The Stephen King Thread - Part 1

[titansupes]

Finished Misery. Fantastic book. Haven't enjoyed a fiction novel like that for years. How is this generally ranked/thought of amongst King's other work?

The Shining is quite different from the film. I learned this a year or so ago. It's different enough that each is it's own thing tho.

I will also agree that Night Shift is a good alt starting point but still urge you to read Carrie and Salem's Lot sooner rather than later.

The Stand. Do it.

The Shining is locked in. I Wiki'd Salem's Lot and The Stand and... goddamn it, they sound really interesting. I'll have to hold off getting them for a while, because I've got a backlog of comic omnibuses and a pretty big/expensive haul coming today. I won't look into Carrie at all just yet, basically because I have to draw the line somewhere. Thanks again for the recommendations.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

There's no rush. You'll get to all of them eventually.

 

[Venom160]

Id definitely recommend checking out IT. Loved the movie (Tim Curry as pennywise was fricken perfect) but the book blows it away. One of the few King books that had me actually scared when I first read it. Another one I really enjoyed was Cell.

 

[squeekness]

I'm not sure I've read one I haven't enjoyed. King is the best.

 

[Marvolo]

Im gonna recommend Pet Semetary because it is my favorite King book.

 

[squeekness]

Bag of Bones for me.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

Bag of Bones for me.

That's the only one I've actually tossed across the room midway through. You can probably guess which part. I think it was a couple weeks before I calmed down enough to finish it.

I don't think I could ever pick a favorite, although if you go strictly by how many times read it would be The Stand or one of the short story collections (Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Nightmares & Dreamscapes).

 

[Victarion]

The Talisman if you want something different from King. I cut my teeth on Pet Semetary and Desperation. I recommend both.

 

[Marvolo]

Started 11/22/63 last night. It was only $2.99 on the kindle marketplace! I couldnt pass it up.

 

[DeGenerate10]

Started 11/22/63 last night. It was only $2.99 on the kindle marketplace! I couldnt pass it up.

I loved it. Loved seeing the differences in the 50's and 60's compared to 2011 from Jake's POV.

 

[squeekness]

Started 11/22/63 last night. It was only $2.99 on the kindle marketplace! I couldnt pass it up.

Good stories cheap. Kindle is our friend.

 

[lc23]

I'm not sure I've read one I haven't enjoyed. King is the best.

The Tommyknockers is by far my least favorite King novel. It's been a decade since I read it, so details are fuzzy. However, I do remember how long, rambling, and disjointed the story got somewhere around the halfway point.

I can't recommend Salem's Lot enough, just as others have suggested. I found Pet Sematary almost unbearably depressing, though it is a good story.

Am I the only one who loved Insomnia?

 

[Whiskey Tango]

The Tommyknockers is by far my least favorite King novel. It's been a decade since I read it, so details are fuzzy. However, I do remember how long, rambling, and disjointed the story got somewhere around the halfway point.

Mine too. He wrote it during the height of his booze and cocaine addiction so it's not surprising it's so incoherant. My experience reading it was like suffering through a month long fever dream.

Am I the only one who loved Insomnia?

I read Insomnia... last year? maybe the year before, after putting it off for a long time because everyone told me it was super boring. In the end it isn't my favorite but I liked it quite a bit.

 

[Marvolo]

Good stories cheap. Kindle is our friend.

Kindle is one of my best investments. I find so many deals on there.

 

[Razzle]

There's an excerpt from Mr. Mercedes in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly if anyone is interested

 

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The Cover For The Prisoner

Posted: May 13, 2014, 00:51:05
Section: Book » The Dark Tower Comic

On September 17th Marvel will release the five-issue comic book miniseries: The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three–The Prisoner. The Prisoner explores the troubled life of Eddie Dean in New York City. Here is the cover artwork by Piotr Kowalski.

 

[squeekness]

Is this separate from the ongoing Dark Tower series Marvel is doing or part of it?

 

[SpideyInATree]

Alright, so I'm finally reading my first King novel - Misery. I'm absolutely loving it. I'd seen the movie once (and really liked it) a couple of years ago, so I'm already familiar with the story.

The bad thing is.. I'm now over half way through. It's always a shame when you're getting toward the finish line of a good book.

I'm taking recommendations, by the way...

One thing I can say is don't start off with the Dark Tower series. I'd read his more classic/more known stuff first. The Stand is an excellent start. Then ween yourself into the Dark Tower stuff because I started with the Dark Tower as a King fan and it bored me to death.

