I find Stephen King’s style to be weirdly jarring. He has quite a gentil, old-fashioned way of writing but when this clashes with violence, swearing or graphic sex, it just doesn’t fit. It pulls me out of the story.

I find Stephen King’s style to be weirdly jarring. He has quite a gentil, old-fashioned way of writing but when this clashes with violence, swearing or graphic sex, it just doesn’t fit. It pulls me out of the story.

I think arranged marriage can be (ugh) “problematic”, but writing about “problematic” things in books isn’t an endorsement of them and isn’t in itself “problematic”.