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      His early work was exceptionally good. Tommy knockers, Needful Things, Salem’s Lot, Misery, Stand By Me, were all pretty good. Not a fan of some of his latest stuff.

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      I don’t know. His books aren’t that great. His movie adaptations are just okay.

      He has some early work that was good and got a lot of attention. It was back in the prime days of horror novels. Right place right time. That’s all.

      With the right amount of cocaine I think you or I could probably give him a run for his money

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        His books are variable, but they usually have like 300 pages of genuinely good character development and scene setting, an inciting horrible incident and then another 100 pages of suspension-of-disbelief. All of the film adaptations I’ve seen are pretty bad though.

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          Shawshank? Shining? Mist? Green Mile? Misery? Maybe not everything is a winner, but these are pretty classic movies and some like Pet Sematary, Thinner, Carrie, Dream Catcher and many others are not bad movies. The Running Man wasn’t super well made (old one) but a decent movie for it’s time. I haven’t even seen half of his adapted works and I just rattled off 10 movies that pretty universally are not seen as “pretty bad”:

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          I think, in his case, the more he did the more he produced.

          However, he’s very public about having no recollection or writing many of his books.

          I wish I could say “damn, I don’t ever remember making that app. It made a million you say? Wow”

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        I latent agree with that for all of his books, except for the Dark Tower series. I actually think the Dark Tower series is pretty good. It’s very different from his other books though.

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      read the book and tell us if it’s any good? if you’re morally opposed to reading some book because of a fictional scene that disgusts you then stick to childrens books