“The Dark Half” by Stephen King

This was a very ugly, unpleasant and predictable book which I ended up skimming. I also did not like the fact that the book was self-referential. Its descriptions of the writing process were so detailed that they took me out of the story and made me think about King instead. Why do I keep going back to him? All his characters and locales have become the same. I can whiff his writing style immediately.