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)...

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.
But the twist was in the movie, not in the book :)

True but all in all it was a nice trip down memory lane ;-)

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 :)

EIther It, Rose Madder or Insomnia

Edit - Or Firestarter

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 ^_^

Damn, I can't remember where I left my memory pills... :D

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.

Woah, the postman was from frank herbert ?

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

Wait I... don't even remember the twist. :-/

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...

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. ;)

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. ;)