I've never really been a huge fan of Stephen King, some of the books I've read from him I've enjoyed, but they were the older ones. I find his stuff to be largely "filler", and not very meaty, so I get bored.

However, a friend of mine suggested I read the books he wrote as Bachman, because they're raw and hard hitting. That's the kind of writing I like. I wasn't sure how different they could be in comparison to his later stuff as King, but after reading the first book Rage from the quartet book The Bachman Books, I can definitely say I enjoyed it. I think this is the style in which he'd write, if he didn't have to play to a crowd, and fill pages with unnecessary junk.

Anything else I say at this point would be a spoiler, so I'll leave it there; except to say that I also found it amusing on several occasions. That might just be my brand of dark humour.