If I can tempt you away from new stuff for a moment, who likes Stephen King?

I think he's great but only when he's great that is. When it comes to his brand of horrific stuff somehow I'm fine with it. He just has that blunt and honest sense of humour that makes me forgive him. I love how he throws a supernatural and grotesque image out of left field.

I love the following books:

The Tommyknockers
Duma Key

I love the following short stories:

The Jump (from Skeleton Crew)
Dolan's Cadilliac (from Nightmares and Dreamscapes)
Home Delivery (from Nightmares and Dreamscapes)

I'm meh about these books:

Salem's Lot (he tried and failed to be as good as Bram Stoker)
Pet Sematary (not as good as it sounds. He basically wrote a tragic porno story with a smattering of supernatural)

And....I think The First Book of The Dark Tower makes for good kindling. I never read further.

His biography On Writing is basically about how he was a popular kid turned alchoholic who didn't sympathise with his first protagonist Carrie.

......I sympathise with Carrie, like.....A LOT

Anyway.....if you wanna discuss him, he's here for a bit.....