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.
Started reading King at age 13 back in the 90s when our small village religious library lady got outraged at me for borrowing those "books for young lads". Loved them all the way to my adulthood and still read his new work as it comes out.
Carrie, The Dark Side, Pet Sematary, Thing, It, Dolores Claiborne, The Shining, Needfull Things, The Tommyknockers and The Dark Tower are some of my favs. But I am generally a horror fan. Horror, sci-fi, fantasy.
He does do disgusting fatmisia and a lot of problematic stuff, but so do authors like Terry Pratchett and I still enjoy my Discworld too. What got me was the way he lets you peak into the minds of his characters and how f'd up they often are. I always thought that the writer has to have a pretty dark mind to come up with that stuff.