Stephen King fans: what are your favorite/least favorite works of his?

I just started reading his books. I've finished "The Stand" and "Insomnia".

I'm halfway through "Dreamcatcher" and it's pretty meh. I hate how he always cuts away to some backstory at terrible times. It will be a tense moment or something and he'll start taking about a childhood memory for no reason.

I've heard the Dark Tower series is pretty good, but what are some of his good novels?

My favorite is probably the stand, followed by needful things.

Couldn't really get into insomnia, it's my least favorite.

I just started reading his books. I've finished "The Stand" and "Insomnia".

I'm halfway through "Dreamcatcher" and it's pretty meh. I hate how he always cuts away to some backstory at terrible times. It will be a tense moment or something and he'll start taking about a childhood memory for no reason.

I've heard the Dark Tower series is pretty good, but what are some of his good novels?

Shadow4020

Try Salem's Lot, The Running Man, The Long Walk, The Dead Zone and Christine.

There are also his short story/novella collections like Different Seasons and Full Dark, No Stars.

Favorite is pretty tough for me to pick, but I can say that Duma Key has been my least favorite I think. I just really didn't care for it at all. raven_squad

I'm reading Duma Key right now (I've finished everything of his except for that book, 11/22/63, and the new Dark Tower book) and I do have to admit that it's hard to get into. Hopefully it will get better.

I just started reading his books. I've finished "The Stand" and "Insomnia".

I'm halfway through "Dreamcatcher" and it's pretty meh. I hate how he always cuts away to some backstory at terrible times. It will be a tense moment or something and he'll start taking about a childhood memory for no reason.

I've heard the Dark Tower series is pretty good, but what are some of his good novels?

Shadow4020

His best work is in the novella collection Different Seasons which contains Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, The Body and The Breathing Method.Breathing Method is substantially weaker than the first three (which are masterpieces) but it's still pretty good.

Some of my other favorites are The Shining, It, The Stand, The Dead Zone, Bag of Bones, Cujo, Firestarter, Pet Sematary, The Green Mile, Misery, Desperation among others.

Under the Dome is one of his best recent novels. Not as good as The Stand (which it is similar to), but suprisingly great for being a recent SK novel.

Was the IT book's ending the same as the movie if so wouldn't that be the biggest joke ever?shadowkiller11

The ending in the book version of It is also quite dumb, but everything that comes before the ending is so brilliant that it doesn't matter so much.

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His worst book is Dreamcatcher.

Necrifer

Terrible...everything about it was just awful.

Yeah. I can't really think of a redeaming quality.

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His worst book is Dreamcatcher.

GreySeal9

Terrible...everything about it was just awful.

Yeah. I can't really think of a redeaming quality.

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Terrible...everything about it was just awful.

David719

Yeah. I can't really think of a redeaming quality.

I'm sure it did since there's probably no way to make the mess Dreamcatcher is watchable.

I never bothered to see the movie tho.

Eyes of the Dragon.

I couldn't bare to finish Thinner.

Edit: I need to go back and read The Green Mile. I have it in like 7 separate novels.:question:

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There really aren't any bad ones per se. I did however find The Eyes of the Dragon a refreshing change from the standard, uber high detail of his standard works. The Dark Tower series might be my favorite although I'm only on book 5 of 7 and just started it basically.

dave123321

Just found out they're making a new show adapation from Eyes of the Dragon, speaking of which. I think maybe on SyFy.

Sunfyre7896

OMG, Yes!

Oh... No...

Under the Dome is one of my favourite books.

Under the Dome is one of my favourite books.

Big_Pecks

Nice to see another Under the Dome fan!

BTW, Duma Key is taking forever to get interesting.

BTW, Duma Key is taking forever to get interesting.

GreySeal9

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Just found out they're making a new show adapation from Eyes of the Dragon, speaking of which. I think maybe on SyFy.

mattbbpl

OMG, Yes!

Oh... No...

It's actually supposed to be done pretty well. My sister has been watching some of the shows that are set to come out and they're getting much, much better with the things they are coming out with. Gone are the days of ALL cheaply done works. I think they're trying to vy for a legitimate channel with quality programming.

So far think I've only read these ones

• Firestarter
• Under the Dome
• Full Dark, No Stars
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes

and out of those I liked Under the Dome and Firestarter best.

I do intend on getting more books from Stephen King want to get 11/22/63, The Shining, Carrie, The Wind through the Keyhole along with some others.

No one said The Shawshank Redemption?

The Stand, a close second goes to Carrie.

Misery is by far his best book, in my opniion.

No one said The Shawshank Redemption?

tenaka2

I did in the OP.

favorite: the stand, insomnia, the shining, the dark tower series

least favorite: bag of bones, dreamcatcher, cell, gerald's game

Hey, is Stephen King's new novel 11/22/63 worth reading? I found it at Barnes and Noble one day and holy sh*t that is a thick book. I am thinking of maybe getting it for the kindle on my Asus Transformer Prime app this summer for fun.

The whole story seems intriguing and I've always been interested in the JFK assasination (personally I think it was either our Government or the Mafia that did it IMO which only seems the two most logical theories behind the assasination). So any input would be greatly appreciated :)

shining

I'd consider myself a pretty big (but fairly new) Stephen King fan. Of the works of his that I've read in the past three or four years, here are my most to least favourite.

The Stand

Different Seasons (novellas)

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

11/22/63

Bag of Bones

The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Skeleton Crew (stories, including "The Mist")

The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

It (Would be lower, but I am willfully ignoring the last 50-100 pages)

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (nonfiction autobiography)

Full Dark, No Stars

The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands

The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah

The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla

Just After Sunset

The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass

And all the way down here, where they should remain buried: Under the Dome Needful Things

shawshank redemption its the only good thing sourced from him I've watched his movies and read his books and they all blew except for shawshank remdemption.

Most Favorite: Pet Semetary, The Stand, The Long Walk, Needful Things, Skeleton Crew, Dolores Clairborne, IT, Green Mile, Salem's Lot, On Writing, Different Seasons, and The Dark Tower series.

Least Favorite: Lisey's Story, Cell, The Regulators, Insomnia and The Tommyknockers.

I haven't read too much of him, but my favourite work of his so far is definitely the novella The Body. It was also made into a great film, Stand By Me.