Someone bluepill me on this man. Convince me of his great literary

>>9056281
We're redpilled, numale cuck.

Were simply against women and liberals. Therefore King is evil. He doesnt hate nonwhites and he dislikes based emperor Trump.

>>9056281
most of his novels are empty of any kind of depth and the endings are mostly bad.
It's not that he's particularly bad, its just his fanbase reveres him as some godlike author.
most of his books can be condensed into 400 pages instead of 1000s of pages of empty bland writing.

On occasion he can be an engaging writer, but for the most part his novels are bloated, overwritten and filled with boring, one dimensional characters, lame deus ex machina endings and vulgarity that is more cringeworthy and laughable than disturbing and edgy.

About 350 out of 1200 pages of The Stand were genuinely good, about another 50, usually the ones really focusing on Harold's mind and describing Randall Flagg, were genuinely great. The entire stretch where it introduces Flagg as he walks down the road, listing off all his names is one of those times when you're reading a book and you're kinda taken aback at just how evocative it is and how much presence a character has.

The problem is the other 800 pages.

>>9056782
This

>>9056281
Pretty much what >>9056782 said. There are a few books of him I like and sometime read, but most of them are bad. 'Salem's Lot is good, Duma Key is good, and I can't think of any other.

>>9056281

i try take pill one time threw p :(

>>9056281
He's the ultimate cheap entertainer when it comes to novels. He has no pretense: he just want to write stories that will be read by millions of people. There's nothing more behind it.

The Stand and IT are good (and occasionally great.) Different Seasons is very good. His short story collections are pretty good. The majority of his work is mediocre. Good storyteller, average writer, terrible at endings.

The Dark Tower series is very good. The first book had an incredible opening line.

King's greatest quality is that everything he wrote is bad and you can realize this after reading just one page, thus allowing you to happily ignore his entire work for life.

Very few authors are this thoughtful.

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I was practically raised on Stephen King, and now my writing resembles his. Does this mean I kill myself?

My favourite is Needful Things

Different Seasons is the most /lit/ thing he has ever written.

>>9059055
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'

Why is Dark Tower so highly praised?

I liked the first one but after that it's just kinda good/hate it relationship

>>9056292
you're not funny

>>9060015
Because most of its readers only read Stephen King or JK Rowling.

>>9059687
This. Stay away, why read such trash? You're better off not reading at all.

Can't really hate on King, i kinda got into literature thanks to him, even though i don't read him at all anymore

although i gotta say The Long Walk is really great

"It" is nice as well, but way too long for what it is