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Posted June 03, 2013
1) Pet Semetary, I suppose, as it was the only one that actually scared me (yeah, I know...).

2) Dead Zone, if I remember well. Was nicely human and grounded, for a fantasy story.

3) Different seasons. May have the best stories.

4) IT. Defined the later King genre. As in : basically all the later books are a copy of it.

5) Misery. Very nice parallel narration and usage of typography.

I really disliked The Stand (overbloated, and the start of King's drift towards too christian-based mythologies), and most of his post-starification self-replicating works. I have a fondness for Dreamcatcher though, it's such a reader's digest of all King's themes, it works very well as a parody, or a Stephen King postcard (the kind of postcards that are divinded into several tiny pictures showing all the most notorious cheesy monuments of the area)...
Posted June 03, 2013
I recently read 11-22-63 and really liked it - it isn't over the top horror-wise, tells a really good tale and in the grand tradition of SK, uses the most amazing small details to completely take you there...
Posted June 03, 2013
My two cents:

- The Tommyknockers: Where deep friendship for another person could led you?
- Firestarter: With great power comes great responsibility... and persecution.
- Dolores Claiborne & Misery: The worst horror is caused by the human beings, not monsters of the imagination.
- The Running Man: Reality shows + increasing poverty = this is what you could get.

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tinyE: Long Walk, forgot about that one, GREAT GREAT stuff. Actually all his Bachman stuff is great. Running Man is fantastic but people just think of the movie and cast it off. The only thing the movie has in common with the book is the title.
Agreed. Regarding "Running Man", it happens almost the same with "The Postman" by David Brin (thanks for the heads-up about my mystake with the author, Telika!). A really GREAT book, obscured by the abysmal adaptation made for the Kevin Costner's film... :(

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Telika: ... I have a fondness for Dreamcatcher though, it's such a reader's digest of all King's themes, it works very well as a parody, or a Stephen King postcard (the kind of postcards that are divinded into several tiny pictures showing all the most notorious cheesy monuments of the area)...
The ending twist ruined it for me. :(
Post edited June 03, 2013 by Thespian*
Posted June 03, 2013
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Momo1991: I recently read 11-22-63 and really liked it - it isn't over the top horror-wise, tells a really good tale and in the grand tradition of SK, uses the most amazing small details to completely take you there...
Very nostalgic. But he took the easy, deus ex machina way with the ending.
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Thespian*: The ending twist ruined it for me. :(
But the twist was in the movie, not in the book :)
Post edited June 03, 2013 by Novotnus
Posted June 03, 2013
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Momo1991: I recently read 11-22-63 and really liked it - it isn't over the top horror-wise, tells a really good tale and in the grand tradition of SK, uses the most amazing small details to completely take you there...
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Novotnus: Very nostalgic. But he took the easy, deus ex machina way with the ending.
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Thespian*: The ending twist ruined it for me. :(
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Novotnus: But the twist was in the movie, not in the book :)
True but all in all it was a nice trip down memory lane ;-)
Posted June 03, 2013
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Novotnus: But the twist was in the movie, not in the book :)
Don't tell me I'm mixing both endings? Umm, it could be possible, I'm starting to think Alzheimer is following me. :D
Posted June 03, 2013
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Thespian*: Don't tell me I'm mixing both endings? Umm, it could be possible, I'm starting to think Alzheimer is following me. :D
I'm affraid so :) In the book Dudit's conclusion is different :)
Posted June 03, 2013
EIther It, Rose Madder or Insomnia

Edit - Or Firestarter
Post edited June 03, 2013 by amok
Posted June 03, 2013
So many early works of Stephen King I loved. My favorite which would be tied between "The Stand" and "It". Tough reads almost being over 1000 pages both books were if memory serves right. However they were very enjoyable and I probably read them both twice each.

My fear of clowns started before It"and the mini tv series, with the movie poltergeist, however after "It" I remember even fearing them more ^_^
Posted June 03, 2013
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Thespian*: Don't tell me I'm mixing both endings? Umm, it could be possible, I'm starting to think Alzheimer is following me. :D
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Novotnus: I'm affraid so :) In the book Dudit's conclusion is different :)
Damn, I can't remember where I left my memory pills... :D
Posted June 03, 2013
I'm not much of a Stephen King fan myself; I read a couple of his books and short stories when I was a teenager and felt that they got kind of samey after a while, so I stopped reading them. As a result I haven't got any fresh recollections either, but I think I liked Pet sematary best.

EDIT: I've also thought about re-reading Dreamcatcher but I'm afraid it might turn out to be just as crap now as it felt like ten years ago.
Post edited June 03, 2013 by AlKim
Posted June 03, 2013
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Thespian*: Agreed. Regarding "Running Man", it happens almost the same with "The Postman" by Frank Herbert. A really GREAT book, obscured by the abysmal adaptation made for the Kevin Costner's film... :(
Woah, the postman was from frank herbert ?

Has the film betrayed it sufficiently to make it a new story to read ?

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Thespian*: The ending twist ruined it for me. :(
Wait I... don't even remember the twist. :-/
Posted June 03, 2013
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Telika: Wait I... don't even remember the twist. :-/
We are in the middle of trying to remember that book and that movie in PMs :)
Posted June 03, 2013
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Telika: Wait I... don't even remember the twist. :-/
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Novotnus: We are in the middle of trying to remember that book and that movie in PMs :)
Haha. Spare me the debate, but inform me of the conclusion.

I just remember the whole collection of "stephen king vignettes" that this book was, but I don't remember in what order they were presented...
Posted June 03, 2013
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Telika: Woah, the postman was from frank herbert ?
When, oh, when, I'll learn to not write names by heart instead of checking them? :D

The Postman was written by David Brin. Sorry for the mess. ;)

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Telika: Has the film betrayed it sufficiently to make it a new story to read ?
Totally. The basis of the argument is there: a drifter posing as postman (I don't want to spoil the plot), but the way the author tells the story is superb. ;)
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