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Question for Stephen King fans

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MiaWallace · 25/02/2007 18:12

Can you recommend me a SK book which isn't a horror?

I read The Green Mile when it game out as a series.

I loved both Stand by me and Shawshank redemption - read neither but watched the films

So is there anything else he has done worth reading which isn't horror?

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NadineBaggott · 25/02/2007 22:54

I paula, I've read that one too

not as good imho

LowFatMilkshake · 25/02/2007 21:33

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

Not horror and not that long either - for a seasoned SK fan with timeto spare it could be read within the day easily - good for waiting rooms and long journeys.

sauce · 25/02/2007 21:04

Never, ever read Pet Semetary if you have dc! Shudder.

expatinscotland · 25/02/2007 21:00

That's it, PPB! Thanks!

I read that story in an anthology with three others.

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MiaWallace · 25/02/2007 19:13

Thanks everyone. Think I'll try The Long Walk first. Will let you know what I think.

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Saturn74 · 25/02/2007 19:03

I just couldn't get into any of the books he wrote jointly with Peter Straub.
Strange as I love most of Stephen King's other novels.

paulaplumpbottom · 25/02/2007 19:01

Nadine, then you should also read Black House with Peter Straub. The Dark Tower Books will probably float your boat to.

NadineBaggott · 25/02/2007 19:01

Geralds Game was a good idea that fell short imho

geekgrrl · 25/02/2007 19:01

the books he wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are v. good and not something I'd consider horror.

NadineBaggott · 25/02/2007 19:00

I didn't enjoy 'IT' at all!

The Talisman is good with Peter Straub about parallel worlds - sorting flipping from one to the other.

paulaplumpbottom · 25/02/2007 19:00

Was I the only one who physically jumped at the end of Gerald's Game when she looks in the back seat?

GhostOfMumsnet · 25/02/2007 18:58

Gerald's Game is definately my fav. I didn't put it down, read it from cover to cover and drove the family mad.

paulaplumpbottom · 25/02/2007 18:57

Don't go for the Dark Tower Books unless you have read most of his others or you start to get lost at about the 4th book.

Gerald's Game is odd, especially the way it ties in with Doloris Claiborne.

I also enjoyed The Long Walk

nikkie · 25/02/2007 18:49

The Long walk is excellent!
Can't stand Geralds game.

Radley · 25/02/2007 18:44

Rose Madder and Needful Things are great books.

Twiglett · 25/02/2007 18:41

THe Dark Tower .. that's the cowboy ones

The Stand is about the end of the world .. there is an evil devil character in it but balanced with a holy good one

I wouldn't do IT if I were you ... scary clown

Scootergirl · 25/02/2007 18:41

What about the scary girls in the Shining? And the whole Redrum business.....

Twiglett · 25/02/2007 18:39

dont' think you can say Tommyknockers isn't a horror

honestly I'd give the horror's a go

Firestarter isn't traditional horror
insomnia is quite different

and there's a series about a cowboy but the name escapes me

tbh he's psychological horror rather than physical like James Herbert IMHO ie no rats gnawing on you

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MiaWallace · 25/02/2007 18:38

No I didn't consider The Shinning horror. It was frightening, but I think of horror in terms of monsters, evil spirits, scary clowns etc.

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NadineBaggott · 25/02/2007 18:33

The Tommyknockers is excellent

squidette · 25/02/2007 18:31

I read an article by SK (am huge fan) who doesnt call any of his work 'horror' rather is just how others (oublishers etc) choose to catagorise it.

The Dark Half and Needful Things are great but how about a collection of short stories such as Four Past Midnight or Different Seasons? Latter has both Rita Hayworth and The Body...

The Bachman Books also - i was gripped by The Long Walk.

paulaplumpbottom · 25/02/2007 18:27

You don't consider the Shining Horror?????

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MiaWallace · 25/02/2007 18:27

Oh yes I forgot about Misery and The Shinning. I've read both and wouldn't consider either them to be horror.

Anything else along those lines?

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Saturn74 · 25/02/2007 18:26

The Long Walk is brilliant.

paulaplumpbottom · 25/02/2007 18:23

Thats Apt Pupil Expat.

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