Favorite Stephen King Book?

[nasty]

I'm just bored as anything tonight, so here's another thread. My favorite is The Stand. It has ALOT more character development than the movie, so that makes the reader more simpithetic(sp?) to the good guys, and HATE the bad guys.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i've liked all that i've read so far... and these include Insomnia, The Green Mile, Desperation, Different Seasons, and The Skeleton Crew

 

[Ticklish Girl]

I like his earlier works. Too many of his later books have a tendency to drag on too long. My favorites are The Shining, The Dead Zone, The Stand, Pet Sematary, Misery, the Dark Tower Series, and "Apt Pupil" from Different Seasons.

I also enjoyed the installments of "The Plant" that he sold through his website last summer. I really hope he continues with that story at some point in the future.

 

[Stonedagger]

it's gotta be

The stand and the Dark Tower series - i find that lately he must not need the money he seems to be writing a little worse and Desperation and The Regulators have the SAME Char names but their backgrounds are dif - WHat the hell - did he run out of names??? That kinda pissed me off - 2 books over 35 bucks each - I collect hardcovers - and the names are the same??????????Wtih similar occupations but DIFFERENT???
Pissed me right off!

 

[Willing and Unsure]

Stonedagger

Desperation and The Regulators are pretty much the same book.. just the point of view for the story...

 

[Stonedagger]

But...

They are not - same creature yes - same people yes - but Two diff locations - Collie is not Tak in Regs - on and on - similar MO's but like a copycat killer not true homicidal maniac if you get my meaning!

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i do.. i never read The Regulators... but from what i've heard, they're supposed to be the same only from a different point of view... and maybe when he wrote the second of the two, he just forgot where he wrote the first one's location and other little things like that

 

[bluntforcemama]

Tommy Knockers! or The Stand.

 

[SweetNick]

Would it be a sin to say I've only tried reading one of his books and just couldn't get into it and haven't read anything of his since, other than a short-story I had to read in my college lit class???

 

[Willing and Unsure]

nah... its not a sin

 

[MissTaken]

the older works

IT , the Tommyknockers, and The Stand....

I read the unabridged addition in a weekend. Literally, I couldn't put it down.

 

[willfulbrat]

The Shining, The Stand, Pet Cemetary, It (until the end!), Bag of Bones, Needful Things (another hokey ending, but it fit that story).... basically, I loved them all except for The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. It just got too hokey at the end.

Anybody else watching Hideaway tonight? Dean Koonz (sp?) is pretty awesome, too.

 

[nasty]

FUCK!!!!!!

Hideaway was on. I HATE that movie, but Alicia Silverstone isHOT!!!!!!BTW-You spell it Koontz. His books are GREAT, but the film adaptions SUCK!!!!!!!

 

[willfulbrat]

I agree, the movies do suck! Pet Cemetary was the worst King movie. Misery was the best, because it was so real, no supernatural stuff to try to make convincing.

 

[nasty]

Misery was good

"The Stand" was BETTER!!!!! His best movie, NO DOUBT!!!!!

 

[willfulbrat]

I forgot about The Stand. Yes, that one was awesome!

 

[Boxstar]

I read a book of three short stories written by Steven King, but before he was known as SK. He used some other name. I forget the name of one of the stories, but the other two were the Running Man, and my absolute favorite The Long Walk. It is about a bunch of young men that enter a contest. You have to walk 24 hours a day at a certain pace or else you ge shot. The last person alive wins. It was intense. Does anyone know what name SK wrote under....i think it was Richard..something...i'm not really sure.

 

[Rockingham]

Has anyone ever noticed that most of his latest works, (from Insomnia pretty much on) all deal in some way with the Dark Tower series. Most of them deal with parts of the journey, or characters that we will undoubtedly see later of other things.
Like take Hearts in Atlanta for example. If you hadn't read the Dark Tower series that book would be totally pointless as a King story. Even though I have read the series, I still feel that it was almost a waste of my time. It had a great beginning, but nothing of an ending, and a quarter of the book was about some blind guy who went to Vietnam that had very (VERY) little to do with the story.
Not that I'm bad mouthing Stephen King or anything. One of the greatest writers ever, in my opinion.
In the Wizard and Glass (Latest Dark Tower series) he actually dumped the characters into the world of the Stand. I thought it was pretty hilarious myself.
I was also fond of the Children of the Corn Short story... now that's a story right there.
He who walks behind the roses.
It still makes me shiver at nights.
As for his movies, yeah most of them suck. The Stand, Misery, and a few others actually were great movies, but then again that's usually what happens when a book becomes a movie. Something is always missing.
Didn't he also help screen write Creepshow?
Acting, writing, screenwriting, getting out of car accidents and writing again, is there anything this man can't do?

 

[poohlive]

Richard Bachman I think is the name your looking for. A great bunch of stories he wrote, as well as Thinner. All good King stories.

Do you guys ever think King might a regular member of Lit? Now that would be something interesting.

 

[Boxstar]

Thats the name....did you ever read The Long Walk? What did you think of it?

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Thats the name....did you ever read The Long Walk? What did you think of it?

Fucking brilliant.

It would be nearly my favourite... but you tell me what did you think had happened right at the end. was he the last or not?

 

[SunnyGirl]

Love most of them, but The Stand, The Talisman, all of the Bachman books, The Shining, all of the Dark Tower books and Hearts in Atlantis are my favorites.

 

[Debbie]

He has written under many pseudonym's
Also known as: Stephen (Edwin) King
Richard Bachman
Steve King
John Swithen
Stephen Edwin King
Steven King


And these are only the ones i have come across


I loved The Stand

 

[Bob Peale]

I may be in the minority...

... But I liked The Talisman, as well as the new one Dream Catcher.

All time faves: The Stand (Unabridged; the original left too much out), 'Salem's Lot (Scared the shit out of me), and Cujo (Ditto)

 

[Dianno]

The SHort Stories

Not so fond of the outright horror, but the short story "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" is definitly worth a read.

And if anyone has an electronic copy of The Long Walk, I'm very intruiged about it and wouldn;t mind a look!