I'm reading my first stephen king book

[riddle kat† 0]

Yeah title mostly explains it. It's The girl who loved Tom Gordon So what's you're guy's opinions on this XD

[Saz 0]

My opinion on his books are that they're usually either amazingly bad or really insightful about human condition. I've read about 30 of them, mostly because they all tie into the gunslinger series or I was in middleschool and though they were edgy rather than poorly written and meandering. It's pretty much popcorn fiction (I recently read Carrie in between classes at school in a single day), but some of it is really entertaining. The girl who loved tom Gordon is the one with the lost girl in the woods? I thought that was decent. I feel like I outgrew his writing a long time ago, but still read them because I'm OCD like that and try to read everything an author writes if I'm at any point a fan.

 

My favorites are:

-Shawshank redemption (he does best with short stories)

-Needful things

-Duma Key

-Dark tower series

-Hearts in Atlantis

-The shining

-The stand

 

Ones that were so bad that I literally want my time back:

-Eyes of the dragon

-Wolves of the Calla

-LISEY'S STORY. THIS BOOK IS BORING BEYOND BELIEF AND I NEED CAPS TO EMPHASIZE THAT

 

Everything else: Mediocre-passable

[riddle kat† 0]

yeah that's the one where the girl gets lost in the woods and thanks for telling me! But what's eyes of dragon about?

[Saz 0]

yeah that's the one where the girl gets lost in the woods and thanks for telling me! But what's eyes of dragon about?

 

Sorry if that was spoilers, I thought it happened like 30 pages into the book >_<. Eyes of the dragon was a really, really bad medieval fantasy. Needful things is a really cool premise. Basically a wandering merchant comes to town and has the one item every individual seems to want. Instead of charging money, he asks for simple tasks to be done, and basically the book is about human nature, materialism, and greed. Like I said, I think King does a great job doing character drama.

[riddle kat† 0]

yeah that's the one where the girl gets lost in the woods and thanks for telling me! But what's eyes of dragon about?

 

Sorry if that was spoilers' date=' I thought it happened like 30 pages into the book >_<. Eyes of the dragon was a really, really bad medieval fantasy. Needful things is a really cool premise. Basically a wandering merchant comes to town and has the one item every individual seems to want. Instead of charging money, he asks for simple tasks to be done, and basically the book is about human nature, materialism, and greed. Like I said, I think King does a great job doing character drama.

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oh yes lol ty for the help

[Var† 0]

Is Steven King's work pretty suspenseful? That's what I heard about his books.

[Saz 0]

Is Steven King's work pretty suspenseful? That's what I heard about his books.

 

Sometimes yes, but the problem is sometimes he tries for suspense but you get 100-200 pages of fluff material that ends up going nowhere (liseys story was the worst for this)