I didn’t think I’d like this book but I too felt forced to read it do to all the positive reviews. Glad I did. Really had a hard time putting this book down.
King isn’t a literature icon because of his prose or plots. It’s his tone and theming. It’s accessible writing, non-pretentious, and this is why King is not taken as seriously by some literary critics. 11/22/63 pacing was great for me. I could not put it down.
@@dontdoit6986 i think he is very pretentious! attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed Sounds like kings work.
I agree about the middle. It took me two weeks to read this book because I got to the middle and then took a week and a half off because I got bored. I’m glad I finished it
To me the most rewarding part of this story are some of the running themes such as “the past harmonizes,” “dancing is life” and “if there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.” Without these touches I doubt fans would be as crazy about the book. Stephen King, who’s never really been a historical novelist, also deserves a lot of credit for taking on a subject as heavy as the JFK assassination, not to mention the whole time travel narrative in general.
I think the time travel aspect was handled well. Hard to be original and keep all the loose strands tied up with time travel and I think King does it well. And yeah the JFK assassination was a bear that King wrestled with skill.
Yeah it's well done, but it almost needed to be two different books in my opinion. Like it pulled in two different directions and I was impatient with the delay in getting to the assassination. I understood why it had to be that way but it lost it's edge for me.
Just finished it, and I enjoyed it, but the middle of the book just drags on as if he is trying to add fluff and filler, I found myself skipping ahead.
Stephen King, 'flabby in the middle"? That would be every book by him that I've read, or tried to read. It's a good thing he never had me as an editor. i would have been fired before lunch.
Hi .i liked your review. I felt like you covered everything I would have asked a friend to to tell me about if I was looking for a review. Great minds think alike, I've been told. Anyhow, this is the first vid I've watched and I think I'll sub. Good job! Much apreesh. 💕
The self indulgence part about King is spot on. Agree about the middle part of the book being slow going. I definitely felt like I went back in time. King did a great job doing that.
I notice his politics always peek through in his novels. There's activismn against the old guard government. But I can't understand WHY he is so adamantly for the current one. He's either a clone, or they got something on him.. or he really did some of that shit the villains in his book did. Which makes him a darkly perverted monster.
I saw a political cartoon that summed it up perfectly. It showed a beat-up old VW beetle driven by a young boomer back in the 60s and it had bumper stickers that said Question Authority and Stick it to The Man!! In the next panel it showed the same boomer, now driving a Mercedes with bumper stickers that read Get Vaxxed and Questioning elections is bad for democracy. Or something like that. The point may be that once people are affluent they are no longer revolutionaries. They like things that reward them. Or it could be that once people gain power they demand others obey them--they become the tyrants they abhorred. I'd say King has gotten lost in his power. He's arrogant.
If you think *SK* has a Quirky Girl Fetish... read all of Philip K. Dick's SF novels! ;) Kidding aside... whether it's SK or PKD, I don't think I went that far in my mind with that particular 'motif'; I think I saw it more as just a surface literary quirk. I probably like half or more of PKD's SF novels a lot... and I did like '11/22/63' a lot. Also appreciated your review, thanks.
I only read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in college and don't really remember anything other than I really liked it. I have A Scanner Darkly on my shelf and I'm sure I'll get to it eventually. Thanks for the nudge. I doubt his quirky girl stuff will bother me as much.
@@THEJEFFWORD Maybe I see your point. btw: More than 'Palmer' and 'Scanner'... I'm drawn to PKD's 'Ubik' and 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'. Trippy stuff!
@@im1ru122 I almost bought Folio Society's Ubik because they did a fantastic job on the design--specifically the slipcase and I did enjoy Palmer Eldritch. I think PKD is an author I'll want to read as much as I can.
@@THEJEFFWORD 'Ubik' is great! I don't tend to do 'projects' but a year or so ago I took on the project of reading all of PKD's sci-fi novels. It took several months (squeezing in with my other reading). Like SK, quality can vary. Like SK, opinions vary on what's 'the best' (cause reading is a personal thing). I'm not even a huge SF reader but I loved many of the books. A couple of them I've re-read and will likely re-read a few others. In a way they're from a different era (of course) but at the same time in a way they're timeless. Overall, it was like 90-95% mind-expanding... which I love.
