# Things your favorite authors do that annoy you

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**Tags:** books-writing-myths\
**Created:** [June 27, 2025, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-favorite-authors-do-that-annoy-you/1020201 "2025-06-27T17:23:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-your-favorite-authors-do-that-annoy-you/1020201/50 "2025-06-28T18:21:20Z")

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> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#):
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> Not quite that bad, but I read his expanded version of The Stand. I liked parts that he added back in that had been edited out originally, and absolutely HATED where he tried to modernize the story. Those parts felt very ham-handed.

And this reminds me of this:

> [@Reddit users can really bring the funny](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reddit-users-can-really-bring-the-funny/956286/16):
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> Reddit users discussing Stephen King. Someone says he writes like an old man (which he is). Someone provides this example of what it would be like if Mr. King were a bit more current:
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> > The man in black yeeted across the desert, and the gunslinger simped.
> > 
> > The desert hit different, huge, standing to the sky for what looked like eternity in all directions. It was sus and cringe and low-key in need of a glow up.

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