The Stephen King Thread

[kainedamo]

Hey guys, could you recommend Stephen King books please?

I've read The Shining, part of Pet Cemetary (wasn't my copy didn't get to finish it), Shawshank Redemption, and part of Apt Pupil (which is upstairs and I intend to finish).

What else is good? He has so many books, and peoples opinions are very mixed about alot of them.

And does anyone have any other authors to recommend? "If you liked Stephen King..."

And could someone clear something up for me? I was reading comments about the Dark Tower series. Is the DT series a continuation or something of some other King books or is it just the odd comment (like how the Shining seems to be a theme in a couple of the books).

 

[Mr Sparkle]

"the stand" close thread, and "if you like Stephen king" you need to read other authors.

plus it's "controversial"

 

[kainedamo]

I do read other authors! Though I don't read as much as I'd like. Just about my favourite book is 1984.

 

[X-Chick]

No, they're all horribly drawn on it and loaded with a bunch of filler crap so they seem long and more impressive.

 

[Darthphere]

Ok, read Stephen King books.

 

[KingOfDreams]

The Dark Tower series

 

[the_ultimate_evil]

the running man

 

[Fledermaus]

Pretty much all of them except the new one "Lisey's Story". I couldn't get into it. And I don't really like "Gerald's Game" either. You should definitely read "IT".

 

[kainedamo]

Yeah I wanna read IT at some point. The movie freaked the hell outta me.

What about The Stand? I hear mixed stuff about that. Apparently the ending blows.

 

[triplefive]

I think I liked all the novellas in Hearts in Atlantis.

 

[Bat Attack]

"IT" is my favorite King novel.

 

[tzarinna]

I'll second Mr Sparkle's "The Stand".
If you like King check out Barker in my sig.

 

[Erzengel]

The Stand definitely.

 

[muertevilla]

i like The Dark Half. Bag of Bones was alright. if you want to learn a little bit about the craft and about the way he writes you should check out Stephen King On Writing. He is da man..

 

[thedeadite]

not really a full novel...but pretty much EVERY short story in Night Shift is amazing. I enjoy stephen king's short stories more than i do his novels...mostly cause of my lack of a good attention span.

Thinner is a good read too.

 

[Clerk]

part of Pet Cemetary (wasn't my copy didn't get to finish it),

Finish it.

 

[Cаrter]

Read "It"
Scary book

Salem's Lot is also good

 

[bored]

"The Stand", hands down.

If you've got the time, try for the "Dark Tower" series. It'll be alot to read, but it's worth it. Also, the books tie into almost everything else he's written in some way or another.

 

[StrainedEyes]

I read alot of SK over the summer, Bag of Bones was the standout, it's a really good story and it's written extremely well. Cell was fun. IT was good albeit weird sometimes. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was pretty good too, it was cute. Cujo was interesting. and 'salems Lot is a great book
I could never finish The Stand, it was just really boring to me, i dunno.

 

[kainedamo]

Finish it.

I intend to. What I had read of it was amazing and heartbreaking.

 

[kainedamo]

I finished Apt Pupil like 10 minutes ago.

My reaction - HOLY ****!

Spoilers for Apt Pupil...

Spoiler

What a great ending. I feel really bad for Todd's parents. That's gonna badly screw them up for the rest of their lives. They were so proud of their son. They had no idea. There was a point in the book where Todd was going to committe suicide, and I wanted him to do it. I knew he'd only end up hurting people. 'It was five hours later and almost dark before they took him down'. Powerful line. I asked myself occasionally when I read it, who is worse? Dussander or Todd? Technically, Dussander is worse. But Todd is creepier. Way creepier.

 

[Mr.Webs]

In 'Skeleton Crew' there's a story called 'The Fog'.

Brilliant.

 

[Arcturus]

Stephen King Rules, check out;

Carrie, Night Shift, The Shining, Pet Semetary, Nightmares & Dreascapes, Cujo, Cell, The Stand

These are some solid reads, there is however, much more.

 

[Hattie79]

Read most, if not all, of his older books. The two I was a bit disappointed with were From A Buick 8 and The Cell.

 

[wiegeabo]

i like The Dark Half. Bag of Bones was alright. if you want to learn a little bit about the craft and about the way he writes you should check out Stephen King On Writing. He is da man..

I second that. I really liked the Dark Half too (the movie wasn't nearly as good, although it did have some good moments).

I think it's the only King book I read. I've started to read other books, but never finished them for various reasons. I got about 2/3 through the Tommyknockers, but didn't finish. I liked it, but was young and in school, and just never finished reading it. I started the Dark Towerss , and was really liking it, but didn't finish because it was a friend's book who moved.

I should really finish those.