He has been sub-par since he got clean, as terrible as that sounds. His early works will always be known as his best...I got to meet him in 1979 in a little burg called Houlton, Maine and still have an autographed paperback copy of The Stand.
I agree, I got the feeling that he just wrote the 6th and 7th Dark Tower books so that he’d fulfill his promise to complete them. I wish they’d been left unfinished.
I used to be an avid reader of King, and still greatly enjoy and dust off his older stuff (pre 2000ish, maybe?) regularly.
“And then the car honked its owwwwn horrrrn...”
Since we’re talking about King, I had to throw in my favorite Futurama line.