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Originally Posted by ProggyMan
Personally I can't stand writing that doesn't flow well. I hate authors like Raymond E. Feist and King because their writing just seems really convoluted and melodramatic. Which books have you read Crowquill? I haven't read anything after Gerald's Game.
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when i think lack of flow and melodrama i think of clancy and dean koontz (the poor man's king), I have read probably 90% of king's body of work, and there are stories (mostly from the late eighties and early nineties) where he is phoning it in, reading his book about writing and interviews with him even he seems to be embarrassed by them and attributes most of his poorer novels to his drug use and alcoholism. at the top of his game king is one of the finest writers of popular fiction there is, at his worst he is still better than tripe like dan brown.
here's a breakdown
king at his best:
Dark Tower, The Stand, Pet Sematary, IT, Insomnia, The Talisman, Cell, The Bachman Books, Desperation/ The Regulators, *some* Short Stories, The Faithful
At his worst:
The Tommyknockers
*im only going to say this one because it is such an embarrassment to any writer's career that a lesser person would have put it down for the rest of their lives.