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11/22/63 was a very good book and I'm enjoying his last couple detective stories. Yep, I could see how many would find his typical writing out of their comfort zone but not those.
A long time ago - in fact, on the first date I ever had with my husband - he told me that one of his favorite books by King was "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon." Well, I had forgotten about that till I ran across the book at a garage sale yesterday! I bought it and started it last night and so far I really like it.
I ordered 11/22/63 from Amazon (used books) a couple of weeks ago and am still waiting for it to arrive. Hmmm. They didn't ship it till the 23rd though so maybe it will be here by early next week.
I prefer King's early work. I've read little that he wrote after the early 1990s - a major exception is the brilliant non-fiction On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft.
But I can't bring myself to think that just because someone else subjectively rates King higher than do I, that they are therefore overrating him. Someone else's preference for an author isn't about me, and I do not think that my level of preference for an author is the right preference for everyone - it's just right for me.
Am reading On Writing and am really enjoying it. Thanks!
On Writing is worth reading for two segments: Tabitha fishing Steve's Carrie manuscript out of the wastebasket — thereby making/saving his career — and Steve getting poison ivy all over his nether regions.
Just finished Finders Keepers. Best Stephen King novel since The Green Mile. (Just my opinion, of course!) I was about ready to completely give up on him!
As this was a kind of sequel to Mr. Mercedes, which I hadn't read, I am going to read that one next -- although Finders Keepers was definitely a spoiler for that, I'm sure.
Some are good some I can't even get through the first few chapters.
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