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Stephen King

Read his short stories. You will love his short stories, even though you hate his novel.

Begin with Night Shift and then move on to Skeleton Crew. That's pretty much it. His other collection pales in comparison to these two books.

I can guarantee you will love the "Last Rung On The Ladder".
 
I need to cool down on King. It seems I have been reading his stuff exclusively for a good while. I have removed a bunch of SK novels from my TBR list. The only King books that survived the hammer are...

Eyes of the Dragon
The Stand
Salem’s Lot
It

I am not going to keep reading the same author again and again. There are so many other writers to explore. After finishing the Dark Tower series I want to move away from King (after I finishLisey's Story that is) and read Jose Saramago, John Steinbeck, John Updike, Ernest Hemingway, Don DeLillo, Margaret Atwood, Saul Bellow, and others: Good quality books. :D
 
King’s novel It is one of my favorites. I also like The Talisman, but I didn’t care for the sequel that much. My first King novel was The Stand (the short version). I was surprised that I liked it so much; I bought a paperback copy on a whim without ever having heard of him and had no real expectations. I’ve read almost everything he’s written since, but I’ve found myself gradually losing interest over the years. I finished the Dark Tower series, but Cell is sitting on my bookshelf unread. I attempted it once and didn’t get very far.
 
eyez0nme said:
Has anyone read RAge?

What are you thoughts on this book?
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Excellent book- it is one of his first, so it's a bit more simplistic (and much shorter than his recent work), which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It was published as Richard Bachman, and I generally find those books much bloodier and weirder and not as good, but this one is an exception. In a way, it is a kind of reverse "Lord of the Flies," and if you can find a copy, you should definitely read it.
 
A lot of his novels I try reading but end up being bored to tears with. However, the ones I have read and loved are as follows:

The Dark Tower series (first books I ever read by him)
Bag of Bones
Dreamcatcher
The Stand
Cell
Lisey's Story

Actually...I think those are the only ones I've picked up by him and dudn't put down by boredom. However, It did seem pretty good, I was just too preoccupied with The Stand to buy it. I guess that'll make the list for me eventually.
 
AquaBlue said:
Stewart, which is your favorite SK novel(s)? I'm just curious. :cool:
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I don't have one. The nearest to enjoyable, that I remember, was Carrie. But I was twelve then so all the swearing, the opening shower scene, and my lack of reading may have clouded my judgement.

I tend to find his novels overlong. Lisey's Story was the first I'd read since Desperation. I really don't like his style - it's horribly conversational and he spends too many pages on cataloguing detail rather than using a short sharp phrase that can paint the picture with less fuss.

If I had to pick from his writing, I'd probably go for Night Shift, his first short story collection. Therein were the major stories that informed a great deal of movies in the last twenty years and they were mercifully short, given that these early pieces were appearing in magazines that had their own limits, before the rules started bending because of the name of Stephen King, such as in Nightmares & Dreamscapes.
 
I am temporarily pulling away from King, as noted above, and delving into other authors. Too much of anything is not good and King novels have been the only books I have been reading, pretty much. No more SK for now.

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Stewart said:
I'd be interested to know why on this thread, since it was one of the worst books I read last year.
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To me mainly because I wasn't expecting such a story from him, when I saw the red and the shovel I thought "alright, someones going to be smacked around and then bleed out the butt and sit there dying on the pavement while a giant...ah" - flips cover and looks at picture of Boo'ya Moon - "evil flower monster eats em...yep, here's my twenty-eight bucks, thanks!"

I can see why a lot of readers disliked it, but I honestly found it (or find it, since I'm not yet done, about 60 or so pages left), to be a good read, and the constant made up vocabulary that a lot of readers seemed to dislike only drew me into it more. It's all different tastes I guess, but that's a given.
 
SevenWritez said:
To me mainly because I wasn't expecting such a story from him, when I saw the red and the shovel I thought "alright, someones going to be smacked around and then bleed out the butt and sit there dying on the pavement while a giant...ah" - flips cover and looks at picture of Boo'ya Moon - "evil flower monster eats em...yep, here's my twenty-eight bucks, thanks!"
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LOL-Thank you for such a good laugh. Sadly, I was almost expecting the same as I doubted what reviewers had said about the book. Excellent description by far!. Bravo!!.:D :D :D
 
Reading Misery right now and wow...I haven't been so entraced in a King book since 'It' which was years ago.
 
You're slow.

You've probably haven't read The Shing or The Long Walk, masterpieces compared to the crap he writes today.
 
No, just not a big King reader. However after seeing Misery on TV this week I had to read the book. Glad I did.
 
Who walks into a bookstore, picks up a book, signs it, then walks away?

I don't care if it's King, I laughed reading it, picturing the whole scene in my head.
 
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