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Uhh.. the Regulators and Desperation. I like that kind of horror - the unknowable Lovecraftian sort of thing.
Preferred Desperation, though, as I found it overall to be a stronger narrative.
His short stories are his best work because it gets rid of his biggest flaw, which is his inability to be succinct.
If he's operating under specific constraints he tells some tightly-written narratives, but as soon as he's allowed to make his books as long as he wants... he goes on for far, far too long.
It was great, for about 55% of the book. The other 45% was completely unnecessary and superfluous.
And then realizing that some idiot had ripped out the last chunk of the book. I assume it had a bittersweet ending, as all King books seem to do.
Although, for a week afterwards, I jumped whenever someone near me coughed. I especially liked the progression of the illness, and how it affected society, as opposed to the aftermath.
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Yeah that was a head-scratcher.
Its a flaw in King's writing technique. He never outlines anything, so he's basically making it up as he goes along. Its amazing he's produced so many good novels with that.
oh I did read one of the shorts from Night Watch about a dude who finds a bunch of mutated rats in his office building that then eat him? I kind of admired its very straightforward trajectory.
Oh also I read the first Dark Tower book; somewhat interesting, not engaging enough to get me to actively seek out the next one
maybe some day
I remember it feeling surprisingly disjointed and episodic, but not in an altogether bad way
and I didn't really care for the flashbacks and all that went on at gunslinger U as much as I did for the rest of the book
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I love Stephen King.
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there's also that middle third that just loses me every fucking time
joe hill owns though
joe hill is basically stephen king without the things that king does that make me nuts
yes. yes this. this is it.
His short stories are really good
I particularly liked the autopsy one
I think maybe they are not for me
(No I'm kidding but really that is apparently just a genre I don't enjoy)
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
Now replace some nouns and you could be talking about Sonic the Hedgehog
I agree with this. Something changed at some point though, because some of his later stuff is straight-up forgettable
From a Buick 8 just doesn't stick in my mind.
Then later he bludgeons you about the face with it. Which I also enjoy, so it works out.
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I like where this is going
"Sandra's favourite movie is escape from new York because she cries when magpie and brain die because they will never be together." HAIL SATAN
I enjoyed the Kennedy stuff, but it did slow the book down in places. Loved it as a whole, though.
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The Tommyknockers was really weird and rambly, but wasn't King writing that as some sort of therapy and it's a big analogue to addiction?
I think I read Cujo but all I remember is that the dog is evil and it may have died at the end.