Stephen King

[soopaman]

Running Man, written as Richard Bachman. Class plot and good countdown/chapter device.

Not a big fan though!

[sim one]

Two of my favourites were written by Stephen King writing under the name Richard Bachman: The Running Man (nothing like the movie), and particularly The Long Walk

The Running Man book is much better than the movie.

My personal fav is The Tommyknockers.

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Rose Red !!

[RPerry]

"The Green Mile" although I could be biased because I liked the movie....

[ShareDaddy]

IT was it for me, The Stand would be second and continue from there. I am a huge SK fan, however I have learned that there are better, Robert R, McCammon (The Wolf's Hour, Swan Song and Stinger come to mind), and Brian Lumley (Necroscope Series) both have surpassed SK in my book.

[bohemianrhapsody]

Hands down, The Stand. It is still relevant today, and snippets from the book often jump into my mind as I watch the news. I liked the Dead Zone, and still remember one character who stood at the sink, and thought about putting his hand in the garbage disposal. I think his (King's) gift is to make the "everyday" seem scary. He may not have "new" ideas, but he sure can put a twist on old ideas.

I also like the Dark Tower series, and am still waiting for the next installment. Not sure I understood the whole thing, but I enjoyed reading it. Loved the Green Mile, and a mini-series based on one of his books--can't remember which one--that had "Golden" in the title or the theme. Does anyone remember the name of the series? It had two older characters as the leads, and I think the husband started to get younger.

I also read all the other King books mentioned.

This post seems to be in the wrong format, sorry if it is, first time I have posted.

[Curley]

Glad to see so many of you like Stephen King. I'm a big fan of his, but I must admit theres a few of his books I can't get into.. like Danse Macarbre. Another one of my favourites is Green Mile (someone also mentioned it above). The book is a lot better than the film, but then again, most of them are.

2 other books which I havn't read for a few years are Christine & Pet Cemetry, I must dig them out

[ShareDaddy]

Originally posted by bohemianrhapsody@7 May 2003 - 13:39
Hands down, The Stand. It is still relevant today, and snippets from the book often jump into my mind as I watch the news. I liked the Dead Zone, and still remember one character who stood at the sink, and thought about putting his hand in the garbage disposal. I think his (King's) gift is to make the "everyday" seem scary. He may not have "new" ideas, but he sure can put a twist on old ideas.

I also like the Dark Tower series, and am still waiting for the next installment. Not sure I understood the whole thing, but I enjoyed reading it. Loved the Green Mile, and a mini-series based on one of his books--can't remember which one--that had "Golden" in the title or the theme. Does anyone remember the name of the series? It had two older characters as the leads, and I think the husband started to get younger.

I also read all the other King books mentioned.

This post seems to be in the wrong format, sorry if it is, first time I have posted.

I totally forgot about the Dark Tower series, darnit, those would have to be my favorite books of all times. I probably forgot them on purpose because of the pain and anguish I felt awaiting the next installment. If it had not been for SK being hit by the van he would have had several more out by now. I watched an interview with SK and his wife where he plainly stated the accident has pretty much left the Tower series on hold, possibly for good . I however have actually though about re-reading them to capture the spirit once again, in hopes that that a new tower novel is released. We can only hope I guess.

[Skweeky]

My favourite is 'The shining', no doubt, and also that book about these kids that find a corps in the woods (can't remember the title right now)

But I don't like Stephen King that much either, I must agree that his work isn't really original. They're all variations on the same theme (is that even an english expression? )

[Curley]

Originally posted by ShareDaddy@7 May 2003 - 20:41
I however have actually though about re-reading them to capture the spirit once again, in hopes that that a new tower novel is released. We can only hope I guess.

Theres still 2 more Dark Tower books to come. One will be out in spring 2004, the other autumn 2004. After that, i've read he'll be releasing the whole lot in one large volume.