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* Who does King rate as one of literature's greatest monsters? None of his own. No, his vote goes to Dolores Umbridge of ''Literature/HarryPotter''. Yes, J.K. Rowling created a character even he finds completely and irredeemably vile.
->The gently smiling Dolores Umbridge, with her girlish voice, toadlike face, and clutching, stubby fingers, is the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter. One needn’t be a child to remember The Really Scary Teacher, the one who terrified us so badly that we dreaded the walk to school in the morning, and we turn the pages partly in fervent hopes that she will get her comeuppance… but also in growing fear of what she will get up to next. For surely a teacher capable of banning Harry Potter from playing Quidditch is capable of anything.
->The gently smiling Dolores Umbridge, with her girlish voice, toadlike face, and clutching, stubby fingers, is the greatest make-believe villain to come along since Hannibal Lecter. One needn’t be a child to remember The Really Scary Teacher, the one who terrified us so badly that we dreaded the walk to school in the morning, and we turn the pages partly in fervent hopes that she will get her comeuppance… but also in growing fear of what she will get up to next. For surely a teacher capable of banning Harry Potter from playing Quidditch is capable of anything.
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* When King was in the absolute depths of his drug and alcohol addiction, his wife got so sick of it that she dumped his office trash can out on his desk, pointed out the empty bottles of Listerine and angrily demanded to know if King was really so desperate for alcohol that he would literally chug Listerine. King's response, as recorded in one of his non-fiction memoirs, was, "Absolutely not. I would never drink Listerine. I preferred Scope -- it had that minty flavor."
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* His anecdote about GenreAdultery:
-->I was down here in the supermarket, and this old woman comes around the corner this old woman – obviously one of the kind of women who says whatever is on her brain. She said, 'I know who you are, you are the horror writer. I don’t read anything that you do, but I respect your right to do it. I just like things more genuine, like that Shawshank Redemption.' “And I said, 'I wrote that'. And she said, 'No you didn’t'. And she walked off and went on her way.”
-->I was down here in the supermarket, and this old woman comes around the corner this old woman – obviously one of the kind of women who says whatever is on her brain. She said, 'I know who you are, you are the horror writer. I don’t read anything that you do, but I respect your right to do it. I just like things more genuine, like that Shawshank Redemption.' “And I said, 'I wrote that'. And she said, 'No you didn’t'. And she walked off and went on her way.”
