Favorite and Least Favorite Book...

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Bored...thought I'd start a topic...

 

I'm going to start with my least favorite, which is the rancid "Gerald's Game"

 

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If you don't know the story here it is...Woman has a boyfriend names Gerald, kinky guy...he handcuffs her to a bedpost...she gets fed with with his sex games so she kicks him in the gut...he dies and she spends 200+ pages trying to get loose, and eventually does.

 

It was the single most boring book I've ever read.

 

FAVORITE

 

I think I'm going to go with "The Long Walk", it was published under the Richard Bachman name and you can find it in the stores, it was republished a while back under the King name or, you can find it in "The Bachman Books" (along with Rage, great story, The Running Man, and Roadwork)

 

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Story about 100 teenagers who compete in the Long Walk...it's just what the book says, a long walk...basicaly the guys walk keeping a pace of 3+ MPH, if they drop below that they get a warning, they need to walk an hour without a warning to get a warning taken away...3 warnings and they get executed...they walk till only one's left

 

Very excelent story

 

I also like the Dark Tower series, but he takes so goddamn long between books you have to reread them every time a new one comes out so you can remember this shit.

[Guest HellSpawn]

Favorite

 

Salem's Lot

 

IMDO... Best Vampire book ever.

 

Least Fav

 

I dunno...

Dead Zone

[Guest Sassquatch]

Favorite Book:

 

Carrie

 

 

Least Favorite Book:

 

Dead Zone

[Guest Vyce]

I haven't read all his books yet, but from what I have read...

 

Favorite: Probably It. I mark for Pennywise.

 

Least Favorite: Gerald's Game is bad.....especially the last 50 pages, in which King shoves all the dangerous, tense shit (You couldn't have paced it out a little more evenly, Steve?).

 

But c'mon - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. Just the worst.

[Guest DrTom]

King's been a hack ever since the early 90's. I think Needful Things was the last good book he wrote before he decided to let quantity reign over quality. That said, On Writing is a wonderful treatise on the craft.

 

Favorite: The Stand (full version)

Least Favorite: Gerald's Game, and anything with Peter Straub.

[Guest gthureson]

Favorite Stephen King story:

 

The one I heard his book editor tell about him sometime in the early '90s. He told King to go on vacation, take some time off. He was working too much, and could use time off. So King and his family went on a 2 week vacation on the Caribean.

 

And came back with a 800 page manuscript for him to edit.

 

Think about that. He left with nothing, came back with an 800 page book in two weeks.

 

And people wonder why I call King a hack.

[Guest EricMM]

Worst: Gerald's Game or The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, since it's the same story.

 

Fave: Hearts in Atlantis, Hearts in Atlantis or It.

 

Fave book that NO LONGER EXISTS: Rage. It was discontinued because it was about a boy who shot up his school. That's not a spoiler it happens in the first ten pages.

 

 

 

I would also like to say that many of his best stories are his short stories, like Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and Last Run on the Ladder. That is a very sad story.

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Fave book that NO LONGER EXISTS: Rage. It was discontinued because it was about a boy who shot up his school. That's not a spoiler it happens in the first ten pages.

Try and find "The Bachman Books"...it has Rage, Roadwork, The Running Man, and (the very excelent) The Long Walk.

 

Rage did kick ass

[Guest areacode212]

I haven't read enough Stephen King to really have a standout least favorite (all the ones I've read were OK at worst), but my favorites are The Stand (long version) and The Eyes of the Dragon.

[Guest EricMM]

They discontinued the Bachman Books, for that very reason.

 

I don't use E-Bay, I'd definitely pay 15 dollars if anyone has it on the board, more for hardback...

[Guest Youth N Asia]

Damn...I paid $2 for mine at a flea market...

[Guest JAxlMorrison]

BEST: It or The Stand

 

WORST: The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon