![]() Or have read this blog in the past would probably know, I tend to be very It's actually gotten even worse in King's more current works, with these tropes becoming much more pronounced and predictable. ![]() It's so obvious and so repetitive, that one of my favorite Internet personalities, the Nostalgia Critic, has created a "Stephen King Drinking Game," based around taking a shot every time you see one of those tropes in one of his books or the movies based off them. For instance, nearly all of his works take place in Maine (Or occasionally in another dimension), nearly all of his works have a writer of some sort as a major character (I get that part of it is him incorporating his own inner struggles into his works, and it was novel the first few times it was done, but it's gotten old really quick), most of them have a stereotypical "Bully" character who is completely unsympathetic, many of his books feature children and babies dying, they often end on a quite bittersweet note, and so on. Part of the problem, which many have noted in critiquing King's works, is that there tends to be a very formulaic style to a lot of his works, especially in terms of his always including certain tropes and cliches in his works.
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