Just WAY too Long

Full Dark, No Stars was okay.  It was not good enough to be good because it was so very, very long. If Stephen King were not such an accomplished and rich author, I would probably blame his editor, but I bet that King doesn't really have to listen to editors too much these days.  Which is unfortunate because I would think that even an experienced writer like King can fall in love with his own words so much that he would erroneously think that everyone needed to appear between the cover of his book.  It was a collection of four "short" stories, but there was nothing short about any of them.  Even the very best one, which I was going to say was the shortest, but maybe just seemed shorter because it was the best, was too long.