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.
That's fair, I know a lot of people feel something along those lines. I happened to read the last books while going through a very weird stage of my life at the time and everything about it just kinda vibed with me.
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Even the self-insert stuff, I thought worked. Cuthbert's horn tho, that really got to me. I've spent a lot of time trying to really capture what I feel that symbolizes like internally as a quale and how we should be looking for own equivalent each morning to carry with us into the day.