Steven King is a douchebag, but he can write like a MFer. Unlike other successful writers like JK Rowling, who writes like a child, or someone like Michael Chriton, who has wonderful ideas and stories, but writes as flat as a pancake, he is a true master wordsmith writing beautiful sentences that are a joy to read. The Long Walk is in The Bachman Books. I read The Stand when I was a teenager over a weekend. I could not put it down. My favorite is the Dark Tower trilogy. Awesome. I also liked his non-horror stuff. A Painted House is a great book.
