User blog comment:RainingSlayerBlood/Friendly debate/@comment-25052433-20150212023315/@comment-26030957-20150212040045

Dude, no contest? Quanity does not necesarily surmount the quality and lasting impact of real literature. Will Stephen King ever be accepted into the cannon? A highly debatable proposition. I personally would love to pick up a copy of Norton's Guide to American Literature and see a Stephen King story. His early work especially. As I've stated in other blogs Jerusalem Lot is one of my all time favorite stories ever, and I mean ever (maybe behind James Joyce's The Dead). But, in the end, it may just be King's contribution to popular culture that outlasts his actual prose, which can be difficult to say the least (I submit Bag of Bones as an example).

What about Joe Hill? I've been asking and asking and no one says anything about him? Horns (a story which, in my personal opinion would have made better pasta than a novel) was just made into a movie.

Well, Banning, I hope I haven't come off as a snob. I know I can sometimes take on an academic tone that can be annoying- sorry if that bugs anyone- but, frankly, at the moment, creepypasta is the only use I'm getting out of my English B.A.-  Ha ha ha. (it's not fucking funny man- I'm serious)

Rest assured, bro, I love Stephen King just as much as you.