I spent my whole life up until 4 months ago not reading any of his books even though I love horror. I read Thinner and loved it. Since then I've read 14 books and loved each and everyone. I'm reading Cujo at the moment and getting ready for the GOODBOY to break my heart and make me cry.
11.22.63 was unexpectedly brilliant for a timey wimey romance focused on Lee Harvey Oswald. Nothing compares so far to IT though. Pet Semetary also genuinely scared me but I guess it's because my son in the same age as Gabe in the book.
I could talk about the Dark Tower series all day. Regarding the ending of book 7:
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Personally, I don’t put too much thought into it because I don’t think King did, either. In the epilogue to that book, King basically puts his readers on blast for demanding an ending to the series. I think he was like “fine, you want me to end this, here’s an ending.” And it’s really just very contrived and dull. I think he just made that ending to make an ending and didn’t feel particularly inspired. I did read the 8th book in the series he wrote years later (The Wind Through the Keyhole) and I thought it was a much better way to conclude the series.