 

[Sawyer]

Also, read all the Dark Tower stuff as a whole. The Gunslinger as a solo book? Meh. The saga as a whole is much stronger.

 

[Sawyer]

TNT Developing The Shop, Set 20 Years Post-Firestarter

 

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Time for a new collection?

Posted: May 15, 2014, 10:19:37

First, let me say that there is no info what so ever that there is a new collection in the making, this is just me ranting, OK? Well, then let’s go.

If you don’t count Full Dark, No Stars that wasn’t really a short story collection but more of a collection of four longer stories it’s six years since we got the last collection and there has been a lot of stories released since. So, maybe it’s time for a new one? If so, there are definitely enough stories out there that can be included. I have, based the list on this article over at Följeslagarna.

Throttle, written with Joe Hill and published in the book He Is Legend (2009)

Ur, written specially as an eBook for Amazon’s Kindle reader (2009)

Morality, published in Esquire (2009) but also in Blockade Billy (2010)

Premium Harmony, published in The New Yorker (2009)

Herman Wouk is Still Alive, published in The Atlantic (2011)

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Under the Weather, included in the paperback edition of Full Dark, No Stars (2011)

Mile 81, published as an eBook (2011)

The Little Green God of Agony, published in "A Book of Horrors" (2011)

The Dune, published in Granta #117 (2011)

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In the Tall Grass, written with Joe Hill and published in Esquire and as an ebook and audiobook (2012)

A Face in the Crowd, written with Stewart O'Nan and published as an ebook (2012)

Batman and Robin Have an Altercation, published in Harper's Magazine (2012)

Afterlife, published in Tin House #56 (2013)

The Rock and Roll Dead Zone, published in Hard Listening (2013)

Summer Thunder, published in Turn Down the Lights (2013)

Bad Little Kid, so far only published as an eBook in Germany and France and in their respective languages (2014)

Some of these might not make it into a collection since they are already out as “books” in some ways but there are still enough and King also has a tendency to include a new or an old (unpublished) story in his collections

 

[horrorwriter]

Finished Misery. Fantastic book. Haven't enjoyed a fiction novel like that for years. How is this generally ranked/thought of amongst King's other work?





The Shining is locked in. I Wiki'd Salem's Lot and The Stand and... goddamn it, they sound really interesting. I'll have to hold off getting them for a while, because I've got a backlog of comic omnibuses and a pretty big/expensive haul coming today. I won't look into Carrie at all just yet, basically because I have to draw the line somewhere. Thanks again for the recommendations.

MISERY left me feeling a bit scared at the end. Especially when the State Police told him what Annie had found in the shed to finish him off...

As far as The Shining goes, make sure you read the sequel, Doctor Sleep.

Salem's Lot is by far the scariest book I've ever read, but this was also back in the early 80's. It is very chilling and the evil has a small town dull everybody knows everybody vibe to it. The history of the town is as terrifying as what comes there to move in. Very good book, and still to this day, the scariest vampire book ever.

 

[childeroland]

'Gerald's Game' to be Dadapted by 'Oculus' Director

Oculus and Somnia director Mike Flanagan has committed to next helm Gerald’s Game, based on the bestselling novel by Stephen King. Flanagan wrote the script with his writing partner Jeff Howard. Trevor Macy and his Intrepid Pictures banner will produce, as he also did on Flanagan’s horror films Oculus and Somnia.

Flanagan and Macy originaly intended the next picture to be Diver, a film that would have started production this summer. They’ve pushed that picture back and instead will plunge full on into Gerald’s Game, which is casting for a fall start and will be selling here at Cannes. King is very hands on and particular about filmmakers he trusts with rights to his novels. He takes option fees as low as $1, and when you are lucky enough to get one, you try to move fast.

Gerald’s Game revolves around a seemingly harmless contest between a married couple in a remote retreat. It escalates to become a harrowing fight for survival, wife Jessie must confront long-buried demons within her own mind – and possibly lurking in the shadows of her seemingly empty house.

“In the tradition of Misery and Dolores Claiborne, Gerald’s Game is one of the most intense and compelling novels I’ve ever read, and this has been a dream project for many years. Trevor and I are very excited to help translate that experience for an audience,” said Flanagan, who’ll push Diver back to 2015. Flanagan and Howard are repped by APA and Nelson Davis Wetzstein. Paradigm represents King, Macy, Intrepid and film sales for Gerald’s Game.

 

[DeGenerate10]

Mr. Mercedes drops in a few days. Can't wait for it. I'm hoping to finish the Song of Susannah by then.

 

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Review of Mr. Mercedes

http://www.liljas-library.com/showreview.php?id=311