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InlawBiker · 03-15-2009, 07:41 PM

I've been a Steven King fan for a long time, but I can think of several of his novels that could stand to have a couple hundred pages removed and they'd be better.

I've always thought of him as the ultimate "what if" writer. As in, he'll be driving down the road one day and suddenly think to himself, "what if all of the cars on the road suddenly came alive and tried to kill us." Then he goes on to write it.

But I also think he sometimes suffers from rambling along through the middle parts of the novel, making it up as he goes along, until the end carnage.

I may not make many friends with that but oh well.

03-15-2009, 07:41 PM	#20
InlawBiker Connoisseur Posts: 94 Karma: 544 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Seattle WA Device: Kindle 1.0	I've been a Steven King fan for a long time, but I can think of several of his novels that could stand to have a couple hundred pages removed and they'd be better. I've always thought of him as the ultimate "what if" writer. As in, he'll be driving down the road one day and suddenly think to himself, "what if all of the cars on the road suddenly came alive and tried to kill us." Then he goes on to write it. But I also think he sometimes suffers from rambling along through the middle parts of the novel, making it up as he goes along, until the end carnage. I may not make many friends with that but oh well.