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King does his best when limited to the constraints of a short story. He tends to ramble otherwise--look at the later Dark Tower books for an example. His "Nigh
by angersock 10y ago
King does his best when limited to the constraints of a short story. He tends to ramble otherwise--look at the later Dark Tower books for an example.
His "Nightmares & Dreamscapes" anthology is a solid introduction.
- mindcrime 10y agoIt's funny, because I'd say his reputation and recognition is primarily as a novelist... but I think he's absolutely a better short story writer than a novelist! Don't get me wrong... I love almost everything King has ever written (well, fiction anyway... I can do without his ridiculous politics), including both novels and short stories. But every time I sit down and start reading one of his short story anthologies, I'm reminded of just how amazing his is in that form. I just read Bazaar of Bad Dreams earlier this year, and, once again, I was blown away.
- sevensor 10y agoSkeleton Crew is one of my favorites, mainly because my family used to shop at the grocery store from "The Mist" when we went to Bridgton in the summer. It's still open, but it's not really recognizable anymore. When I was a child, it was pretty much exactly the way he described it, all buzzing fluorescents, wilted produce, and green linoleum. I got really mad at Stephen King for writing himself into the Dark Tower books, but I kind of get it. I see the last two books especially as Steve plowing through a story he'd basically given up on as un-finishable, because he also couldn't not finish them. Putting himself in as a character is his apology to us as readers for there being no possible satisfactory conclusion to the series. edit: remove redundant redundancy