Best Stephen King

AMPEEEM · July 22, 2009, 05:43:02 AM

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This might spark a little talk. The poll is really just for the hell of it, theres a very good chance your favorite isn't up there, and a lot of you may not have read Cujo or didn't like it as much as his other stuff but I fucking loved it.

I also tried to pick out one book for a different type of style.

The Stand, the epic bible proportions story.

It, the book that makes everyone afraid of the dark, just a little.

Green Mile, a mystifying fantasy story taking place in real life.

Cujo, a book that doesn't leave you. (Or rather, doesn't let you leave)

Dark Tower Series, King's Odyssey, his huge LOTR X 3 adventure.

Sombra · July 22, 2009, 05:48:53 AM

My favorite standalone novel was the shining, but the dark tower series was great.

AMPEEEM · July 22, 2009, 05:50:37 AM

I was really thinking of throwing The Shining up their instead of Cujo but I went with my own taste.

SoBe Clock · July 22, 2009, 01:11:56 PM

I'll have to go with The Dark Tower series for the poll, but one of my favorites was Eyes of the Dragon.

Poltergeist · July 22, 2009, 01:18:30 PM

No Shawshank REdemption? Really?

I really enjoyed both The Stand and Cujo, and I liked Green Mile besides the fact the Stephen King went and killed the entire atmosphere by pointlessly murdering the characters at the end of the book, similarly to how he did in The body.

AMPEEEM · July 22, 2009, 02:29:28 PM

Quote from: SoBe Clock;1625857I'll have to go with The Dark Tower series for the poll, but one of my favorites was Eyes of the Dragon.

I started reading that in like 5th grade or something and I guess I didn't like the first chapter because I barely read it until I had just moved on to something else.

Silly Putty Clock · July 22, 2009, 02:36:18 PM

Quote from: ampm;1625882I started reading that in like 5th grade or something and I guess I didn't like the first chapter because I barely read it until I had just moved on to something else.

I read that a few years ago. I didn't like it, but I think that's because I wasn't expecting anything like it from Stephen King. I should try it again sometime.

peyoteclock · July 25, 2009, 01:19:22 PM

the stand with the dark tower coming in second.

MISTA BOOTSIE · August 10, 2009, 08:06:48 PM

The Shining, followed by IT

FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK · August 10, 2009, 08:10:06 PM

I really liked Dreamcatcher and The Mist. The movie version of Dreamcatcher was good for the first 15 minutes and then they ruined everything. The Mist's movie version was good up until the very end when they tampered with the ending, which sorta implied that the crazy cult lady was "right".

IvysaurClock · August 15, 2009, 07:09:18 PM

Right now I am loving me some Dark tower (about halfway through book 4), but I haven't read The Stand yet. Desperately want to though.

DWARFINATORclock · August 25, 2009, 11:59:00 AM

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Slurpee · August 25, 2009, 12:47:21 PM

I haven't read much King.
Or, leastways not as much as I'd like to, or enough to make a call on what I like best.

I read The Mist and Everything's Eventual, they were both pretty good.
I read Gunslinger and got about a third of the way through The Drawing of the Three before wandering off. I'll have to get back to Dark Tower.

I'm ~330 pages into the 1978 version of Der Stand right now, I've been reading it on the bus.
It's pretty good so far.
Nick Andros is, like, my total favorite ever. I can't believe how fast he became one of my favorite fictional characters. It's like King cobbled the character together out of a big pile of things I like. :3

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