Where does Derry rank in worst fictional towns to live in

Jerusalem's Lot

The one in that Reese Witherspoon movie that is in black and white

Well, spoilers:

Just finished the greatness that was the IT novel and moved from that to 11/22/63 and rather early in the book, the main character says he's going to be going back to Derry in 1958 to stop a grisly murder and I got super big chills

But Stephen King is just a talentless hack.

Never implied that. Just a comment on what a bunch of critics think. Yes, several of his films are pretty ridiculous, but his books, especially the intertwining ones, are glorious.

I have issue with his sayings and his actual writing. It is good enough (I still maintain that Barker is 10x the horror writer King is on a technical level) but King has a great ability with emotion and meaning that transcends 99% of writers. I thought I was going to cry when I got to the story of how Harry got hobbled in 11/23/63.

I think a big issue of his is he has just so many awful people in his stories. Like 1/3 of his characters are racists, 1/8 are murderous at heart, and the rest have other issues.

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I think a big issue of his is he has just so many awful people in his stories. Like 1/3 of his characters are racists, 1/8 are murderous at heart, and the rest have other issues.

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That sounds about right for the general population of America, if you ask me. Besides, he's supposed to build flaws into his characters, you wouldn't read a story about a bunch of decent people who got along with each other really well.

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Stephen King is just a talentless hack.

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I will stab you


In the neck


With a knife

If we expand the term "fiction" to all genres Cabot Cove has to rank up there.

also in Maine, town in Murder She Wrote

much higher murder rate than Chicago, by orders of magnitude

(This is some comedian's joke from that era)

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he main character says he's going to be going back to Derry in 1958 to stop a grisly murder and I got super big chills

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Wait til he gets there. I read "It" in 1985/6 when it came out.

I read 11/22/63 30 years later. When he gets to Derry, it literally brought me back to my childhood. The scene where he interacts with some of the townspeople is charming and brought a little moistness to the corner of my eye for nostalgia's sake.

Spoiler alert: The JFK stuff is kind of secondary once you get to the meat of the book.

King had not put that much heart, soul, and emotion into a book (11/22/63) since "It". So, in essence, you are reading his two best books in the last 30+ years.