Worst of Stephen King - Worst books or stories

[childofthedavil666]

There's some scene where the husband character whacks off and being 13 or 14 years old at the time I thought it was funny and shared with my friends.

She swooped in and had a stroke over it and all his books were removed.

Nothing was ever made of it because no one but me read him (and kids don't read usually) and it didn't really phase me at the time since I would read my mom's copies.

Oh lol, I understand. I forgot there was a dude whacking off in it. Jesus,when I was 14 I was making fun of the fucking rats in biology class. I was send to home. I think I was too innocent to know what jerking was. No idea tbh.

 

[Freya]

every time he thinks about kids, his upper lip grows a little bit longer

 

[Quijibo69]

I really hated Doctor Sleep. I was so excited when it was first announced since The Shining was the book that first introduced me to King and I still have a fondness for it today. Doctor Sleep felt like Mr. Mackey was trying to write a book “alcohol is bad, mmkay!” The more subtle adult fears of trying to provide for your family while struggling with finances and personal demons, of being isolated with nothing but your thoughts, of feeling like a failure to your family and the mental weight of all that The Shining addressed was thrown completely out the window for a bog standard Chick tract on alcoholism, ghosts going “ooga booga booga!” At you instead of being ominous and menacing and The Shinjbg itself becoming a deus ex machina superpower (Abra literally turns into Daenerys from Game of Thrones at one point with it) it’s fucking ridiculous, clumsy and childish compared to it’s predecessor.

The only thing I remember from that book it went off the rails and didn't want to write about the main character after the first chapter or two. I agree.

 

[LateNightMuffin]

I've liked a lot of his books, and didn't like a lot as well. I think my least favorite (apart from the horrible It orgy scene) was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I started reading it, got a little ways in, and thought, "Does anything ever happen?" I looked up the plot, something I rarely do, and the plot was stupid enough I was glad I didn't waste any more time. God, it was boring.

 

[Fuggalope]

I read a ton of his books back in the early 2000s, and enjoyed most of them.

Fast forward a decade and I decided to read one of his newer books. The Dome. I got about 150 pages into that thousand page monstrosity and just gave up. It's definitely lacking what Kings earlier work had.

 

[Quijibo69]

Fast forward a decade and I decided to read one of his newer books. The Dome. I got about 150 pages into that thousand page monstrosity and just gave up. It's definitely lacking what Kings earlier work had.

I like it but the ending eats a bag of dick. Think of the stupidest thing and that was the ending to that book.

 

[Queen Of The Harpies]

I have to give him that a lot of his horror fiction ( The Shining, Misery, It (to some extent) , Carrie) is good and some more sentimental pieces are decent (The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Dolores Clairborne) , but all of his fantasy/sci novels eat ass.

I also don't get why he has to write really over the top, gross sex scenes in almost every goddamn novel. The gangbang and blow job scene in IT, as well as in my previous post about Rose Madder, are so unnecessary and lead me to believe that they are just projections of his own fucked up sexual fantasies.

 

[jethro]

I've liked a lot of his books, and didn't like a lot as well. I think my least favorite (apart from the horrible It orgy scene) was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. I started reading it, got a little ways in, and thought, "Does anything ever happen?" I looked up the plot, something I rarely do, and the plot was stupid enough I was glad I didn't waste any more time. God, it was boring.

Yeah, and I know King is often guilty of this, but he overloaded it with American pop culture and commercial references, even her best friend being named fucking Pepsi. It makes me wonder if the dude has actually taken product placement deals in the past with his books.

 

[TV's Adam West]

King made the fucking dog shit Shining tv series because Kubrick ruined his vision. Fuck off Steve.

 

[filthyfrench]

It for how much the last hundred pages were so batshit insane and stupid. Within those last 100 pages include
>spider it
>finding out spider it is actually an intergalactic version of the devil.
>god is real and hes a fucking turtle
>god also dies by, I kid you not, chocking on a planet.
>the revelation of the spider devils greatest weakness: being hit really hard.
>little kid orgy
>everyone magically developing amnesia
Mind you, Its over a thousand pages long and it takes a good while till you realize the ending is a kick to the nuts. Its as if Sandlot ended with the Dog transforming into a robot and James Earl Jones DBZ fights the spanish kid.

Most of Stephen Kings stuff is either hit or miss but they all tend to have terrible terrible endings.

 

[childofthedavil666]

every time he thinks about kids, his upper lip grows a little bit longer

Stephen King? omg..

Wow. There's war?? It's on the news here too.

