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Originally Posted by JD Gumby
Stephen King needs no defense. Except when it comes to the decreasing quality of his work starting in the 90s...
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I wouldn't call it a decrease in quality, just a complication of his style to reflect broadening influences. It's probably the reason I can still read King whereas most of the horror/thriller authors I read in high school have lost all appeal. I haven't read everything King's put out in the past ten years or so, but I've read some good ones, including Duma Key, Full Dark No Stars, 11/22/63 and The Wind Through the Keyhole. I enjoyed From a Buick 8 quite a bit, too, though I wouldn't rate it among his best work. Even Cell and Under the Dome, which I would call two of his worse novels, still had B-movie entertainment value.
Dreamcatcher, though, was pretty awful. It was just wandering, muddled schmaltz. I actually liked the movie better than the book, probably for everything they cut out.