Favourite Stephen King Books?

MK1980
MK1980 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
How I choose to feel is how I am...I will not lose my faith, It's an inside job today.
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  • Got a hard hard head
    Got 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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  • Bump30
    Bump30 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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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,895
    The Stand
    Under the Dome
  • pjsteelerfan
    pjsteelerfan Maryland Posts: 9,905
    Lot of good ones above
    I'll add Pet Cemetary to the list among others
    ...got a mind full of questions and a teacher in my soul...
  • matt_baker
    matt_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.
  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,153
    Gree Mile.
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  • left the porch
    left the porch Posts: 504
    Carrie, Christine and Children of the Corn. His C books scared the shit out of me.
  • mysticweed
    mysticweed 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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  • Chazz
    Chazz Posts: 1,156
    The Stand
    Thinner
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  • DarthSpacegrass
    DarthSpacegrass Posts: 177
    Eyes of the Dragon
    Drawing of the Three
    The Gunslinger
    Misery
    The Other Half
    It
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  • MrMerkinball
    MrMerkinball Posts: 1,978
    Hearts in Atlantis for sure. That is a terrific book.
  • spencer958
    spencer958 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?
  • mikalina
    mikalina 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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  • Flagg
    Flagg 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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  • Flagg
    Flagg 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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    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
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  • MK1980
    MK1980 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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  • CantKeepMeHere
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    The Long Walk!!!

    The Wolves of Calla

    The Talisman

    The Black House

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  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,895
    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.
  • NoHelmetHardHead
    NoHelmetHardHead 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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  • spencer958
    spencer958 Louisville, KY Posts: 279
    Is it(under the dome)going to be a mini on HBO for sure?

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