>>846282Nah, he's written some books that were outright garbage and he knows it. Dreamcatcher is one of the worst books I've read in my life and it was almost 900 pages long in trade paperback edition—the hard back is 600+. Even in the author's note he said he wrote it while he was feeling shitty due to his cancer treatment and didn't want to do anything but put it in a drawer until his wife suggested he publish 'that book with the shit weasels' (probably to help pay for his cancer treatment). Cell was trash too, but it had the decency to be relatively short. He's got some decent stuff, but he's got his fair share of mediocre titles like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Short stories are the only time he seems to be semi-consistent in writing quality.
I think the last thing I read by him was The Bachman Books because I was intrigued by it being the only place where Rage was ever reprinted since there were a couple school shootings allegedly inspired by it and King never wanted it to printed again. Rage turned out to be the worst of the collection, but the others were fine and The Long Walk was interesting as a concept.
To return to the subject of the thread, if we're talking /out//lit/, it's hard to beat Melville and London.
