Best of Stephen King

[T Rollie]

It and The Stand are my two favorite books of his I've read.

Has anyone read Under the Dome? I noticed I had a copy of it on my bookshelf and was thinking of reading it before the TV series but I'm a little hesitant to read another huge book after reading all of the A Song of Ice and Fire books back to back.

It was pretty solid. I didn't regret reading it.

 

[Bob Gray]

It and The Stand are my two favorite books of his I've read.

Has anyone read Under the Dome? I noticed I had a copy of it on my bookshelf and was thinking of reading it before the TV series but I'm a little hesitant to read another huge book after reading all of the A Song of Ice and Fire books back to back.

Yeah, it's a good one. His villain was a little more cliche than usual, but overall it's one of his better post-accident novels imo.

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

I had a mental picture of Jackie Gleason in a Sheriffs uniform when I read that book.

 

[Bob Gray]

Brian Dennehy for the TV series imo. JT Walsh would have been great, but he had a slight case of death he never really got over.

 

[sgtlunajuice]

In random order:

Dark Tower series

The Stand

Desperation

Needful Things

Eyes Of The Dragon HIGHLY UNDERRATED IMO

pretty much my list, though i would have had the shining and it on there too.

 

[IcyBlue]

Guys this is going to sound silly but i don't want to read a novel that will scare the shit out of me.

I've seen Dreamcatcher,Green Mile,etc.

Can anyone recommend a good SK novel that isn't too disturbing?

Honestly, I've never read a Stephen King novel that was truly scary. But I'd say the safest would be the Dark Tower series which is definitely not scary at all. I can tell you what not to read by Dean Koontz though - avoid Intensity. That book was scary as eff.

 

[Deleted member 220895]

Apt Pupil (a short in the novella, Different Seasons)

 

[Sir Galahad]

 

[IcyBlue]

It and The Stand are my two favorite books of his I've read.

Has anyone read Under the Dome? I noticed I had a copy of it on my bookshelf and was thinking of reading it before the TV series but I'm a little hesitant to read another huge book after reading all of the A Song of Ice and Fire books back to back.

My friend who is a bigger Stephen King enthusiast than I am claims Under the Dome is a watered down version of the Stand. I thought it was pretty good though, but it was maddening how unrealistic some of the characters were. :icon_conf

 

[electricsheep81]

Salem's Lot
Dark Tower Series
Different Seasons
The Stand
Desperation
Dead Zone
The Shining
Bag of Bones (a lot of people didn't like this one, but I remember enjoying it)

Carrie and Firestarter are couple of my least favorite of his.

 

[CrazyN8]

I just read 11/22/63 and I must say it was a damn good novel with a great ending. Still craving a rootbeer and Burger from the 50s.

 

[SevenSamurai]

Different Seasons is GOAT

 

[livingdeadmoose]

It and The Shining are my favorite.

 

[nhbbear]

The stand
It
The dome
11/22/63
From a Buick 8

For consideration: bag of ones, dark tower series and for those that read that, the wind through the keyhole is my favorite besides the one with Roland as a boy. And cell. Yes, cell, I liked it and it was my first new king book that started me reading a shit ton of his books.

 

[frye666]

I like all of his books. No one has mentioned cell, which I quite liked.

 

[Bob Gray]

My friend who is a bigger Stephen King enthusiast than I am claims Under the Dome is a watered down version of the Stand. I thought it was pretty good though, but it was maddening how unrealistic some of the characters were. :icon_conf

Hmm, I cant see that at all. Except for the fact that theyre both big.

 

[SevenSamurai]

I wonder if the shear length of King's Novel were dictated purely on how much cocaine he had available at the cabin.

for instance -for the Stand he probably procured a full brick of cocaine in a sweetheart deal

In Different Seasons, clearly supply was low in Maine and he had to go out several times to downtown Portland and stand around the whoopie pie shack with the teenagers to score a fix -no cell phones back then -just lots of wasted time.

 

[CombatCyborg]

I wonder if the shear length of King's Novel were dictated purely on how much cocaine he had available at the cabin.

for instance -for the Stand he probably procured a full brick of cocaine in a sweetheart deal

In Different Seasons, clearly supply was low in Maine and he had to go out several times to downtown Portland and stand around the whoopie pie shack with the teenagers to score a fix -no cell phones back then -just lots of wasted time.

AFAIK, he stopped doing that relatively early in his career. Though in 'On Writing' he mentions that he doesn't even remember writing Cujo (I think it was) because he was wired out of his mind on blow.

 

[Bob Gray]

^^^^


Yeah, he was also pounding a 24 pack of tall boys a day. I remember reading somewhere sometimes he'd just sit outside in the cold with kleenex up his nose to slow the bloodflow from snowblowing all day long and just be hunched over writing for hours.

 

[Bob Gray]

Coincidence strikes. Big Jim Rennie was just casted for the Under the Dome mini-series


Dean Norris, AKA Hank from Breaking Bad

I endorse this casting.