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Favourite Stephen King Books?

MK1980MK1980 Nottingham, UK Posts: 291
edited December 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Too many to chose from, but my top five in no particular order are:

The Shining
The Dead Zone
Misery
Desperation
Hearts in Atlantis
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  • Got a hard hard headGot a hard hard head Posts: 638
    If I had to choose a top five, I'd go for:

    It
    Insomnia
    Hearts In Atlantis
    Four Past Midnight
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  • Bump30Bump30 Burlington Ontario Posts: 446
    My top 5 (in no order) would be:

    The Stand
    The Dark Tower Series
    Green Mile
    The Talisman and Black House
    Any of the short story books...hummm i'll go with Different Seasons.
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  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,787
    The Stand
    Under the Dome
  • pjsteelerfanpjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,903
    Lot of good ones above
    I'll add Pet Cemetary to the list among others
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  • matt_bakermatt_baker Posts: 62
    I know it's not strictly speaking a book but more a collection of random short stories published over a while, but Everythings Eventual. Some of the stories in there Like All That You Love Will Be Carried Away, Riding the Bullet and Luckey Quarter are quite well written. That and the book It. Absolute Gold.
  • PapPap Serres, Greece Posts: 29,405
    Gree Mile.
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  • left the porchleft the porch Posts: 504
    Carrie, Christine and Children of the Corn. His C books scared the shit out of me.
  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    Many choices, but
    The Shining actually made me scream aloud.
    Only two books have ever made me do that, the other was Poe's the black cat.
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  • ChazzChazz Posts: 1,141
    The Stand
    Thinner
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  • DarthSpacegrassDarthSpacegrass Posts: 177
    Eyes of the Dragon
    Drawing of the Three
    The Gunslinger
    Misery
    The Other Half
    It
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  • MrMerkinballMrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    Hearts in Atlantis for sure. That is a terrific book.
  • spencer958spencer958 Louisville, KY Posts: 279
    The Stand is my fav. I also like the Shining. I heard that Under the Dome was great. Has anybody read it?
  • mikalinamikalina Posts: 7,206
    Too many to choose;

    Needful things
    Misery
    The Tommyknockers
    Hearts in Atlantis
    It - There is something about clowns that scare the hell out of me.
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    The Stand
    The Shining
    The Dead Zone
    The Dark Tower Series
    Pet Semetary

    Pet Semetary affected me the most. When I read it, I was just getting into King. I hadn't seen the stupid movie so I was blind going in. But my son was only two at the time that I read the book. Well, if you've read it, you can imagine the impact that story has. I couldn't shake those images for awhile.

    Out of all the lame King movie adaptations, that is the one that deserves a remake the most. If you go back and read that story and pretend you don't know anything about it, it is pretty terrifying and truly disturbing. No wonder he put it away in a drawer after finishing it and refused to publish it for awhile. Pretty fucked up stuff.
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    spencer958 wrote:
    The Stand is my fav. I also like the Shining. I heard that Under the Dome was great. Has anybody read it?

    It is more old school King, where the town is sort of the main character instead of any one person. I liked it.
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  • MK1980MK1980 Nottingham, UK Posts: 291
    I couldn't quite decide which 'apocolyptic' one to choose, so I went with The Dead Zone, only because I first read it when I was younger. The Stand I only read two years ago (complete & uncut), without ever watching the mini-series. Cell revists the same themes, From a Buick 8, Needful things, Insomnia, Duma Key etc do also.
    Is Under the Dome as good as everyone rates it?
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  • CantKeepMeHereCantKeepMeHere Posts: 2,177
    The Long Walk!!!

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    The Talisman

    The Black House

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  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,787
    yes, I really liked Under the Dome.... A LOT.

    It is so long, but its such an easy read. There is almost no "down time"... very smooth story and it is going to make a GREAT mini-series on HBO.

    The only King fans I have seen who are disappointed are the ones that want the insane amount of character development and profiling we saw in The Stand. In UTD, the story just takes off and the characters are filled in as you go along for the ride.
  • NoHelmetHardHeadNoHelmetHardHead Posts: 75
    Many to choose from for sure

    Cant believe I haven't seen this one up more in the thread

    1 Salem's Lot
    2 Green Mile
    3 Misery
    4 Christine
    5 The Shining
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  • spencer958spencer958 Louisville, KY Posts: 279
    Is it(under the dome)going to be a mini on HBO for sure?
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    I read It in the summer of 96 when I was 14 and it scared the ever living shit out of me. I remember seeing the mini series first and thinking it was lame so I figured I would read the book. Holy Shit. I haven't read it since but it definately freaked me out. I also liked what he did with Desperation and the Regulators with the same character names in different settings. Very cool. A few of his short stories stuck with me like the Sun Dog. The kid gets a polariod camera for a present and every picture he takes is a dog in a yard. Each subsequent pic the dog gets closer and closer, filling up the picture until it finally gets out of the picture and goes on a killing spree. I think it's in Four Past Midnight. Survivors Tale about the doctor stranded on a deserted island who cuts his own body parts off to eat in order to survive. King is one of a kind. Great stuff.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    It
    The Stand
    The Talisman
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  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,787
    spencer958 wrote:
    Is it(under the dome)going to be a mini on HBO for sure?


    I read a few months ago that the Stephens Spielburg and King had agreed to work on it and it would be on HBO.

    Actually if you google some of that you will find a whole lot of speculation.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,533
    different seasons was by far my favorite
    the dead zone, carrie, cujo, christine, and pet semetary were also good.

    I stopped reading king books when IT came out. No reason, just got tired of his prose.
  • MK1980MK1980 Nottingham, UK Posts: 291
    Funny you should mention 'survivor type'. It was always the short story that stuck in my mind, maybe because it reminds me of 'Tremor Christ's first verse...wounded is the organ he left bloodied on the shore.
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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Why was Pet Sematary spelled with an S. Was there a reason?
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  • EnkiduEnkidu So Cal Posts: 2,996
    Different Seasons is really great and Four Past Midnight has The Langoliers - ew, so creepy. I read that just before I had to fly somewhere. Big mistake.

    Carrie and 'Salems Lot (why does it have the apostrophe?) and Under the Dome are my other favorites and I still have to read Insomnia.
  • MayDay10MayDay10 Posts: 11,787
    hmm short stories...

    The Mist was good. Also Night Flier. I thought that The Mist was done very well as a movie until the ending.

    Chattering Teeth

    The Moving Finger

    Autopsy Room Floor

    Battleground

    and the one with the terrifying bat-people that only certain people could see and if they knew you could see their true faces they would kill/eat you. forgot the name of that one. edit: Here it is "The Ten O Clock People http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten_O%27Clock_People
  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Enkidu wrote:
    Different Seasons is really great and Four Past Midnight has The Langoliers - ew, so creepy. I read that just before I had to fly somewhere. Big mistake.

    Carrie and 'Salems Lot (why does it have the apostrophe?) and Under the Dome are my other favorites and I still have to read Insomnia.

    'Salems Lot has the apostrophe because the towns full name in the book is Jerusalem's Lot. Still wondering why Sematary is spelled with an S
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  • eeriepadaveeeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 42,476
    Insomnia
    The Shining
    Nightmares & Dreamscapes
    Pet Semetary
    Needful Things (weird story. The day i finished the book, the movie was on tv that night and it sucked!)
    Bag Of Bones ( I think that was the last one i bought/read :oops: )
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