That’s pretty much true across the board regardless of the subject being critiqued.
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Other than the usual stuff (It, The Stand, Carrie), the King books I love but most people seem to dislike are The Regulators and Insomnia. I thought both to be brilliant, yet people don’t seem to agree with that in general :(
Another seriously underrated King book is The Eyes of the Dragon, but at least that one…
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon is one of my favorite King books. It was different from so many of his others.
You make that book sound good, lol!
Horns is good but very sad. I liked NOS4A2, but I know a lot of people did not. The Fireman is great, but a helluva doorstopper.
Misery’s pretty damned horrific. Great movie, too. But it’s not supernatural, if that’s what you mean.
Something I realized very early on, like when I was in middle school or so, is that King has no shit-filter. He’s written great books and really bad ones, but often you’ll find awful bullshit in otherwise good novels, like the pre-teen gangbang in It (seriously, Uncle Steve, WTF?), or a novel that starts out…
Thanks for posting this—seriously. I started and stopped several different comments and just decided not to get drawn in. “It’s shit” is not even valid criticism.
See also, another famous George:
Ha! This is the only book of his that I absolutely hated with a passion, and I’ve read everything he’s written except for the fantasy stuff and the latest novel, which I should get to next month.
No writer produces excellent stuff every time they create something. Some stuff will be good, some stuff will be great, and some will be awful. However, King has the recognition and the audience that many amateur authors (such as myself) wish they had. It’s up to his audience to decide whether his work is good or not,…
King has some terrible, terrible stories that I as a fan haven’t been able to finish - I’d count From a Buick 8, Cujo, Tommyknockers, and Dreamcatcher among them.
However, he also has some of the downright most brilliant fantasy/horror books ever written, among which you can (and should) count IT, The Stand, The Eyes…
What really bums me out is that this entire thread is filled with people talking about how much both these guys “suck”.
Assuming it’s shit, he still writes that shit really quickly. I’d say it’s not shit, but that he just needs a better editor. I’ve read The Dark Tower twice and love every word, but those books just get bigger and bigger.
That’s actually mostly wrong. Martin has admitted he’s a “gardener” and not an “architect” as a writer. What he means by that is he doesn’t really plot things out ahead of time, he just sees what happens.
I thought It came out OK. Tim Curry!
Holy shit on a popsicle stick.
Are you fucking kidding me? This would make me boycott CNN if I didn’t already never watch CNN.
How white men get hired. Just fail and have a clear record of being an idiot, mistreat women, back a racist bigot... and you’ll be hired within one week to go on national television every day.