FUCK YES. harry potter and jk rowling FTW.

What the hell is up with that cover? Looks like a bad Photoshop collage.

They took it off a fans LiveJournal.

zing!

LOL!

There seems to be…five different fonts on the cover. Yes, five. "twilight" is one, "director's notebook" is another, "the story of how we made…" is yet another, "based on the novel" is a fourth, and "by Catherine Hardwicke" is the final one. This may be one of the most unprofessional looking covers I've ever seen. Bad Photoshop collage is perfect, and fan's LiveJournal is more perfect. Seriously.

I think you meant MS Paint, not Photoshop.

hahah exactly. i get nauseous just looking at it. anyway, twilight doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the harry potter series.

she didn't get invited back for the second film if i remember my news correctly....

so sadly, she tries to milk the Twilight cow the only way she can...

the worst part is the fangirl utters are going to just nourish this joke of a project.

I agree! If i got fired from a series! I would take my money and never go back to it

The best part is that King has no delusions about who HE is. Many times, he has referred to himself as "The literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries."

This is true. And yet his Dark Tower series kicks Twilight's ass so hard. Really it's up there with the likes of HP, LOTR, Dune... I think Dark Tower compares favorably with any of them, but he still remains humble.

Hell yes! If anyone is a fan of both the Potter books and Kings work, I HIGHLY recommend the Dark Tower series, believe it or not there are some crossover items from the Potter books (sort of). King is awesome, he says it like it is and you can either take it or leave it. Love the guy.

The series is fantastic, but it really loses quality in the last two books. The first 4 and a half: highly recommended. The last 2 and a half: stay away from them.

I love the Dark Tower series! I have a tattoo of Roland on my calf and I'm soon going to get images from the seven books all around my lower leg. King is my favorite author, and to have him bash an author that I despise makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
The Dark Tower series is a great read, and yes, has references to Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Granted, King is in love with LOTR and references it like 5000 times in his works, but it's great to see an author love something as much as I do (I also have a Tree of Gondor tattoo on my back).
In response to xfloormattx, he started writing it when he was 19 (anyone who's read the series can see the irony in that) but it was actually more pretentious than his writing today is. He took himself way too seriously when he was that age. He stopped writing after the first book (which was originally a short story), but picked it back up years later when he decided to make it a series (he went back and edited out all the super pretentious parts of the first book too). The only thing was that he just started writing without any plans for how it would end. Then he got into that almost-fatal motorcycle accident and decided that he should probably get his act together and at least outline the rest of the series and its conclusion. I personally love how it ended.
But yes, King has always been a very self-aware author, and that's why he's able to get away with things like saying that Stephanie Meyer is a bad author, as well as writing HIMSELF into the DT series as a character.

Beware the imminent influx of rabid tweenies defending Stephenie Meyer.

Cut. Print. Gay.

Really Hardwicke? Your that hard up for cash now that your ass got booted from the sequels? Its obvious its a money sucking maneuver because she knows how brain washed the twilight fans are. They would buy a piece of shit if it looked like Edward freaking cullen. HP owns Twilight, and i actually read the first Twilight book. Yea I gave it a chance, it was boring garbage.

Wow, that's actually impressive. I couldn't make it myself, though I got through half of it before I put it down. I applaud you for going all the way though. How did you do it? Caffeine for drowsiness and dramamine for nausea?

I got about 3 sentences into the cover flap before i fell asleep.

welllll lets put it this way, i got thru the first three HP books in the time it took to read thru the mundane "literature" that is Twilight.

o and i hope the book has a section called "how we made the really bad special effects" that will be a great chapter.

AT last! someone with credibility affirms what I have been saying for some time, Twilight is a horrible book, with very empty characters and a plot that only gets good like 4/5ths into the book. I didn't even bother into watching the movie.

I've no intention of reading Twilight after seeing just 20mins of the film before walking out.
If the book is as poorly written as the book it is REALLY worth avoiding at all costs.

Thank you Stephen King! I'm glad someone with a real public voice actually came out and finally said this.

I think we can all say.
Thank lord for King.

King exhibts zero class on making a comment like this. I have not read or plan to read twilight or any of its sequels and the movie looked like garbage from the first trailer, but King shouldn't have to be reminded of some of the total shit he's done. And the Dark Tower is the most convoluted ridiculous rip offs ever created. He's douche.

"And the Dark Tower is the most convoluted ridiculous rip offs ever created."

You're on crack.

It's not King that made the shit, it's the people who decided to make his work into movies (with a few exceptions: The Shining, Carrie, etc).
And King knows he sometimes sucks, and he knows he took a lot of plot devices from other works (mostly Lord of the Rings) to make the Dark Tower series. But it became something of its own and to say that it's a blatant rip off of anything means that you haven't actually read it. There's not a damn book in this world that could possibly be as complexly-similar to that series.
And the fact that King knows he does all this means that he's credible. Why the hell else would he be allowed to be a pop-culture analyst? If he wasn't reliable, or if he was a crappy writer, they'd have just said "OK King, sure, just go back to writing shitty horror novels."

It's not King that made the shit, it's the people who decided to make his work into movies (with a few exceptions: The Shining, Carrie, etc).
And King knows he sometimes sucks, and he knows he took a lot of plot devices from other works (mostly Lord of the Rings) to make the Dark Tower series. But it became something of its own and to say that it's a blatant rip off of anything means that you haven't actually read it. There's not a damn book in this world that could possibly be as complexly-similar to that series.
And the fact that King knows he does all this means that he's credible. Why the hell else would he be allowed to be a pop-culture analyst? If he wasn't reliable, or if he was a crappy writer, they'd have just said "OK King, sure, just go back to writing crappy horror novels."

Sweet! I got a mention.

Is this a defining moment in your life?

anyone defending the merits of stephanie meyer is just a fangirl. way to exploit young american girls though!

Haha. Yeah it basically reads like an angsty teen blog full of estrogen.

woot stephen king!

TWILIGHT SUCKS!

The best bit about this article is that it mentiones March 17th. St Patricks day to be sure!

-jiff

But... but... I'M THE BEST AUTHOR IN ALL THE LAND.

Maybe that's why I enjoyed 'Twilight' (the movie) so much, because I hadn't been exposed to the source material before watching the film (still I will probably never read the novel, not really into the JK Rowling/Twilight style novels, I enjoy something a little darker like a Shaun Hutson book).

I like the whole idea of a directors notebook! Just not for twilight...i would love to read a speilberg notebook or c nolans directors notebook on TDK

Where was this sentiment BEFORE the movie came out?

If I remember correctly, he begain writing the Dark Tower series while still in college, too. For it to be liked as much as it is, it started in his youthful, non-tenured career.

Stephen King knows what he's talking about.

Geez...is it still cool to rag on Twilight? I'm no fan of the books/movies myself, but this is getting, Peter. I'd expect this kind of relentlessness from Chen, but not you...

In other news, writer Stephen King was found dead in his home today, police suspect rabid Twilight fans.

hahahahaha.... nope, not gonna happen. Twilight fangirls are too busy swooning and crying to themselves how they're so damn lonely and that no one will ask them out.

It's awesome that he called her out. However, I wonder if he has a new book coming out and this was for hype.

King ALWAYS has a new book coming out, so you can't credit it to that.
Also, he's been writing articles for a long time, so it's not like he just suddenly poped up with this comment.

Stephen King, you f'ing rock! Nobody will be reading Twilight books 40 years from now.

I hope so.