Haven't read any of King's stuff in years, but back in the day, even while I enjoyed almost all his works (I gave up many a good night's rest to eagerly devour them), I saw early on that he was something of a hack...a very good hack, but nonetheless, I'm not surprised that it may be catching up to him finally...

I say cut him some slack, he's been making people wanna crawl out of their skin so long, it can't be easy to not repeat himself (I still shudder at Jack chewing Excedrin tablets in "The Shining" )

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