I’m reading my way through the dark tower series again. His political leanings do come out in some of his books but I don’t read them for a political message and can enjoy a good book without getting upset.
One of my favorites was “Insomnia” but one of the main characters was a rabid crazy right winger who tried to crash a plane load of explosives into a civic center full of feminists. Despite that, it was a top notch read.
I’ve always loved Stephen King’s novels, especially the first 10 or so that he wrote.
It’s been fun introducing my 8th grade son to Stephen King, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton—I actually envy him, 13 and getting to read such fun stuff for the first time. . .
Steven King is a very profilic author of the genre, and he’s written some very fine works in his day.
Salem’s Lot, The Stand, The Shining, The Tommyknockers, The Dark Half, Needful Things, and The Gunslinger are all fine reads.
I would consider him one of the masters of the craft, for our day and age.
For ANYONE to give 13,000 to the members of our armed forces is a noble and wonderful thing, regardless of the political ideology they have.
I would even go so far as to say that The Gunslinger might be remembered years from now as a great example of minimalism.
I was a big Clive Barker fan back in the day, until I read the books of blood series and noticed Barker had a thing for naked little girls. Then he came out of the closet a bit later and well that was pretty much it for me. No more of him. Plenty of other great writers that don’t involve shoving that stuff into my face every time I want a good horror novel.
How did you like the pro-life, conservative sociopaths? I thought they were brilliantly written, especially the fat, greasy woman in the "baby-factory" t-shirt who claimed (according to the author's intrusion) to have given birth to a dozen children.
Sorry, I found the bile offset the entertainment value.