let's have another stephen king thread...

Pet Sematary? Made me cry...

Thank goodness the monkey wasn't just a figment of my insanity! :)

there is a monkey! he's in great and secret show - he lives in Tesla's head!

have you tried ray bradbury? Something Wicked This Way Comes is the most well known one.

And why aren't my capitals working properly? :)
And at 'Christian Tea Party' which is exactly right!

I haven't liked any of the Clive B's I've read - I gave him a chance and tried three but thought they were all equally bad. one was 'Weaveworld' and another was 'The Great And Secret Show.' can't remember the third but I think it may have been a sequel to one of the other two. And there may have been a monkey - or there was another world that was described as something like a carpet spread out in folds - but I may have invented all of those details!

Remus I have given up on Koontz because of his fundie Christian Tea Party conservative crap too.

I find Clive Barker is either good or absolutely awful - Hated Imajica, loved Weaveworld, Coldheart Canyon is my favourite.

Clive Barker is a v.good horror writer - Imajica, Everville and The Great and Secret Show are all excellent and have the same kind of epic landscapes and evolving longer-term characters as King writes.

I also loved, 'The Dark Half' though less on re-reading than first time.

The Dark Tower is really, really not Sci Fi -honest!

I don't read any other 'horror' writers because I haven't found any good ones. I liked one of Dean K's but thought the others of his I read were dreadful. He is really samey and nowhere near as good on characterisation or even on pure CARE-appeal than King is - and he's got what I read as a major Christian-streak going on in his books which irritates me.

oooh. not read Under the Dome, as had become so disillusioned with everything after the last Dark Tower novel.

I find myself going back to Eyes of the Dragon and The Talisman most often.

I do love his recurring characters and the way he dips in and out of various parallel universes.

On Writing gave me one of the best reading lists/introductions to writers ever, including Ray Bradbury, and King's short stories are truly great.

Might wander back over for a bit of the Dome.

Another SK fan here. The Stand is still my absolute favourite. I've just gone back to the older books for the first time in many years, and I'd forgotten how good they are. Started with the Shining, Dead Zone, Salems Lot and now I'm halfway through Firestarter (tho not quite so keen on this one).

I felt he lost his way a bit with Gerald's Game, Liseys Story, Rose Madder and Dolores Claibourne, but I did enjoy Hearts in Atlantis and the Regulators , which I read back to back.

Under the Dome and Full Dark No Stars feel like a return to the older stuff, tho there is a telling difference between the pre- and post-accident works :(.

especially when he links different charecters not "change terms" stupid iPhone

I love Stephen King, especially love it when he links different charge terms. I've just finished reading Rose Madder and started reading The Regulators, got so excited when I recognised Cynthia (one of the charecters from Rose Madder) in the new book, it's like seeing an old friend

I loved RM and Regulators is good so gar though I am only about 50 pages in.

I started the Dark Tower but gave up on it as I'm not a huge fan of Sci fi I prefer a good horror.

Agree that Stand is his best but I loved Dark Half too. which other writers do you like? Dean Koontz is another of my favourites, especially Intensity I could not put that book down and remember walking to the train station reading the last 20 pages or so on the way good job I cAnt drive

I found Rose Madder very disturbing because of the DV component - my DH could not finish it for that reason. King clearly has strong feelings about some things, women's rights being one of them, and he doesn't hold back when writing about them.

Hated Rose Madder and Insomnia, should prob give Firestarter another go.

Loved Salem's Lot, Misery, and The Green Mile is one of my favourite books of all time.

Lisey's Story and Cell okay. Loved Different Seasons with the short stories.

Sean Beam :o

Another potential Roland? But I think no, actually. He's too fixed in my head as Aragorn and he's a bit too clean cut.

No, they are not really like The Talisman.

Are the Dark Tower books an awful lot like The Talisman? I know there is a bit of cross over there. I only ask because I don't really like fantasy and have never managed to get more than halfway through the Talisman before losing the will to live.

I agree with you, Remus - no to Johnny Depp as Roland. Can't think of any current known actor who could do him, though...

Actually I'm thinking no to filming the Dark Tower at all, I want to keep it all in my head.

That bit with the tin opener in 'Lisey's Story' still haunts me. Ugh.

I think 'The Long Walk' is the only one of his I have never re-read - must track down a copy.

Nooooooooooooo to Johnny Depp as Roland. Much as I adore him as Captain Jack (can take or leave him in anything else) he is far too trite. Whoever plays Roland needs to spare and edgy and lean and a bit ravaged looking.

This is my current favourite Roland-look. I may have over-thought it all a bit though.

I love his early stuff like Firestarter and Dead Zone too. Love Bag Of Bones, Insomnia and The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, Black House, Eye of the Dragon
Hell, I like them all

You see, that's what I like about Duma Key - the depiction of someone recovering from traumatic brain injury. He doesn't gloss over it, and it's a topic worth writing about (can you tell I've worked in the field for too long? I'm in mental health research).

I really like the way he writes about art too, and the ghosts are just plain scary. I didn't like Lisey's story first time round, but really liked it on a second reading.

Other favourites of mine are Bag of Bones, Insomnia, Under the Dome. I also liked 11.22.63.

And am I also the only one who likes the Dead Zone? And Firestarter?

I liked Duma Key more than Lisey's Story, but still not up to his usual standard.

HermionE, I think the one where the guy quits smoking is in Nightmares & Dreamscapes. That's probably my favourite collection of his short stories

yep
I think that was very soon after his accident, and I think you can really tell

OK, so I'm the only one who likes - I mean really likes - Duma Key then?