Years ago I used to enjoy his books not knowing anything about his lunatic lib views until he took an open shot at W Bush in one......that was the last dollar that jackass ever made off of me.
Switched to Dean Koontz and never looked back.
I think when that van ran over king it gave him dain bramage.
Comparing Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to King’s “true to the book” version of the film adequately describes my problem with Steven King.
Way overrated. He has written a few good books and thats it.
His, "On Writing," is an excellent guide for aspiring writers and is interspersed with autobiographical snippets about different events relevant to his inspiration, dealings with publishers, etc.
I always found it odd that even though he's a looney radical leftist, his protagonists often exhibit pretty conservative/libertarian thoughts and actions.
The whole Dark Tower/Gunslinger series is replete with warnings and admonitions to a world that, "forgot the face of their fathers," i.e. disconnected from their history and traditions. One of the characters in, "Cell," (King's early post-Katrina work) virtually makes the case for the Second Amendment.
In, "On Writing," he says when he writes he goes into a zone and the story plays like a movie in this mind and he doesn't so much create as he records.
He was already brain-damaged. The van incident just removed his filter.
I never especially liked King because he was unrelentingly depressing. Oh, and he hated people like me as a group. That also tends to rub me the wrong way.