Is stephen king the most prolific writer of our generation?

[humminbird]

He’s up there for sure

 

[hex]

There is more talented and/or more influential writers but pound for pound he's the GOAT for our generation, in his field.

Clive Barker would've surpassed him if he wasn't lazy.

Fred.

 

[Monsanto]

I've read the stand, pet cemetary, salems lot, the outsider. I tried to read the gunslinger twice and gave up on it....bored me to death. His books are better at being movies than they are at being books. He's great at what he does .... but he always finds a way to fukk the story up imo...
He' s just not for me.


A literary geniusi dont want to come off as a snob but come on.

Spot on.

Dark Tower was hard for me to finish. That Mr. Mercedes series is a perfect example of letting the reader on the wrong ride. The book after Finders Keepers I had to put down because it was way too far-fetched. Editor should have slapped him for that premise.

The Stand is a classic. No ifs ands or buts. He uses the N word too often which is a turn off in his books.

 

[ciubaca]

Spot on.

Dark Tower was hard for me to finish. That Mr. Mercedes series is a perfect example of letting the reader on the wrong ride. The book after Finders Keepers I had to put down because it was way too far-fetched. Editor should have slapped him for that premise.

The Stand is a classic. No ifs ands or buts. He uses the N word too often which is a turn off in his books.

I renember reading the outsider...loving it. The way he broke down the police inveatigation was amazing.
The how can one person be in two places at the same time shyt kept me guessing...
Then he comes up with that shape shifting bullshyt. not to mention they killed him with a sock full of pennies

 

[Laidbackman]

He sorta fell off with me when he started including children getting murdered in his movies. Btw, I saw his movie "Thinner" last month. I can't remember if I saw it before, but I think I saw a little racism in this movie, although I haven't seen all of his films. Anyway, the movie was about gypsies cursing people from this well-to-do town, who were guilty in a cover-up. The part that turned me off was when that man said, "They never felt the White mans curse". Sounds like something a lot of White people always wanted to say to Black people, especially today. Now that I know who we are, and who they are, that really sounds off and looney. But in the movie, when that man said that, the White man became the hero, and made the gypsies back down, just by using weaponry, which was Esau's (The White Man's) blessing. Since when is anybody able to kill a curse with weapons and violence. Sounds more and more like Stephen King was trying to get something off his chess.

Anyway, I was just reading some of his filmography on Wikipedia. I didn't know he did all that. So I guess he's up there.

 

[Knowledge]

I read a lot and i really mean A LOT. I grew up on stephen king, dean koontz, and james patterson but honestly now days i think king is overrated. I hated "IT" (wasnt scary), green mile was magical negro galore, i prefer swan song over the stand, the shining was...eh alcohol abuse and not scary, pet cemetery wasnt scary, salems lot was cool though. Then again i prefer books like blood maredian, dead sea, the wolf's hour, between two fires, and swan song when it comes to horror. Just my opinion but he has original ideas that fall short because of various reasons and he cant land endings for shyt...look at under the dome

 

[Monsanto]

I renember reading the outsider...loving it. The way he broke down the police inveatigation was amazing.
The how can one person be in two places at the same time shyt kept me guessing...
Then he comes up with that shape shifting bullshyt. not to mention they killed him with a sock full of pennies

People connected to a guy in a coma kept dying, the cause? The guy in a coma developed powers and was able to transmute his consciousness into a Gameboy-like console to convince them to commit suicide. Put the book down immediately after he had that as a reveal halfway through the book.

 

[MidniteJay]

Not into his books much but I wish my favorite authors wrote as fast as he does.

Waiting decades for sequels ain't it...

 

[Wargames]

He’s up there

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

he back on that cocaine

 

[FluffyEyes]

I've liked Stephen King's books since I was a kid. I think his best run of novels and short story collections are from late 70s to about the mid 90s. He has some gems after that but they are fewer and far between.

Also ppl have to be careful not to confuse all the movie adaptations of his work with the source material. He hasn't written all of those screenplays nor did he have creative control over all of those. Many of them didn't really capture why the story's themselves were good(especially that run of 90s TV movie adaptations), it's just that when a King adaptation hits the spot, it REALLY hits the spot.

 

[Strapped]

Whoever writes for law & order

 

[Laidbackman]

The last movie of his I remember liking was 'Pet Cemetery 1", although it was hard to watch the child getting killed. That was the first time I seen Herman Munster (Fred Gwynne) play in something since "The Munsters".