 

[Conan O'Barbarian]

I've recently learned that if you go back and read novels from some of your favorite authors when you were younger, turns out most of them were dog shit and you liked them because you didn't know any better.

The last King book I read was The Outsider and it was terrible. Someone stop him from writing more.

 

[Cyclonus]

Tell your author for his next gangbang scene,

How about a bit more PG, and a lot less thirteen!

 

[Dom Cruise]

I read a ton of his books back in the early 2000s, and enjoyed most of them.

Fast forward a decade and I decided to read one of his newer books. The Dome. I got about 150 pages into that thousand page monstrosity and just gave up. It's definitely lacking what Kings earlier work had.

I went through a huge binge in 2009 and read over a dozen, including the entire Dark Tower series,

His contemporary stuff at the time was a tad wonky though, but since Under The Dome he's had a real renaissance, starting with 11/22/63 in 2011, some of the better stuff he's ever written has been since then imo.

I like it but the ending eats a bag of dick. Think of the stupidest thing and that was the ending to that book.

I liked it up to the ending too, one of the time where the meme of him not knowing how to end things is really true.

Was really one of those things that should have just happened with no explanation as to why.

It for how much the last hundred pages were so batshit insane and stupid. Within those last 100 pages include
>spider it
>finding out spider it is actually an intergalactic version of the devil.
>god is real and hes a fucking turtle
>god also dies by, I kid you not, chocking on a planet.
>the revelation of the spider devils greatest weakness: being hit really hard.
>little kid orgy
>everyone magically developing amnesia
Mind you, Its over a thousand pages long and it takes a good while till you realize the ending is a kick to the nuts. Its as if Sandlot ended with the Dog transforming into a robot and James Earl Jones DBZ fights the spanish kid.

Most of Stephen Kings stuff is either hit or miss but they all tend to have terrible terrible endings.

Up to the finale I think IT is his best book, but yeah, the finale is well... pretty WTF.

But it's one of those things where it would have been almost impossible to deliver after so much build up and build up (not having a child orgy would be a start), I feel like King should have gotten even weirder, more experimental, more surreal than just... a giant spider.

The ending of Insomnia was kind of like what I'm talking about.

 

[Dude Snakes]

The worst of Stephen King is obvously the child gangbang scene in IT. I have no idea why the fuck that's not on your poll, but I can put it there if you want me to correct that error.

So is it safe to assume he is a pedo?

 

[DaBigBopper]

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I thought these three where probably the least engaging. They had some interesting elements, but overall huge yawn fests, especially insomnia.

Cujo is generally okay, but the magical realm and sex shit feel jarring and don't need to be explained. The adulterer breaking into the house to jizz on the bed of the wife is needlessly explicit and just feels like King wanted to insert his fetish. The wife forcing the kid to drink piss because he's on the verge of heat and the myth that drinking pee is a survival thing wasn't as easily as dispelled now, it wasn't as sexual. That came across as a desperate mother in a stressful event. However King brings that shit back up time and time again it happens in misery.

The golden rule for any Steven King novel is that the adaption is always better than the source and your better off reading that. The gay attempts at a shared universe only bluster my opinion that the rule is correct.

 

[Mega Black]

I've only read a few King books but I remember a scene in Cell where he spent several paragraphs describing the swing of a fat, black man's cock as he ran down the street and I felt like that was a good insight into his mind as a creative.

 

[Constellationzero]

Anyone read Dedication? I think it's in Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Jesus CHRIST, how does this TDS motherfucker not get cancelled over racism?
It's LIDERULLY the story of a black hotel maid who goes to a hoo doo woman (his words), to find the real "father" of her child who becomes a published author.
If you think the It orgy scene is fucked up, read Dedication because this black woman cleans the hotel room where this white (racist--her words) famous author stays. And every time the author either fucks some woman or jacks off in bed, the black woman

Goes.
and.
licks.
up.
his.
spent.
jizz.
off.
the.
sheets.

And "somehow" that makes this guy the boy's NATURAL TROO AND HONEST FATHER even though the real father is the black woman's black husband who dies in the story.

 

[Matt Damon]

I like it but the ending eats a bag of dick. Think of the stupidest thing and that was the ending to that book.

And that was one of his better ones, if you ask me. It has a neat premise, decent characters, and slowly built tension over hundreds of pages... only to end like a wet fart. I was legitimately angry at both King and myself for wasting hours of my life.

I'm convinced his method is to come up with a catchy hook and then completely lose interest in his own story by the end.

 

[SpergioLeonne]

Stephen King is just a pen name Cocaine uses to write under