I have read and enjoyed almost all of King's books, BUT! A couple of things--annoying habits of his--continue to bug me. I won't object to his fascination with excessively precocious little kids; a writer must take his stories as he finds them. However, two things do warrant complaints, or at least questions: his over-use of Italics and parentheses to record every stray, random, trivial, boring and unnecessary thought of either a character or the author himself; and his pathological obsession with people going to the bathroom: he refers to it over and over again in EVERY novel, and--except for THE GREEN MILE--it never has anything to do with the story. King is gratuitously scatological, and it lessens the quality of his work.