Lee Trundle
4:26 Mon May 21
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Is The Stand TV series worth a watch?
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Lily Hammer
4:24 Mon May 21
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Scud
I agree about some of the endings. I would echo your sentiment with The Stand, but I though the ending to The Dark Tower was perfect; the only way it could end.
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Agent Scud
4:15 Mon May 21
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I've read most of King's books and the only criticism I can level at him is that some of the endings are piss-poor.
The amount of time invested into reading The Dark Tower series wasn't negligible and the ending really, really, pissed me off.
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JonWHUFC
3:31 Mon May 21
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Absolutely loved this author. Read everything he has ever written. A lot of his books mention my birthday 21.09 so I guessed that was his birthday and it is. I loved all of his books but a lot of posters have mentioned Different Seasons and interestingly I think a lot of his books are hard to make good films from due to most of the read being the readers own interpretation of things. However, the three films from that book include The Shawshank Redemption and a lot of people don't realize he wrote the story the film was adapted from. Same with The Green Mile. I would advise you don't need to start anywhere specific. Just pick up whatever and see if you like it. If you do you have oodles of reading ahead of you.
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Mr Anon
3:24 Mon May 21
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ha ha!
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Swiss.
3:20 Mon May 21
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Mr Anon
That's a bit too low brow for me. The Nobel Prize for Literature actually.
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Bungo
3:16 Mon May 21
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Noah 12:17 Mon May 21
Apparently, many years ago, Mr King was annoyed that his local radio station wouldn't play AC/DC.
So he bought it.
Then they did.
Class!
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Mr Anon
3:13 Mon May 21
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And don't forget, Swiss is talking as a two times Booker prize winner. Probably.
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Swiss.
1:33 Mon May 21
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Excellent writer. Dark Tower is good. The Stand is a bit of hard work tbh.
He's horror stuff stands out of course like Carrie, Pet Cemetry. Call me old skool but I love Salem's Lot. Wish he's done a sequel.
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stapes
12:54 Mon May 21
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I have never read a bad book by this man.
For me its got to be The Dark Tower
Outstanding
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Nator
12:43 Mon May 21
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The Shining - Essential reading
Doctor Sleep - actually very good follow up to the above
Rose Madder - crazy book but bloody brilliant
IT - probably the scariest book I've read!
Carrie - his first published novel I believe, also great
Under the Dome
22.11.63
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normannomates
1:14 Mon May 21
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Misery
secret window
Green Mile
The Stand
enough to get you started
the geezer was prolific...and rather good
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Noah
12:17 Mon May 21
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Massive AC/DC fan is Mr King.
Nice
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only1billybonds
11:27 Sun May 20
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Not seen anyone mention 'thinner'. Sort of a black comedy but was quite tense in parts. Misery is another good read,not up there with his very best but still a good read.
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lab
8:58 Sun May 20
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Mr Mercedes books were good , bomb at a concert , where have we heard that? You can't really go wrong mr hatred. Just recently launched a book with his son tho, sleeping beauties, not impressed.
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DukeofDevo
8:50 Sun May 20
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Yeah that's the one Lily I agree about his non supernatural stuff being his best' or where it to a minimum like The Shining or even Carrie. His latest stuff like the Mercades trilogy very good for this reason
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4ever-blowin-bubbles
8:00 Sun May 20
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i have read a lot of stephen king books but my fav was the long walk by richard bachman which was a pseudonym used by stephen king
i read it literally in 1 go
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Lily Hammer
7:40 Sun May 20
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Duke
That would be “Apt Pupil” from Different Seasons, which has 4 novellas that are amongst his best ever work. His non-supernatural real life horror is arguably his best stuff.
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DukeofDevo
7:29 Sun May 20
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Can't remember the name of the short story about an old nazi living up the road from some kid in America who recognised him from old photos when doing a project at school! A real good story made into a film with Ian mckellan I think!
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COOL HAND LUKE
6:50 Sun May 20
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...and don't miss The Body, a novella in his Different Seasons collection, which became the film Stand By Me in the late 80s.
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COOL HAND LUKE
6:48 Sun May 20
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There are dozens of them, and very few duds. I'd say work through in order, but these days people are far too fucking impatient for that.
Everyone you ask will have personal favourites, but I reckon The Shining is the only instance where the film outshone the book. You can sit a million people down in front of a film and they all see the same thing. Give a million people the same book and you have yourself a million different versions - they all see the people, places & events slightly (or totally) differently.
Asked today, I would pick IT, The Talisman, 11/22/63 and Duma Key. Next week? Who can say. King is a big big box full of magic and astute observation of the human condition and its many frailties. I read absolutely shitloads of stuff across numerous genres, and I don't know anyone who can 'catch' you so quickly with a tale - you can be deep into the situation in the book, he introduces a new angle or character, and half a page later you are gone: he has you, and you need to know what happens next.
Very clever, it's like written hypnotism.
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