Any Stephen King Readers? (page 4)

mkr32208

Love him... I've got 90% of his stuff!

Two books that are "classic" that I have just never been able to wade all the way thorough are "The Stand" and "The Talisman." I just can't do it... I've tried the stand at least 5 times over the years and it's just so booooooooooooooring!!! I can get through were everybody dies and goofus is blowing up every thing... Beyond that I just hate all the characters I just want them all to die... King is usually so good at making his characters likable so you pull for them but in those two I just really really want to see all of them die horribly! Kind of like Mikey Crichton books! Be realistic did anyone read Congo or Jurassic park and want the humans to win? Please!

The SECOND talisman book (black house) is BRILLIANT

IT is my all time favorite!

Needful things is the ONLY movie that was better than the book in my opinion.

White Dove

Needful Things was so awsome that I just can't wait to see the movie. I wanna see the devil/Lailand Gaunt

GetOverIt

Hi, I've introduced myself a while ago and lurk more often than not. Had to chime in on this topic.

I was a diehard Stephen King fan for many years while a teenager. I used to be afraid demons would come so I kept them in my garage at night and would read them during the day. However, after I read IT, or should I say partially read IT. I was done with Stephen King. That one scared me really bad. I'm a very visual person so the things I conjured up in my mind while reading that book freaked me out. However, I've been tempted to read him again. He's a great writer. Although I wonder what really goes on in the mind of someone who can think and write books the way he does.

BizzyBee

Read most of his early stuff and some of his later stuff. Gerald's Game has stuck with me as most disturbing. I like his writing, especially character development - enjoyed his non-fiction book On Writing.

crazyblondeb

I just picked up "The dark side" at a garage sale.....anyone read this one?

bite me

I'm a reader, I have shelves of his stuff too. I've been collecting since I was a kid. IT, I would say is my most favorite. But his other material is outstanding too. Gosh, I can't think of other faves, because I love them all.

Galileo

I just picked up "The dark side" at a garage sale.....

You bought a Stephen King book at a garage sale? Wow you're brave! Might as well put out a welcome sign for the demons!

Seriously, though, I enjoyed The Dark Tower series, and I loved "On Writing". I haven't read much else from his, although I've heard that "The Stand" is widely considered to be his masterpiece.

dinah

CrazyBlonde,

Do you mean "The Dark Half"? That one is good.

I got really attached to the good guys in The Stand. I loved Mother Abigail, and Stuart Redmond, Tom Cullen.

Maybe I should make it a project to read the rest of the Dark Tower series this summer. I've only read the first two, so I'm waaaaaay behind. Randall Flagg is the ultimate bad guy.

King's books always grab me from the first page and never let go. You love the characters, and he always throws a laugh of two in there. It does make you feel kinda funny to laugh out loud at a character's words or thoughts in a horror novel.

I was reading Stephen King even when I was a dub. I think I was about 12 when I read Carrie, followed by 'Salem's Lot and Cujo. Cujo upset me because I love dogs and I felt sorry for him. He didn't understand why he was being vicious.

So far the only thing mentioned that I haven't read is the rest of the Dark Tower series.

White Dove

I, too, wonder what goes on in his mind that enables him to come up with the scariest things.

I believe that we all have the ability to imagine horrible events but are in a state of denial.

He embraces his imagination.

We are affraid of ours.

I'm affraid of getting caught writing such stuff and being turned into the white coats.

If a kid writes like he does, that kid is thought to be mentally disturbed and is taken to a shrink.

If an adult writes it, it gets published and s/he is famous.

I've been tempted to write like this but affraid of getting caught.

Rapunzel

I just finished reading Duma Key. It's a long read, some 600 pages or so. But it is worth it. In the novel, King deals with the issue of artistic creativity.

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