You do have a King shelf, don't you?
>>24682656I only ever read The Stand and dropped it when it became some boring shit about GOOD VS EVIL instead of a comfy fall of man story
I can not put into words how much I dislike his rambling boring writing style.To even read a single page of it tries my patience to the extreme and I for the life of me can't see why people legitimately enjoy his work. Bloated boring bullshit that never gets to the fucking point until I am far too annoyed and bored to care anymore. If I was offered one of his books for free I would be offended as if insulted. Fuck Steven King.
>>24682673He does say he doesn't plot his books out he just writes until he's found a storyline. Obviously you don't like it, but it strikes me as pretty lazy and not thoughtful, directed literature. No real craft to it and almost no meaning.
>>24682656duma key is peak comfy brehs
I would never reread a king book
>>24682656I used to have a whole shelf of Stephen King when I was in high school. Ended up donating them all because I found very little value in re-reading them. They're fun, one-off stories except for the weird sexual tangents they all seem to contain that add nothing to the plot; it's like during every book he wrote he was just all plugged up one day and was like "AND THEN THEY HAD SEEXXX!"
Recs for a King book that is really out there like The Langoliers?
>>24682656I liked some of his stuff about 40 years ago when I was young, dumb and impressionable which is his focus audience
>>24682673>If I was offered one of his books for free…you would meekly accept it and start cursing under your breath when the giver was out of earshot. I can’t imagine being offended by a book, especially if I thought it was shit. Bad books are hilarious.
>king has written more books that any anon has read
>>24682656>no Christine Nigga
>>24683534No the fuck I wouldn't. Do speak for me.Also bad books more often than not are boring and annoying, not funny. King books included.
>>24683653That bookshelf is filled with duplicates. ~157 books on the shelf and King has written ~70 books total. Why would you buy duplicate Stephen King novels of all books?
>>24682656Yes of course.
>>24682656I prefer Wayne King.
>>24683534>Bad books are hilarious.No, they are just a waste of time.
>>24682946Revival
>>24682673It's literally all plot and no purpose. Like literally he just writes to entertain and it becomes painfully boring. You never gain from a King novel, it's just pointless shock and awe.
No. I don't own books. I only read them on my phone.
Why would I read pornographic drivel written by a coke addict for middle-aged midwestern women?
>>24683653>>24683912King books have many editions, some quite valuable and his superfans have a tendency to buy them over and over. It’s a bit like Swifties a special cult of people. He’s even written about their obsessiveness, Misery was partially inspired by it and that was early, but also essays on fan harassment, getting medical problems with his arms from endless signing conventions with entitled fans and of course the stalker with a (fake) bomb showing up at his home incident. I should say most things on that shelf look like trash though. There are genuinely nice editions by Cemetery Dance, Folio Society is doing a series of them, Centipede Press did a few, Suntup did Misery at least. >>24682673>>24684123I always recommend you start with the short fiction since his biggest problem is word vomit. Being constrained he makes really quite good work. A large chunk of his adaptation in movies and tv are from short stories and novellas.
>>24682656To be honest, I've read about 4 or 5 of his books, and his short story "The Jaunt" was the only thing of his that I found to be worthwhile. The Jaunt was good though, nice little sci-fi horror short story, tightly written.
>>24682656>You do have a King shelf, don't you?Of course I do
>>24684530>not sorted as a timelineThis makes me very upset and I hate you.
>>24684578The Henry III books are too fucking big so I couldn't get it to fit right.
>>24684590What did you learn about Henry III from that double volume bio? Like deep cut shit only available there and not a book a third the size?
>>24684606As far as I can say it covers everything possible. Economic, political, religious and even a bit on architecture of his reign
>>24682656Are his books even good? I just assumed they were slop of webnovel quality
>>24682656Yeah and it's two shelves. I was a big fan, when I was younger. I've gradually moved them all down and back, into a corner of the house, as his writing and retarded public rantings get more and more embarrassing.
