You obviously dont know how many top sellar books he has. He also doesnt write the same shit over with a much wider range of subjects as well. King gets off on describing every nut hair his character has at the expense of the story and its reader.

I have read several books by Stephen King and Dean R Koontz. Both have books that are hit and miss with me.

You just described every horror or sci fi novel ever written, not just SK's books. That's the whole premise of supernatural thrillers. Something unexplainable happens, somebody dies. The hero saves the day, or doesn't. Hardly a unique SK plot device.

However, he also wrote straight fiction with enormous success - Shawshank Redemption, The Body (Stand by Me), and Apt Pupil, all contained in one collection, Different Seasons. That's pretty fucking good, and it seems he can do that whenever he wants. Lucky for those of us that like horror, he'd rather write scary shit.

Needful Things isn't his best book by a long shot, but I think it's really good. Made for a pretty good scary movie too.

The Odd Thomas series by DK is pretty good, he actually seems to take the time to edit those before sending them to the publisher.

You should read From a Buick 8

I really liked Cujo and Green Mile. The others like TommyKnockers etc didn't do it for me. I used to like reading his books when I was young and morbid. :upsidedow

I will ... and did/do

okay...:)

I think Stephen King sums himself up pretty niceley, he says he is the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and Fries.

He understands his craft much better than you or I ever will.

I love his early work, he went through a slump for a while but seems to be back on track.

I started reading SK as a kid, probably around the age of 8. DK got added a little later and I went through a lot more of his books at a young age than I did SK, simply because they're easier reads. Both are good storytellers, but I would say SK has a better handle on making the readers feel intense as they're reading. I've mostly dropped both authors from my reading list as I've gotten older, yet I still revisit The Stand every few years. DK gets more action out of me because he makes a better book to take to the pool in the summer.

I won´t do it neigher. There are so many great writters to read, there is not enough time in life to read them all, so I don´t want to waste my time reading shit...

You should try read at least one book and then have an opinion based on experience.

Almost all of his books had been transformed in motion pictures. If you think you get scared by the movies, their books are much more scarier. It's amazing how a few words put together can make you visualise all the pain and fear the character is being through.

Some easy reading to start with are: Cujo and Thinner. :thumbsup

Then, if you don't like them, at least you'll have more to say about why didn't you like them. :)

Koontz is too simple. I prefer king between then two,

you're missing a good reading!

i'd say they're good, suspense and horror and fantastic!

readings fa tricks and suckas

i love the tommy nockers, and greta book

Whoa...a college student.

Stop the presses - we have a genuine authority here.

Wake up, Junior. College qualifies you to critique shit. Sell a few million copies of something and then come back with an opinion.

Until then - you're a dink with a keyboard.

Why do people answer this thread.

Anyone remember a little movie called "Demon Seed"?

Based on a Dean Koontz novel.

If memory serves...it pre-dated a lot of Stephen King movies.

Look in the mirror.

Demon seed came out a year after Carrie. Yes it predates all of Stephen Kings movies aside from that one. Both were very new to movie adaptations back then and neither had any control or much say in the movies anyhow. Book rights were just purchased and so be it.

I read both authors however my all time favorite and in my opinion most influential horror author ever is H.P. Lovecraft. Feel free to try to make a case that any other author is as influential as Lovecraft was to the genre if not even more wide spread. Hell try to find any valid horror writer who does not borrow from his mythos.

i remember it, barely

well you have to be able to read so I'm guessing that precludes you anyways....

good luck with your job at Taco Bell

E. A. Poe was more influential to the genre than Lovecraft, and is far more widespread. Also, have you ever actually tried to read Lovecraft? It's some turgid going, I'll tell you right now...

I've read authors much more critically acclaimed than King, with half the craft. Critics hate him because his work is accessible and entertaining for everyone, lit profs dislike him because he doesn't laboriously hide 10 layers of meaning in every paragraph, and he doesn't include hidden references to obscure protostories 10,000 yrs old that were discovered written in cuneiform on papyrus scrolls that only lit professors pick up on. Not all of them, there are a lot of classes taught on SK's work these days, but a lot of them. Shakespeare was considered vulgar entertainment for the masses in his day as well.

Hey Vasago, have another deep swallow of that hatorade. Is it bitter?

bump because I like this thread