
Favorite Fictional Characters, #377: Jake Epping
Point One: Stephen King is often dismissed as a mediocre wordsmithing machine, cranking out modest midlevel fare, a sort of literary Bon Jovi. Sure, some of his stuff isn't great, but when you're that prolific, there will be clunkers. I've never been partial to his horror stuff only because that's not a genre I relish, but some of his more mainstream stuff is really quite splendid. Read his original novellas Apt Pupil, The Body, or Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,