In case anyone is interested, I am 60% through Stephen King's new book "The Outsider" and, uh,
it is dense.
This book is 500+ pages because you have to relive the same shit over and over again. And it's interesting, thrilling, exhilarating, stressful, well-told shit but uh... yeah, the over-development is excessive.
I have never actually *read* Stephen King before (only watched), but, uh, is he always this verbose?
@bonzoesc @guerrillarain Yeah, but the Stand is generally new information, as opposed to re-hashing the same stuff over and over. (Note that I haven't read the Outsider yet) Unless I'm mis-remembering, it HAS been a few years since I read the Stand.
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@guerrillarain huh...no...not usually THAT dense...
I mean, yeah, he's verbose, but he's also usually a pretty quick popcorn-y type read.
@ARavensong hmmm, i mean, I've definitely found popcorn-worthy sections, but the sections drone on and on and eventually stop being popcorn-worthy bc i ran out of popcorn 200 pages ago.
@guerrillarain I like him, but pretty much yeah
@guerrillarain Reading it so I don't have to! :D Thanks!
@guerrillarain One complaint that I've heard of Stephen King's later work is that he became so famous as to become un-editable. Nobody can tell him to cut out sections of story. So you get a lot of words.
I bounced hard off of Insomnia which proved anything but for me while reading it.
@craigmaloney I feel like I've been reading this for like a decade that I can legitimately take breaks to pick up something else and feel like I haven't missed anything.
Like is there any real purpose in making me read a THIRD coroner's report? Is there any real purpose in making me sit through the demon thing haunting people like five times?
I get it, he's a creep. Can we move on?