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Different Seasons is one of my favourites simply because it contains Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,also Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a solid collection of Kings short stories,The End of the Whole Mess being the best of these imo.
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Stephen King books that I liked:
Carrie It Misery Needful Things Night Shift Pet Sematary The Talisman The Tommyknockers Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three Dark Tower III: The Wastelands Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla books that I disliked: Gerald's Game Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower The Shinning |
The Stand and The Dark Tower series are books everyone should give a try. They are fabulous books.
If you are the type of person that doesn not like VERY long, somewhat complicated plots, then giv ethese King books a go: The Long Walk - One of the most disturbing things you'll ever read...will have you thinking about this book WEEKS after finishing it. Rose Madder- Psycho cop husband beats his wife until she finally decides to run away...psycho cop hunts her down. Great read! |
Most of his books are crap, but I liked Carrie best from what i've read of his work. Don't get me wrong, he has good storys or ideas, but I don't think he is a great writer.
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Mothman, how did the assignment go? What did you choose? Next time you get an assignment like that I recommend choosing a classic horror writer like M.R. James. He was about 100 times better than King in my opinion... |
Read Christine or Gerald's Game!
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I think my vote goes to "Misery" as the most realistic novel he has ever written. "It" was great and suspenseful too... "Pet Sematary" wasn't bad...
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I have not read all that many Stephen King books so this is a great thread to get me started. Reading Firestarter atm for the simple reason that I bought it from a charity shop for £2. However I am enjoying it. Good story and a nice read in my opinion.
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I like carrie and misery .
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I loved IT because I'm not a clown person so it got me scared and on edge. Funny thing is, I was reading it one night and the phone rang. Made me jump but I answered it and I hear "Hello this is Pennywise." so I hung up! Turns out it was a lady named Penny Wise, who works with my Mom.
I am also enjoying Four Past Midnight. |
I enjoyed most of his short stories such as "Four Past Midnight" and "Nightmares and Dreamscapes". The most recent I read was "The Cell" and I really liked it, but I like zombie movies. My favorite is hard between the two and that is the Dark Tower series and "Black House" which King and Peter Straub wrote together.
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I m surprised that no one has mentioned Bag of Bones. The blandness of the author's life after her wife is horribly killed right at the beginning, then having new people come into it, with a strong evil around...I just loved the premise, and the story.
Bag of Bones is the only King novel I read twice. Dreamcatcher was another good one. Although The Dead Zone is by far his best work, IMO. |
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The Mist, The Long walk, Dreamcatcher, Hearts in Antlantis and room 1408, from Everything's Eventual. I am glad that the Mist and room 1408 are being made into films. I watched a trailer recently of room 1408 and it looked as good as the story. Some of King's books translate well into film, but some are terrible.
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The first Stephen King book I ever read was Salem’s Lot and I think for that reason it will always be one of my favourites. After reading Salem’s Lot I went on a huge buying spree of all his books I could find, and read most of his stuff over the following years. I'm not such a Stephen King fan anymore though, I think his work is the kind of horror that you grow out of. There is nothing of his that has made an impact on me in a long time, so maybe he has lost his touch or maybe I’ve just grown up. I still love the books that made an impact on me at the time of reading them, although I doubt very much that if I was to read them now at this age, for the first time, that they would make such an impression on me.
The next one to really captivate me was IT, I don’t know now exactly what hooked me so much but I couldn’t put this one down. (The film was utter shite!!!) Next to get me was The Stand, fantastic book! Nothing else pops to mind at the moment but I’m sure there are a few others that I enjoyed over the years. Saying that too, there was a good few I remember struggling to get through because they were incredibly spiritless! But once I start a book I have to finish it! Some of his short stories are class too, my favourites being Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body and there is one that I can’t think of the name of, I think it was in The Skeleton Crew collection, it’s the diary entries of a doctor who’s ship gets sunk, and he ends up alone on a desert island trying to survive. Also loved The Talisman which King wrote with Peter Straub. The Green Mile was a class story too, really moving! |
Has to be IT. So dark and twisted. Long haul, but worth the ride.
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I highly enjoy Stephne King, but I also thing he is extremely typecasted as a horror writer and will forever be. Now, there is nothing wrong with that, but if you really get into what he is talking about with his books, it tends to be more psychological then anything.
But my favorite Stephen King book, that is a hard one......the choosing of the book i mean...sick bastards :eek: ......I would have to go with Needful Things. I loved all the characters and the continuation of Sheriff Panghorn charater(who was in The Dark Half) and Ace Merril (who was in kings short story The Body, a.k.a. Stand By Me) |
I like the one with the planes in four past midnight. I can't remember what it was called, but there was a blind girl in it. o_0 I'm not sure it was horror but I remember it having quite an effect on me.
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i'm going to have to go with salem's lot. like misfit that said, that was my first stephen king book i read, and i loved it.
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The Dark Half
The Dark Half was one of the few that I actually read from cover to cover. I have to read it again sometime soon, but I do remember being absolutely riveted by the storyline. It was a tiny bit similar to Secret Window but a superior story on all counts in my opinion. I also liked "Everything is Eventual" - especially the story where everyone thought the guy was dead and they were about to perform an autopsy. I was practically on the edge of my chair for every minute of that one. It was intense!
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i'm reading Lisey's story... i can't say that it's so enjoyable :(
what do you yhink about Marvel's Dark Tower Series? |
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