Favourite Stephen King Books?

PJSiren

eeriepadave said:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-stephen-king-movies-20150722

I CAN'T BELIEVE THE MIST MADE THAT LIST!!! That movie was an abomination!!! I boycotted Steven King after that movie....for like 3 years....lol It was AWFUL!

My fave didn't even make the list I was shocked...it's Storm of the Century....I LOOOOOOOVE that one...also love The Stand...

I can't read King though....I've tried multiple books by him and they're all the same, I get to this point and it's just can't go further because what he could describe in a page or two, the man goes on and on about for 3 chapters....it drives me nuts....

PJfanwillneverleave1

PJSiren said:

eeriepadave said:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-stephen-king-movies-20150722

I can't read King though....I've tried multiple books by him and they're all the same, I get to this point and it's just can't go further because what he could describe in a page or two, the man goes on and on about for 3 chapters....it drives me nuts....

Now that is funny.
I read the Dark Tower Series a number of years back and remember saying to myself while reading
"If I just get through these next ten pages of him describing a tree the book will get better"

and after those ten pages I remember saying to myself while reading
"If I just get past this abnormally long description of a blue car the book will get better"

I finished the series and still to this day have no idea what the story was about.
I have wasted so much time reading his verbal diarrhea.
I am done.

dankind

I gave up after Gerald's Game, which was just awful. It's my understanding that he's written a lot of great books since then, but I haven't read any of them. Pre-GG, I would say that The Stand (not the version with the masturbatory extra 300 pages) and It were my two favorites.

23scidoo

PJfanwillneverleave1 said:

PJSiren said:

eeriepadave said:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-stephen-king-movies-20150722

I can't read King though....I've tried multiple books by him and they're all the same, I get to this point and it's just can't go further because what he could describe in a page or two, the man goes on and on about for 3 chapters....it drives me nuts....

Now that is funny.
I read the Dark Tower Series a number of years back and remember saying to myself while reading
"If I just get through these next ten pages of him describing a tree the book will get better"

and after those ten pages I remember saying to myself while reading
"If I just get past this abnormally long description of a blue car the book will get better"

I finished the series and still to this day have no idea what the story was about.
I have wasted so much time reading his verbal diarrhea.
I am done.

I think the Dark Tower its his masterpiece..so ambition and so misconceived..

Gillycw

The Talisman
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Gerald's Game
The Stand
The Shining - the first book to ever make me truly scared shitless!

MayDay10

PJSiren said:

eeriepadave said:

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/lists/readers-poll-the-10-best-stephen-king-movies-20150722

I CAN'T BELIEVE THE MIST MADE THAT LIST!!! That movie was an abomination!!! I boycotted Steven King after that movie....for like 3 years....lol It was AWFUL!

My fave didn't even make the list I was shocked...it's Storm of the Century....I LOOOOOOOVE that one...also love The Stand...

I can't read King though....I've tried multiple books by him and they're all the same, I get to this point and it's just can't go further because what he could describe in a page or two, the man goes on and on about for 3 chapters....it drives me nuts....

Other than the ending... the mist was the closest and best adaptation of a king story imo. It was dead on his short story.
Never read green mile though.

The Stand was...ok. should/could be so much more.

I think a 'worst' adaptation list would be more interesting. Under the dome would have to be numbers 1-6

Pap

MayDay10 said:

Never read green mile though.

Please do yourself a favour, and start reading it right now! Easily my all-time favourite movie.

Enkidu

I'm reading Pet Sematary right now - I can't believe I never read it before. Oh man is it scary.

PJ_Soul

23scidoo said:

JK_Livin said:

Can anyone recommend some King books for my 12yr old son? Some I can't remember if they'd freak him out or are appropriate?
I know to stay away from the The Dark Tower because of the multiple fucks and cunts scattered throughout.


Is the a book ratings site out there somewhere?

Stand by me

It's called The Body in book form. And it's okay, but it's actually one of the very few SK books that isn't as good as the movie IMO.

I fucking love Stephen King.

JK_Livin

oh yeah!!

https://twitter.com/StephenKing/status/704672305876754432

MayDay10

It looks like The Stand and The Dark Tower are both still in holding patterns

JK_Livin

Not sure but when King himself tweets that out, The Dark Tower might be on.

Malroth

cujo.
the long walk
running man

JK_Livin

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/02/29/dark-tower-rises-stephen-king-idris-elba-and-matthew-mcconaughey

MayDay10

hmmm. Not sure I like it. From what Im reading it is one movie and hopefully they can go from there? It doesnt start with The Gunslinger?

I dont really care about the Idris Elba playing the part of Roland with the 'race issue'. I think he will be a pretty good Roland.

I think this project needs a clear cut vision/direction. The best way epic stories are shown this day and age is the TV/streaming series. Sell it to HBO, Showtime, or AMC as a 2-season, 10 episode-each series with a clear-cut beginning and end.

The same goes for The Stand, but could do that in 1 season.

Also, keep it true to the source material. I want to see the story Stephen King wrote. Not the story "Nikolaj Arcel" wrote.

23scidoo

It can't be done in one movie..

pickupyourwill

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

rgambs

Flagg said:

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.

One of the most fucked up books ever. Deliciously morbid, and his depth of characters and their pain is on par with literary greats.
And yes, the movie was terrible.

rgambs

The Dark Tower series
Insomnia
Hearts in Atlantis
All of his short story collections have flashes of true brilliance.

pickupyourwill

rgambs said:

Flagg said:

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.

One of the most fucked up books ever. Deliciously morbid, and his depth of characters and their pain is on par with literary greats.
And yes, the movie was terrible.

I never read Pet Cemetary but I did see the movie. Now that you say the book was ten times morbid and disturbing I probably never will. I have an over-active imagination as it is. It is hard for me to get those images out of my head. That's why I stopped watching American Horror Story after the first few seasons--such gory shit but great writing and acting. That's also why I couldn't read too much into the West Memphis Three case a few years back on here. I wanted to really try and get to the bottom of it but those images... I have a son too. I feel bad for the detectives and lawyers out there who have to see crime scene images on a daily basis and still try to maintain a normal family life...kudos to them.

I thought the original Pet Cemetary movie was a classic, but could see it as a good remake also. I would never let my son watch it till he's like 18 or something--poor boy has already been exposed to crazy video games and t.v. shows. I don't think I want him reading any Stephen King books till he's an adult...lol. Although oddly enough, the one I mentioned--The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was a AR type of book for the highschoolers around here 5 or so years ago--they may have changed it by now. I think they had them read it because you can also look at it from a religious aspect--of the girl fighting off the evil forces too survive.