Re: Right watt ewe no

"Andrew Wheeler" <acwheele@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> tphile <tphile@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I am gonna have to wait for the movie then.
>> In spite of being a lifelong book reader I have a real problem with
>> Kings
>> I had read some of his earlier works but Tommyknockers just ended it
>> for me
>> and I haven't been able to get thru another King story since.  For me
>> taking ten
>> pages to describe what other great writers could write in 10
>> paragraphs is not good
>> storytelling.  Its like trying to run thru mud.
>> I even started Gunslinger about a dozen times over the years but just
>> lost interest
>> I suppose thats happened to most everyone here at some point with some
>> book or author
>
> I haven't read King myself in years, so I'm not urging you to run right
> out and grab everything you missed, but _Tommyknockers_ is generally
> considered his worst book, and even King himself doesn't remember
> writing it. (That was during the coke years.)
>
> It's also a good twenty years ago now; he's had as much (or more) of a
> career *since* _Tommyknockers_ that he did before it.
>
> I'm not sure if you've tried to read anything he's written more recently
> -- if so, then he's clearly not for you. But I don't think anyone
> considers _Tommyknockers_ typical.

I don't. It's one of my favourite SK novels. I'm quite partial to the more

SFish SK stuff.