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Originally Posted by Frosty
It's hard to beat the early SK stuff - The Stand, Salem's Lot, The Shining, The Dead Zone were all great while stuff like Carrie, Firestarter, Christine and The Talisman were near great. I kind of feel like IT was the last prime King book, with the exception of 11/22/63.
Almost everything after IT felt like a throwaway and some of it was pretty bad (I'm stuck halfway through Wizard and Glass, so can't comment on the Dark Tower books). I couldn't finish Under the Dome and only made it about halfway through Doctor Sleep. I'm hoping King has at least one more 11/22/63 quality book in him but there is sure a lot of drek to go through in the mean time.
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The King book that is truly a throwaway is Gerald's Game. I literally read the first 80 pages or so and then I threw it in the trash can.
Practically the entire book took place in the bedroom where Gerald and his wife were engaging in some BDSM activity, mostly against her will. She got pissed off at him and kicked him in the balls. He died and was just laying there on the floor for the rest of the book, while she was stuck, handcuffed to the bed. I decided I'd had just about enough when he introduced the character of the starving dog who wandered into the bedroom and started eating the guy. King went into vivid detail talking about the dog biting down on Gerald's eyebrow, pulling on the skin until it started to tear off, and then eating it. Then he started on an ear, then a nose, and so on. At that point I started skimming through the rest of the book, and the rest of the entire ****ing book was more of the same. Except, of course, when the wife decided this would be a good time to suddenly remember in vivid detail about her father ****ing her when she was a little girl.
I think that is the only book I ever just stopped reading and tossed into the trash can. It's a shame, because King is one of my favorite authors. But that is one of the worst books I've ever attempted to read.