let's have another stephen king thread...

hmm ok I will have to give the Dark Tower a go since so many people rate it.

juneybean Yes I quite liked Thinner. It's kind of similar to that short story where the guy quits smoking... I forget which book that's in.

Just finished the Long Walk and liked it, on to Roadwork now. Am not getting anything else done this BH weekend!!

The Stand is my favourite and agree with however said up thread that the Cell is just a reworking of the Stand. Didn't enjoy Cell at all. I have just finished reading 63 which I really liked.
I was very sad when I finished reading the Dark Tower series and am looking forward to reading his new one. I agree that the dark Tower is amazing, so many twists and turns. Sad because it had finished not becauseI didn't like i the ending was very surprising.
Hearts in Atlantis is also one of my favs as is the Green Mile
Does anyone know if the Dark Tower is still being made for TV? I am a little bit in love with Roland and would love to see him being played by Johnny Depp

Does any one rate Thinner? I quite enjoyed the movie of that and might add it to my to-read list. Thoroughly enjoying The Green Mile at the minute!

Actually, just thinking, I love loads more than I've listed, probably too many to mention

I agree with Remus re Needful Things & Dreamcatcher, also never really liked Gerald's Game or Cujo.

Loved Firestarter, Eyes of the Dragon, The Stand, Green Mile and some of his short story collections. Recently reread The Long Walk, Thinner is also good but one that doesn't seem to get mentioned very often.

Am very of anyone starting the Dark Tower series but have yet to read the latest one. I think it was Remus who said to start the 2nd one even if you don't get into the first and again I agree (not sucking up, promise ). There was a huge amount of time between him writing the first & second, and the difference is noticeable.

I think Needful Things is one of the very worst things he has ever written - that and Dreamcatcher.

I love Stephen King, and have read almost all his books!

I like when he writes about authors- like in "The Dark Half" and "misery"- always wonder if he's imagined these things happening to him. His mind must be a seriously strange place.

A couple of my favourites haven't been mentioned- Needful Things and Desperation. Actually, desperation wasn't the best story, but that cop at the start really set the hairs on the back of my neck going!

The Stand was awesome, but the mental images of people dead in their cars in the tunnels always comes back to me whenever there is a new swine-flu/ bird-flu scare, and I live in terror of "The Plague"- it all just seems too possible

I just CBA with Under The Dome. Some gratuitously unpleasant and gory stuff at the beginning, and too many characters for me to engage with. I don't mind a bit of gore, but it came too early and felt overdone. I lost interest and gave up after about 150 pages.

Did enjoy the 1963 one, though. I like SK best when he's not too weird (eg Green Mile), and think he's often at his best in the short story/novella genre. Loved the DT series although I wasn't expecting to, not being much into 'fantasy', but it was ... different.

There are a couple of SKs on my shelves that I haven't read. Black House and Eyes Of The Dragon. Charity shop buys.

I'm part way through wind through the keyhole and I'm loving it!! My faves are the Dark Tower series, The Stand, the Green Mile, IT and Salems Lot. The Talisman is also brilliant!

Talisman one of my favs
Also bag of bones, it, needful things, green mile
Not keen on any Bachman books, or under the dome, or hearts in Atlantis
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Hope you like it - but if you don't, try the second one anyway. The first is scene setting really; the story really takes off from the second.

Oh no, I mean the first one in the series. Gunslinger?? Am hoping it's good.

It is fantasy, but then again I don't really think many of his other books are actually horror in the traditional sense. Like his others, The Tower's greatest strength is his characterisation.

Viva - when you say you've got The Dark Tower waiting, do you mean the final book in the series? If so, it won't make any sense at all without having read the others first. If you've read the others, then you're in for a treat with the last one!

Yes the Dark Tower is AMAZING!

I've got the dark tower waiting at the library to be picked up, never read it.

Currently reading Bachman Books, it's got the long walk in it.

Remus is The Dark Tower that amazing? It seems quite different to his other stuff, a lot more fantasy than horror... not sure about it.

of anybody waiting to read The Dark Tower for the first time.

I thought Under The Dome was pretty much a return to form for him, after a series of not very good ones. Love that bit near the end with the boy and the soldier. Far better than Cell, which was essentially just The Stand rehashed but without such strong characters.

I started with a cold about 15 pages into The Stand this time!

Loved Cell and wanted more. Loved, loved, loved Under the Dome . Just finished 11.22.63 and liked it a lot. Not quite as good as Under the Dome I don't feel. But still a cracking story and well worth the read.

Might tackle The strand now.

ignore my last post, found it on Amazon should have known this thread would be bad for my bank balance!

I'm another fan of The Stand. It's best read when you've got the beginnings of a cold, for maximum scare value.

Rereading Misery at the moment - had forgotten how good it is.

Is Long Walk a Bachman book or a King book? Don't think I've read that one.

My favourite is Firestarter which no one else ever seems to rate!

I also love Christine, Cujo and IT.

Couldn't be bothered with Under the Dome - didn't finish it.

Haven't read The Stand as have a mild phobia of flu pandemics - but maybe it offers some comfort?? Everyone says it is great though so maybe I should get over myself and read it!!