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What's the consensus on him here?

>> No.13780523

>>13780401
Uncanny face, looks like the Grinch.

>> No.13780534

Don't you mean the general consensus?

>> No.13780539

>>13780401
The only writer so bad the movies adapted from his books are regularly better than the books themselves.

>> No.13781956

>>13780534
Yes, I am dumb as fuck

>> No.13781977

>>13780401
The literary equivalent to reality TV; it can be fun and easy to indulge in, but you won't get much out of it. His work ethic is more admirable than the actual work.
>>13780539
Oh, god. That's embarrassing.
>The Shining
>"but muh characters!"

>> No.13782017

>>13780401
His best book is Pet Semetary. Salem's Lot is also good. Check out Revival if you want his really dragged out but decent take on Lovecraft.

>>13780539
Interestingly all the adaptations for Pet Semetary are garbage.

>> No.13782023

At some point an author may write so much that they become an average writer just based on quantity.

He's the average writer.

>> No.13782026

>>13780401
Stephen King read a couple Bradbury short stories and Something Wicked This Way Comes and wanted to copy him. Then he realized that actually trying with his prose would slow down production, so he replaced it with sex and put the same copy-pasted shota into like a third of his stories in order to seem more "mature".

>> No.13782035

theres no consensus because we are all individuals

>> No.13782165

he's alright, but you're not getting anything out of his works besides mildly entertaining plot. here's your consensus.

>> No.13782189

>>13780401
Hes not as bad as people make him out to be, but he is primarily a plot driver. Which is fine if you're only reading for entertainment. Hes kinda like the Dickens of the modern era in that sense, hes just writing to churn out as many books as possible and make as much money as possible.

He cant be disregarded, he definitely has a lot of influence in the horror genre, and maybe some of his work has some literary merit, primarily It and The Shining. But overall I'm not really a fan, there are too many better writers out there to bother with all of his work.

>> No.13782324

>>13782017
>Interestingly all the adaptations for Pet Semetary are garbage.
Because pet semetary is unsalvageable. They would have to give it to Orson Welles or something.

>> No.13782327

I suspect people who write him off completely haven’t ever read his books.

Some of his short stories and early novels are great, the problem is he gets carried away sometimes and just writes too much. You could tear four hundred pages out The Stand and it wouldn’t make much difference to the story.

>> No.13782355

>>13780401
His short stories and early novels are great.

He's hated here though. But then again this is a board obsessed by dead Eastern faggots and "classics" some no-name university lecturer dictates.

>> No.13782525

the JK rowling of horror and one of the most overhyped writers.

Graham Masterton and Guy N. Smith are way better than this living speed bump

>> No.13782532

>>13782327
I used to be a stephen king fan before I started getting back into paperback horror and realized that those books, while granted vary in quality, are far more entertaining, unpretentious and interesting than anything King has written

>> No.13782927

>>13782525
>Guy N. Smith
Beyond based.

Unironically one of my fav writers.

>> No.13782962

Nobooks pleb here. IT is my favorite book of all time. Where do I go from there?

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13783383

>>13782017
>Check out Revival if you want his really dragged out but decent take on Lovecraft.

Compare Revival and Desperation, and miscellaneous remarks in his other books. Does King believe in God, vel non.

>> No.13783710

>>13780401
massive pervert and crackhead with overly-long books

>> No.13784446

>>13780401
amazing storyteller

>> No.13784900

>>13780401
Only novel of his I read was the Shining, I thought it was pretty boring. His short stories are alright though, not gonna blow your socks off or anything, but good enough time killers.

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13785590

I'd say he belongs in "that" list

>> No.13785608

>>13784900
The film is definitely better with The Shining.

I haven’t read a Stephen King book for nearly fifteen years. I went through a phase as a young teenager where I must have read about twenty of his books though. I remember Misery was great and Quitters Inc. a brilliant wee short story.

>> No.13785739

King was my entrypoint into /lit/ when I was a teen. Some of his ideas are solid but it's 80% padding and useless shit. The endings are always shit too.
Reading so much of his books and soldiering through the dark tower series bullshit made me stop reading altogether for 2 years I think.
Still enjoyed Duma Key a lot for some reason.

GRRM is an other criticized mainstream author but at least there is not many wasted words. He's not binge writing for the sake of it.