Worst of Stephen King - Worst books or stories

[The Nothingness]

got rid of parking meters

How evil!

But the money from parking meters would go to improving the roads.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

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.

King's TDS must be on par with Jim Carrey's. They both think they hate him. The thoughts they have are not theirs. They simply gobble up everything the mainstream media are saying without any criticism. If you tried to debate them they'd get angry.

 

[Wodanaz]

Yeah it's pretty hilarious when you realize Johnny is literally just King. King just knows that Trump and co are fascists, like how Johnny just knows because of his telepathy. Don't ask him to explain it because you wouldn't understand anyway chud.

Also the reporter who covered John Coffey's trial in The Green Mile is a terrible man because he compared negroes to rabid dogs. This is bad because it's racist (even though it's true if you pay attention to crime statistics). Despite the fact that the reporter has absolutely no reason not to believe that Coffey didn't just rape and murder two white girls for absolutely no reason. Paul can't possibly explain to this man that Coffey actually has magic bullshit powers and he was trying to heal them. The chud just wouldn't understand.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

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

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

>It ran for one season
>52 episodes

Hmm....

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Yeah it's pretty hilarious when you realize Johnny is literally just King. King just knows that Trump and co are fascists, like how Johnny just knows because of his telepathy. Don't ask him to explain it because you wouldn't understand anyway chud.

Plenty of Stephen King protagonists are just him. It's why I find him more interesting when he does someone who he's trying to make different from him. Blaze was interesting because you know King would never think that a guy who's borderline retarded would be his equivalent, so he made him an interesting character.

Bag of Bones it was so obvious that King was writing a fantasy where his wife died suddenly and then he goes off and rescues a single mother and her kid it was almost funny.

 

[Mola Ram]

Plenty of Stephen King protagonists are just him.

The correlation of "writer main character" plus "the same age King was when he wrote this book" is so redolent of self-insert that I never understood why he doesn't put up even the thinnest of disguises. Age up or age down the character, at least. I assume since he's never been anything but a writer or teacher or whatever odd jobs he had in his youth ("The Mangler" is, I think, based on a time in his life when he worked at an industrial laundry) he doubts his ability to have a convincing protagonist who does something else, but really, he's managed it when he's forced to.

Bag of Bones it was so obvious that King was writing a fantasy where his wife died suddenly and then he goes off and rescues a single mother and her kid it was almost funny.

The best part of it was the way he unceremoniously kills off the young single mom because it had become abundantly clear how uncomfortable the direction of that relationship was getting.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

The correlation of "writer main character" plus "the same age King was when he wrote this book" is so redolent of self-insert that I never understood why he doesn't put up even the thinnest of disguises. Age up or age down the character, at least. I assume since he's never been anything but a writer or teacher or whatever odd jobs he had in his youth ("The Mangler" is, I think, based on a time in his life when he worked at an industrial laundry) he doubts his ability to have a convincing protagonist who does something else, but really, he's managed it when he's forced to.

Nah, the best is when IT'S LITERALLY HIM in the book. It doesn't get any better than that. Remember The Dark Tower and the whole part where he gets hit by the van in real life?

 

[Wodanaz]

Nah, the best is when IT'S LITERALLY HIM in the book. It doesn't get any better than that. Remember The Dark Tower and the whole part where he gets hit by the van in real life?

He always writes about how many drugs he did and how much he drank. I'd like to know how many intoxicants he still imbibes to this day because it's certainly greater than zero.

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

He always writes about how many drugs he did and how much he drank. I'd like to know how many intoxicants he still imbibes to this day because it's certainly greater than zero.

He's American, so he's probably on 7 different prescription drugs even if he's not using anything illegal. I noticed that Americans often don't count those as legit drugs.

 

[Marc]

He always writes about how many drugs he did and how much he drank. I'd like to know how many intoxicants he still imbibes to this day because it's certainly greater than zero.

At some point, he replaced the hardest drugs with his own farts; and sustained far more brain damage.

 

[Candlelight Desolation]

He's American, so he's probably on 7 different prescription drugs even if he's not using anything illegal. I noticed that Americans often don't count those as legit drugs.

And not only that, a lefty American. - When people have personal/emotional problems, regardless of how minute they may be, they advocate these people go to a shrink and get on pills. Just bleed yourself dry going to one of these places and take pills which will make things worse instead of working through it like an adult.

 

[Dysnomia]

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.

The Sun Dog is one of my favorites.

Secret Window, Secret Garden wasn't that interesting. It's like an alt version of The Dark Half. They both have a similar concept in a different setting. Just watch the Johnny Depp movie Secret Window instead. His performance makes the film.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Speaking of The Langoliers, has anyone else seen the trailers for the new "dark and edgy" Pac-Man game Namco/Bandai is putting out?

The all black fang mouth filled giant Pac-Man is almost exactly what I pictured the Langoliers looking like when I first read that story.

 

[NOXIN]

Getting through Joe Hill's story collection Strange Weather and man, for a guy that chose a penname to avoid connections with his dad... he writes exactly like his dad. Worse in fact, the lefty politics are so on the nose it reads like parody. Second story is about a gun nut white guy surrounded by ethnic characters so infallible and likeable it's like he's never met another human before, let alone a black one.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

There’s a TV show for ‘The Institute’ that just started on MGM+. Two episodes are out.

Pretty good so far.

 

[The Un-Clit]

There’s a TV show for ‘The Institute’ that just started on MGM+. Two episodes are out.

Pretty good so far.

Excellent! Both that and "The Long Walk" are two King properties that have been crying out for screen adaptations for years. (Or decades.)

Time to sail the high seas and check it out!

 

[Hentai-Semitism]

There’s a TV show for ‘The Institute’ that just started on MGM+. Two episodes are out.

Pretty good so far.

Thanks for the heads up. I may pirate this. In my opinion, The Institute is one of the better recent Kings. I like the idea of the collective conscious consisting of multiple kids.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

Yeah, the Institute is definitely up there as far as the best recent King goes.

Billy Summers and Fairy Tale, too. I really liked Fairy Tale. Felt like a Talisman meets The Eye of the Dragon mashup, in a good way.

 

[The Un-Clit]

Sorry, can not at all agree with Fairy Tale. It was a depressingly by the book attempt at recapturing the magic of The Talisman and Dark Tower novels. (Eye of the dragon was another paint by numbers attempt at fantasy. Funny how King can write some of the very best fantasy epics and also the very worst.) But it felt flabby and fat. Characters underdeveloped, plot threads that went nowhere and died, a chronic lack of wonder.

It was the first thing King has written that made me say "An old man wrote this." I wanted to like it, but in the end I felt let down. Billy Summers was a bit better, but still below par and don't get me started on that Holly Gibney shit. I've never wanted an SK character to die like I do her.

 

[Internet War Criminal]

I’ve never read the Holly Gibney stuff and I have very little interest to. I get what you mean about him trying to recapture the magic of The Talisman, but I disagree that it was trying to recapture The Dark Tower. I felt if anything that it was an anti-Dark Tower type of book. Far more hopeful and carefree and not interested in being a huge epic thing, rather, just wanted to tell a straightforward story.

I mean it’s a question of taste I guess, but I thought as far as modern SK goes, it was great.

Then again I also liked the DT ending, so