[.cnI redruM]

It's a shame King is declining.

[Portnoy]

I read this book in Three days. Its not a hard read, but its a fun read. I'm not a super King fan. I think the STAND is a mighty fine book and the Dark Tower Series is certainly interesting.

I honestly didn't view this book in the same light as this writer.

[Tax-chick]

I never quite pictured a joint full of vampires who favored both NASCAR and Beechnut Chewin' Tobacco.

Me, either. I don't like Stephen King's books, but I enjoyed this review!

[Tribune7]

I finished The Stand a few weeks back. Dang, that was conservative -- pro life, pro God, pro cop and pro country.

The hero was a black, female, Reagan-voting Republican

And Flagg was a hippie '60s militant, btw.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I'm pretty sure Flagg wasn't "nuked" in The Stand.

He escaped before the Apocalypse, just like in The Eyes Of The Dragon.

Sorry for the necro-bump, but this is the first DT-related thread that I've come across in the past two years.

Just found it.

^__^

-good times, G.J.P. (Jr.)

P.S. I agree with the idea that King is on the downward arc of his literary career. The sole exception being the final volumes of the DT series, which I think have served as the capstone of his life as a novelist.

[Spiff]

It's a shame King is declining.

Declining?

Declined. I stopped reading his predictable, formulaic crap over a decade ago. If you've read 3 Stephen King novels, you've read them all. And I did read them all for a while, every one - even the Richard Bachman stuff - and thought it was good. Until about 13 years ago when I realized, in fact, it all sucked. Either my tastes changed or Stephen King was never that good in the first place. I vote for the latter.