Who loves Stephen King's books?

Question

I absolutely love Stephen King's books. I've read about 20 of them and the only one I didn't like was The Colorado Kid... so, which ones do you like and why?

I love Firestarter because it was the first of his books that I read. It took me about a week and half to read insomnia because it bored me too. I ended up reading a book while reading that book. I just read The Gunslinger: The Dark Tower I (the revised one) and want to continue in the series but I can't seem to find the second book at our local library...

Answer 1

IT has got to be about the best thing I've ever read , short of maybe the Dark Tower series . King has a certain awareness that he is gfted at sharing .

Answer 2

I've read almost all of his books, except for the fantasy ones, Dark Tower series and Gunslinger, I dont care for fantasy type books. My favorite ones of his were , Salems Lot,Christine, Hearts in Atlantis,The Dead Zone. The only one that I really didn't like was Gerald's Game. Oh and I liked From a buick 8 also.

Answer 3

I'm not a horror buff, but I have read some awesome King novels. My favorites were pretty chilling for me.

It - I had nightmares about clowns for two weeks after reading this story. It read it all in one sitting, and I loved it! This is the master at work.

Desperation - Man oh Man! This book left chilled to the bone. I read the Regulators afterward, and it scared the crap out of me.

Four Past Midnight - "The Langoliers" made me afraid to get on a plane. Well not really, but it's a justifiable excuse for a fear of flying. Also, "Secret Window" was frightening, and the guy was a nut job, and I'd be afraid to even write anything in the isolated woods.

Lastly there's "Everything's Eventual" - I forget the title in this anthology but a favorite story of mine by King was about that hotel room that was evil. Oh and I liked "Riding the Bullet" and "Everything's Eventual" the story.

Answer 4

I like the Dark Tower series because King has done a marvelous job of interpreting the Hero's Journey, "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came", and various eternal literary motifs, and incorporating them into his own body of work; he has said in the preface to "The Gunslinger" that Roland's story encompasses ALL of his other stories.
I've tried some of his other work, and find his writing therein to be a bit verbose. It's the strangest thing that the Dark Tower series is unquestionably his work, but it's also qualitatively different from the rest of it.

Answer 5

I've read all but The Cell. I love each and every one of them. I really enjoyed reading the Dark Tower series. They have to be my favorite of his books.

Answer 6

I like Stephen King. I think because he tends to be considered as a genre writer he is often overlooked but I think he can write some of the best descriptions of small town America of almost any author

Answer 7

I read Misery about 15 years ago and it's still my favorite because everything about it is so realistic. It's easy to imagine something like that actually happening to you, which creeps me out more than the ghoulish stuff that you know couldn't really happen in real life. I'm curious what the new one is like.

Answer 8

Yes. My favorite is Shawshank Redemption. I also like Needful Things and The Green Mile.

Answer 9

The Stand was the best. I am a very slow reader and I've read it twice.
Needful things was a great book
Carrie is still awesom.

Answer 10

I have read every one of his books, and enjoyed them all. the only one i would have anything negative to say about would be Insomnia..it kept putting me to sleep. it was just too slow and kind of boring.