My first experience with the Holly Gibney character was in the Outsider show and I loved her. I later read the Hodges trilogy and yeah, don’t love her. She doesn’t put me off though. I’m going to read the Holly book. Because it’s King. And after your review, I’ll read this book too. Eventually.
I heard Holly in the show was much better and different than the character in the novels. Makes me almost want to watch it. Plus I think Jason Bateman did a fantastic job in Ozarks so I'm curious to see him in The Outsider. I'm sure I'll read it someday.
I just finished this book and I liked it. I agree with all your points, especially the awkward way King handled boobs and politics. With this in mind, is there a book or two of his you recommend?
I'd recommend tons of King books: The Shining, Pet Sematary, IT, The Dark Tower Series, Gerald's Game, The Tommyknockers--I have a top ten list on RUclips somewhere. Though he's never handled boobs well (he's always been immature and that was clouded when I was less mature myself) at least the early books were about the story and not The Agenda.
@@THEJEFFWORDJoe! This is my second King book I've made it through. It was an interesting enough story for me. I'm watching through the show now. I don't know. Definite Twilight Zone vibe. I think I like the book better so far.
Quirky girls. LoL. Yeah. I used to think that my desire to read other authors and genres had a lot to do with my veering away from King. But with his releases in the past 20 years, Ive grown to realize that King took a turn off the road that he had been on since 1973. Politics and social issues have become more prevalent in his works. To me, part of his “quirky girl” fetish is a manifestation of his ideas as to what his world is outside of Maine. Take a look at every big city leftist protest thats taken place in the past 8 years. The groups are loaded with King characters. Thats the visual that he subjects himself to via CNN and Msnbc. To him, those characters are the real heros, and everyone on the opposite side of them are the characters who are evil and flawed. Though I maintain 112263 is his best book in 20 years, it certainly is not in my top 10. Certainly my top 20. Great review Jeff.
That's a really interesting point. He lives in a bubble and I'd imagine he'd pop if he ever came up against an idea he disagreed with. I don't mind the politics if they don't get in the way of the story. I find it funny to see him populate his novels with villains modeled after Republican politicians (you can't convince me that Big Jim Rennie isn't Mitt Romney or Rosie the Hat isn't Sarah Palin). But I hadn't considered the characters taking on the qualities of the grievance factory protestors.
hahahaha maybe I misspoke--I have a tendency to mash my words like potatoes--I was saying quirky girl. Holly and Sadie are both celebrated for their oddness and being odd is okay. I'm fine with it. I'm odd. But King handles it poorly and makes me hate them for their quirks (more Holly than Sadie). And the love story between Jake and Sadie is soooo goddamned immature, not behaving at all like two adults with lots of life experience. Of course this is just my opinion and it's a very unpopular one.
It's a girl who washes her hands red-raw after jerking off her ADHD husband and then going to sleep with a broom in the middle of the bed. According to King.
@@THEJEFFWORD Shit, I liked Sadie. Except for the fact she shut up and followed no questions asked. That was stupid. How is she a quirky girl? Was it the height and clumsiness? The presumably progressive views for the era? I'd say the latter is perfectly consistent with her being a librarian, i.e. a well-read person. I'd expected her to be more of a communist, though. But alas King treated it as the Big Bad Monster with no critical thought put into it and of course our Main Good Girl couldn't align herself with that.
The quirks don't bother me, the pacing didn't bother me. What bugs me the most is this masturbatory, self-referential, meta-ness in the beginning. Maine has literally nothing to do with the plot or premise. The protagonist could have been from Alaska or Tennessee or one of the Dakotas and it would not have mattered in the slightest. It felt like Maine was in the story for the sole purpose of revisiting Derry. Oh look, King is referencing one of his books in one of his books. Oh look, a character I've heard of from one of his books, talking about one of the things that happened in one of his books. The Harry Dunning plot could have happened anywhere. When it happens in Derry, it just feels like King's jerking himself off all over again. Oh look, the narrator said "Beep, beep Ritchie" AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!! Who gives af? I LOVE the premise of this book, but I hate the narrator's cringey jokes and nonsense, the fourth wall breaking [in novel's character's never go potty, but *this* is real life] and I hate the fan service of going back to Derry, revisiting Bev and the gang. It's all so transparent
Excellent point. As a longtime King reader, you just get used to him staying in his Maine bubble. Makes one wonder if he has any clue what's going on in the rest of the country. But the whole vibe of King writing for King was overwhelming in this one. I don't understand the cult following this book gets, but the self-indulgent stuff was too much for me.
