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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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King wings it when he writes, and doesn't outline. Thus, he sometimes writes himself into a corner. He has a great opening, and a huge buildup, and then has no idea what to do for a conclusion. His novel "Insomnia" is a like this. It's a fascinating read, that really builds ... and then I couldn't have cared less about the ending, at all. "It" is much the same, great story, weak ending.
As I understand it, he got part way through "The Stand", about the point where the good guys all arrive in Colorado, and then didn't know what happened next. He said at the time "I'm losing my book!" Of course, we know now the events he came up with to reduce the cast and get things moving again.