he's legitimately awful
>>24880354Truly an innovative post. I wish more /lit/izens made unique high quality threads like this.
His style is good and he even has some great ideas, but his books are regularly dragged down by their own length. IT would be a masterpiece if it weren't for the hundreds of pages dedicated to bullshit like Beverly's anime villain husband and the closeted homosexual bully.
>>24880371Whats his best page for page work?
>>24880354*sells more books than you**sells more books than his genre slop contemporaries**is the basis for yet another successful film*Keep coping OP, im sure youll show him any day now
>>24881011>DUDE HE MADE MORE MONEY THAN YOU SO HE'S BETTER LMAO
>>24881050No one will remember anything you have written.
>>24880354I thought that was Jim Jones for a second
>>24880380The gunslinger
>>24881269It was awful.
>>24881275The question wasn't is it good
>>24880354Who is this 70s country singer?
>>24881050>DUDE I AM BETTER THAN MY OBJECTIVE SUPERIORS BY A PRIVATE METRIC I ESTABLISHED FOR THE PURPOSES OF COPING
>>24881050>>24882401By your logic Sarah J Maas is one of the greatest writers of all time and we should all kneel to romantasyslop for female gooners.
i live by one of his beach homes and when i was a teenager he came into the movie theater my friend worked in to watch a movie and they said he stood up and clapped loudly and whistled after an explosion scene. i wish i could remember the movie. i just asked my friend. it was final destination 2.
>>24880354I used to enjoy King a lot as a teen. Not all his books, but there were a few I loved. As an adult, I attempted to reread a couple classics and just realised I couldn't do it. His writing style is like a redditor's stream of consciousness with random mundane details interjected. I tried reading Richard Matheson this year but couldn't due to the writing being proto-King. >>24880380Misery, The Body or Salems' Lot.
>>24880371I noticed this pattern with movies as well. Horror shorts are great. Horror movies are terrible.
love night shift and skeleton crew
>>24880380Pet Semetary for horror. The Running Man for adventure/scifi. The Drawing of Three for fantasy. The Stand for epic (but I personally like It more). Dolores Claiborne for melodrama.
>>248803542/3 the way through Salems Lot I'm enjoying it. Makes me want to visit small town Maine
No he's pretty good, but I'm reading the dark tower books now and I'm not getting much out of them. The cosmology and setting are interesting but there are other books for me to be reading. I already read a bunch of his stuff when I was a teenager which is the perfect time to do that, I suppose.
>>24880354He never claimed to be Proust. It probably would show a certain immaturity to remain enamored of him beyond one's 20s, but jealousy, and bitterness show immaturity just as well.That being said, he IS another gate keeping boomer propping up unpalatable, unmarketable DEI drek with no apparent purpose other than insuring a steady flow of royalty checks be delivered to his mouldering body as Hollywood continues to rewrite rewrites and adaptions. This admittedly makes him wholly contemptible and worthy of scorn... but it's that, not as much his writing.
Yep. I read Salems Lot because he claimed it was his best book. At the end I just couldn’t believe that was the whole story it was barely even interesting at all.He is popular because his books are easy to make into movies and there are a million of them.
Read King.
