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Originally Posted by ~Kate
For non-horror, as others have said, The Dark Tower Series and Eye of the Dragon.
If you get up enough nerve, though, you really have to read " The Stand". A lot of people think it is SK's best. |
The Stand is good up until the end, but it is a classic example of the fact that King doesn't know how to end his stories. He is fantastic at character dialogue, and coming up with interesting ideas for stories, but his third acts almost always disappoint. The Stand has some great characters and is fascinating up until the final battle, which ends in a kind of "WTF?" way.
In fact, 11/22/63 was the first King novel I've read in a while where the ending didn't seem thought up on the spur of the moment. I remember reading in something (might have been "On Writing") that he never has an ending in mind when he starts writing, he doesn't make an outline or a spreadsheet or anything, he just starts writing and lets the stories go where they want to go. Which might explain why his third acts suck.
This all makes it seem like I hate King's books, but I have read most of them and enjoy them a lot. It just annoys me when I read one of his books where he clearly wrote 500 pages and then said "how the eff do I end this thing?"