Anyone read Stephen King?

**Tattoo Bradley** · 4th February 08, 03:23 PM

I've been catching up on some of SK's earlier works. I read "It" a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it. What a masterpiece. I'm almost finished with the new novel (Duma Key) that came out about a week ago. It's utterly fantastic as well. I picked up a used Doubleday hardback edition of The Stand that's begging to be read. And, the same day Duma Key was released the latest Richard Bachman novel (Blaze) was released on paperback (hardback was several months ago) so I picked that up as well. All King all the time here as of late. B)

**Panache** · 4th February 08, 03:31 PM

I'm sure you can see why The Deadlights and the Ritual of Chud would be virtually impossible to film (hence the otherwise excellent TV adaptation of the book failed at the ending).

Just remember Bradley,

We all float down here!

Cheers

Jamie

Originally Posted by Tattoo Bradley

I've been catching up on some of SK's earlier works. I read "It" a few weeks ago and absolutely loved it. What a masterpiece.

**davedove** · 5th February 08, 05:53 AM

The only one of his books I have read is The Stand. I decided to pick it up and read it after watching the mini-series. I enjoyed both and found that the mini-series pretty closely followed the book. Of course there were some minor differences, but that's to be expected. However, I didn't really like the ending of either the show or the book.

**Zardoz** · 5th February 08, 08:02 AM

Brad, if you read The Cell, be sure to see the movie version, the Japanese horror film "Kairo" from 2001; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse_%282001_film%29 I think big Steve or at least whomever is doing his ghosting now must be a fan! There is also a US version of the film from 2005 called "Pulse"

For original work Koontz and Barker are hard to beat!