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Originally Posted by InlawBiker
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.
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Couldn't agree more. I was a massive fan of his work growing up, but with each new release he just disappoints me more and more. I think he's a victim of his success. He makes so much money for the publishers that he can do whatever he likes, including the fat middle sections of the books or terrible endings.
It's shame, really, because he's written some terrific stuff when he's being leaner -- Misery, Dolores Claiborne, even the Shining. A friend of mine says that all of his 'big' books are half-back-story, half actual story. Of course, my friend doesn't like him at all
