/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22012500]

Does this faggot have anything that's worth reading?

[Anonymous No.22012504]

No — I’ve tried a few of his “but really, they’re good!” novels and I don’t find them redeeming. This coming from a guy who really enjoys pulp/genre fiction. He is bad at the hallmarks of solid genre fiction (efficient characterization, plotting etc).

[Anonymous No.22012506]

>>22012500
Running Man was okay but not great. Still better than all the other shlock he wrote. But not worth reading.

[Anonymous No.22012510]

>>22012500
the first half of the stand is enjoyable

[Anonymous No.22012511]

>>22012500
No.

[Anonymous No.22012527]

Nope

[Anonymous No.22012545]

>>22012500
this was his high-water mark in my opinion.
people underestimate his capacity for crap ideas like haunted classic cars and oooooh 'murder' spelled backwards is 'redrum' oooohhhh scary... and his prose in my opinion is just the ramblings of a unedited blue-collar bore.... (workin' hard or hardly workin!?? yuk yuk yuk...)

[Anonymous No.22012549]

>>22012545
pic didn't attach :/
Different Seasons

[Anonymous No.22012556]

Salem's Lot was pretty good

[Anonymous No.22012570]

>>22012500
None. He is good at coming up with cool premises but he fucking sucks at developing those ideas.

[Anonymous No.22012711]

Just like JK Rowling, Stephen King is a front for a cabal cultural manipulation project.

[Anonymous No.22012890]

Schlock for normalfags and redditors

[Anonymous No.22012898]

his novels are too long for basic themes

[Anonymous No.22013098]

>>22012500
I remember reading It back in early high school and thinking to myself "this is shit." Had it not been for the movies, he really would have been another hack writer. Even Cujo, which I thought was good at times, had a stupid side plot about the wife being a cheater and how her ex-lover trashed her house and came in her bed while the family was away.

[Anonymous No.22013121]

>>22012500
The Mist and The Long Walk are kino
The first couple of books for the Dark Tower were pretty good.
The first 4/5 of The Stand is really good.
You get the pattern. He starts out fairly strong and then shits the bed. Typically when he introduces himself as a character.

[Anonymous No.22013137]

>>22012504
/thread

[Anonymous No.22013143]

>>22012504
Gimme some pulp reccs bro

[Anonymous No.22013170]

>>22012500
I'm from Maine and I came across Stevie King a few times. Once I went trick or treating at my aunt's in Bangor and another time I ran into him in a small mom/pop corner store buying pickles I think.

[Anonymous No.22013185]

>>22012500
I once wiped my ass with a copy of The Shining while staying at a hotel. They were not out of toilet paper.

[Anonymous No.22013249]

>>22012500
He starts strong and writes and writes and keeps writing and then he gets to a point where he realizes he's running out of gas so he just wraps things up abruptly. At least that's how I remember the couple books of his I read. He's got a strange mind, like a creepy guy you wouldn't want around your kids.

[Anonymous No.22013259]

>>22012500
1922 - A short story is actually the best one from him. No cap. No lie.

[Anonymous No.22013286]

>>22012500

[Anonymous No.22013329]

Like others have said, his first few horror books are good (Carrie, Salem's Lot, Shining) as well as some others (Pet Sematary) but like this anon said >>22012898 he gets very long winded and his style gets tiring after a while. A book like The Dark Half could've been 100 pages shorter and you wouldn't have missed anything. Kind of a one trick pony.
I will admit The Outsider was a good page turner from what I remember but I also like those schlocky crime whodunnit type books.
I've also heard his real strong point is his short stories but I've never read them

[Anonymous No.22013675]

Christine is a good. I prefer lit fiction over commercial and it has that explores complex themes vibe from the first paragraph. I only read the first paragraph though. Also, I don’t read.

[Anonymous No.22013683]

>>22013098
>how her ex-lover trashed her house and came in her bed while the family was away.

sigma male grindset

[Anonymous No.22013688]

Misery is the best of his I've read. Pet Sematary and The Shining scared the shit out of me but were slogs overall. Carrie is good but a bit simplistic, which makes sense since it was his first book. I want to read 11/22/63 some day because it's more of a science fiction book and so different from his usual ouevre, but it's too long to read so I'll probably listen to it on audio.

[Anonymous No.22013689]

>>22012500
No. It's all slop designed for boomer tastes.

[Anonymous No.22013690]

>>22013121
it has long been a meme that his endings suck.

he needs supernatural forces to bring characters together for one big finish.
i.e. the ghost helping in pet cemetery. the esp in shining. God's instructions in the stand

[Anonymous No.22013695]

>>22012545
That's the classic boomer birthright - the ability to go full steam ahead with a fucking stupid idea that anyone else would be embarrassed to put out there.

