Dragonscales

My gf & I own quite a large chunk of his books, I am currently reading insomnia. As for the talentless hack point, well, I think people who think that either:

1. Haven't read his stuff.

2. Are wankers.

3. A combination of the above.

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frantic_scribbler

I absolutely agree with you Dragonscales. I love his work. There is no way a hack can write that way.

Zassiliss

Wow, you guys too? I've become a horror/science fiction writer because of him and various other authors. His writing is the best thing that happened in the history of everything. Ever.

How much do you want to bet that when he's dead, there'll be lots of books that say things like 'In the tradition of Stephen King' and stuff like that?

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Zassiliss

Let's not forget From a Buick 8. It's one of the greatest monster/secret stories out there.
I especially like the 'man' who left the Buick there, although he only appears in one page.

"oil's Fine!"

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Creative_Insanity

Anyone who calls Stephen King a "hack" obviously knows nothing about writing. I don't mind if people say they don't like his works; horror isn't everyone's thing, and of couse I respect that. But just because you don't enjoy something doesn't mean the writer is "bad". What it means is that your interests and his interests don't collide -- nothing more, nothing less. Gauging your enjoyment of a book and gauging the author's talent are two entirely different things. I've read plenty of books that I didn't like but still greatly respect because of the complexity of the writing. Anyways, back to Stephen King. . . he is a great writer. It takes a whole lot of talent to think up the creative sorts of descriptions he gives.

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Dragonscales

I'm sure you'd be able to find alot of instances where that is already the case.

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brockDXD

Elphaba, that DK book about the scientists in antarctica, i think it's called "Icebound' and i agree it was real bad. I read half of it but it seemed like too much of an attempt at writing a book that played out like a bad action movie. Maybe toward the ending it got better, but i guess i'll never know. 'From the Corner of his Eye' was excellent though, and 'Odd Thomas' is my fav DK. As for his older stuff, how good is 'tears of the dragon'. Now thats a good horror/fantasy.

wait, the subject is stephen king... sorry guys.

Anybody agree that 'The Langoliers' is brilliant. To create several main characters and bring them to life like he did, and his concepts of time travel, i loved it. I only wish i hadn't seen the movie first.

The Black House and Regulators were pretty good too. I thought Buick 8 came close to being a perfect book, but the ending was too sudden or perhaps i just missed something.

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poison2themind

yay, i love the stephen king threads. But I am HUGE Stephen King fan. I have most of his books and i have seen most of the movies.

My favorite books from him would be 'dreamcatcher' 'the stand' and of course, anyone who is a die hard king fan would have to like the Dark Tower series. I am reading 'the song of susanah right now' I think they should start making movies from it too.

My favoite movies from him are 'the stand' 'the shining'(both the new and older versions were good) and 'misery'

I also think it is really funny how ppl still think 'cujo' is scary. It was so stupid! normaly when u think of big scary dogs u dont think of a st bernard, but rather a rotweiler or something.

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demonic_harmonic

I loved the Dark Tower series.


My friends and I drove four hours to Connecticut to sleep on a sidewalk in the freezing air for two nights to get it signed.


And you know what? I think he really could have done a better job on the last one. I'm only about half way through, and it is definitly not the quality the rest of the books were.