Favourite Stephen King Books?

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  • youngster
    youngster 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.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    It
    The Stand
    The Talisman
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,852
    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_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,116
    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.
  • MK1980
    MK1980 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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  • youngster
    youngster Boston Posts: 6,576
    Why was Pet Sematary spelled with an S. Was there a reason?
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

    9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
    5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
    EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
  • Enkidu
    Enkidu 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.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,852
    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
  • youngster
    youngster 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
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

    9/29/04 Boston, 6/28/08 Mansfield, 8/23/09 Chicago, 5/15/10 Hartford
    5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
    EV Solo: 6/16/11 Boston, 6/18/11 Hartford,
  • eeriepadave
    eeriepadave West Chester, PA Posts: 43,179
    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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    7/19/13- Wrigley
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    10/21/13- Philly, PA
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    10/27/13- Baltimore, MD
    4/28/16- Philly, PA
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    5/1/16- NYC
    5/2/16- NYC
    9/2/18- Boston, MA
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  • Wilds
    Wilds Posts: 4,329
    I read 15-20 King books when I was in High School. Haven't read any for about 20 years. But my memory had my favorites in this order.

    It
    Pet Semetery
    Misery
    The Tommyknockers

    Oh yeah forgot to add:

    The Long Walk
    The Dark Half

    and Thinner
  • Coopia
    Coopia Posts: 31
    CantKeepMeHere wrote:
    The Long Walk!!!

    The Wolves of Calla

    The Talisman

    The Black House

    Salems Lot

    The Long Walk is easily one of my favorites, and I am surprised anytime I see anyone else give it credit. It looks like I may finally get my wish of a movie...

    http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mist/ne ... _long_walk

    The article is from a few years back, but they mention Darabont had to do Farenheit 451 before he got around to it. His adaptations of Shawshank, Green Mile, and The Mist have easily been 3 of the best King movies ever made, and I am excited to see what he can do with The Long Walk. I'm not sure how much they may have to change (age of the walkers?) to make it something that wouldn't scare off main stream audiences, but I would hope he would stay as faithful to the book as he did the others.
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    youngster wrote:
    Why was Pet Sematary spelled with an S. Was there a reason?

    Because the cemetary was built by children. They misspelled the word.
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  • MK1980
    MK1980 Nottingham, UK Posts: 291
    The ten o'clock people was a great read, so was the long walk. One of my favourite short stories was Dolan's Cadillac and also You know they got a hell of a band. What does everyone think of the Pearl Jam reference in Dreamcatcher?
    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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    Hyde Park June 25th 2010
    Manchester June 20th & 21st 2012
    Leeds July 14th 2014
  • Flagg
    Flagg Posts: 5,856
    MK1980 wrote:
    The ten o'clock people was a great read, so was the long walk. One of my favourite short stories was Dolan's Cadillac and also You know they got a hell of a band. What does everyone think of the Pearl Jam reference in Dreamcatcher?

    I don't remember that. What was the reference?
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    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
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  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    5 against 1 - The Pearl Jam Story
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  • MK1980
    MK1980 Nottingham, UK Posts: 291
    The reference to PJ in 'Dreamcatcher' is chapter 10 parts 4 and 5; the 'squad anthem' is pearl jam (pt 4), and in pt 5 '...instead of pearl jam or Jar of Flies or Rage Against The Machine...'. Also Pt 5 '...they knew Eddie Vedder; Walter Cronkite was a different deal...'
    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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  • stardust1976
    stardust1976 Posts: 1,301
    It
    The Tommyknockers...(scary book that one!)
    The Stand
    The Talisman (yes, yes, I know....not JUST him but still)....
    Ummm
    Four Past Midnight
    ummm
    Needful Things



    Can I say though......that without a doubt the WORST Steven King book is Gerald's Game? Such a shocker....really.
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  • merkinball
    merkinball Posts: 2,262
    Christine
    It
    Insomnia
    The Stand
    Dark Tower Series
    Talisman/Black House


    Also, if you haven't checked out the graphic novel/comics for Dark Tower and the Stand, you should. The artwork alone is amazing. The Dark Tower starts off true to the story (the Roland/Susan backstory) and takes off from there filling in. The Stand is more of a literal translation of the book, but very enjoyable thus far in the series. There is a Talisman one too, but I haven't gotten that into it yet.

    Count me as someone who was very disappointed in Under the Dome. First 3/4 were spectacular, classic King. But the ending... without spoiling/getting into a discussion of it, I'll just say that I thought it sucked.

    Just as I finished writing this, Pet Sematary by the Ramones came on the ipod... coincidence?
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • Brock Samson
    Brock Samson Posts: 328
    in order:

    the stand
    misery
    gerald's game
    the dark half
    it

    currently re-reading insomnia. liking it more than i did the first time.
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