Here is some sad news for Stephen King fans:

Stephen King To Quit

Horror writer Stephen King is to retire after completing his next five books. The famed author is planning to stop writing and end his career in publishing, promising fans just five more projects, two of which are already scheduled for 2002 - including new novel From A Buick Eight. King explains, "You get to a point where you get to the edges of a room, and you can go back and go where you've been and basically recycle stuff. I've seen it in my own work. People when they read Buick Eight are going to think Christine. It's about a car that's not normal, OK? You can either continue to go on, or say I left when I was still on top of my game. I left when I was still holding the ball, instead of it holding me." King's Rose Red, adapted into an ABC miniseries, has become a big hit on TV in America - its debut on Sunday drew in almost 20 million viewers. He adds, "I don't want to finish up like Harold Robbins," referring to the pulp novelist who started with well-reviewed works, later suffered a damaging stroke and ended his career in steep decline. "That's my nightmare."

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It's sad to hear of him retiring. I've only read a few of his books, never a huge fan. I can say he's an incredible writer. I'm sure he'll be greatly missed.

I sorta had a feeling this would happen. He has always said he would stop when he felt like the tank was empty. The quality of the last 10 books has been up and down. Maybe he knows that too.

Well I must say I'm sorry to hear that, he is a brilliant author. But yeah, as a writer myself, I can see where he is coming from. You can't keep churning out original stuff forever. And he has made his millions anyway, so he doesn't need to keep on writing. And the royalties will keep rolling in for years to come.

I suppose even Stephen King runs out of ideas for novels at some point. He has an incredible legacy of books to be proud of, not to mention the fact that he is the most popular (and richest) novelist of all time.


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I cannot blame him. I will always appreciate him, because his books were the first I ever started reading that were considered "adult". I hope that he has a great retirement, and that he gets to do exactly what he wants to do!!


{hugs} for Stephen King!!

Steven King is a brilliant author and my wife will be saddened to hear this news. He's one of her favorite authors.

Well, I can´t say that I´m very sad about Kings retire announcement - for me, he has reached his zenith a long time before. His recent books weren´t that entertaining for me, they were just variations of stories he had already written.

The only thing which is worrying me is that he has announced to write another five books... :D

Originally posted by wavemaster
The only thing which is worrying me is that he has announced to write another five books... :D

Well that'll probably take him all of 5 weeks! :lol: