Medusa Wrote:Me too. I think this is why I can't get into the more newer Stephen King books. Too descriptive.
This is the thing about King that drives me nuts. When he's on form, there is noone better.
Salem's Lot is still an utter masterpiece. Concise, with an extraordinary atmosphere of dread.
Firestarter still creeps me out. I finally read
Carrie which is marvellous.
Then he writes things where 80% of the novel is endless, tedious backstory about what characters A, B & C used to do in school, countless insipid blatherings about baseball, the entire life story of the postman who delivers a package and is never seen in the novel again. I think
Cujo had maybe 20 pages of story. I couldn't even finish bloody
Dreamcatcher because I had enough of 250 goddamned pages of prologue.