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Originally Posted by miguel1626
But I'm probably in the minority here, since I actually liked Tommyknockers and Christine  |
I've never heard anyone have anything bad to say about either of those books. I think I read
Tommyknockers three times as a teenager. Dreamcatcher seemed like largely a retread of the same premise (alien possession), and I'd throw it together with
Cell and
Under the Dome as being almost nothing but a premise, with forgettable characters and none of the "resonance" the article linked in the OP talks about.
Personally I think King had his duds in the '70s and '80s, too.
The Shining and
The Dead Zone were dull, wandering and maudlin, and
Firestarter was just okay. I'm not sure if I've read
Cycle of the Werewolf, though I thought I'd read all his stuff up through the early 'aughts. Looking at his
bibliography, there was a long dull spell after
Needful Things broken up by
Dark Tower books, but otherwise mostly misses until he hit his stride again around 2008 (though I haven't read
Lisey's Story, and some people liked it quite a bit).