What is your honest opinion on Stephen King?
>>8186345
Pleb clusterfuck.
>>8186345
My opinion is that King is going to die this year, because a number of other B-list cultural figure types (and could still trade on their names) who had their best successes in the 70s and 80s yet were still active, have already died this year: Scalia, Prince, Bowie, Alan Rickman,
King was great (for his league) back in his hay-day, there seemed to be a real underlying psychological plumbing of the depths of the average man's dark nature because of his writing style. After his car accident I noticed a striking difference in his writing style and everything I've read post-accident has just left a bad taste in my mouth (never finished Dark Tower because of that) and I just can't read him anymore, not that I was an avid reader of his in the first place.
travesty
>>8186345
He's alright, had some good stuff and some bad.
On Writing is actually good.
he isn't good by any of the standards that make someone /lit/-approved.
But he has a lot of goddamn feeling, and that counts for something. 11/22/63 wrecked me, senpai.
For what he is, he is great. He's a better writer when he thinks smaller: Salem's Lot, Pet Sematary, Misery... those are good when you consider what they are. Dark Tower, The Stand... Not so much.
>>8186345
good concepts that are poorly executed
>>8186345
>Wish I wrote as much, but no interest in the genre.