Cell

[wednes]

I do not like the way Stephen King ends many of his novels.

By "many novels" I mean any novel except the following:

Carrie
Salem's Lot
The Shining
Cujo
Dead Zone
Pet Sematary
Thinner
Misery
Delores Claiborne
Needful Things
The Green Mile
The Long Walk (I'm on the fence about this one)

I don't think I'm leaving any out, honest. So many of his novels have endings that make me just fucking cringe.
I understand that in the end of Cell, you're damned if you go one way, and double damned the other, but still, not really telling you what happens is just Grrr...

Sometimes I feel safer with a handful of short stories. Now where did I leave Night Shift?

Comments

[stranger-tales.livejournal.com]

I have to agree with you on his finales. The Stand is probably my favorite book of his but that ending has always bothered me. For that matter, so does the ending to Needful Things. And I'm on the fence about Salem's Lot. Assuming I remember it correctly enough to distinguish between the novel and the movie. Having seen the latter far more times than I've read the former, I'm not making any promises.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I think IT was the one that solidified my stance on this. If Steve-O had been in the room when I finished that bohemoth, I would have punched that guy out! Space Turtle, my ass!

Yeah, I know many people love Stand more than any other King book, but that ending is another one. *shakes head*

[sudrin.livejournal.com]

The worst, and most unsatisfying ending ever from him in my opinion was "From a Buick 8". I was so angry at the end of that book.

[stranger-tales.livejournal.com]

That's one of many newer King novels I haven't bothered to read. He started losing me somewhere around Rose Madder. Cell is the first book he's written in a great long while that has interested me.

The only time I've gotten really pissed at King was with Storm of the Century. Admittedly this is based only on the TV movie and not the story which I haven't read. But the end of that movie made me want to burn the town to the ground and punch King right in the mouth.

[madush69.livejournal.com]

I liked Rose Madder. It was pretty good. Ever since I got online, I don't read nearly as many books as I ought to.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Really? I didn't read it, but H did.

Of course he doesn't get mad about things like regular people. Now I hafta ask him.

[spiralwitch.livejournal.com]

I don't always like how he starts his stories. I feel like I have to drag myself into them, but once I'm in.... i'm on board.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Well, Cell has people eating eachother by page 8. It doesn't take very long. But I see what you mean. Even the early ones are like "Jeez, when are they gonna get to The Overlook already!"

[spiralwitch.livejournal.com]

*makes mental note to pick up The Cell*

[roane.livejournal.com]

I love Stevie, but the ending of Cell pissed me off beyond belief. When you said you were reading it, I started to say something, but decided to wait and see if maybe it was just me. :P

[wednes.livejournal.com]

It's also very misleading, because there's a segment of his new book in the back, so you think there's at least one more chapter. And yeah, it was a total cop-out. The more I think about it, the madder I get.

[batarde.livejournal.com]

Every summer I do nothing but read Stephen King novels. And the endings are usually disappointing. I always leave them going 'that's it?'

[wednes.livejournal.com]

Yup. I'm gonna find some different horror writers to read while I'm waiting for Thomas Harris to write his new book. Jack Ketchum, maybe?

[batarde.livejournal.com]

Oh Young Hannibal. So much anticipation. So going to disappoint.

[wednes.livejournal.com]

I think the glimpses of young Hannibal (in Hannibal) we've gotten so far have been excellent. Thomas Harris is not a big disappointer, IMHO.

The movie, OTOH, may not fare so well.