I've read quite a bit of his stuff and am usually pretty impressed. I loved Firestarter, Cujo and Different Seasons (with Shawshanks and The Body). I also started to read "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" (or something like that) and thought it was a right load of pish.
There's a heap of his that I haven't looked at though.
Have you ever seen that Family Guy Episode which takes the piss of him? He's sitting in his agents office,
"so what have you got for us then Stephen? the deadline for your new book is in a couple of weeks"
"erm, ok, I've got this story about a (looks around the desk, picks up a lamp)....lamp that becomes possessed and starts attacking people"
"you're not even trying anymore are you Stephen?"
"no".
Haha,
Dean Koontz - poor man's Stephen King?
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