I'm a massive Stephen King fan, but The Institute was awful. Stephen openly admitted literally at the start of the book I believe, that he was experimenting with being topical. All the dialog was extremely rough and he was really angry with politics at the time. Just a bad book period. I think he's seen the feedback. That said he's in the sunset of his career, there's a million examples of great dialog throughout his works. It's sort of like pooping on the 50 or 60th book in a world class authors library.