Stephen King

Stephen King's Dark Tower series has been made into a comic series (graphic novel whatevs) that is seriously awesome.

Also I read Insomnia last year because I wanted something easy to get me back into reading again. It worked.

Yep.

he's the best author, there is no other author who is as consistent or prolific. there are a few duds, but most of his work is mindblowing. far too hard to pick a favourite.

Just watched the adaptation of The Mist...pretty fucked, to be honest...it's all rather amusing, plenty of tongue in cheek bits, a few jumpy bits...then has such a devastating ending! It's been a fair few years since I read the short story, but I'm sure it didn't end like this...

Speaking of endings to King stories, I always think that's the weakest thing he does, the end to each novel, it's as if he doesn't know where he's actually taking the characters. Oh, the other thing he does that annoys me is when he's gonna kill someone off, nine times out of ten the previous chapter ends with ''and that would be the last time they'd ever speak to each other'', or something along those lines.

i thought that ending was laughable and cliched, prodelgado

and a pretty cheap way to tug at heartstrings

and yeah, the short story ends as they drive off into the mist, not like that at all

It didn't tug the heartstrings, just made me think it was canny harsh!

ok, tug heartstrings of those dimmer than ourselves

yeah i felt sorry for the poor guy, but i wasn't about to have a cry. for some reason the whole thing just made me think of ''war of the worlds''.

he's the best author, there is no other author who is as consistent or prolific. there are a few duds, but most of his work is mindblowing. far too hard to pick a favourite.

this has got to be a joke.

he was my favourite author when i was about 18.

I last read one of his when I was about 20. The shining was good.

hackidy hackidy hack

18? Maybe I was 16 when I last read a book of his.

Yeah, total hack. I reckon you could easily mock up a story of his.

Small town in Maine. Regular Joes spooked by supernatural goings on.

Good old fashioned wholesome values save the day.

Oh, and Secret Window was the most predictable piece of crap I've sat through in ages.

he's shit. soon as I found lovecraft when I was 20 I was home. he made KIng look like an ametuer rip off guy - oh wait...yeah Bangor = Arkham

i was talking about him yesterday. i started reading his stuff when i was about twelve, and i'd stopped by the time i was 20.

the last thing i read was bag of bones, which surprisingly was fucking fantastic. a simple ghost story, more character-driven than his other books and a whole lot less formulaic.

i mean, horror writing isn't high art, so there's a reason he's so well regarded in the field.

Stephen King is Goosebumps for grown ups. Doesn't mean they aren't still fun.

Plus as mentioned above, the Dark Tower Comic adaptation is seriously awesome.

meh, he's no Garth Marenghi

Except when I was a kid, they didn't have Goosebumps, so I read Christine.

they had virginia Andrews flowers in the attic. but I ignored that. I bet some on this website didn't tho...!!!!

I read Carrie when I was 17 and I liked it. I've never liked anything else he has done.

Love his short stories. I think writing a short story is so underrated these days. Can read 1 or 2 on the train in the morning. They are generally much more varied than his novels.

And his novella's are also fantastic.

Its his full length novels that generally don't do it for me.

(Dark Tower was damn epic though. Loved it).

he's written quite a few since he retired and gave up writing

the dead zone, salems lot were good when I was young.

But 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' is better. way better.

I used to work with a guy- reasonable bloke,mid 30s, smart enough- who was kind of proud that the only book he'd read since leaving school was ''The Stand''.

I read Carrie when I was 17 and I liked it. I've never liked anything else he has done.

the story of how carrie came to be is more interesting than the book itself. struggling teacher cum novelist and young wife getting by in the early 70s on about 4K a year. he writes schlocky horror revenge tale, hates it, bins it, wife sees something in it, fishes it out of trash, sends it to publishers who buy it, like it and option it to hollywood for six figures. 100,000 in the early 70s may as well be a million bucks in today's money.

that was just enough positive reinforcement for stevie to quit teaching.

the stand is fucking rubbish as you alluded too. I remember tossing it at a wall on the train I think. It might of even been the end.

Christian Bale rumoured to play Roland in the film adaptation of the Dark Tower. Hmmmm....

Let me try that again. Film adaptation of the Dark Tower.

Don't judge him by the bloody movies!

I have about 35 of his books. Some are pieces of shit, but then you read The Running Man and Carrie and The Stand and It and The Dead Zone and it's fucking brilliant.

So there.

Oh, for fuck's sake. Fucking brackets. Well, it's true. Look it up in wikipedia if you don't believe me.

Yeah, the novellas! The Body and Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and modern classics (helped by the movies, of course).

I would never judge him by his movies. I love the man, but only for his writing. The Stand and The Dark Tower are pretty much my favourite things ever. Laws yes.

Except Stand By Me.

M-O-O-N, that spells I agree.

Satnd By Me.....meh. The Shining's good, but that has little to do with Stephen King.

I'm shattering your illusions of me again, aren't I Modi. First I declare my love of JK Rowling and then this....

You like it better if it was Sataned by Me, wouldn't you?

wow. i'm re-reading the dark tower right now. christian bale would make an awesome gunslinger.

I haven't read Stephen King for ages...I kinda went off him for a bit when I started reading Clive Barker. I just found Clive Barkers writing a tad better. I haven't read EITHER of them for ages.

I'm so childish I'm reading the Narnia chronicles...still.

I haven't read Stephen King for ages...I kinda went off him for a bit when I started reading Clive Barker. I just found Clive Barkers writing a tad better. I haven't read EITHER of them for ages.

seconded, verbatim.

I love the Dark Tower. I'm really not sure about Christian Bale as Roland. Isn't Roland meant to be like a younger Clint Eastwood? So, he'd need to be in his 40s. I reckon Viggo Mortensan would play a good Roland, but it'd be career death for him. He's already typecast enough.

Mortensen is typecast? As what?

A dungeons and dragons-esque, sword-welding, beardy, horse-riding, tough guy, olde world-speaking, period drama type guy. Or at least, he is in my mind.

You haven't seen ''Eastern Promise'' or ''A History Of Violence'', have you?
They will fix that for you.

No, I haven't. His face just seems wrong in anything which isn't set in some kind of magical land in the olde days.

I thought Middle earth was post apocalyptic

best Stephen King film adaptation: Misery

best Stephen King novel: Misery

I love Stephen King. I'm currently ploughing through as many of his books as I can find, in chronological order. I'm up to Pet Sematary. Just finished Christine on the weekend, which i read as a kid and hated, but thoroughly enjoyed t'other week.

cujo

I'm not a fan of his writing, but what a fucking legend,

here.

recently read that new one about the JFK assassination. it was bloody good. highly recommended

i bet someone's gonna read that, outer, and say ''Stephen King calls for the beheading of the rich!'' and say how that's un-patriotic. that shit annoys me.

I read that! Great read

How much is he worth though to be able to donate 4 MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR though!!!!

Still blows my brain....