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| 349.1 | King rides a popular wave | DELNI::GOLDBERG | | Thu Aug 27 1987 17:12 | 11 |
| I don't know if he is anti_semetic, but in Pet Seminary, he
gratuitously notes a bumper sticker on a car going by that makes
an obscene reference to Ariel Sharon. It may have been popular
at the time of his writing to take shots at Sharon, and what is
King if not popular. Incidentally, I couldn't go on with the book.
The writing was bad enough. That this hack insults his betters (no
matter what you think of Sharon he *is* better than King) was too
much.
Herb
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| 349.2 | yes, King seems sometimes anti-semitic | VIDEO::OSMAN | type video::user$7:[osman]eric.six | Fri Aug 28 1987 11:46 | 17 |
| I have found Steven King's writing to be uncomfortable in its references
to jews, to the point where he seems to be anti-semitic.
Of particular note was his book "Seasons" or "Four Seasons", I forget which.
It's a book of four novellas.
One of the stories is about an ex-Nazi that someone is trying to prove
is a Nazi. The story includes the Nazi's recollection of some tortures
that were committed to a jewish girl.
One might say the recollections were just vivid to make the story
work, but to me they were brutal, and the writer just didn't seem
sympathetic, something about a girl and an electric cattle prod.
It just sounded like King ENJOYED writing about the torture.
/Eric
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| 349.3 | Another anti_Semitic book | SWATT::POLIKOFF | See SWATT run. Run SWATT run. | Thu Oct 15 1987 15:31 | 23 |
| I just read one of the most anti-Semitic books I have ever seen.
It explains why the Europeans killed the Jews throughout the ages
and explains why the holocaust happened. Parts of this book
have been around Europe since 1563. It is a compilation of
short folk stories from 1563 to about 1880 that were read by just
about every mother to her children drumming into them all the
anti-Semitic rhetoric that finally caused the holocaust. One of
the titles is "The Jew in the Thornbush" which stereotypes Jews as
thieves. Since most of us had never seen all these stories in one
place we never even imagined they existed. Granted, not all the
stories are anti-Semitic. Some of the stories were read by you to
your children and there have been movies made of them. The more
familiar stories in the book are "Rapunzel", "Hansel and Gretel",
"Cinderella" and "Snow White".
The name of the book if you haven't guessed is "The Complete Fairy
Tales of the Brothers Grimm". Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm gathered all the
European folk tales they could and wrote them down in the 100's.
The book contains 242 stories and quite a few of them are about
Jews in not a flattering way. My son's grandmother bought him the
book because by the title, she thought it was a children's book.
You can't believe the gore and violence as well as the anti-Semitism
in it. I started to read it first and saw that this was not a children's
book.
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| 349.4 | why and wherefrom | BRAT::PULKSTENIS | Bless the Lord, O my soul! | Wed Dec 16 1987 11:53 | 5 |
| It's really not surprising. Did you ever consider the *source*
of King's 'inspiration'?
Irena
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| 349.5 | | BAGELS::FROLICH | Bob | Thu Dec 17 1987 08:55 | 5 |
| Irena,
No, I haven't; what is the "source"?
Bob
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