'Salem's Lot by Stephen King

Although I wouldn't go as far as blaspheming my role model, I'm gonna say that 'Salem's Lot is a less mature work of King's compared to his later novels.
The characters are a bit flat - a bit, okay?! Ben isn't really as messed up as the kids from It, nor as interesting as the guys from The Green Mile. He's just a writer who got spooked and now finds it his duty to fight the evil that is brooding in the Marsten House.
The vampires idea was good. Glad to read something that actually is faithful to the vampire legends (glistening in the sunlight, seriously wtf?). What I just hate is that no matter what they do, even after they've gotten everyone in the Lot, no one in the vicinity seems to notice it. It seems like King forces these events to occur, rather than let the characters lead themselves into the events.
His writing style in this novel too is not quite developed yet. Sure, he already uses the famous Stephen-King-You-are-reading-the-person's-thoughts style, it isn't as entertaining and as real as those in his later work.
'Salem's Lot is not worthy to be called a novel by the Stephen King, but rather, just by a guy from the '70's named Stephen King. We could see here the phase he started out in order to be the master storyteller of terror he is now today.

3 stars out of 5.