Video: Stephen King: on the fate of American democracy
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
The famous American writer Stephen King, it turns out, not only writes terrible and bloody stories, but is also actively interested in politics. Thus, in particular, in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the writer briefly outlined his political convictions.
“Until yesterday, the scariest thing in this world for me was George W. Bush,” King said. “When I heard about the Republicans losing the congressional and Senate elections, I felt incredible relief that voters clicked on Bush's nose. the news of Donald Rumsfeld's resignation, the first thing that came to my mind was the phrase from "The Wizard of the Emerald City": "The witch is dead." what frankly scares me is the concentration in the hands of the politician of this entire colossus of the military-industrial complex. What made it happen is that he was able to wrap those fewer than 600 votes into his mandate for power."
In the meantime, King's new novel, Lisey's Story, is not a typical piece for the author of such horror classics as The Shining, Salim's Destiny and Misery. The fifty-nine-year-old novelist suddenly decided to tell that he knows a thing or two about love. The new book is about the wife of a famous writer, widowed after twenty-five years of marriage, who, after the death of her husband, begins to parse his documents and reveals the hidden, and I must say, not the most pleasant side of the personality of her other half.
By the way, the writer himself admitted that he believes in monogamy and God, but does not believe in the church: "I believe that sooner or later, at the end of the church service, someone will put a gun to your head."
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