That's the way I felt about "It"
It follows these characters for decades, you really get to know them over 1000 pages, and the ending is what?
His best works IMHO are (somewhat) shorter novels, where you get a satisfying ending.
Well, *an* ending at least.
Rage
Carrie
11/22/63
(although it clocked in at around 800 pages)
The Green Mile
Misery
The Dead Zone
Fun facts about The Dead Zone. Senator Stillson, the bad guy was a democrat. King hates republicans. King also received death threats because animal rights activists didn't like Stillson kicking a dog to death. In a novel.
LOL! The libs get upset over the fiction of kicking a dog. Yeah, King is a super lib and that is telling that he would make Stillson a Democrat. Subconscious admission?
Anyway, Mark Twain use to do the same thing, get bored with a story and crap it out. I did read “It” and if I remember “It” was a giant spider at the end? LOL! But anyway, Twain would do the same thing, even in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” which I consider the greatest novel ever written, no book comes even a million miles close. He labored like hell over that book, and it’s like he had this huge burst of genius making connections with his childhood and freedom and slavery and then he goes into this utterly pretentious garbage of Jim being in chains and Tom Sawyer must make pretend they are breaking Jim out of jail and goes on and on and on.
I guess they didn’t have editors back them, but other than that, no novel can touch Huckleberry Finn. I must have read it literally a thousand times, I read it to this day off and on, I got it on my cellphone through Kindle. I’m 54 and I’ve been reading it since I was 8. I know every line, every chapter. It’s like a drug that book, you read it and it totally changes your mental chemistry. Huck hiding out on Jackson Island smoking his pipe and the sun coming through the leaves in the trees making “freckled places on the ground” where they “swapped about a little suggesting there was a breeze up there”, and he hears the low faint “boom” of the cannon on the paddle boat. Chapter 8 of that book is probably the most brilliant chapter ever written in fiction.