Best Stephen King book

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You guys have no idea, this is making me really really really really really really (did I say really?) wanna pick up a Stephen King book.
 
SalesianSDB said:
You guys have no idea, this is making me really really really really really really (did I say really?) wanna pick up a Stephen King book.
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I can dig it. I’m feeling the urge to go back to Deb’s Bookstore this weekend.
 
Bag of Bones - great ghost and love story, deeply atmospheric

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon- almost a dark fairy tale. If you love baseball at all, just read it. To say the least, you’ll be reminded of the simple comfort taken from a baseball game on the radio.

These are of course some of his “newer” works, and I think they’re underrated, and definitely linger with you long after the read.

Also, I loved The Green Mile and Duma Key.
 
Karen1996 said:
Bag of Bones - great ghost and love story, deeply atmospheric

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon- almost a dark fairy tale. If you love baseball at all, just read it. To say the least, you’ll be reminded of the simple comfort taken from a baseball game on the radio.

These are of course some of his “newer” works, and I think they’re underrated, and definitely linger with you long after the read.

Also, I loved The Green Mile and Duma Key.
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I had forgotten about Bag of Bones.

I also liked Dreamcatcher.

God bless.
 
I first discovered King when I picked up “Salem’s Lot” back in 1976. I’d read it on the subway and come home to an empty apartment which was very scary. From then on I read everything until 2001. To me “The Stand” is the best, although he doesn’t like to hear that. Why did everyone have colds when I read that one??? I read that while pregnant with my first baby and it totally freaked me out!

“Dragon’s Eye” is fun, “The Green Mile” makes you think. I hated “It” and “The Tommyknockers”. I do like his short stories a lot, although “Graveyard Shift” still makes me squirm – I’ve had 17 pet rats so that one was super disturbing. “Shawshank Redemption” is from one of those collections.

I think I have to give up the net for a while and read “Duma Key” and “The Dome” which sit unread on the shelf.
 
I read Salem’s Lot on my honeymoon, but my all time favorite is The Stand. I was a little disappointed in his last two, The Dome and Duma Key. Can’t wait for a new 1,000+ page thriller!
 
I know everyone has said it already but I found “The Stand” to be amazing. I come back and reread it every few years. Someone else mentioned this already too but I think “The Eye of the Dragon” is ridiculously underrated. To round out the 3-way tie I must include “The Long Walk”.
 
ConcernedApathy said:
I know everyone has said it already but I found “The Stand” to be amazing. I come back and reread it every few years. Someone else mentioned this already too but I think “The Eye of the Dragon” is ridiculously underrated. To round out the 3-way tie I must include “The Long Walk”.
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I think “The Eye of the Dragon” is often overlooked because it was written for kids and is quite a departure from his usual fare.
 
Phemie said:
I think “The Eye of the Dragon” is often overlooked because it was written for kids and is quite a departure from his usual fare.
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I liked that book. I did find it repetitive though and breathed a sigh of relief when I read to the end.

God bless.
 
I am totally shocked that I seem to be the only one who LOVED Misery! I use to stay home instead of going out partying to read that book haha. 😃
 
Haha–Chiller Channel is running The Stand this very afternoon. Of course, we could see it without commercials if we got out our DVD set.
 
I loved Needful things but oddly enough I like his short storis a lot more. Same with H.P. Lovecraft and other horror writers I find I enjoy short stories more.
 
Some of his short stories are ridiculous though. Recently I was reading from his book Nightmares and Dreamscapes wherein there is a short story about a very long finger which emerges from a drain in some fellow’s bathroom. The finger appears to be infinitely long and has knuckles spaces regularly along the length of the finger.

I don’t know what’s more amazing: that someone would write a story with such a stupid, random premise or that said stories was actually very enjoyable.
 
Mungling said:
Some of his short stories are ridiculous though. Recently I was reading from his book Nightmares and Dreamscapes wherein there is a short story about a very long finger which emerges from a drain in some fellow’s bathroom. The finger appears to be infinitely long and has knuckles spaces regularly along the length of the finger.

I don’t know what’s more amazing: that someone would write a story with such a stupid, random premise or that said stories was actually very enjoyable.
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In truth I think those stories are good because it leaves a lot of questions. WHat was the finger doing? how can it extend so long? If their is a finger, then what is it attatched to?
 
The Shining.

I read that book straight through on our house’s sleeping porch one summer night during a thunderstorm. I didn’t sleep well for a week afterwards. Not the world’s best fiction for sure, but it scared the curl out of my hair when I was 12.😛
 
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