Gore and Graphics can make a story scary but it is no substitute for the the abilites that Poe has
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The two are not related other than they are both Dan Brown books and both feature Robert Langdon.  Both are great books that are difficult to put down once you start them.  I would say that Angels and Demons is just as good (if not better) as the Davinci Code\n\nI have read all of the Dan Brown books.  These two are his strongest in quality.
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hamlet was insane, so it's hard to know if he really saw the ghosts or not. as nietzsche said: "always there is a drop of madness in love, yet always there is a drop of reason in madness." maybe the insane see what the rest of us won't.
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The two writers, who are approximately of the same period, write in a very special way. They are called Naturalists. They Describe their character as they are, they do not try to make them look better to the eyes of the reader. Usually, for both writers, the protagonists come from disadvantaged background and are not to improve socially - although they actually do. Life is often - if not laways- portrayed as hard and doomed. The stories take place in an industrial and poor background. Life is unfair and is full of misery for both writers.
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Is there even any question about the answer....Stephen King of course
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Stephen King because he takes a situation and brings it to life.
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Chocolate! I've read the Bible several times.I'm in the middle of Stephen King's 'The Shining' right now and wouldn't want to throw my groove off by starting on another book for leisure reading right now.
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are you talking about the poem by Edger Allen Poe? I think its that the king is mean because he loves practical jokes, so then Hop Frog uses a practicle joke to kill him. Unless thats not what you were talking about at all and i'v just freaked you out emmenselly....
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I haven't actually seen "Charlie and the chocolate factory" yet. However, I did read that it was a lot darker than "Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory". I also read that Roald Dahl wasn't impressed by "Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory", mainly because it wasn't nearly as dark as the book. So I would like to think he would have approved of Tim Burton's adaptation.
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i prefer writing found poems.anybody like edgar allan poe?
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Hubbard has his following, obviously, and had talent, certainly. But, I have to give the icon award to King. Religious icons ought to touch the heart. King touched mine when, during an interview, he was asked how he was able to write such scary stuff. His reply ... "I have the heart of a ten year old boy. And I keep it in a jar on my desk."
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Poe wrote this poem in the autograph album of Lucy Holmes, later Lucy Holmes Balderston. Initially, Ingram rejected the poem, but later admitted it to his edition of Poe's Works. In interpreting the manuscript, Ingram made a number of changes in punctuation, mostly replacing dashes with commas, semicolons or periods.] \n\nI find lines 1-8 to be a statement of remorseful acceptance in his adult life of his inability to appreciate "the sunny side of life" as most others claim to do. \nThe words "I could not awaken" would indicate his failed attempts to do so.\nIn his adult life, he accepts his perceived great "difference" from others; he is not referring to the everyday differences which make us all unique but rather, a chasm which separates him. \nThe remaining lines are a retrospective view of his early life, beginning when he first realized that he had a fascination with the morose and morbid.\n\nThen- in my childhood, in the dawn\nOf a most stormy life- was drawn\nFrom every depth of good and ill\nThe mystery which binds me still\n\nThe "mystery" is simply put, his "darkness".\n\nThe remaining lines build to the climax of the poem, which I feel is the last line.\n\n"From the torrent, or the fountain" tells us he sees darkness in both good and "bad" things equally. "From the red cliff of the mountain" paints a sanguine picture of foreboding power, "From the sun that round me rolled, In its autumn tint of gold" paints a picture of the fall, a time of impending death before the cold of winter - it's no coincidence that Halloween is celebrated then. "From the lightning in the sky" introduces the climax, \n\n"From the thunder and the storm,\nAnd the cloud that took the form\n(When the rest of Heaven was blue)\nOf a demon in my view."\n\nIn the final two line, he illustrates fully his propensity to find the morbid in even the most beautiful of things where others do not, and brings us full circle to the beginning of the poem.\n\nI feel the word demon is perhaps the most important in the entire poem. It indicates the level of his darkness of vision, and gives scale to the chasm that he feels separates him from others.
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"Nevermore"\n\nThe Raven - E.A. Poe
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The first person that came to mind was Stephen King. Good question, but I don't know.
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I am quite favourable to a more "noir" feel to my crime novels which is why I love Dashiell Hammett (creator of Sam Spade) as well as Raymond Chandler (creator of Phillipe Marlowe). James Ellroy (LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia) is also a great prose writer. James Caan (The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity) was also a brilliant early crime writer.\n\nI have been told that Elmore Leonard and Lawrence Block are really excellent writers too, but I have not got down to reading their works as of yet.
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HI....I REALLY CAN'T PICK ONE.I LIKE ALOT OF HIS MOVIES AND BOOKS.HE HAS A GREAT IMAGINATOIN.I WISH,I COULD COME UP WITH SO GREAT STUFF.  \n  Clowmy
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I agree with another reviewer in that one has got to be prepared for Camus. I have only read The Stranger and The Plague in addition to this one, but found A Happy Death much better than The Plague. Also note that A Happy Death was not published by Camus during his lifetime and likely not intended to be, since much of A Happy Death is taken and used in The Stranger. For fans existentialism (which I am one) this book is a pretty fun and easy read, due to its very short length. I recommended it to a cousin I was vacationing with who had almost no philosophical background, and he read it in one day and enjoyed it well enough. But again, as I have written in my review of The Plague, one cannot help but wonder what gets lost in each translation. Giving the benefit of the doubt to Camus, this translator (Richard Howard) appears to have a better grip on the English side of the ball than does the translator of The Plague (Stuart Gilbert). Since this is (unofficially) Camus' first work, A Happy Death is a logical place to start, although note another reviewer's remarks that The Stranger and The Fall are both more enjoyable (but not The Plague according to me). A first-timer to Camus may be better served by trying The Stranger first - I'm positive Camus would prefer that starting point as well.