>>24685230Depends. As a storyteller, he's a fucking master at fleshing out characters and their backstories. As a writer? He can't get a single fucking date, detail, historical fact, or timeline correct.
>>24682673>To even read a single page of it tries my patience to the extreme and I for the life of me can't see why people legitimately enjoy his work.This but for ASOIAF books
>>24685631>As a writer? He can't get a single fucking date, detail, historical fact, or timeline correct.What does any of that have to do with writing?
But why would I pledge a whole shelf to shitty writing? Even if I had a library the size of Alexandria I wouldn't yield one inch to that hack.
Avoid this. Couple of good stories, rest are garbage
>>24685984Never heard of this. It's basically an authorized collection of The Stand fanfiction?
>>24686161Guess what
>read Pet Sematary>it's OK, but I couldn't get into it>read the Dark Tower series>sucked. the first book was neat, though it went downhill fast (with exception of the train bit)>read Salems Lot>also suckedI'm curious about It and Under the Dome, though I'm sure they'll suck
>>24685637You're clinically retarded
>>24686161Just got published>>24686311>Salem's Lot sucksYOU SUCKTry It
>>24682656As someone who liked Stephen King as a teenager, I am thoroughly repulsed by him these days. He can convey dread and horror well enough (I still remember the lady in the bathtub in The Shining), but he inevitably goes off on retarded tangents that don't add to the book. I think IT is probably the best example of a traditional shitty King book. Dread like the scene with the girl of the group reliving her childhood, but also they got high and saw a magic space turtle and all had a gangbang. The fact that this book has been made into a popular film that 90% of the audience doesn't know features these elements only goes to show that in order to get a decent story from him, you have to cut out the retarded bits. Do you think it would be nearly as popular if people knew these details? How the girl "felt like she was flying" getting railed by the boys one after the other? Oh sure, they're "losing their innocence", whatever you need to say to get the gangbang in there. That is a product of a sick mind and we should not encourage this pederastic faggot
If I want to read the ramblings of a closet homosexual who makes up for his insecurities by flying to little Saint Jeff’s to touch kids, I’ll read the big man himself thank you
Chilled out outside today and read Pet Sematary. King is good fiction for enjoying the fresh air.
>>24683534>Bad books are hilarious.You’re too irreverent concerning your limited time.p on this earth.
>>24682656Never read a king novel. Never will. Simple as.
>>24685954Those little details can link a story to the actual world and make it more acceptable. Each time he fucks up, it's like a car, traveling smoothly, at 60mph, only to have the driver repeatedly smack the brake pedal.
I don't collect books, I steal them on the internet and read them on my e reader
Itt the usual failures comparing about a man who's 1000000000x more successful than they will ever be AND actually wrote a book ppl like. Shocker
>>24682673>Fuck Steven Kingexactly. I posted a thread over a year ago, where I said this dude King has written 80 books, but has he written one great sentence? it got a ton of replies but not a single person even tried to post one of his sentences>>24682677>He does say he doesn't plot his books out he just writes until he's found a storyline. Obviously you don't like it, but it strikes me as pretty lazy and not thoughtful, directed literature. No real craft to it and almost no meaningCormac and Don DeLillo both say they never plot things out, so I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is Stephen King has a massive philtrum which indicates fetal alcohol syndrome,and tiny little beady eyes with no humanity in them, and to top it off he completely abandoned any shred of artistic integrity he might have had by leveraging his own namesake to be a hyperpartisan retard on Twitter. he's simply not an artist.
>>24687359>actually wrote a book ppl likewho gives a fuck what books "ppl" like. you're on a literature board. 99% of books are not literature. if standards bother you, you might enjoy r/books
>>24682656I have it and the stand
>>24686311Read Misery and The Shining.
>>24685984>couple good storiesThat’s every fucking anthology ever made mate. If you wanna be useful tell us the good ones so we can read them. Nobody’s buying this shit here anyways.
>>24687456Cry about it, faggot. It's a metric. You insecure bitch
>>24688452>every fucking anthology everStephen Jones's Best New Horror series was an exception, it had only couple of bad ones in every volume
