I'm reading that right now.

i can get passed some clunky writing, in favor of a good yarn. a good technical writer does not a good writer make. just because someone can string the proper words together doesnt mean they can fashion a great story. so what if the great gatsby is "perfect," i can respect that but i look forward to reading it about as much as i look forward to draining a whitehead on my sack.

ive read a lot of classic literature from a lot of countries but did i enjoy any of it the way i can enjoy some good pulp? some, but not all. reading a good story for the sake of reading it makes for a good pallet cleanser when all you do is read the heavy stuff.

How is his writing clunky?...I don't really care for him much at all anymore but he is a good writer even if his subject matters aren't something I enjoy.

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.

one of my all time favorites,....

i'm re reading 'the river why' by david james duncan,......everytime he catches that fish on that old hot dog i giggle

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.

Several; Bag of Bones, Lisey's Story, Cell, It, The Green Mile, Hearts in Atlantis, Pet Sematary, The Stand, The Shining and Salem's Lot. I don't see how his writing doesn't flow well as for being melodramatic well yeah its horror it tends to be melodramatic.

how are lisey's story and bag of bones? i have yet to read those.