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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
Count me as another who is not a Stephen King fan.
I have enormous respect for him. He is arguably the best at what he does. You can make a case that Stephen King is responsible for Horror being broken out as a separate publishing category. (And I understand he was urged by an agent early on to branch out, and avoid being typecast as a horror writer. His response was roughly "So? That's fine by me! Horror is what I want to write!")
But I don't care for King (or Koontz, Straub, Barker or the rest) because the emotions horror is designed to induce are not ones I like to feel. My SO reads Horror, and occasionally comments "That was a scary book!" And I've no doubt it was, but being scared has never been something I liked or wanted to feel deliberately.
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Dennis
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The Stand is not just a scary book. If you think all he writes is "scary", then I don't think you've read enough of his books.
A lot of his books are more than "scary" although some are just plain "scary" (
Pet Cemetery ).
To me
The Stand is on par with adventures like
The Lord of Rings. It's almost like a biblical story. The biggest things I took away from the book were hope and faith, not just in God but in humankind.