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becca69
06-03-2012, 04:37 AM
This article is featured on CNN.com this morning:

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/02/the-gospel-of-stephen-king/?hpt=hp_c1

Shannon
06-03-2012, 07:11 AM
An interesting read, and I do feel that there is a lot of religious/faith themes in a lot of his works. But at the same time, if you look closely at anything and twist what you see, you can see just about anything in just about anything, lol. :)

jhanic
06-03-2012, 08:19 AM
The quotation in the first paragraph was not King's--it was originally from Robert Block (author of, among many others, Psycho.)

John

Shannon
06-03-2012, 09:47 AM
Yes, but he DID steal it for his own use, lol.

RichardX
06-04-2012, 10:56 AM
In a very broad sense - maybe. There are certainly elements of good vs evil which is classic religious storyline, but I don't get the feeling King is a believer in organized religion or attempts to convey that in his books. Simply that there is some greater power at work.

BROWNINGS CHILDE
06-04-2012, 04:40 PM
I've always felt that the Green Mile was a Christ metaphor, but I never made the connection with John Coffey's initials. Interesting.

jhanic
06-04-2012, 05:09 PM
I noticed the initials when I read the first book.

John