Thinner was a terrible movie that turned out to be a pretty decent book once I bothered to actually read it. 
 I have nothing to say about the novel itself that hasn't already been said to death, so I'll just say this: 
 King wrote this book under his nom de plume, Richard Bachman, and based on what I read he was apparently fairly upset when he was outed as being Bachman. I find this odd, because he really doesn't even attempt to disguise his writing style and he mentions Stephen King an unbelievable two times in this book! If you're trying to keep it a secret that you are someone else, you might not want to talk about yourself in the book.