Which stuff reads well?
I didn't mind Carrie (but then again, I was 14 when I read it), but he's really hamfisted with his characters, he can't write convincing female characters and his plots are contrived.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:52, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

those are YOUR opinions
just by way of one example, as a female, I don't agree that NONE of his female characters are "convincing". and I thought the bit about gage's death/funeral in "pet sematary" read very well, for another.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 13:59, Reply)

Well yes, they are my views.
But of all the novels and stories of his I've read I've never found his characters to be anything other than cardboard cutouts just there to move the flimsy plots along.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:01, Reply)

now, you see, you put it like that
and you don't come across as such a smug know-it-all turquoise cocked fool. In fact, you sound almost normal.

HTH
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:03, Reply)

I just find throwaway fiction which is written for nothing more than economic gain to be a massive waste of time.
Nothing personal, just that when I do have time to read I'd rather read something with a bit of substance to it. Hence my current queue of Ballard, Lessing and Amis.

I'm gearing up to give Gravity's Rainbow another go.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:08, Reply)

Carrie
Misery
Rose Madder
Geralds Game

are ones I enjoyed.
( GeordieJay Bummers are deaf, Fri 15 Nov 2013, 14:28, Reply)