All Stephen King books:
400 pages of genius
10 pages of the worst ending you can possibly imagine.
All Stephen King books:
400 pages of genius
10 pages of the worst ending you can possibly imagine.
His best novel ending is still the ending to The Running Man. The movie ending is abominable.There's like a ratio involving the size of the work and how old it is to determine the liklihood you're yourself up for an ending that isn't satisfying. The shorter it is and the older it is the better the chance the ending is going to work. The reason it's such a meme is because basically everyone's got themselves 1100 pages in to something like The Stand only to have the villain be his own undoing with another 100 pages of epilogue to close it out.
The book and movie are so different that I can't get behind this. The book is great and the movie is great for way different reasons.His best novel ending is still the ending to The Running Man. The movie ending is abominable.
but thats why its abominable. the book is so fucking serious and well thought out that its a goddamned crime how differently Arnold's Running Man was. if King had wrote that book now, people would have accused him of being a conservative anti globalist. honestly, his earlier works are all pretty blue dog democrat or straight up conservative. even his hippie utopia story, The Stand points out how fucking stupid and inept the "good" guys are that it can be seen as parody. ive had this discussion with Arbitrary many times. when i see King act the fool with his TDS posts i cringe because i know goddamned well he is just pretending. very badly at that. he wrote a lot of fucked up shit in his career, he has to cover his ass so he doesnt get canceled.The book and movie are so different that I can't get behind this. The book is great and the movie is great for way different reasons.
i guess i dont understand why you thought that was a poor ending. it perfectly encapsulates what Ben Richards frame of mind was after learning about how the Games Network completely fucked him and his entire life. you probably wont like "Roadwork" either or any of the other Bachman books.The Dark Tower were the first Stephen King books I read. The ending didn't bother me that much, so I didn't get the hate on his endings. The Running Man was the next book I read, because I loved the movie...the ending for that was the worst ending of any book I've ever read, so that tainted the entire book for me.
I actually liked Fairy Tale. I generally don't like fiction that's written in first person and it wasn't really suspenseful, but it was an enjoyable read.
the last third of the story is kind of abrupt. i really dont want to spoil it because its one of my favorite books and i dont want to ruin it for anyone. just that its almost nothing like the movie, but its amazing in different ways. anyways. the abrupt last third plays out for a while, you see the signs of something amiss through the entire thing.Without going back and rereading it, I can just say that my feeling was that it was abrupt and not satisfying. It may have been an appropriate ending...but not the type of closure I prefer from my fiction, maybe? Again, I'd have to go back and reread it to give a more nuanced opinion of it.
That's such a cool story. Bachman books all have an antisocial edge to them.I need to reread Roadwork.