the great & secret show
everville

the third part never materialized

oh those ..

shit i thought they were spiralling right out of control anyway.
I loved the beginning of G&SS .. the dead letter office thing ..

i just found the whole thing devolved into a big mess.

His short stories were so tight - controlled and efficient ... but his novels - especially his later works are trying too hard to be 'the ultimate in far out mind bending terror' and just seem like a muddy mess. (this is my personal opinion of course)

I didnt like Everville at all.
I read Weaveworld and Injamica (spelling) as well .. and found the same thing over and over again .. this desire to become so epic .. so fast ... it comes off more as bloated and excessive to me..

I think he's been an influence on Kind too because his last horror novels have a sililar feel ...

I hope that he comes back around to the Nightbreed. Cabal does feel unfinished and obviously with good reason, as has been mentioned. But yeah, it is smart for him to leave those loose ends, so to speak, so later down the road he can come back to it.

I actually like the Harry Potter books myself, I think she does a fine job. I don't think they are perfect by any means, but for what it is and the audience it is directed to, they are not bad at all. And I think she has a bit of both working for her. Luck and smarts, that is. She managed to hit on something at the right time, so really I guess she made her own luck.

I'm going to go ahead and repeat what everyone else has said.

I liked his early stuff when I was in junior high and read everything he put out. Then he put out Insomnia and I hated it. Then I went to college and took "contemporary ____ lit." type classes and discovered a slew of great writers who are still alive and writing.

I don't have a lot of time on my hands and so I have kinda adopted the same idea for books that I have for music, which is "there is so much good music being made, I don't have time for bad, or even mediocre, music." There are so many good books being written these days, and I'm already behind in my reading, that I just don't have time to try and sift through bad and mediocre writing.

thats pretty much exactly how i feel..

The Dark Half
Geralds Game
Hearts in Atlantis
Insomnia was another snoozer

If you want a SK series to read - try the Dark Tower series.

i stopped reading him because to me all hes doing is repeating himself, so i got bored and jumped ship.

I thought The Tommyknockers was great - the bizarre contraptions, the painful transformations of the townsfolk, the uplifting transformation of Gard from bum to hero by the end...