User blog comment:RisingFusion/My own confession/@comment-26475800-20150726011415

IMO Koontz is much better. His stories are better, although once you start reading a lot of them you will realize there is a theme he never really strays too far from. But all in all his stories are great, and he may not be as well known as King for the genre. If you get a chance pick up the Odd Thomas books or find 77 Shadow Street, or The Taken. They are his best work that I know of, and I have at least thirty books he has written.

At the moment I am reading IT, which I know will piss me off like so many of his other books do. He can build intensity so well and get you into the minds of his characters so you can relate to them so well, but he falls flat on endings.

There are better writers which can give you some really good thrills. Start by buying anthologies, which have some wonderful stories in them, and find an author you like.

By the way, King had pissed me off so badly with his book Cell, that I refused to read anything he had written for seven years. So until about a two ago, I had only read one book by him myself.