re: Stephen King said only two of his stories he wrote ever lived up to their potential

The book The Outsider was good. The show I gave up on.

Duma Key had never been adapted.

I really liked Doctor Sleep both book and movie.

He still has good stuff coming out.


I’d say Needful Things is a complete book

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I really liked Doctor Sleep both book and movie.

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Rebecca Ferguson as Rose the Hat was really, really good.

The Answer Man is probably my favorite story by King of all time.

I don’t care.

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I am equating not living up to potential as being incomplete.

Not everything has to be exactly apples to apples.

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i mean, fair enough. but you're comparing an author with dozens and dozens of complete books and series of books that have been wildly successful to an author who literally cant even finish the one single series that he is famous for. and of the five books that he DID publish from that series, two are mediocre at best. "not living up to potential" is pretty damn subjective when talking about Stephen King, especially in the context of implying or accusing that he has "incomplete" works, and double especially in the context of GRR fricking Martin.

does the ending of the Stand, IT, or the Dark Tower series live up to the potential of what it COULD have been? i mean, generally speaking, i guess it feels like the answer to that is no (although i'm in the minority of people who are perfectly fine with the ending to both the Stand and IT). does the ending of ASOIAF live up to ITS potential? well who knows, because we will likely never see those books even published.

it's not apples to apples or even apples to oranges. it's apples to spacestations.

Good grief some are really going overboard and trying to denounce my very basic and direct reply. I don’t care. frick Stephen King already. He’s the one who said only two of his stories lived up to expectations. Not me. Take it up with him.

And yes, I know George RR Martin also has completed many stories. All while leaving one of his greatest works to just sit there unfinished as he pretends he’s still working on it.

It’s not that big of a deal, move on.

Yeah, Answer Man was great. The only thing that I think keeps it from being the the top is there isn’t really a climax. Like I kept on thinking “how could this be turned into a movie” and I couldn’t because the main character is so even keeled throughout.

Rattlesnakes won this collection for me because 1. I don’t usually get creeped out by books and this one I really felt was super creepy 2. Sequel to Cujo and kinda a follow up to Duma Key 3. The amount closure for the end for what is really a heartbreaking story really works great.

Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream was a little too false. I know this is very similar to Richard Jewell, but it’s just too heavy handed about it.

Two Old Bastids - I just don’t know what the point is.

Laurie was cute

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He’s the one who said only two of his stories lived up to expectations. Not me.

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yeah but you arent arguing whether his stories lived up to expectations, you are arguing that his works are incomplete. King didnt say his works are incomplete, just that only a couple of them lived up to his own expectation.

we all know you hate King, and we all know why. i think he is a perfectly disgusting human for the same reason you do. but you're not being intellectually honest here. sorry if that insults you, but it's true.

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I enjoyed Christine and 1/22/1963

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Haven't read Christine but I really did enjoy 11/22/1963. It kept my interest pretty much throughout. I thought the miniseries they did was pretty decent to

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That's not the same as incomplete for most people who go by the literal definition of incomplete and expectations

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It is for me, in a casual, off hand remark on a message board.

FFS. We got some serious autism at play here.

I’m done.