Stephen King books you recommend reading.

Sonny Qc said:
Really enjoyed The Long Walk (1979)
realeased under is pseudo Richard Bachman.

New Line cinema announced they would make the movie version in 2019.
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Love The Long Walk. What did you think the ending was? I have about 12 different opinions, sometimes I love open interpretation endings, sometimes I really wanna know what the author was thinking.
 
'Salem's Lot
It
The Stand


I enjoyed The Regulators and Desperation

The Green Mile (I bought the serial novels)
 
I really enjoyed Cujo. King really gets into the emotions of the husband and wife- the effects of infidelity and unhappiness.
 
Vigorelli said:
I really enjoyed Cujo. King really gets into the emotions of the husband and wife- the effects of infidelity and unhappiness.
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I have seen the movie, thought it was pretty good. I felt sorry for the dog because he didn't mean to hurt anyone, it's his not fault he had rabies. :(
I plan on reading the book at some point, it should be a good one.
 
I'll tell you what I think you can avoid completely:

Tommyknockers
Rose Madder
Dreamcatcher
Insomnia
Liseys Story

Everyone has opinions obviously but those are, to me, some of the bottom of his barrell. Like other have said King shines when he's working in short form. Short stories, novellas, etc. Pick up any collection and you'll find gems. Some of his best short work is The Jaunt, Graveyard Shift, In the Death Room, 1408 and many others. His novellas often receive some of his highest praise. The Mist is is arguably his most popular short story/novella. 1922 is one of the bleakest, darkest things you'll ever read. Four Past Midnight has 4 good to great novellas, The Langoliers and The Sun Dog being the best ones, imo. Langoliers is basically one of the best episodes of Twilight Zone never made. Night Shift was his first collection of short stories and has some great nightmare fuel. He was shooting out almost constantly great horror back then.

One of the cool things about getting into King is that his reputation is a horror writer, but you start reading his work and you see that he's far more than that and has a great range of genres. The Stand is, imo, a modern classic. Misery, The Dead Zone, Salems Lot, The Shining and Carrie are all some of his early works that are still held in high regard. Now, in his old age, I think he's actually hit a nice stride in his storytelling and has even managed to not fumble the ball towards the end. 11/2/63, Revival and The Outsider are all good reads where the ending doesnt seem like it fell off the rails.
 
Bob Gray said:
I'll tell you what I think you can avoid completely:

Tommyknockers
Rose Madder
Dreamcatcher
Insomnia
Liseys Story

Everyone has opinions obviously but those are, to me, some of the bottom of his barrell. Like other have said King shines when he's working in short form. Short stories, novellas, etc. Pick up any collection and you'll find gems. Some of his best short work is The Jaunt, Graveyard Shift, In the Death Room, 1408 and many others. His novellas often receive some of his highest praise. The Mist is is arguably his most popular short story/novella. 1922 is one of the bleakest, darkest things you'll ever read. Four Past Midnight has 4 good to great novellas, The Langoliers and The Sun Dog being the best ones, imo. Langoliers is basically one of the best episodes of Twilight Zone never made. Night Shift was his first collection of short stories and has some great nightmare fuel. He was shooting out almost constantly great horror back then.

One of the cool things about getting into King is that his reputation is a horror writer, but you start reading his work and you see that he's far more than that and has a great range of genres. The Stand is, imo, a modern classic. Misery, The Dead Zone, Salems Lot, The Shining and Carrie are all some of his early works that are still held in high regard. Now, in his old age, I think he's actually hit a nice stride in his storytelling and has even managed to not fumble the ball towards the end. 11/2/63, Revival and The Outsider are all good reads where the ending doesnt seem like it fell off the rails.
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Thanks, I'll take what you said into consideration.
 
I just read IT, The Shining and Misery. I have Cujo on the way too.
All good reads but IT has been my favourite so far.
 
Todd Gack said:
I just read IT, The Shining and Misery. I have Cujo on the way too.
All good reads but IT has been my favourite so far.
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IT was an amazing read, probably the only novel that legit scared me. IT was very long, but that made the book even more enjoyable IMO.
 
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Cujo
IT
 
The Long Walk might be one of my favorite books of all time. Wasn't long and just all kinds of fucked up

The TommyKnockers sent me into a wide range of emotions. I went from being bored, to getting creeped out, to laughing out loud, to damn near crying tears towards the end. I have NEVER ever cried reading a book and I've read some pretty sad stories. But my eyes watering towards the end of The TommyKnockers was just shocking for me. I talked to this girl who read it and she said she was sobbing like a baby at the ending, too. Said the same thing as I did how "she didn't see herself getting emotional" reading the Sci/Fi/Horror novel.

Other books:
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
IT
Cujo
Carrie
The Dark Tower
 
Brother Numsi said:
The Long Walk might be one of my favorite books of all time. Wasn't long and just all kinds of fucked up
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Oh, man, thats one of my favorites. If you want to feel like a complete failure just realize that was actually the first book Stephen King ever wrote, and he was like 19.
 
Brother Numsi said:
The Long Walk might be one of my favorite books of all time. Wasn't long and just all kinds of fucked up

The TommyKnockers sent me into a wide range of emotions. I went from being bored, to getting creeped out, to laughing out loud, to damn near crying tears towards the end. I have NEVER ever cried reading a book and I've read some pretty sad stories. But my eyes watering towards the end of The TommyKnockers was just shocking for me. I talked to this girl who read it and she said she was sobbing like a baby at the ending, too. Said the same thing as I did how "she didn't see herself getting emotional" reading the Sci/Fi/Horror novel.

Other books:
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
IT
Cujo
Carrie
The Dark Tower
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Thanks man.
 
If you're getting in into King's stuff, I'd go with The Dark Tower. It's an epic story, but it's also at the center of his shared universe. So many of his books directly reference ties to The Dark Tower.

IT had huge ties to The Dark Tower, and if you plan on reading The Stand soon you get some major insight into the villan.
 
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