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He uses slang from the 80's for kids in modern times.

Teenagers today don't sound like the old TMNT cartoons or Bill & Ted. Also, iirc, the kid in Fairy Tale goes to a video game arcade at one point.

If you’re buying 2 books you should probably just buy a hardcover instead.

Right, 20 years ago, in the 80s.

...fuck I'm old.

100% agree

The answer is "cocaine"

I read this book around 2013, at back then as a high school student, I remember I was so confused and I had many questions about the plot. I felt like something was definitely lacking and I could't figure out what. Reading comments under this entry made me think maybe I didn't understand the analogy because I was like 15-14 years old. Maybe I should give it another shot and read again :)

Do it now! Klara and the Sun is incredible. One of my all time favorites.

It is a great example of how Stephen King continues to captivate readers with his storytelling abilities and his ability to take classic themes and turn them into something new and exciting.

Yeah I normally like his work, but I almost quit The Institute. It was such an interesting idea, but the middle sucked and it was almost all middle. I did finish it and enjoyed it but don’t think it’s his best work.

Understanding a foreign language and forming sentences in one are very different. OP understands well enough if he can form sentences that aren't perfectly spelled but still get the point across. His experience with hearing English is different than the way King writes it, which is true for everyone, because King writes really bad modern American dialogue.

I like to give him the benefit of the doubt and chalk it up to regional and generational differences, because he does craft a good story despite the truly awkward spoken words, and when I read The Dark Tower I actually found the dialogue pleasant when it was in the Fantasy worlds, and right back to terrible when it came to our world.

There’s a sequel?!

Well, in any case he’s right. It’s why I stopped reading The Institute.

I was thinking about this the other night when I caught the tail end of some sitcom my friend was watching. The mannerisms were just so exaggerated that it was hard to watch. Then I remembered it was a show about a girl who talks to dead people and I got off my high horse.

I've definitely encountered this in books as well, but unless it's wholly unbelievable I just chock it up to that's how people talk in their universe. Ive yet to read anything that can accurately describe how two people who are close to each other can communicate through body language and inside jokes. I know ive had whole conversations with my best bud where hardly a word is spoken. I also know ive had nonsensical exchanges with a girlfriend that no one but us could understand because its a mix of inside jokes and reference quotes.

I haven't read much of Stephen king's newest stuff so maybe he has gone downhill, I couldn't say. I just know for myself when reading fiction, that a level of acceptance for the suspension of reality is necessary even if it takes place in the world as I know it.

Yeah, that’s partly why I stopped reading The Institute. Couldn’t stand the dialogue with the kids.

Nah, the dialogues in Metro and writing in general are just as lame in Russian too.

If you're writing to make a career of it, I have bad news in general friend. Write to write.

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I don’t think he is a pedophile; I just think he has an extremely dirty mind. He seems like one of those people who will turn anything into a double entendre and will somehow inject something inappropriately sexual into almost every conversation. We all know someone like that.

Understandable. My issue with mass markets is that they're usually printed with very little gutter (if that's the right word) so I have to break the spine to read the lines fully, which is an issue I don't usually have with trade paperbacks.

Haha but also I do want to emphasize I'm not trying to judge people for it!

I'm having a hard time figuring out how someone unfamiliar with English knows the dialouges in an English-language work are unnatural.

He is a popular author, but he is one of the best writers out of the popular authors. I mean, out of Danielle Steele, Nora Roberts, Dean Koontz, Tom Clancy and such, he is obviously a better writer. He has quite a few duds, but he’s so massively prolific that he still has lots of good works, too.

He may not be the most literary, but he will probably be one of the authors to be remembered in future centuries. Kind of like Charles Dickens.

You seem a bit sensitive about your favorite author. In no world is Stephen King considered a “literary genius.” The guy was simply asking a question and you couldn’t answer without insulting him.

He writes kids talking like it is the 50s or 60s , just without the slang of the times.