For me his early books are classics...The Shining and Salem Lot and The Stand, but he just kept writing on and on and there is a real steady decline...to the point where he's writing huge books that could and should be half the size. This is a shame as it detracts from his great early work. Anyone else ever noticed how, in alot of his books, he kills the main character's (usually a writer) wife off early on and then replaces her with some young bimbo. Firestarter was the creepiest of all, where he killed off the wife and then had the guy run off with the daughter...!!!