Stephen King novels

the last time i was at tower records, i really wanted to get "the gunslinger", but i had to put that on hold since i was already buying alot of things as it was. can't wait to get that book after i read "secret window, secret garden"! 😱

I finished The Dark Half last night and it was really good. I now want to read more stephen king books because of it.

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My fav Stephen King book is definatly IT, I think it's really scary, but the relationship between the kids is really touching, too. I hate it at the end when they all forget each other. I also really like Dolores Claiborne, it's written in a really unique way.

that gunslinger series is his most recent series right?

Is it just me, or does anybody here think Stephen Kings books are not that scary, gruesome?

I also think SK puts waaay too much character building in his books.

What do you guys think?

Some are pretty scary, so they say. I've only read a few, so I can't say for sure. The scariest one of the few I have read was 'Salem's Lot.

Yeah, I find he does put a lot of character building in his books. Have you ever read The Tommyknockers? There's so much character building in that one it's not funny. He could have taken at least 100 pages out and it still would have been good.

I guess you can call be a Stephen King fan, though I'm not obsessed like some people I know. Some people on another site I know are just too crazy about the Dark Tower series, but I don't see the attraction with it. I've read The Gunslinger. I thought it was okay, but not the greatest book Stephen King ever wrote. The Shining is my favorite. It was creepy, yet provocative at the same time.

Originally posted by Dejio

I also think SK puts waaay too much character building in his books.

What do you guys think?

He does. But sometimes that seems neccessary as he's introducing us to a very strange environment. He needs to convince us these people are in every way normal people, before facing them with macabre and supernatural elements. This balance between what's normal and believable and what's utterly stange and grotesque is what charactarizes him and makes his books so interesting.

Top 10 Favorites:

1. The Stand
2. Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
3. Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
4. Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
5. The Shining
6. Desperation
7. Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
8. Dark Tower II: Drawing of the Three
9. It
10. The Mist (from Skeleton Crew)

Currently reading: Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (It will be bumping The Mist off of this list, I guarantee)

What's the sand, desperation, and the mist about?

The Stand essentially revolves around a supervirus that wipes out most of the population. Two factions, one good and one evil, form up and ulitmately face off against each other to determine the fate of the remainder of humanity.

Desperation focuses on several people out in the deserts of Desperation, Nevada. Each is unfortunate enough to come across a rather psychotic state cop. As each try to stay alive, they start to uncover what has contributed to his madness, as well as the evil running rampant in the town. After reading this, you need to go and read The Regulators under King's pen name, Richard Bachman.

The Mist is the first "short" story in King's Skeleton Crew collection. It takes up about a third of the entire book... if you've ever seen the old horror flick The Fog, you should have a pretty good idea about what this is about. Essentially, a town is overrun by a thick fog, and creatures lurk about in it.

The Regulators isn't a western, is it? the mist sounds cool. i'll check that out next time i'm at tower 👆

Regulators is not a western at all. It all takes place on one suburban street. It has to be read right after Desperation... you'll understand why once you do.

When looking for The Mist, make sure you're looking for Skeleton Crew.

i loved the shining 🙂

for 1st timers tho,i'd seriously not reccomend the stand or the other 'full fledged' books- it's for when you really get into the world of this guy - sometimes he just drags out too much and lays it on a bit thick in my opinion,so you might get bored too easily....
i'd suggest that 1st timers start with Carrie, or Pet Semetary,or maybe even The Shining

but The Mangler remains my fav short story he's written til today 😊

The first one I read was 'Salem's Lot, and I thought it was a pretty good initiation book. It's a page turner, so you shouldn't have any trouble reading it.

Hey Master Wizard, you read Wolves of the Calla yet?

Not yet, but over the summer I plan on picking up a copy, along with book 6. I've read the first four.

IT scared me. And I've read tons of horror. Nothing shook me to the bone as much as that book.

King said recently that he's working on a new novel. He said the best thing about ''retiring'' is now he can take his time to write. 😆

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such irony 🙄