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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I kinda gave up on Stephen King a bunch of years ago to the point that I didn't finish the dark tower series.
I think the last books I read involved a kid being possessed by a indian spirit, and being chased around by a phantom super hero van or something like that.
King's short stories are brilliant, the story heads up that he wrote about a year with his sons baseball team was excellent.
But anything longer then a couple of hundred pages and he falls apart.
I'll never forgive him for the stupidity of the ending of "It"
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Yeah, was just thinking about this as I read over this thread. Shawshank comes to mind immediately. Even the shorter novels are better than the grandiose ones. Misery was excellent. But for some reason he just screws up the long ones, usually in the climax/ending. Or they just end up getting too ridiculous.
The Shining may stand as a good longer one. But it's the only one I can think of. And I think most people just have good memories of it because of the movie and the brilliance that was Jack.