I don't get why people like this guy. Not only are his books

>I don't get why people like this guy. Not only are his books populist crap
>I don't get why people like populist

>>9494887
It's like the next step after the Goosebumps series.

>>9494887
>populist

?

I find his books enjoyable.

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>>9494887
>this goy
Who can it be now?

>>9494887
>populist crap
>not entertaining

excuse me?

I read The Stand as a kid and liked it. Nothing else he's written really seems that appealing to me besides 11/22/63 but I really like the JFK assassination

>Is this goy someone you have to read as an impressionable child in order to appreciate?
Pretty much. I read him in my preteen years and I don't get why he's hated to the point of being a staple meme on here even if I have no desire to read him now. On a side note: King is looking extra spooky these days. Does he have cancer or something, or is he just an ugly old guy?

>>9494887
People like Dan Brown and James Patterson too, and he's better than them, so this shouldn't be surprising.

>>9495135
i always smile whenever i'm reminded james patterson exists

>>9495135
Yeah, but people don't treat Dan Brown or Patterson as God's gift to literature. Just go look at the top post on /r/books right now. There's people in it saying King is the greatest writer ever.

>>9495001
His characters are all Americana cliches. The working man, the beer-drinking-TV-watching baseball-playing-whatever...It's like he was raised on American sitcoms

And yeah his books are boring

>>9495147
There are people on this planet who think Patterson writes all his own material and he deserves to go down in history above and beyond Hemingway or Asimov.

I hope the Chinese, Indian, and Brazilian market booms don't take a liking to his drivel.

>>9494887
I liked his earlier work, Misery was pretty god damn good m8, even if it's a meme book now because of the movie.

>>9494887
The Stand was so boring I had to stop reading it 15% of the way through. Same with The Dark Tower.

But King has a really fucked up, negative view of human nature and people behave in groups. He also has a weird Lovecraftian vision for his extended universe.

He's probably the perfect person to write horror, i just wish there was a book of his I actually liked.

>>9495147
It's that a mute point because everyone here hates reddit?

>>9496023
the dude jacks it to Lovecraftian horror every night. half of his books could be classified as lovecraftian, if not more.

He writes a book a year, dude is literally pumping them out to make money.

He has some gems, but 90% of what he puts out is garbage.

>>9496081
Yeah, he's got a weirdo imagination. His movies can only capture a tiny hint of it but normies don't appreciate it