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Originally posted by Carrie@Nov 6 2003, 10:37 AM
King could keep away from actively publishing new works about as well as Art Bell could stay off of the air or Michael Jordan could stay off of the courts. 
I used to be a huge King fan, but he lost me with the one with the UFO buried in the backyard and the woman's pubic hair turning green and leafy. I can't remember which one that was ("It"?) but at that point it seemed to me like he was grasping far too much for new material and needed to take a serious breather.
I loved his children's book though ("Eyes of the Dragon"), I wish he'd do more of those.
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Carrie...
For lighter fare you might try Piers Anthony's Xanth series starting with
"A Spell for Chameleon"...
Tommyknockers was indeed a bit bloated in verbage, but in other instances
(uncut version of The Stand or It for example) those 800-1000 pages are
worth every word King pours into them...
Reading the Dark Tower series is like watching "The Wall" for the very first
time... you never know what you are going to encounter next... but you
are jonesing for the mindfuck you hope is coming...
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