I'm halfway through it. My word, what a slog. It's King so it's readable and full of humour. But there are some passages that seem to never end: the Of Mice And Men play, the sex scene with the teacher (pure cringe). The bit about the broom made me laugh out loud, though.
I remember reading King's sex scenes as a teenager thinking they were good. Now, reading them as an adult I can't help but wonder if he's ever had sex. It's like a teen's idea of what sex might be like. Just awkward and cringey. And I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't gotten to the end yet, but the things King prizes Sadie for are really shallow and pitiful. If King had shed or slimmed down the middle with Jake building his life in Jodie, Texas the book would have been fantastic. Oh and there's the one really uncomfortable passage between Jake and a certain pre-pubescent girl--he really thinks she's pretty . . .
If you're talking about plot, I almost never repeat what's written on the dust jacket. My goal is to explain what I thought about the book and why while avoiding spoilers. At most, in my reviews I'll say a sentence or two on what the story is about, but I'd rather discuss impact and reaction.
@@craigwarner6156 by that measure, why would anyone do a review if it’s just to repeat what the book is about? That doesn’t change from reviewer to reviewer. They’d all just say 11/22/63 is about a guy who gets the opportunity to go back in time and he uses that opportunity to see if he can stop the assassination of JFK. And complications arise. There’s a review. I think people want to know if the reviewer thought the trouble was worth it and why. The why is important because things affect people differently. I have done reviews with a few sentences covering what the book is about, and I’d probably do that with a much lesser known title or author.
The right deserves to be the villians. Because they are. He can be self indulgent because he is the greatest writer of our lifetime. Not being a dick man, agree to disagree and all. Have a great night.
Agree to disagree, especially with the notion that he is the greatest writer of our lifetime. He might be the greatest living storyteller currently, but Cormac McCarthy is just one name that pops to mind as a writer greater than King. And I'm sure even King would agree to that.
The greatest writer would be Agatha christie. She Was a much much better writer then King, she sould the most books. he is just popular becouse the movied based on his novels. Dan simmons and Thomas Harrison are a million times better writer. Populare he is and great for him, he was at the right place at the right time and now he is big since 50 years, witch is amazing for him and his Fans.
I agree. I haven't been scared by anything he's written since Tommyknockers (seriously, there's a chapter titled In the Shed that always freaks me out. But King is a great storyteller and he can put the reader in another reality where the rules are different. And that's why he's so popular. Is he too popular? Maybe.
@@THEJEFFWORD Right. His most popular work Shawshank Redemption is not even horror at all. He is a horror fan boy for sure but never serious with the genre
I didn’t think I’d like this book but I too felt forced to read it do to all the positive reviews. Glad I did. Really had a hard time putting this book down.
That's awesome when a book grabs you like that. That's powerful.
King isn’t a literature icon because of his prose or plots. It’s his tone and theming. It’s accessible writing, non-pretentious, and this is why King is not taken as seriously by some literary critics.
11/22/63 pacing was great for me. I could not put it down.
Yes--he's a master storyteller. That has a much broader appeal than someone with literary heft.
@@dontdoit6986 i think he is very pretentious!
attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed
Sounds like kings work.
I agree about the middle. It took me two weeks to read this book because I got to the middle and then took a week and a half off because I got bored. I’m glad I finished it
Loved this review. Subscribed. Alot of things you referenced, I knew what books you were calling out.
Thank you! This is a beloved King book and I was hoping I'd love it too . . .
To me the most rewarding part of this story are some of the running themes such as “the past harmonizes,” “dancing is life” and “if there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.” Without these touches I doubt fans would be as crazy about the book. Stephen King, who’s never really been a historical novelist, also deserves a lot of credit for taking on a subject as heavy as the JFK assassination, not to mention the whole time travel narrative in general.
I think the time travel aspect was handled well. Hard to be original and keep all the loose strands tied up with time travel and I think King does it well. And yeah the JFK assassination was a bear that King wrestled with skill.
