I completely disagree with this.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
  - Stephen King

I'll go a step further: I think much of his writing reflects this even though I do think he's conceived some great stories.

He's just not a great writer.  And that's okay.

King books or stories/films I like:

I'm not sure if the book "Carrie" was any good and the same goes for "The Shining." They've both had such exposure that I may be getting my film "wires crossed" on them. Still, both stories were good.

But then there's the bad, the unreadible even. I'll put up a few of my not- favourite King books when I come back and edit this. At some point. la. la la.