Recommend me a Stephen King book please!

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I’ve just listened to The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and 11.22.63. Loved them all!

What next please?

Thanks!

I'm just about to start Fairy Tale - glad it's got some reviews on here

Duma Key is my favourite King and one of my favourite ever books. I really enjoyed Fairy Tale too. Under the Dome has the worst ending this world has ever seen, but King does his usual excellent portrayal of the underbelly of small town America, so I'm inclined to forgive him. I loved Bag of Bones, Dolores Claiborne and also the Desperation/The Regulators twin set of books. You really need to read both if you're going to go there.

I hated From A Buick 8, The Tommyknockers and Cell. Not reading them again. The Shining will always be a classic, as will The Dead Zone (in which King more or less predicts Donald Trump, which is terrifying).

I agree the ending of under the dome is abysmal (are we spoiling the book for people?) but its a really good book in every other way. There is a TV series based on the book which King produced and it has somewhat different reason for the Dome happening, so either King realised what a bad ending it was or it didn't make good TV.

I also found Cell awful, and I didn't enjoy IT as well as a few others.

Needful Things

Read The Stand twice, loved Gerald's game, Tom Gordon, Joyland.
Never been disappointed with 1 of his books, and agree, they are easy to read.

IT - I think it’s an epic masterpiece. I’m re reading Needful Things at the moment.

I'm not a big fan of Mr King in general but I have enjoyed a few:
Cujo
Carrie
Misery
Thinner (pen name one)
Read in my teens so had a teen perspective on them
I read IT this year aged 33 and really really enjoyed it! So much so might do a re read soon as it's a chunk and I'm bound to have missed some nuances. The nostalgia for being the age also helped I think

To add- The Bazaar of Bad Dreams also has a collection of short stories by Stephen King which are good.
Also enjoyed Carrie.

I’m re-reading Fairy Tale! Another one I hope to see in movie form one day!

The Talisman is my favourite book of all time, I can’t believe no one has mentioned it yet! The girl who loved Tom Gordon is great too

The Stand us by far the book I enjoyed the most. The Institute is good too which is a more recent one.

The Outsider
the Green Mile
Fairytale
11.22.63
The Institute
Sleeping Beauties
I've read and/ or reread all of these and loved them the most
I absolutely adored 11.22.63

Fairy Tale!

Also enjoying Billy Summers

The Stand is my absolute favourite book ❤️ Also love Insomnia!

I love IT and Needful things.
Also read Apt pupil many years ago and enjoyed it.
I bought Liseys Story from a charity shop but for some reason just can't get into it.
Does anyone know if it's worth persevering?

I think Apt Pupil is in one of his collections actually 🤔

The Long Walk is my favourite too. Why would anyone volunteer for that?

Gerald's Game is excellent too.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen and Owen King

@Watchthedoormat I found Lisey's Story hard going too - blood bools, other bools, too many bloody bools

Another vote for the Talisman - I think it may also be my all time favourite book too. Fushing feef…

Pet Semetary

The 11.22.63
Needful Things
IT (I cannot watch the films)
Green Mile

There was a short stories book written years ago that's really good but I can't remember the name.

It's got to be "Under the dome" for me. In fact, the only Stephen King I haven't really enjoyed was 11/22/63 (I wasn't getting anywhere with it, so I gave up, but actually I came back to it a few months later and managed to get much more into it)

I bought them as one title The Bachman Books with all the novellas in it. I’d forgotten about The Longest Walk, I’m going to have to read it again.