Stephen King Slams TWILIGHT Writer

I dont know what it is with all the negative vibes this week but fresh off Christian Bale going bananas we now have Stephen King feeling the need to slam Stephenie Meyer the writer of Twilight. In an interview with USAWeekend he basically calls her a no talent hack when discussing her and the writer of Harry Potter;

Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people...the real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn.  She's not very good....in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. 

It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because they're not overtly sexual.  A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold.  And for girls, that's shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet."

I think we can agree that TWILIGHT is geared towards a certain demographic that probably does not fit Stehen King or his demographi, or even me. That said I dont know what purpose it serves to bash her. It comes off as quite petty and self serving. I am a huge Stephen King fan and could care less for Twilight since I am the wrong demographic but I feel that slamming her in the press without any reason... is just wrong and odd.