In my opinion, nothing needed to be trimmed .it builds the world and makes me love the towns he was in more
Yeah it's well done, but it almost needed to be two different books in my opinion. Like it pulled in two different directions and I was impatient with the delay in getting to the assassination. I understood why it had to be that way but it lost it's edge for me.
Just finished it, and I enjoyed it, but the middle of the book just drags on as if he is trying to add fluff and filler, I found myself skipping ahead.
Yeah that's my take in a nutshell. Though I just can't skip ahead. I've only done that with one book--just to validate my decision to stop reading.
Stephen King, 'flabby in the middle"? That would be every book by him that I've read, or tried to read. It's a good thing he never had me as an editor. i would have been fired before lunch.
Hahahahaha yeah, ever since he published the unabridged edition of The Stand, he's been able to be as bloated as he wants.
@@THEJEFFWORD Nice work if you can get it!
I love alternate history/time travel books like this. Really loved The Guns of the South by Harry Turtledove as well!
Usually not my thing, but it's fun here.
I really rolled my eyes at the references to a certain famous book of his. This is the first king book I’ve read and didn’t know that’s normal of him
Being first out the gate is like gulping a breath of fresh air.
Frosty fresh!
Hi .i liked your review. I felt like you covered everything I would have asked a friend to to tell me about if I was looking for a review. Great minds think alike, I've been told. Anyhow, this is the first vid I've watched and I think I'll sub. Good job! Much apreesh. 💕
Really appreciate that! I hate my book reviews and I always fumble. So it's good to know I'm not as awful as I think I am.
The self indulgence part about King is spot on. Agree about the middle part of the book being slow going. I definitely felt like I went back in time. King did a great job doing that.
As someone born well after 1958, I also enjoyed the trip. Though I couldn't verify the authenticity. :)
I notice his politics always peek through in his novels. There's activismn against the old guard government. But I can't understand WHY he is so adamantly for the current one. He's either a clone, or they got something on him.. or he really did some of that shit the villains in his book did. Which makes him a darkly perverted monster.
I saw a political cartoon that summed it up perfectly. It showed a beat-up old VW beetle driven by a young boomer back in the 60s and it had bumper stickers that said Question Authority and Stick it to The Man!! In the next panel it showed the same boomer, now driving a Mercedes with bumper stickers that read Get Vaxxed and Questioning elections is bad for democracy. Or something like that. The point may be that once people are affluent they are no longer revolutionaries. They like things that reward them. Or it could be that once people gain power they demand others obey them--they become the tyrants they abhorred. I'd say King has gotten lost in his power. He's arrogant.
@@THEJEFFWORD bullseye!
If you think *SK* has a Quirky Girl Fetish... read all of Philip K. Dick's SF novels! ;) Kidding aside... whether it's SK or PKD, I don't think I went that far in my mind with that particular 'motif'; I think I saw it more as just a surface literary quirk. I probably like half or more of PKD's SF novels a lot... and I did like '11/22/63' a lot. Also appreciated your review, thanks.
I only read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch in college and don't really remember anything other than I really liked it. I have A Scanner Darkly on my shelf and I'm sure I'll get to it eventually. Thanks for the nudge. I doubt his quirky girl stuff will bother me as much.
@@THEJEFFWORD Maybe I see your point. btw: More than 'Palmer' and 'Scanner'... I'm drawn to PKD's 'Ubik' and 'Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said'. Trippy stuff!
@@im1ru122 I almost bought Folio Society's Ubik because they did a fantastic job on the design--specifically the slipcase and I did enjoy Palmer Eldritch. I think PKD is an author I'll want to read as much as I can.
@@THEJEFFWORD 'Ubik' is great! I don't tend to do 'projects' but a year or so ago I took on the project of reading all of PKD's sci-fi novels. It took several months (squeezing in with my other reading). Like SK, quality can vary. Like SK, opinions vary on what's 'the best' (cause reading is a personal thing). I'm not even a huge SF reader but I loved many of the books. A couple of them I've re-read and will likely re-read a few others. In a way they're from a different era (of course) but at the same time in a way they're timeless. Overall, it was like 90-95% mind-expanding... which I love.
"Boomer porn" is pretty funny though. 😆
Hahahaha apparently not to some Boomers.
My first experience with the Holly Gibney character was in the Outsider show and I loved her. I later read the Hodges trilogy and yeah, don’t love her. She doesn’t put me off though. I’m going to read the Holly book. Because it’s King.
