What is your favorite book by Stephen King?

Question

I've finished Rose Madder (my favorite so far) and I am about to read Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. I have Delores Caliborne(spelled right?) by King, but haven't started it yet. What is your favorite?

Answer 1

Misery

Loved this book, along with the movie...but with the book we get to know Paul Sheldon and Annie Wilkes so much better...

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader -- she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.

Now Annie wants Paul to write his greatest work -- just for her. She has a lot of ways to spur him on. One is a needle. Another is an ax. And if they don't work, she can get really nasty.

Answer 2

Hmmm. I didn't like Rose Madder and Delores Claiborne so much myself. I'd have to say my favorite was "It".

Oddly, my first exposure to Stephen King I was taking a redeye flight back to the east coast... and had picked up "Four Past Midnight"... which started with The Langoliers, a story about a red eye flight to the east coast that went through a time vortex...

I appreciate the fact that he's stayed fresh for the most part throughout his career. You never get the impression you're reading the same story over again (John Gresham) or that the author is just cranking out pages (Tom Clancy)... and that when he felt he couldn't do that anymore, he retired.

Answer 3

Too many to list. Started with Cujo, next Carrie and then Salem's Lot. For a long period of time the last was my favorite, then came The Stand, and the Gunslinger series. Have hated what they do to most of his stories when they turn them into movies, but that is just me. I have hated most movies made from books because there is no way to easily condense a book and have the movie turn out right. A good example is what they had to do to Gone With the Wind. So, I will continue to read S.K. and use the imagination I have to set myself down in the middle of the story.

Answer 4

Dolores Claiborne is awesome, better then the movie. Rose Madder is also good but my favorite is Pet Cemetary (again the book was better then the movie--King himself starred in this movie) I had hard time reading the book IT by Stephan King. I also read Angels and Demons, which I totally enjoyed--Happy reading

Answer 5

Number 1 I would pick The Stand. I haven't read either of those you listed (though I have copies, because I sell books). Maybe I'll get a chance.

I also really liked Misery. That was one book that I reacted to verbally while reading (saying "Ick", "Ugh") because I suppose I could "see" it and "feel" it.

I did read Cell and enjoyed it, but there were too many holes for me that I want filled - the concept though, was good.

Answer 6

I liked the book Carrie (don't watch the movie, it is totally different and freaky 0.o), it's a sad book about this girl who is mistreated by her mother, and is considered an outsider to the people in her school. It's a sad book. Carrie has these telekinetic powers that are hidden inside her, and then one day her peers publicly embarrass her, causing her to kill a majority of the students. It ends in a tragic death of Carrie. T.T

Answer 7

I enjoyed both of the King books. I'd say my favorite is The Stand.
Pet Semetary and The Shining were good, too.

Answer 8

Pet Sematary

Answer 9

By far, the best SK books are the Dark Tower series, beginning with The Gunslinger. They were written over many years of his life and represent his best writing, IMO :)

Answer 10

Tommyknockers