Stephen King's Doctor Sleep First Impressions

Stephen King never understood the appeal of Stanley Kubrick's Shining or Brian De Palma's Carrie. Yet many fans loved the readaptation of his books. So one has to question if King was legitimately as famed as he was or if he just knew how to play corporate politics.

I am not really going to judge King's other work, because I have not read except other than Carrie.

I read a couple pages at Costco and it just seemed disturbing discussing rape of a woman and other things that just did not seem to be written for an audience. It was not fanservice. It was not social commentary just disturbing.

I did read all of the Shining, and none of that content was in that book, so I have no idea why he made Doctor Sleep so disturbing other than to cater to the Saw, violence white trash porn generation.
Ugh.