1. The Shining
2. The Long Walk
3. The Stand
4. Pet Sematary
5. Dolores Claiborne
Honorable Mention:
11/22/63
Salem's Lot
Yours?
1. The Shining
2. The Long Walk
3. The Stand
4. Pet Sematary
5. Dolores Claiborne
Honorable Mention:
11/22/63
Salem's Lot
Yours?
The tommyknockers
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Garrity wrote:
1. The Shining
2. The Long Walk
3. The Stand
4. Pet Sematary
5. Dolores Claiborne
Honorable Mention:
11/22/63
Salem's Lot
Yours?
1. The Stand
2. The Shining
3. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption
4. The Green Mile
5. 11/22/63
Honorable Mention: The Long Walk
Christine
Misery
Thinner
1) The Stand
2) It
3) Pet Sematary
4) 11/22/63
5) The Shining
Honorable Mention:
Revival
Canada Girl wrote:
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Others worth mentioning are Apt Pupil and Stand By Me.
I prefer his short story collections: Night Shift & Skeleton Crew.
I wanted to get into It and The Stand but they were just too much like War and Peace for me.
The Shining was excellent and so was the movie. The Green Mile was also a great movie.
Cujo and Pet Sematary were decent.
Not to knock him, but his books are best read by an impressionable young adult. I'm too closed minded to get into them now.
Hope Springs Eternal (Shawshank Redemption)
"Hearts In Atlantis", if you consider that a novel. I do, because of the related nature of the 5 stories and the fact that the stories are presented more or less chronologically.
Runners up for me... "The Stand", "From a Buick 8". I'm a solid decade behind, haven't kept up with what King's been writing since the early 2000's, so probably some contenders to break into my Top 5 if I ever get around to catching up.
Also worth mentioning the Dark Tower series
He has so many good stories.
The short story Survivor Type was crazy. Another short story, under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Long Walk was great.
WVN wrote:
He has so many good stories.
The short story Survivor Type was crazy. Another short story, under his pseudonym Richard Bachman, The Long Walk was great.
Good call on Survivor Type. Here are my top short stories (I listed Long Walk under novels - one of my fav's for sure):
1. Man in the Black Suit (from Everything's Eventual) - scariest thing I've ever read. Not so much about the bad guy coming to get you, but about inevitable death and what's waiting for you. Creepy as hell.
2. Survivor Type (from Skeleton Crew) - disturbing, disturbing, disturbing. Auto-cannibalism for the win.
3. The Dune (from Bazaar of Bad Dreams) - one of the best plot twists you'll ever read at the end, a la Kaiser Soze (sp?) in Usual Suspects.
4. The Monkey (from Skeleton Crew) - who knew one of those clapping monkey toys could be so creepy?
5. The Raft (from Night Shift) - think Jaws + Creature from the Black Lagoon + Huck Finn.
Honorable Mention - The Things They Left Behind, 1408, and Graveyard Shift.
Skeleton Crew wrote:
I prefer his short story collections: Night Shift & Skeleton Crew.
I wanted to get into It and The Stand but they were just too much like War and Peace for me.
The Shining was excellent and so was the movie. The Green Mile was also a great movie.
Cujo and Pet Sematary were decent.
Not to knock him, but his books are best read by an impressionable young adult. I'm too closed minded to get into them now.
Dude... find a copy of The Long Walk. It'll appeal to the runner in you, and the limits if the human body. Think Hunger Games combined with the most diabolical endurance event ever conceived. And, unlike the walk itself, the book itself isn't too long. It's listed under Richard Bachmann though (a pen name King used in the '70s at times).
Here are my personal, top five that I liked the best and thought were probably the best books that he wrote and were his best writing:
1. The World According to Garp
2. A Son of the Circus
3. The Cider House Rules
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany
5. The Bible
bigtime reader wrote:
Here are my personal, top five that I liked the best and thought were probably the best books that he wrote and were his best writing:
1. The World According to Garp
2. A Son of the Circus
3. The Cider House Rules
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany
5. The Bible
I didn't know King wrote the Bible. Are you sure about this?
In no particular order:
The Stand
The Ledge
Quitters, Inc.
The Long Walk
The Dead Zone
The Langoliers
Needful Things
The Mist
The Jaunt
The Stand...scared the crap out of me!
Really loved the Bachman books: Shawshank Redemption is based on one of the Bachman stories.
Liked 11/22/63 although I thought the ending fell apart a bit. I was very disappointed in the tv adaptation (Amazon?).
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bigtime reader wrote:
Here are my personal, top five that I liked the best and thought were probably the best books that he wrote and were his best writing:
1. The World According to Garp
2. A Son of the Circus
3. The Cider House Rules
4. A Prayer for Owen Meany
5. The Bible
I didn't know King wrote the Bible. Are you sure about this?
I think King's Bible version was a re-write of the original. He is a very religious man and his beliefs are impressive. Mike Pence supports Stephen King and his sermonizing.