Anyone read Stephen King?

[haukehaien]

I like King, although I think he is a better short story writer than novelist. My faves would probably be: (in no particular order)

The Shining
Bag of Bones
The Long Walk
'Salem's Lot
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
Night Shift
Skeleton Crew
Everything's Eventual


Other writers I would suggest in the genre:
Kim Newman
Richard Matheson
F. Paul Wilson
H.P. Lovecraft
Dan Simmons (Summer of Night is very much like Stephen King, if King were better at writing novels) ;)

[Galician]

I read "The Mist" when it come out in a collection of short stories, the name of which I forget (it had a toy monkey on the cover). That was the one story in the book which terrified, and, boy, did it ever!!!

"IT" has been mentioned. I too liked the book as opposed to the tv movie version which came out. I was terrified right up to the very end. Boy, talk about a disappointing conclusion!

[Panache]

...I read "The Mist" when it come out in a collection of short stories, the name of which I forget (it had a toy monkey on the cover). That was the one story in the book which terrified, and, boy, did it ever!!!

I believe that was Skeleton Crew. I think that Stephen King is best when writing novellas or his "long" short stories. They tend to be a lot more focused plot wise. I very much enjoyed reading the The Mist and though not a fan of Modern Horror movies, wa actually thinking of going to see it. From what I have read and heard it deviates from the story at the end so I will forgo it.

"IT" has been mentioned. I too liked the book as opposed to the tv movie version which came out. I was terrified right up to the very end. Boy, talk about a disappointing conclusion!

Tim Curry was an inspired choice for Pennywise. Sadly the TV production obviously had no idea to convey the concepts of wrongness and how alien "It" was, and went with the simplest representation possible. To be fair it took S.K. a heck of a lot of exposition to get the idea across in the novel.

Also some of the characters got a bit shortchanged, like Stan.

A good read, makes me want to pick it up again since it has been years since I read it.

Cheers

Jamie