I read his stuff right up to Tommyknockers.
But when he reverted to space aliens, I
realized I was wasting my life on his crap.
No more, no thanks.
Give me John Barth, Tom Wolfe, Tom Clancy among contemporary writers. King’s imagination has peaked out.
Sorry, I have no proof.
Lots of things bother me about him, and many other “prolific” authors as well. The whole suddenly discovered Richard Bachman books. The Eye of the Serpent, which I enjoyed, didn’t seem to match his writing style, such as I opined it to be around that of the Stand. Some of the 90’s books’ plots seemed too familiar to others of “his”. The Gunslinger series sounded like he might have whipped off a story line of a few paragraphs to a publisher, and someone wrote seven pieces of Obama to waste my time.
Anyone who “writes” more than 15-20 books in 20-30 years is suspect to me. Readers’ Digest long ago sickened me with their made-up stories, before they aggressively campaigned against America, and the Clintons moved next doo.
The fraudulence of Grosset and Dunlap’s Franklin W. Dixon, Carolyn Keen, Victor Appleton I and II....
And Grosst and Dunlap seemed to change names every so often, too.