Whats your favourite steven king book?

Question

mines insomnia

Answer 1

Which one's the shortest?

Answer 2

I like Eye of the Dragon for the story, and The Stand for the sort-of immersion of "what would I do if that happened?"

Also among my favourites is The Shining, because it was the first of his books I ever read at about eleven years of age and pretty much the first "grown up" book I ever read as well so it really affected me.

He wrote a lovely short story called The Last Rung on the Ladder, which I found very moving.

I also liked both The Long Walk and The Running Man.

Generally I liked his writing style as much as whatever story he might have been telling. Even if there were obvious failings in the story (some of the children's dialogue in It was just ridiculous, for instance) you could overlook for the sheer fun of reading the narrative.

I went off him though, I can't pinpoint the book but it was in the late 1990's. He bought out a whole load in a row that I really didn't like. They seemed to me to be getting bizarre, not in terms of the story as much as the tone that was coming through, and it seemed like it was unintentional on the part of the author. I realised that I was reading them not because I thought they were good but because he'd written them, so I moved on to other authors and I never really came back.

Answer 3

The Stand - heavy going but absolutely amazing! I would love to know where he gets his ideas from. Rose Madder was also a very good book, infact the only one of his that I have read and struggled with was Lisey's Story. It was written in a very different style and I only really got into it in the last few chapters. Also The Langoliers, it's in one of his books like Half Past Midnight or The Skeleton Key, which are full of short stories. The Langoliers was made into a really bad movie, but the story really had me on the edge of my seat and was genuinely really scary. Also very thought provoking and such a clever idea...... who ever thought about what happens to yesterday? And that it gets 'eaten' by scary monsters!! Only Mr King would come up with this!

Answer 4

Hard to choose, however, Pet Cemetery, the description of the road near the characters house is the road King was knocked down on a few years ago, prophetic or what. It has been years since I read the book,but, when King was knocked down the fear the character felt about the road came back to my mind.

Answer 5

Sorry, it's books but they all go together - The Dark Tower. Amazing. And it also brings many of his previous books into the story - including Insomnia!

Answer 6

Cats eyes - is my fave Stephen King book, 5 short stories with a cat playing a part in each story, the best has to be Quitters Inc, if you are trying to quit cigarettes I would read this book it is better the Allen Carr.

Answer 7

The Stand

Answer 8

I just finished insomnia and thought it was excellent, however I think his best book was the shining, followed by insomnia then pet sematary.

Answer 9

"IT" is my all time favorite masterpiece from Stephen King. I could not put it down. It was one of the first novels to scare me a little and to actually give me chills as I read parts of it. I was scared of clowns before reading it the first time as a young teenager. This book really intensified my phobia.

Answer 10

The Stand. A total classic.

Answer 11

Dark Tower - all of them, i liked them so much im reading them again from the begining, im on the 5th at the moment, the wolves of calla. i just like the way that most of his other books all lead to the dark tower. i know, im a bit of a stephen king geek!!