06-05-2023, 12:42 AM
(05-31-2023, 10:29 AM)Besticus Maximus wrote: Finished The Stand on audible, by the GOAT narrator Grover Gardner yesterday. I read the stand when I was a kid and loved it, it remains one of my favourite big books and anyone disputing King's place in modern world literature can get fucked, imo. M-O-O-N, that spells fucked, everyone knows that, laws yes.
Now deciding what to follow up with. Maybe some more horror, but I feel like I've read basically everything good at this point.
The main female character. I forget her name. Sally or Jessy or whatever. The one that fuckin fat guy fancies, is easily the worst character King has ever written. Genuinely fucking awful. Literally all she does is bitch, moan and cry. There is no other side to her. Also the end with Trashcan dude. Bullshit. Total cop out. That's always been King's problem. He cannot finish a story without resorting to cheap cop outs or total bullshit. Under The Dome being a prime example. Maybe Salem's Lot is the exception, but that's just modern Dracula so he doesn't deserve credit for that. I'm a fan. I like his books, but they're bullshit.
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