Which is the best Stephen King book?

[bluefox4000]

King is very hit and miss. LOVED Misery, The Shining, Carrie, Green Mile., The Stand. People rave about IT.....but what a confused mess. Lol

Mick

[kidchameleon]

Cycle of the Werewolf would be my favourite.

Not exactly the longest of novels, but I thought it managed to get a fairly decent story across in a fairly small amount of time - definitely an excellent choice for someone who wanted some light reading, or someone new to Stephen King.

[trialbyerror]

Cristine The shining Shawshank Firestarters Tommyknockers

Heavens, I live a boring life....

Trial by error

[trywait]

i;ve always enjoyed the langoliers

[megumidesu]

and and the novel with the bitch that breaks the writers legs, HATED that one with a passion.

guessing you mean "misery"
so ... LOL. she only breaks his ankle in the FILM.
in the novel she cuts his foot off.

[partisan]

guessing you mean "misery"
so ... LOL. she only breaks his ankle in the FILM.
in the novel she cuts his foot off.

Lol i never knew that, though doesnt she break both his ankles, in the film

[Counselor]

Reading that at the moment.

All time Favourite is 'The Talisman' closely followed by 'IT'....closely followed by everything other than Rose Madder and and the novel with the bitch that breaks the writers legs, HATED that one with a passion.

I liked Rose Madder :tongue: and I think Katherine Heigl should play her in the movie.

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon makes me cry.

[Juniorlove]

The girl who loved tom Gordon is really Counselor. I read Christine, Carrie, Under The Dome and out of those I love Christine the best.

[Counselor]

I haven't read any of his newer stuff since Duma Key, but I noticed a marked difference in his writing between the older pieces and the newer...his older writing was far more decorative, where his newer writing is more meat and potatoes of the story. Firestarter took me almost two weeks to read, where Cell only took me a couple days. I liked more of the books that have reference to the Dark Tower series, which are sort of a hub for a lot of his books, like It, Insomnia, From a Buick 8, etc...it was an intricate design for storytelling.

[Bowyn Aerrow]

Roland from the Dark Tower came.... That series is the one I have read the most. I'm not saying it is the best - It is my own personal favorite 'story' of his.

I have read every paper published work of Stephen King and Richard Bachman.

If you know Stephen King then you know exactly who Richard Bachman is and the relevancy of that penname.

Best? No such critter can possibly exist. In all honesty each work of King/Bachman can stand on its own, and trying to pick one that is better than the others is going to be difficult based on the mere fact that each tale can stand on its own two feet and trying to compare them and decide if one is better than others is going to be like comparing the orangy goodness of apples and oranges.

King does a very good job of tying up loose ends by the end of a book where loose ends need tying. The Mist left us without knowing what happens next - but that is how that story should have ended.

Unlike others in the genre who leave too many things left dangling, or worse apparently lose tract of the tale and rely on stupidity to end what would be a wonderful tale/story, King has a clear 'ending' for his works.

I hated the Movie 'The Mist' - Its ending was an ending - albeit a good ending for a story, but a bad ending as it departed from leaving us wondering what happens next, it gave us the answer instead of leaving us stranded in the middle of the desert with our own nightmares to finish the tale for us.

This is a big problem with taking a book and converting it to a movie - the director/producer often murders the story to suit his own personal take on the story.