C'mon guys hasn't anyone here read The Eyes of the Dragon? That is a great King novel. Of course all those mentioned before are great, too.
I read the Talisman...I thought there was another book that King co wrote with some one else as well (besides Black House)
I've read ALL of Kings books, though I only read the first Dark Tower book (I Hate series books)
I have to second "Eyes of the Dragon". That book kept me hooked while reading it more than any other novel ive read. It was wonderful.
Ditto on "The Stand"....And it was actually a very good mini-series. He
wrote the screenplay, and they followed the storyline in the book pretty
close....I have the DVD, it's 6-7 hours long, but definitely his best adaptation
to the big (or little) screen...
Also liked "It" and "The Shining"...
As for short stories, check out "Survivor Type"....now that's creepy!
wrote the screenplay, and they followed the storyline in the book pretty
close....I have the DVD, it's 6-7 hours long, but definitely his best adaptation
to the big (or little) screen...
Also liked "It" and "The Shining"...
As for short stories, check out "Survivor Type"....now that's creepy!
I have every one of his books and have to say..........
The Shining is by far his best work!
I also like:
The Stand
IT
Skeleton Crew
Night Shift
Well you get the Idea
The Shining is by far his best work!
I also like:
The Stand
IT
Skeleton Crew
Night Shift
Well you get the Idea
Is that the one where the doctor is stranded on a deserted island and proceeds to amputate parts of his body to eat?
I will always be partial to "It" as it wsa the first King book I read, and at 14 it scared the crap out of me. I would only read it in the daytime.
My other favorites are "The Stand" and "The Waste Lands" (dt3) I have reread those 2 several times. I am almost to the point of having read all of his works, except the shining, eyes of the dragon, christine, ad diferent seasons. Course I will probably read "Buick 8" efore those, as I have that one pre-ordered from buy.com...
My favorite short story of his was the one about the guy's wife who kept finding quicker and quicker shortcuts through New England in her car..
I've read a ton of his books (but not The Stand or The Shining) but the ones I can keep reading over and over are his collections of short stories. Night Shift is excellent, but Nightmares and Dreamscapes is my personal favorite. Dolan's Cadillac is perhaps the best revenge story ever.
Night Shift contains a story that STILL scares me, to this day, I won't even read it. "The Boogeyman". It's insane that a grown man can be afraid of something as simple as a story, but damn if I'm not. Everyone says it's a story with two personalities, silly in the day, scary as hell at night. I read it on one of those sterotypical horror movie nights, home along, dark, raining. I didnt sleep so well that night
"The Mangler" always makes me wonder, especially working around factory machines from time to time.
Was Jerusalem's Lot ever made into a full book? I was kind of intrigued by the short story in the book.
Night Shift contains a story that STILL scares me, to this day, I won't even read it. "The Boogeyman". It's insane that a grown man can be afraid of something as simple as a story, but damn if I'm not. Everyone says it's a story with two personalities, silly in the day, scary as hell at night. I read it on one of those sterotypical horror movie nights, home along, dark, raining. I didnt sleep so well that night
"The Mangler" always makes me wonder, especially working around factory machines from time to time
. Was Jerusalem's Lot ever made into a full book? I was kind of intrigued by the short story in the book.
I have read most of his books. Some of my favorites are:
Novels
It
The Stand
Dark Tower series
Eyes Of The Dragon (also has Flagg in it like The Stand and DT series)
The Bachman Books (Long Walk, Rage, Roadwork and The Running Man. Running man story was a million time better than the movie)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Green Mile
Short Stories
The Mist
Here There Be Tygers
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
Survivor Type
Night Surf (kind of Stand related)
Trucks (Made into Maximum Overdrive)
Battleground
Quitter's Inc.
The Lawnmower Man (Has almost 100% nothing to do with the movie)
Novels
It
The Stand
Dark Tower series
Eyes Of The Dragon (also has Flagg in it like The Stand and DT series)
The Bachman Books (Long Walk, Rage, Roadwork and The Running Man. Running man story was a million time better than the movie)
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Green Mile
Short Stories
The Mist
Here There Be Tygers
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut
Survivor Type
Night Surf (kind of Stand related)
Trucks (Made into Maximum Overdrive)
Battleground
Quitter's Inc.
The Lawnmower Man (Has almost 100% nothing to do with the movie)
After seeing a few of the movies, I don't dare to read the books. The movies were crappy enough.
amish
amish
Most of the movies are crap compared to the books. Watch The Running Man and then read the book.
The Running Man was great, and it read like an amazing screenplay. All they had to do was do it exactly like the book and they would've had an amazing kick-ass action movie. But of course they f-ed it up. Rage was another great story...King wrote it when he was 16. :Q
silverpig
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I liked IT best.
The Stand complete and uncut is right up there too.
Of course, the Dark Tower series is awesome (almost done too ).
As for short stories... The Body, Rita Haworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Long Walk are all excellent.
(make sure you guys try reading The Long Walk... kinda freaky and sort of Running Man-esque)
The Stand complete and uncut is right up there too.
Of course, the Dark Tower series is awesome (almost done too
).As for short stories... The Body, Rita Haworth and Shawshank Redemption, and The Long Walk are all excellent.
(make sure you guys try reading The Long Walk... kinda freaky and sort of Running Man-esque)
Is IT much better than the movie? I saw the movie and it was rather silly; I wouldn't want to read it if it's like that.
I have just begun to read King novels. Currently reading The Green Mile. Good book.
I have just begun to read King novels. Currently reading The Green Mile. Good book.
freakflag
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IT is a phenominal book.
The only one I really didn't like was Needful Things.
I was so bored after the first 5 chapters but I waded through all the inanities, thinking 'Steve's gotta be leading up to one killer conclusion...'
He wasn't.
I threw the book across the room, I was so disappointed.
The only one I really didn't like was Needful Things.
I was so bored after the first 5 chapters but I waded through all the inanities, thinking 'Steve's gotta be leading up to one killer conclusion...'
He wasn't.
I threw the book across the room, I was so disappointed.
silverpig
Lifer
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I really didn't like the movie much at all. They totally re-cut the timelines in the book and cut out a lot of the detail. For example, the part where that guy kills himself in his bathroom with the word IT in blood on the wall happens right in the middle of the movie, yet it's one of the first things to happen in the book.
The thing that made IT such a great book for me was I read it when I was 13 or so, and the characters in the book are what? 10? 11? King writes kids so well that I could totally see myself doing exactly the same things those kids were doing. I'd build dams in the creeks in the park, go to the candy stores with change I found on the road, etc etc. So when all that scary clown stuff started happening, it seemed as though it was another thing that could be happening to me (of course I knew it was fake, but when you're so into a book....)
The Long Walk and The Running Man are kind of interesting in light of the recent reality show "Survivor" phenominon. Makes you wonder how far these shows will eventually go...
Whitecloak
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