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Originally Posted by dig420
I really don't see the similarities other than they're both horror stories. I thought NT was a great book, with a mephistopholean shopowner gradually drawing out the townspeople's little problems with each other and then blowing those up into murder and mayhem.
I'm not saying that SK is the greatest writer that ever lived, and everyone is entitled to their own opinion in this kind of thing anyway, but imho he's the best HORROR writer that ever lived. Matheson probably had greater overall ideas, but he can't match SK in execution.
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It's always the same basic plot. Needful Things, The Tommyknockers, The Stand, It. "Some evil magical force that may or may not be from outer space influences people and may or may not inspire them to do things that causes harm to someone else, but the outcome is that someone always dies and in the end the hero is either dead, or levels up." It gets kind of boring. The only thing I really found from NT that provided actual insight into psyche was when he mentioned that the child put the stones into his bookbag and carried them, rather than using those on the scene. That stuck with me, for some reason.