[Anonymous No.22013706]

>>22013098
He always includes these weird ham-fisted characters with pronounced sexual perversions that take up an inordinate amount of attention. It's almost like he feels compelled to include them as a mark of "mature writing" or something.

[Anonymous No.22013711]

>>22013185
I once wiped my ass with toilet paper while staying at a hotel. They were out of copies of The Shining.

[Anonymous No.22013723]

>>22012500
Pet Sematary is my favorite October reread, Mist is a good novella, but other than those I can’t recommend anything else. Shining and IT both have some remarkable/memorable passages, but there’s far too much padding with the most midwitted prose you can imagine. King’s short stories are often praised but I can’t recall being impressed by any of them despite finishing two collections.

[Anonymous No.22013951]

His books always weird sex fetish stuff

[Anonymous No.22013990]

>>22012500
No.

[Anonymous No.22014077]

>>22012500
Salems lot and Christine are the two I enjoyed of his. Couple of his short stories can be very entertaining.

[Anonymous No.22014091]

>>22012504
His prose is gunk and his plotting is pretty unspectacular but his characterization is solid and arguably what has made him stick out above other schlock writers. Each character is quite unique and fleshed-out and that’s what draws readers in and makes them care about the story so much

[Anonymous No.22014205]

>>22013259
1922.
About a farmer murdering his wife. Grim story. I can see why Stephen King is hailed as a good author from this piece. A melancholic work.

[Anonymous No.22014322]

Plz recommend me some boomercore. Like steven king but actually good. Not necesarily terror, just boomer mentality.

[Anonymous No.22014324]

What's the difference between schlock and slop?

[Anonymous No.22014576]

>>22012500
He's a good and popular writer, there's no point in asking /lit/ if he's worth reading. Also, you dumb asshole, just fucking read something of his and decide for yourself whether you wanna keep reading his work or not, no one, especially not anyone here, is gonna know whether you, a random asshole, is gonna like his books or not, I fucking hate motherfuckers that come on here and ask if someone is worth reading or not, everyone has a different opinion and motherfuckers on here hate anything popular so there's no point in asking, everyone on here is a contrarian which actually cancels them out, making them one in the same which no longer makes any of them contrarians, just pick up something by him that really short and decide for yourself, holy fuck.

[Anonymous No.22014600]

>>22014576
Eat the dick

[Anonymous No.22014847]

>>22012500
i enjoyed The Shining, The Long Walk, and most of the short stories from Nightmares & Dreamscapes. his style lends a lot better to short stories, in my opinion, given how gimmicky most of his stories are.

[Anonymous No.22014881]

>>22012570
>He is good at coming up with cool premises
name 3
>but he fucking sucks at developing those ideas
probably has something to do with the fact he "writes" a book in a few weeks

[Anonymous No.22014915]

>>22013690
>it has long been a meme that his endings suck.
this is because he, and everyone else who writes "by the seat of their pants", is undisciplined and doesnt put any thought intp their writing. they fucking sit down for a day, shit something out as fast as they can, then leave it and come back the next day. there is no continuity, no plan. they think they have some mystical ability to 'feel' a story out , but they just say that to justify their laziness

[Anonymous No.22014941]

His short stories and novellas are where he really shines. Different Seasons is amazing. Night Shift, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Skeleton Crew, and Four Past Midnight are proof that King needs a condensed narrative.

I do admit some of his novels like Firestarter and Cycle of the Werewolf are good reads that don't typically meander like he usually does.

[Anonymous No.22015242]

>>22012500
Dragoneye was decent desu

[Anonymous No.22016530]

The Gunslinger and Carrie were pretty good

[Anonymous No.22016604]

I like his pre accident stuff. After that happened he suffered brain damage and forgot how to write compelling narrative

[Anonymous No.22016611]

No. Nothing Stephen King wrote is worth reading.
>What about The Shining?
the movie is better
>What about The Dark Tower series?
the ending is shit
>What about his new novels?
Hahahahaha

[Anonymous No.22016665]

>>22013098
Began reading his book about trying to stop the Kennedy assassination. All that stuff about tailing Lee Harvey Oswald is brilliant. All the shit about the protagonist finding a progressive school, changing kids lives with a school play, and being so good with sex he’s giving the young divorcee the first orgasms of her life (but her last husband was OCD and never consummated the marriage so you know she’s pure - I stopped reading after a while. He needed the editor to strip 90% that bollocks out and just give us a spy thriller. I don’t want to read horny old Stephen Kings sexual fantasy rambles.

[Anonymous No.22016754]

>>22014091
>Each character is quite unique and fleshed-out and that’s what draws readers in and makes them care about the story so much
Right and that's why readers really like Proust too, a real crowd pleaser Proust, because people just love their good characters being developed well developed well fleshed out. Fuck off, he's liked cause he writes easily digestible cliches and idiots like to think of themselves as readers.