And after your review, I’ll read this book too. Eventually.
I heard Holly in the show was much better and different than the character in the novels. Makes me almost want to watch it. Plus I think Jason Bateman did a fantastic job in Ozarks so I'm curious to see him in The Outsider. I'm sure I'll read it someday.
Thank you for this honest book review!
Thank you for the comment and the view.
I just finished this book and I liked it. I agree with all your points, especially the awkward way King handled boobs and politics. With this in mind, is there a book or two of his you recommend?
I'd recommend tons of King books: The Shining, Pet Sematary, IT, The Dark Tower Series, Gerald's Game, The Tommyknockers--I have a top ten list on RUclips somewhere. Though he's never handled boobs well (he's always been immature and that was clouded when I was less mature myself) at least the early books were about the story and not The Agenda.
Awesome. I appreciate the recommendations.
King didn’t write the ending. His son gave him the idea for the ending.
Wow, I had no idea. Was it Joe or Owen? Whoever it was I'm glad King took the advice.
@@THEJEFFWORDJoe! This is my second King book I've made it through. It was an interesting enough story for me. I'm watching through the show now. I don't know. Definite Twilight Zone vibe. I think I like the book better so far.
Quirky girls. LoL. Yeah. I used to think that my desire to read other authors and genres had a lot to do with my veering away from King. But with his releases in the past 20 years, Ive grown to realize that King took a turn off the road that he had been on since 1973. Politics and social issues have become more prevalent in his works. To me, part of his “quirky girl” fetish is a manifestation of his ideas as to what his world is outside of Maine. Take a look at every big city leftist protest thats taken place in the past 8 years. The groups are loaded with King characters. Thats the visual that he subjects himself to via CNN and Msnbc. To him, those characters are the real heros, and everyone on the opposite side of them are the characters who are evil and flawed. Though I maintain 112263 is his best book in 20 years, it certainly is not in my top 10. Certainly my top 20. Great review Jeff.
That's a really interesting point. He lives in a bubble and I'd imagine he'd pop if he ever came up against an idea he disagreed with. I don't mind the politics if they don't get in the way of the story. I find it funny to see him populate his novels with villains modeled after Republican politicians (you can't convince me that Big Jim Rennie isn't Mitt Romney or Rosie the Hat isn't Sarah Palin). But I hadn't considered the characters taking on the qualities of the grievance factory protestors.
What is a corky girl?
hahahaha maybe I misspoke--I have a tendency to mash my words like potatoes--I was saying quirky girl. Holly and Sadie are both celebrated for their oddness and being odd is okay. I'm fine with it. I'm odd. But King handles it poorly and makes me hate them for their quirks (more Holly than Sadie). And the love story between Jake and Sadie is soooo goddamned immature, not behaving at all like two adults with lots of life experience.
Of course this is just my opinion and it's a very unpopular one.
It's a girl who washes her hands red-raw after jerking off her ADHD husband and then going to sleep with a broom in the middle of the bed. According to King.
@@THEJEFFWORD Shit, I liked Sadie. Except for the fact she shut up and followed no questions asked. That was stupid.
How is she a quirky girl? Was it the height and clumsiness? The presumably progressive views for the era? I'd say the latter is perfectly consistent with her being a librarian, i.e. a well-read person. I'd expected her to be more of a communist, though. But alas King treated it as the Big Bad Monster with no critical thought put into it and of course our Main Good Girl couldn't align herself with that.
The quirks don't bother me, the pacing didn't bother me. What bugs me the most is this masturbatory, self-referential, meta-ness in the beginning. Maine has literally nothing to do with the plot or premise. The protagonist could have been from Alaska or Tennessee or one of the Dakotas and it would not have mattered in the slightest. It felt like Maine was in the story for the sole purpose of revisiting Derry. Oh look, King is referencing one of his books in one of his books. Oh look, a character I've heard of from one of his books, talking about one of the things that happened in one of his books. The Harry Dunning plot could have happened anywhere. When it happens in Derry, it just feels like King's jerking himself off all over again. Oh look, the narrator said "Beep, beep Ritchie" AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!!! Who gives af? I LOVE the premise of this book, but I hate the narrator's cringey jokes and nonsense, the fourth wall breaking [in novel's character's never go potty, but *this* is real life] and I hate the fan service of going back to Derry, revisiting Bev and the gang. It's all so transparent
Excellent point. As a longtime King reader, you just get used to him staying in his Maine bubble. Makes one wonder if he has any clue what's going on in the rest of the country. But the whole vibe of King writing for King was overwhelming in this one. I don't understand the cult following this book gets, but the self-indulgent stuff was too much for me.
