Stephen King Hates ‘The Hunger Games,’ ‘Fifty Shades Of Grey,’ And ‘Twilight,’ But Who Is One Author He Loves?

Stephen King has no kind words for world famous series like "The Hunger Games," "Fifty Shades of Grey," and "Twilight." So who does Stephen King like to read?

Stephen King told the UK's The Guardian in a recent interview how he really feels... about Suzanne Collins' first "Hunger Games" book.

"I read 'The Hunger Games' and didn't feel an urge to go on," he told the paper, adding that the book is a bit of a knock-off of his 1982 novel 'The Running Man,' a fictional sci-fi dystopia in which game show contestants are chased by "Hunters" employed to kill them, Us Weekly reports.

King, 65, added that he just didn't enjoy the story for the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy either.

"I read 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' and felt no urge to go on," he said. "They call it mommy porn, but it's not really mommy porn. It is highly charged, sexually driven fiction for women who are, say, between 18 and 25."

And what does he think about Stephenie Meyer's hit series "Twilight"? He told The Guardian that it's more like "tweenager porn."

"They're really not about vampires and werewolves. They're about how the love of a girl can turn a bad boy good," King mused.

But Stephen King didn't always feel this about about "The Hunger Games." Us Weekly reports that in a 2008 review of Suzanne Collins' first book for Entertainment Weekly, King confessed that he "couldn't stop reading" the novel.

"Since this is the first novel of a projected trilogy, it seems to me that the essential question is whether or not readers will care enough to stick around and find out what comes next for Katniss," he wrote at the time. "I know I will."

So what does King like to read? There's one author that he praised in the interview: J.K. Rowling.

According to King, the "Harry Potter" author's first post-series novel, "The Casual Vacancy," deserves a read, Us Weekly reports.

"Man, this book is like... Do you remember Tom Sharpe? It's a bit like that. And it's a bit like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' It's f--king nasty," he said. "And I love it."

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