[Anonymous No.22016830]

>>22015242
His only book I've read.
>he goes on and one about the venomous spider
>doesn't use it after all
>deadly gas sand from death desert instead
>gotta wait for the wind to harvest it or die lol

Uh...okay, I guess.

[Anonymous No.22017554]

>>22013286
I remember when he got big under his own name and the Richard Bachman were reprinted as Stephen King, he gave Richard Bachman a backstory and it was miserable shit like how his son died after falling down a well and drowning and how Bachman died in 1985. What a edgy hack.

[Anonymous No.22017559]

>>22016665
> I don’t want to read horny old Stephen Kings sexual fantasy rambles.
Same.

[Anonymous No.22017585]

>>22016665
>>22017559
There is no goat quite like an old goat.

[Anonymous No.22017590]

>>22017585
Stephen King, is that you? You sound like him. The cryptic writing, the endless metaphor. Symbolism.

[Anonymous No.22017613]

I liked Desperation. Also, The Stand was so laboriously boring that I quit it multiple times.

[Anonymous No.22017618]

>>22013121
The Mist is decent but the movie has a much better ending

[Anonymous No.22017630]

>>22012500
'It' was pretty cool. One of the few books where I sincerely enjoyed every single page. It is emotional, funny at times and has a scene where all the boys bang the girl before the first boss fight. Cool shit.

Shining is also good. Its especially better than the Kubrick movie..

The Stand, if you're into pandemic and apokalypse themes. But I recommend the abriged version. The chapters featured in the extended edition are boring as fuck and almost ruined it for me..

The Dark Tower series if you are into fantasy cowboy stuff.

[Anonymous No.22017633]

>>22017630
Imagine gang banging the girl from the movie
>The Dark Tower series if you are into fantasy cowboy stuff
You have never read these books

[Anonymous No.22017638]

>>22017618
Ive seen the movie when I was twelve. The ending shocked me so hard l, I had to watch several Family Guy episodes to calm down. Good times

[Anonymous No.22017640]

>>22012500
The only book I read of his was The Stand but I loved it

[Anonymous No.22018025]

I just finished Pet Sematary - the first book of his I've read - and was shocked by how shit it was. He just repeats himself again and again and just vomits paragraphs of pointless text on the page. Throughout I was itching for a red pen. I reckon you could do an aggressive edit on that book, cut out around 200 pages, and drastically improve it.

[Anonymous No.22018123]

>>22012500
He's garbage

[Anonymous No.22018128]

>>22012500
The movies are better than the books in this case. At least for all the ones I've read so far.

[Anonymous No.22018310]

>>22012898
Based borgianchad.
Short stories FTW

[Anonymous No.22018316]

>>22013951
>oh but it's ok when lovecraft and poe put weird sex fetish stuff

[Anonymous No.22018323]

Literally, I think that Lovecraft wrote better action scenes, and Lovecraft isn't precisely known for his good action scenes.
Also, why is his nose so fucking small, bros?

[Anonymous No.22018377]

>>22012500
His book about writing isn't so bad. As I recall it opens with something along the lines of: "books about writing are dumb, so the least I could do was make this one as short as possible."

[Anonymous No.22018518]

>>22012500
His books are hit or miss for me. A lot of his newer books he gets a bit preachy and that can get annoying, but the books where he doesn't try to shoehorn in politics are fine.
The main problem with King is he huffs way too much of his own cum and thinks he is a better writer than he actually is so ever since he got famous he refuses to let his books be edited. Almost every single novel could stand to lose at least 100 pages or so and they would only be better for it.

[Anonymous No.22018540]

no it's all shit
there's a reason why his adaptation mogs his novels

[Anonymous No.22018545]

>>22012500
I enjoyed Apt Pupil

[Anonymous No.22018574]

>>22017633
I did read It and the first two volumes of The dark tower series. Well okay the cowboy stuff part only really fits the first book

[Anonymous No.22018671]

I wish the Pet Semetary movie had the scene from the book where reanimated Gage tells Judd that his wife let his buddies fuck her in the ass.

[Anonymous No.22018683]

>>22018574
Lol it doesn't fit any of the books
Immediately after the first book Roland goes into other people's bodies after losing his fingers to alien lobsters
If anything he spends more time being a black woman in a wheel chair than he does being a "cowboy"
The first time he does anything cowboy related isn't until the fourth book and it's in a FLASHBACK
You have no fucking clue what you're talking about

[Anonymous No.22018695]

>>22018316
Yes, because atleast they can write a decent plot and ending to their stories.

[Anonymous No.22018721]

>>22018540
The special effects are not the plot.

[Anonymous No.22020002]

>>22012510
I agree. It really goes to shit later on, unfortunately. The first sentence of The Gunslinger is good: 'the man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed'.