Worst of Stephen King - Worst books or stories

[Vinluv Handesbukia]

Einatein.

Is that anything like Chantal's Eaiting?

Tabatha needs to wrangle her tard.

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Salem's Lot
Mile 81

How in the literal all time fuck has he not been Ouroboros-ed yet?

Big fan of how in thinner he didn’t bother to learn a couple Romani words and phrases so just made the Gypsies speak in Swedish

 

[Dan Abrams]

Agree with you on the first three, but hard disagree on Lisey's Story, it's the only good thing he wrote during his 'feminist' period.

The jargon like 'bool' and 'bad-gunky' are a bit off putting but if people can hold their nose and get through the Vietnamese take-out menu gibberish in The Dark Tower books (can I get the dan-dinh with an-tet to go?) it's worth it here too imo. Booya Moon is beautifully fleshed out and The Long Boy is an Eldritch Horror FAR scarier then Dread Cthulhu.

It's a very interesting story and the only book worth re-reading from this period.

"Smucking"

Fuck that book.

 

[VargReallyDidNothingWrong]

Oly read Cujo and I disagree that it's a boring premise, being trapped in a car in the middle of summer with a rabid dog outside ready to kill you and your young son could have worked. But the book was a slog, for me at least.

Yeah he spends WAY too much time describing how the wife is a cheating bitch and how their marriage is falling apart. Book could have been trimmed to half length and not lost anything story wise.

 

[Tank Controls]

Got done with Four Pass Midnight. It would have been good but secret window, secret garden sucked.

Agree 100%, boring and predictable, The Langoliers and The Library Policeman were both great though. I haven't read The Sun Dog yet, got distracted by other books.

 

[Constellationzero]

Finished Sneakers, and... just...what?

I expected Tell to cuss Jannings out and never work with him again, but he just calls him a POS or something like that and walks out of the studio.
And the ghost just wanted to tell his story to a random guy in the bathroom and disappear? Jannings didn't even kill him. Or maybe he did, but King missed the mark because he was too fascinated with exploring his ghey side by projecting that onto Tell while insisting he's straight.

Fucking garbage story.

 

[Sloppy Party Bottom]

I dunno about this. I really enjoyed Rose Madder, but I couldn't really get into his other writing. He was my late mother's absolute favorite author. Always wanted to get her his work for birthday's/Christmas, but she inevitably already had read it. His movie adaptations, for the most part, are some of my favorites. Running Man and Thinner were especially enjoyable in my youth.

Now, I can't bring myself to pick up any of his work because he is so fucking insufferable in public. He, like most of Hollywood, would have done better to just shut the fuck up and produce. Lace in some political bullshit subtly or whatever, mud brains like me won't get it and will continue to love you and your work.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

Running Man

It's odd to me that the studio licensed King's work only to change just about everything. Sounds like a waste of money, although I don't know how famous King was when the movie premiered. I like both the movie and the book, but they're completely different.

 

[Mola Ram]

And the ghost just wanted to tell his story to a random guy in the bathroom and disappear? Jannings didn't even kill him

Jannings definitely killed him. I don't know how you could miss this.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Finished Sneakers, and... just...what?

I expected Tell to cuss Jannings out and never work with him again, but he just calls him a POS or something like that and walks out of the studio.
And the ghost just wanted to tell his story to a random guy in the bathroom and disappear? Jannings didn't even kill him. Or maybe he did, but King missed the mark because he was too fascinated with exploring his ghey side by projecting that onto Tell while insisting he's straight.

Fucking garbage story.

Jannings definitely killed him. I don't know how you could miss this.

What he said.

He also makes it clear that Tell never works with Jannings again at the start of the final chapter, just not again at the end.

Maybe you read it a bit too quickly to catch all the details, I always thought it was a pretty solid story.

 

[Mola Ram]

What he said.

He also makes it clear that Tell never works with Jannings again at the start of the final chapter, just not again at the end.

Maybe you read it a bit too quickly to catch all the details, I always thought it was a pretty solid story.

Most of the stories in Nightmares & Dreamscapes are at least decent, the worst surely being the one about the maid eating the famous writer's cum. Sneakers is not even within shouting distance of that level of terrible. My biggest issue with that collection was just that a lot of the stories were too long.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Last King book I read was Desperation, which was mainly to see how it compared to its twin, The Regulators. Desperation was the better of the two, but still not as good as his earlier stuff.

Years later, I saw the movie adaptation of Cell.


I have missed NOTHING by no longer reading King, apparently.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Last King book I read was Desperation, which was mainly to see how it compared to its twin, The Regulators. Desperation was the better of the two, but still not as good as his earlier stuff.

Years later, I saw the movie adaptation of Cell.


I have missed NOTHING by no longer reading King, apparently.

Mostly, though I do recommend giving The Institute a chance if you are bored and looking for something. It the best thing he's put out in the last 10 years imo and feels like a spiritual sequel to Firestarter.

