A friend suggested I read Salem’s Lot so I did, and I loved it.
Then I read the Dark Tower series, and yes I do mean I slogged through all seven books. I could probably write a whole separate post on that, but the long and the short of it is I thought some parts were fantastic and the storyline as a whole had a lot of promise; however, King’s editor could’ve condensed the good stuff down to two or three books at most (and probably should’ve advised him to lay off the crack).
After that, I made an attempt at Holly. Couldn’t get past the kidnapping scene. The narrative style was incredibly dull and flat.
So, I decided to give it one last shot, and here I am procrastinating finishing The Shining. Now I will admit, I found the story to be engrossing, but again, I don’t care for the narrative style, and on top of that the scary stuff just isn’t…scary. Like, at all. The only part where I felt the slightest twinge off suspense was when Hallorann was driving up the mountain in the middle of a snowstorm. Other than that, I’m left scratching my head as to why so many people consider this to be a masterpiece. To each their own, I guess.
Anyway, I’m done with King.

  • mysteryofthefieryeye@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m pretty much like the OP, I don’t care for King. But after seeing Part 1 of the IT movies (and part 2 hadn’t been released yet), I couldn’t just not know the ending.

    So, it took a while, but I patiently made my way through the book. It was awesome.

    It led me to re-read Pet Sematary, which was nice and atmospheric but otherwise King constantly ruined the mood with his ridiculous interruptions—he is the only author I know that interrupts himself and takes you right out of every scary scene.

    So I was done with him again lol. (Though I did read The Institute … just in case I preferred his newer stuff, and it was tedious.)