you could end any book the way he ended it, just felt like a cop out. I actually think it ruined his life - somewhere around Needful Things his endings all started to suck. I didn't know why at the time, but I think now that he realized that he didn't have an ending for DT which he thought of as his life's work. So at that point he either just gave up on endings all together in an attempt to convince himself it was OK, or the failure killed his muse.

@ red DT1 is different from almost anything else he's written in terms of pace and feel. If you want a 'standard' good SK I would go with Tommyknockers, Salem's Lot, or Misery, esp if you haven't seen those movies.