My experience with Stephen King books is not all negative.
The first of his books I read was Shining. I liked it a lot. The plot was interesting and the place was scary. Also I liked how the characters were developed. They felt like real people with their own motives and their choices made sense (not like thoose stories where characters do things because the plot). I am not a fan of the ending but that did not ruin the book in my eyes.
Then I started reading the Green Mile. It started good, the prison setting was interesting and the mistery of the man who murdered the girls was too. But then it went on on boring things like a rat running in the prison. I wanted to know the resolution of the mistery but I could not continue reading boring stuff.
Then I started reading IT. Same thing, the mistery was really interesting to me but then it started showing the POV of like 6 characters that were not interesting to me in the slightest. And then for each of them it gave TONS of flashbacks to a point I wondered if the story stayed in the present only for like 100 pages out of 1200. Even in that case I wanted to know the ending but I could not fathom reading hundred of pages of boring stuff.
Are most of his books like that? Can you gave me the names of his books whoose story is more tight focused?
by Bf4Sniper40X
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Yes, generally Stephen King books are relatively rambling and tend to have a lot of side-stories & B-plots. Like you, I’m often interested in one bit more than the other.
If you struggled with the Green Mile then Stephen King might not be for you, that’s one of his shorter books. Personally I love his style and the atmospheres he builds, but it doesn’t have to be for you.