Any other fans?
ive trying to get through a book a month…reading IT and The Stand are bad books to try to read in a month…i took 3 for IT and 1 1/2 for the Stand.
which book is next?
im done Cujo IT, The Stand, Cell, im thinking animal cementary sound good?
I’d recommend his short story collections. A friend of mine has read a lot of King, and warned me off the novels, but he recommends the short stories. Having read a bunch of those, I can recommend them.
I went through a HUGE King phase from about age 12-18.
My favorite continues to be The Stand. I loved The Shining as well. The Dark Tower series is amazing and books 3 and 4 are among his best work ever-- if you like post-apocalyptic fiction or really frakking weird fantasy/westerns, you need to read them, starting with The Gunslinger and going at least through Wizard and Glass. Highly enjoyed The Eyes of the Dragon, Misery, Needful Things.
I did not enjoy Christine, Thinner, 'Salem’s Lot or Pet Semetary (though there’s a line in it that has stuck with me for over 10 years so I guess that indicates good writing).
For the short story collections, Night Shift is quite good and I liked Skeleton Crew.
The Stand remains my favorite as well. I read it in my early twenties and it set me off to reading everything he’d done up to that point. I never did get into the Gunslinger or Dark Tower stuff, though. Are they good?
I remember getting Skeleton Crew (a book of short stories) for Christmas, opening it while my wife was in the shower, and reading Survivor Type…for the uninitiated, it involves a shipwreck, a crooked surgeon, and a big bag of heroin…ugh !! I sat at the dinner table that day with some very disturbing mental images during the turkey cutting !!
The Night Shift book of short stories is a good choice for diving in to King’s work, some excellent, spooky reads in there !!
I’m partial to King’s early stuff. For me, the Tommyknockers was his jump-the-shark moment.
Dark Tower books, all in all, are must-reads. But, that said, they’re hit & miss. One is super, two is odd, three is OK. Four alternates two storylines: one is, for my money, the high point of the series. The other, which is smaller, is just dumb. Books five-six-seven, they’re not perfect, but what are you gonna do – quit reading at that point? The last few have some real “WTF!!!” moments.
Four Seasons, to me, that’s his pinnacle as a straight-up fiction writer (as opposed to horror fiction). It’s four novellas – Apt Pupil, Shawshank Redemption, The Body (the Stand By Me movie basis), and some other one.
Stand and the Shining are probably his two masterpieces. In my book, at least.
I have read the following books for Carrie, The Dark Tower (series) all 7 books, The Talisman, The Running Man, He a great writer going to read It, The stand so.
I am a huge Stephen King fan and have read all of his books/short stories/novellas except for his newer work over the past few years.
Highlights for me echo what others have posted:
Eyes of the Dragon - my all time favorite; I LOVE this book
Bag of Bones
The Dark Tower series, so far: I have only read the first four books, but like them
The stories Shawshank Redemption and The Body
I also enjoyed The Green Mile. I read it in serial form, which is how it was originally released. It was fun reading it that way, the anticipation of the next installment, etc.
The Dark Tower,the rest get very good I have read all the books there get even weird but thats why we love it, Wizard and Glass was ok I can see why you stop it was a hard read for me, very long and but good, the comic is was based on.
I just started gunslinger recently have to say its a little confusing. but i love the idea of mixing western with fantasy and occult. Just wish joss whedon would do a mini series based on it (at least i think i do like i said i just starting out)
Yeah, 5-6-7 were definitely less amazing, but I found that the ending of the series was absolutely perfect. King has mentioned that people straight up hated the end and thought it was horrible, but I found it tucked all the various strands of metaphor and armchair philosophy and “what is the Tower” questioning neatly into an answer that I could buy. Painful, sure- but plausible.
Yeah, if JW were to do something like just Roland’s story up through his long night with the Man in Black it would be excellent. The series itself is too long and varied and cheesey-effects-heavy to do the whole thing as a mini, but the decaying western world of Roland’s family would be great under Whedon’s direction.
I’d have to recommend “The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.” One of his shortest stand alones, and the most different thing he ever wrote. Girl gets lost in the woods in Maine, monster lurking after her. For me, this is where King really shined as a true story teller, and quite frankly, the master writer that he can be. I read this book in one day - on a round trip from DC to Atlantic City and back - in between 4 hour jaunts I lost a couple of hundred bucks - and at one point, I had to put the book down and just let it all process.
is anyone following Stephen King’s “N” on iTunes? it’s a story from a soon-to-be-released collection. it’s done in comic book style. looks interesting.
Hrmm. Does it look like the Watchman episode that is (last I checked) available for free?
The Dark Tower series is amazing…Parts of it actually brought me to tears which was a first for a book. im serious i had to sit in my car for like 10 minutes and wait to drive.
The Bachman books are great. The Long Walk is the first book i read that i saw as a movie in my head.
Eyes of the dragon is probably my favorite story ever told. I read that book at least once a year if not more.
The Stand, Insomnia, It are all pretty good.
Salems Lot was one of the first books to actually scare me
And i highly recommend the short stories. They are all pretty good and are a nice quick read
I agree this was also a super sweet story.
I havnt read alot of his new stuff lately. Cell looked good though cause it seems like a zombie story and as everyone knows Zombies are the coolest thing ever
I get a different vibe from “N” Watchmen just feels like a comic book. (I know, duh!) I’m not much of a comic book aficionado–this had a more elegant feel