You know what, here's the hottest take I can drop, Stephen King *should* have been the next Poe or Lovecraft, he had both the imaginative horsepower, the narrative mastery, and the sense of horror necessary to become this.
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Replying to @17cShyteposter
The first Dark Tower novel is just incredible. Intense, vivid, incredibly unique, super fun to read. ...And then everything else he's done except maybe The Shining is just meh to me. Something got lost somewhere. Wonder what that was, and how it happened.
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He was tapping into an insane dream in that first book, and I genuinely believe up through Wizard and Glass. Fell off a cliff after that
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Replying to @17cShyteposter @RemainsStellar
Getting hit by that car screwed up the rest of the series. After that, with a renewed passion to finish it, he turned it all meta and wrote himself into the story and gave it that crappy cyclical twist of an ending.
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Guy knew how bad the ending was and wrote a disclaimer to the readers before it. I don't hate the actual ending nearly as much as the anti-climaxes and no-payoffs on the way. It was JJ Abrams level lack of payoff except there were decades of setups.
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God that sucked lol. That was his magnum opus, and he knew that, and it scared him, and rather than taking control of that, he backed off, and gave us what we got. That's why King is gay in the end.
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The actual ending ending was painfully poignant but felt so undeserved for a character that already learned the lessons it was implied he needed to learn. That ending went with a very different book 2 onward of the series but wasn't bad in itself.
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