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Just finished re-reading Firestarter. Man, that was fun. I have read both versions of The Stand several times and get something out of it every time. I intend to re-read Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Cujo etc.

My all-time favorite King novels: The Stand and The Talisman (co-wrote with Peter Straub.)

My sister has the entire Dark Tower series. I haven't read them all, just the first couple.

As I said in the other thread, I consider The Gunslinger to not only be the best Stephen King novel written, I also think its one of the best novels ever written. The Stand is a close second, and I'm also extremely fond of It. You can't forget Rose Madder either, or the Shining. Actually, there's so many great Stephen King novels, it would probably be easier to list the bad ones.

Personally, my least favorite is Bag of Bones. A lot of people list it as one of their favorites, but I just don't understand why: it just seems rather dry and generic to me. Its just an extremely straight-forward and rather plain ghost story that lacks the twist that makes a story good. Ah well, different strokes and all that...

Very often you'll hear "Oh the book was better than the movie"

However, I *never* got through Tommyknockers (book). I think I got about a third of the way. It just went on and on with almost no action. A dog sniffing around in the woods around this shiny thing for a third of the book. *yawn* I gave up. It was a very thick book, too.

Then the movie came out, I thought it was very well put together. A lot faster paced and exciting than the book.

I remember Rose Madder, liked that one. Most Stephen King books I've only seen as movies.

I really enjoyed "The Stand" Much better than the movie too!!.

Herakles

Tamla Tamara wrote:

However, I *never* got through Tommyknockers (book). I think I got about a third of the way. It just went on and on with almost no action. A dog sniffing around in the woods around this shiny thing for a third of the book. *yawn* I gave up. It was a very thick book, too.

Tommyknockers is next. I have it in front of me, ready to crack the cover. I've read it before, but it had to be at least 10 and maybe 20 years ago.

Unfortunatly I dont read much anymore like I used to, but I have only ever read one King novel total, that being I believe it was called Eyes Of The Dragon. I would howerver like to read most of the books that were made into movies, in particular The Stand & Storm Of The Century, alot didnt like the latter but I did!

Tommyknockers is one of King's poorer novels, I think. Its really not BAD. It just somehow doesn't manage to click. I think the movie probably is a bit better than the book, but not by a whole lot.

The Stand is, of course, Absolutely Brilliant. Its shine has faded a bit though, partially because its been so widely imitated that it in some ways dillutes the original.

Another good one is Salem's Lot, an absolute must-read if you plan to read the Dark Tower series (in more ways than one )

Drocket wrote: Actually, there's so many great Stephen King novels, it would probably be easier to list the bad ones.

Must be a different tastes thing, of the King I've tried I havnt really been all that impressed, they mostly seemed fairly, erm, "typical" is the best word I can think of, bunch of, people running around dying and not really accomplishing much. The first Gunslinger book was fairly good. The rest just kinda left be going "blech why bother".

Well, my all time favorite King novel is The Stand. IT is prolly next. I agree with those who say that King often starts off slow, but he draws the most indepth characters of any author I know. It usually takes me awhile to get into the book, but once I am, I can't put it down.

Another thing I like about King is that it is impossible to pigeonhole him into one genre. People tend to think of him as a writer of Horror stories, but many people don't know that he is the author of such stories as Stand By Me and Shawshank Redeption as well.

i dont know what the book was called. but i loved the movie murlins magic shop. with the monkey toy that claps i love that monkey.