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Are Stephen King novels /lit/?

>> No.18718563

>>18718559
Are they?

>> No.18718566

>>18718559
Maybe?????

>> No.18718576

>>18718559
i read five of his books as a teenager. he's a good story teller but his stories dont really have any substance. i realized that when i got to the turtle-god part of IT

>> No.18718615

>>18718559
Some of them are...

>> No.18718619

Stephen King is a great storyteller. You just have to accept that a solid 20-30% of any of his books will be garbage because he wrote everything for speed and volume and didn't make cuts where cuts were needed.

>> No.18718697

>>18718619
I second this
Any author who can constantly pump out 900+ page books tends to have a huge amount of garbage.
Other than that, he's really fun to read.

>> No.18719218

>>18718619
>>18718697

this is kind of right but more importantly: the endings will always, ALWAYS suck. So just stop reading before the end and you're fine

he's not /lit/

>> No.18719237

>>18719218
just like any philosophy, read his text and decide your own ending

>> No.18719428

he's based but bluepilled

>> No.18720636

>>18718559
I don't think he is a good story teller. His talent is coming up with concepts and premises, and when honed by an editor, as probably happened with his early novels, the result is entertaining. At some point though, maybe when The Stand uncut was published, King thought his own creative genius was sufficient and the quality of his work declined dramatically. I tried to read Doctor Sleep, and the prose is so full of King's own brain farts and politics - unreadable.

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18720784

jesus christ what has become of this board

>> No.18720800

no.
Stephen King is not /lit/
what an inane stupid fucking question

>> No.18720830

I like his books but they all follow the same formula. Short stories range from pretty meh to very good. His 80s era is his best work. I like some of his 90s books like Insomnia but that's where his tone really shifted and changed. I haven't read much of his post-2000 works but definitely has a very different feel to early and mid 90s King