Has anyone seen his college days picture? He looks like the outcome if Charlie Manson and a chipmunk had offspring
HAhahahahaha that is a perfect description!
You just need to cut out the superfluous commentary and stick to the review. Too many tangents. I loved the book, not so much the series.
If I were a superhero, I'd be Superfluous.
No offense, but the video is only 17:34 long. The video itself is not very long. Good review.
I disagree. I thought it was on point
@@THEJEFFWORD😂
Boomer porn, 😂 that’s funny. I’m in the middle of the book and I’m kind of bored but I’ll keep going to find out how it ends.
The ending is really good. If you make it through the boring (very cringey) middle, then you'll eventually flow back into a great story.
I'm halfway through it. My word, what a slog. It's King so it's readable and full of humour. But there are some passages that seem to never end: the Of Mice And Men play, the sex scene with the teacher (pure cringe). The bit about the broom made me laugh out loud, though.
I remember reading King's sex scenes as a teenager thinking they were good. Now, reading them as an adult I can't help but wonder if he's ever had sex. It's like a teen's idea of what sex might be like. Just awkward and cringey. And I don't want to spoil anything if you haven't gotten to the end yet, but the things King prizes Sadie for are really shallow and pitiful. If King had shed or slimmed down the middle with Jake building his life in Jodie, Texas the book would have been fantastic. Oh and there's the one really uncomfortable passage between Jake and a certain pre-pubescent girl--he really thinks she's pretty . . .
@@THEJEFFWORD Unrealistic indeed. Giving old Sadie the Big O after only a few minutes. Maybe Mr Amberson's game is just better than mine lol.
:D
Lol top 11
I wish this book lived up to its hype.
Ok 10 minutes in and you've told me nothing. Sorry but you've just gone on about everything but the story
If you're talking about plot, I almost never repeat what's written on the dust jacket. My goal is to explain what I thought about the book and why while avoiding spoilers. At most, in my reviews I'll say a sentence or two on what the story is about, but I'd rather discuss impact and reaction.
@@THEJEFFWORD then that's not review. Maybe you should say reaction then. Cuz it's not a review
@@craigwarner6156 by that measure, why would anyone do a review if it’s just to repeat what the book is about? That doesn’t change from reviewer to reviewer. They’d all just say 11/22/63 is about a guy who gets the opportunity to go back in time and he uses that opportunity to see if he can stop the assassination of JFK. And complications arise. There’s a review.
I think people want to know if the reviewer thought the trouble was worth it and why. The why is important because things affect people differently.
I have done reviews with a few sentences covering what the book is about, and I’d probably do that with a much lesser known title or author.
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All aboard!
The right deserves to be the villians. Because they are. He can be self indulgent because he is the greatest writer of our lifetime. Not being a dick man, agree to disagree and all. Have a great night.
Agree to disagree, especially with the notion that he is the greatest writer of our lifetime. He might be the greatest living storyteller currently, but Cormac McCarthy is just one name that pops to mind as a writer greater than King. And I'm sure even King would agree to that.
@@THEJEFFWORDCormac McCarthy doesn't even use punctuation
The greatest writer would be Agatha christie. She Was a much much better writer then King, she sould the most books.
he is just popular becouse the movied based on his novels. Dan simmons and Thomas Harrison are a million times better writer.
Populare he is and great for him, he was at the right place at the right time and now he is big since 50 years, witch is amazing for him and his Fans.
Stephen King is extremely overrated and not a horror author. He writes drama not horror
I agree. I haven't been scared by anything he's written since Tommyknockers (seriously, there's a chapter titled In the Shed that always freaks me out. But King is a great storyteller and he can put the reader in another reality where the rules are different. And that's why he's so popular. Is he too popular? Maybe.
@@THEJEFFWORD Right. His most popular work Shawshank Redemption is not even horror at all. He is a horror fan boy for sure but never serious with the genre
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