Whats the best Stephen King book?

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Whats the best Stephen King book?

The Green Mile is a fantastic book - just like the film.

I also enjoyed Cujo - really scared me when i imagined myself in that position.

Scariest- Shining
Epic - The Stand
Enjoyable read - It
and also loved Salems Lot.

Hated Pet Sematary, Misery, Thinner. Also liked the Long Walk. If you liked the SK books I do, you will probably also LOVE Ghost Story by Peter Straub.

just remembered that for my degree, I did an extended essay on the parallels between modern horror fiction, using the Shining as an example, and Gothic literature from the 19th century.

Rose Madder is fab

IT is fantastic and I also love the film.

Cujo, scared the living daylights out of me

Shining, love it.

Tommyknockers - Genius

The Green Mile - Genius x 10 film is fab

Firestarter - Brilliant

Christine - Very Very Good

Carrie is brilliant,

Needful Things - Fab

Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Rubbish

Eyes of The Dragon - Fabulous

Dance Macabre - Dire

Creepshow - Absolutely fabulous, but one of the reason I have a phobia about cockroaches

The Langoliers - Weird but brill

And my absolute favourite, which I read numerous times - The Dark Half

Can you tell I'm a Stephen King Fan?

Might watch the shining tonight

Wow Zaphod - that sounds like a really interesting subject to study!

Bubbles - I saw Langoliers on TV (mentioned in earlier post) thanks for confirming it's SK, I wasn't sure. It was weird, you're quite right there!

Another vote for The Stand.

And I loved the Dark Tower books until the last one when I thought he completely lost the plot: I hated the device of writing himself into the story.

I have read everything he's had published. You could say I'm his No. 1 fan...

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The Shining & Salem's Lot.

I prefer Dean Koontz to Stephen King, he waffles far to much for me, But Misery is a good book, far better than the film.

Why have I revived this thread? Who knows. I used to love SK before he fell in love with himself. I liked him (his writing) much better when he was insecure. He became too full of himself & his success & began writing absolute crap.

His books are always far better than the films. Even The Shining was a massive disappointment after having read the book. Misery is possibly an exception. Can't bring myself to re-read Pet Semetary after having had children.

The Stand {again]

I love SK, it's hard to pick out a favourite (easier I think to pick out the slightly more pants ones!) I think IT is the one I have read the most, and I really like the Dark Tower series.

Geralds Game - I can see why people don't like it, but it is the only one which has pages I can't actually read in one go. The whole hand peeling bit just freaks me out too much, ewww blergh stomach has started churning.

a few of his first/early ones were good Carrie, the shining, but the rest are dross IMO

I did Stephen King for my degree dissertation 20 years ago. It was pretty dire - but got me my honours! Best book is too hard to choose - probably Hearts in Atlantis, The Girl Who Loved Ton Gordon, or The Stand, unexpurgated version.
The film adaptations have got better over the years, but I hated The Shining so much - Shelley Duvall was totally mis-cast, much too whiney and whimpy! The mini series of both The Shining and The Stand were really good.
tiffini - can't bear Dean Koontz - have you ever noticed how the goodies are always poorish but with good taste, but the baddies are always rich with no taste at all? !
Stephen King still ranks up there with the best writers of all time - certainly one of the best story -tellers.

hated the stand. especially the long edition.
havent read any of his recent ones.
loved the shining, carrie, pet semetary.

Another vote for The Stand, the long edition.