What are you reading in 2025?

[Retros_x]

I also encountered a good insight into a common criticism of King, his tendency toward weak endings. [...] while King’s plotting is sometimes not the greatest, he does very reliably deliver intensely satisfying character arcs. They rise and resolve and descend in a way that feels right and satisfying even when the plot kind of dangles.

I read King for the first time this year and while I have a little break right now I definitely want to continue through his work - I was a bit surprised when I first read that this is a common criticism. I loved the endings up until now (I've read Carrie, The Shining, Dr. Sleep). Obviously I only have a small sample size, but while the plot might fade out a bit, his character arcs are great to the end. I think he is after all a character focussed writer and the plot is only his tool to make the characters collide and clash with each other and themselves. The Shining was never for me about the hotel and a mystery what is going on there, but mainly the family being brought to crisis by the hotel.