Oh please...Stephen King novels are some of the most gratuitously violent that there are. He’s a good writer, but he has to be rather demented to come up with some of his stories.
He is a good writer? I don’t think so.
A child being mowed down by a tractor trailer outside their home (Pet Semetery), Rabid Dog (Cujo), Blood Orgy (Carrie), The Stand, IT, The Shining, The Running Man, Christine...I could go on and on.
Yes — in Stephen King’s novel It (1986), there is an infamous and controversial scene near the end of the section where the children defeat Pennywise in 1958.
After the battle in the sewers, the Losers’ Club (all around age 11–12) become disoriented and begin to feel themselves drifting apart. To restore their unity and find their way back, Beverly suggests (and participates in) a sexual encounter with each boy in the group, one by one.
This is our moral compass for anything?
Indeed, read “The Stand” and it had some very graphic nasty stuff that still makes me cringe to recall it. Not just pornograpic but sick pornograpic. Was a real page turner though, hard to stop reading because story strings you along with unresolved issues. When done, was relieved issues were resolved but overall was not worth reading. Nothing I could take away from story except curiosity to see how it resolved and various depravity along the way. Not gonna read anymore of his stuff.