Seriously, what's his secret?

[alex_antonin]

I know I keep going on about it, but I genuinely have no idea how Stephen King is so popular as an author, when every book of his I've tried to read puts me to sleep before I even get through a single chapter. He goes on for pages and pages describing a single scene. It just reads like some random guy writing down everything he sees in his room for his journal because he's bored and it's something to do. And this man is somehow a consistent best seller for many decades? How???

And then I see movies and miniseries and so on based on his books, which are genuinely terrifying, and I can't help but think "Did we read the same book?" Because Stephen King's writing is about as terrifying as a bologna sandwich, and about as engaging as plain oatmeal. So like, where are they getting all this scary stuff from? It sure as heck ain't from his books, I can tell you that. I've been more scared of homework than I've ever been of anything written by Stephen King.

Guy can't even spell the name Steven correctly.

Comments

[benicek]

I couldn't get into his fiction either. However, his non-fiction autobiographical work was really good!