Dr. Sleep and Revival are decent too. The rest of his recent output? Not so much.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Mostly, though I do recommend giving The Institute a chance if you are bored and looking for something. It the best thing he's put out in the last 10 years imo and feels like a spiritual sequel to Firestarter.

Dr. Sleep and Revival are decent too. The rest of his recent output? Not so much.

I forgot, I did read Doctor Sleep, and it was good.

I will check out The Institute on your recommendation.

Honestly, I started sliding off of King back in 1989 (whoops, misremembered when I got it) when I got a copy of Weaveworld by Clive Barker. It was like when I was a kid and had the training wheels taken off my bike.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Honestly, I started sliding off of King back in 1991 when I got a copy of Weaveworld by Clive Barker. It was like when I was a kid and had the training wheels taken off my bike.

Earlier in the thread we have a discussion about Clive Barker, might be worth digging up to read.

Weaveworld was my introduction to Clive Barker too, my uncle gave it to me for my 12th birthday. Mind = blown. I was a junkie for all I could find as a teenager and as I've said a few times now I think Imajica is the best dark fantasy novel ever written.

 

[Mola Ram]

Earlier in the thread we have a discussion about Clive Barker, might be worth digging up to read.

Weaveworld was my introduction to Clive Barker too, my uncle gave it to me for my 12th birthday. Mind = blown. I was a junkie for all I could find as a teenager and as I've said a few times now I think Imajica is the best dark fantasy novel ever written.

I just cracked my copy of Imajica. One whole chapter down! I'll update you when I'm further into it.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Earlier in the thread we have a discussion about Clive Barker, might be worth digging up to read.

Weaveworld was my introduction to Clive Barker too, my uncle gave it to me for my 12th birthday. Mind = blown. I was a junkie for all I could find as a teenager and as I've said a few times now I think Imajica is the best dark fantasy novel ever written.

Imajica is next on my Barker list, once I finish Everville.

I think what makes Barker work so well is that, while King will use common cultural and storytelling tropes in his work to ground them culturally, Barker tends to take the trope and say "Yes, that is what we all learned, but it's actually disguising this other thing that we are better off not knowing about". I also love that Barker's protagonists actually do witty things to outwit evil, like in The Yattering and Jack.

I also can't think of King ever doing anything as poetic in terms of a character's fate than Harry D'Amour at the end of The Scarlet Gospel. A bittersweet reward for a man who fell into a life of fighting demons simply because he wouldn't give up when everyone else did.

 

[WOPR]

Yeah he spends WAY too much time describing how the wife is a cheating bitch and how their marriage is falling apart.

Reminds me of Jaws where the big fucking shark going around eating people takes a backseat to Brody's cheating wife with a mid-life crisis for a decent chunk of the book.

 

[Wodanaz]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woh

Today I learned that there is a legit 52 episode Pajeet television series adaptation of It.
Lmao.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woh

Today I learned that there is a legit 52 episode Pajeet television series adaptation of It.
Lmao.

Somebody please use AI to generate images of a pint-sized Hindu Pennywise devouring children.

 

[mr_negativity]

I recently reread The Dead Zone. In light of Stephen King's twitter, the whole novel is King building a strawman caricature of Christians and conservatives whom he abjectly hates and subjecting them to his personal assassination fantasy. Its like a more tame version of the Turner Diaries, or The Day of the Rope.

What horrific fascist political positions the villain Greg Stillson has taken that make him so close to Hitler that he deserved assassination? Let see... Cut local library funding, increased police funding, made wayward hippies perform community service, got rid of parking meters, constructed a local shopping mall, kept local industry during an economic recession, implemented welfare reform, protests high heating oil costs and regularly holds town halls and follows up with the concerns of the working class electorate. How evil! His personal security force was former bikers with "sawn off pool cues". So in other words they were armed only with clubs, not guns just like the Bobbies of England whom liberals like King praise for not carrying firearms. His personal security forces switched to guns at the end, portraying Stillson as even more evil and paranoid because his bodyguards might have defend him from a threat such as an assassin with a gun. Stillson supporters are evil Nazi's too and are equally immoral because the bartender Stillson supporter trained his dog to attack hippie burglars and secretly hopes for the day a hippie burglar shows up so he can justify siccing his dog on them. Wait a second. The whole concept of this novel is King coming up with a scenario to justify the assassination of a conservative politician and former bible salesman who holds a list of values he hates.

Stephen King's equivalent to a Hitler antichrist figure who will end the world is a conservative reformer that isn't part of the political system and listens to the working class. No burning crosses, race wars, or secret satanic pagan blood orgies needed. No wonder why he spergs about every republican president that ever existed. The bar is quite low and that made Greg Stillson such a lame villain.

I was really hoping for some kind of twist ending, like Jonny's assassination attempt failing and in his final dying moments realizing it was his failed assassination attempt that was responsible for Stillson winning the presidency and his vision of Stillson causing WW3 was ultimately a self fulfilling prophecy he unwittingly set into motion.