Stephen King and the Classics

For the last year of so I've been trying to tackle some of the classics I never read as a kid, but always felt like I should have. I've started Moby Dick, The Odyssey, and The Brothers Karamazov and according to my Kindle I've finished 66%, 36% and 11%, respectively. I just can't get into them. Meanwhile, I downloaded It yesterday and can't put it down. I've read at least a dozen Stephen King novels over the years and loved the 90's It miniseries with Tim Curry as Pennywise. There are too many books and life if too short to waste time plodding through pages you don't find particularly entertaining or enlightening. So I am sticking with Stephen for now.