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Any Stephen King fans?

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I recently read a book by his called the Wizard and the Glass. This book was horrendous. So horrendous I wonder if a ghost write wrote it. I liked the Four Seasons book, and a couple others.
 
1)It
2)Desperation
3)Nightshift
4)The Shining
5)The Gunslinger series

Surprised no one mentioned Desperation... great book!
 
D@MMIT GF! Pooh Bear is cool!! Errr..😱 😉

Heh heh, go read "Pride and Prejudice" and tell me about "pop up books"! 🙂

OK, how about "Hamlet"? Now THATS a good book.
 
He has written many movies, the ones mentioned above, and Apt Pupil, It, Thinner, it goes on and on. Prolific, ain't he? 😉

The Stand is my faovrite book of all time, I still can't get the image of Trask unbolting the prison cot with his hands until the bone came through, all the while dining on rats. The Walkin' Dude creeped me out.. The movie suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucked..

My favorite quote from a Styeven King book comes from The SHawshank Redemption (the book), when the prick prison guard captain is talking about the amount of control he has over his wife:
"My wife could eat her way through a boxcar of Ex-Lax and she wouldn't dare FART 'less I told her so!" Or something like that. LOL!
 
LordMaul: Believe me, you are talking to a woman that has read hundreds of books, many of them classics. But I enjoy a good horror story too, and Stephen King is the man for the job. Well, right behind Poe of course... 😉
 
my favorite quote from Shawshank Redemption is "Get busy living, or get busy dying"

For the ONE person who is bashing Stephen King in this thread:

You can obviously see by the title that this thread is about Stephen King. If you think that he is no good, why don't you do everyone involved a favor and go somewhere else? Since this thread is obviously about what it's title suggests, you should see the title and pay no mind if you have no interest. Quit being the troll that you have proven to be. Get lost, get a life, get your own thread, grow up.
 
I'm really surprised no one mentioned Pet Sematary. I'm not talking about the movie either. The movie sucked compared to the book. It was said that when Stephen King came to the part about the guy digging up his son, SK had to put the book aside and couldn't write anymore in it for some time.

The book Pet Sematary is the most gruesome book SK ever wrote.

I loved it!🙂 -kd5-
 
kduncan5,

I've actually never read the book, but the movie was really bad. Maybe I should try the book?
The Talisman is on order, Night Shift is on it's way from amazon, as is Hearts in Atlantis (thanks to the people in this thread...GF....), maybe I should get Pet Semetery too?


I will still say, no matter what books SK puts out, nothing will ever beat The Talisman. He has endorsed movies for so many of his books (most of which turned out terrible), he should make a movie for the Talisman!!!! One good character to play Morgan Sloat/Morgan of Orris is Gene Hackman, IMO.
 
Ah, OK Girlfriday. I am a reader too, though I enjoy a good comedy more than a horror story, as every one of them(except MAYBE the ORIGINAL "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley...:Q😀) is CORNY! Thought Stephen LawHead is pretty good...i like Frank Paretti(sp?) as well....
 
Not one person mentions "Carrie"?

Always thought it was one of his better works, simply because it was not bloated.
Also loved The Shining.

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🙂
 
Just checked out King's web site, and found some pretty exciting stuff in his plans for the future:

Black House
15 September 2001
Hardcover Novel, Random House
Sequel to The Talisman co-authored with Peter Straub.


Hearts in Atlantis
Major Motion Picture Theater Release, Castle Rock
Screenplay adaptation by William Goldman of Low Men in Yellow Coats & Why We're In Vietnam. Stars Anthony Hopkins as Ted Brautigan.

This looks pretty cool, but it's not the whole book. I'm kinda disappointed by that.

The Eyes of the Dragon
Animated Film Adaptation

Whoa! Cool! 🙂


The Crawling Shadow (tentative title for Volume V of The Dark Tower series)
Novel
Health permitting, Steve expects to recommence work on the Dark Tower series in January 2001

Finally!


Desperation
Major Motion Picture Release
Currently making progress in negotiations with a film studio. Production has not yet begun. Mick Garris will direct.

Interesting... I loved the book. We'll see what the movie is like.

Harpomx, you'll like this last one: 😛
The Talisman
TV Miniseries, ABC
Four hour miniseries. Dreamworks and Kennedy-Marshall Production Company will produce.


We'll see how much of this all pans out, but it looks like some pretty cool stuff is in the future 🙂
 
Let's see:

1. The Stand (Definitely the Uncut version)
2. It
3. The Shining (the book was so much better than the movie)
4. The Langoliers (and the entire book it came from)
5. Needful Things

Absolutely hated The Regulators--if anyone wants my copy, I'll mail it to them. Ugh.

 
Just finished Hearts in Atlantis a few months ago and Bag of Bones last week. BOB was panned by the critics but I enjoyed it. King has a very strange sense of humor and I guess I do also as I find a lot of it in his books.. Sarcasm, cynicism and his true to life characters also help.

Have read EVERYTHING he has written under his name, may have to look into the dark tower series after reading this thread. Started one of the Gunslingers but didnt care for it. Maybe just didnt get into it or not the right time for me to read it.

I just enjoy his writing style.
 
thebestMAX,

The first Dark Tower book is not the most exciting. Once the story gets moving and he starts introducing his other worlds in there it gets real good.
 
I agree. I re-read the entire series a few years ago (right before Wizard and Glass came out), and I thought the Gunslinger was a little slow. Drawing of the Three was A LOT better than I had remembered it, however.
 
i love his jail stories, ie shawshank and green mile, plus i live about 2 blocks away from him and played baseball once for him on a little league team 🙂 I must say he is a very generous man and has done a lot for our town. Thanks Stephen!
 
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