What are some of your favorite books by Stephen King?

[bluzman61]

My favorites are - 1) The Stand 2) The Shining 3) The Dead Zone 4) Danse Macabre (terrific non-fiction book), and 5) The Green Mile

 

[EvilCat Breath]

The Stand. The Shining. Salem's lot

 

[Fueri]

I've read them all, although when he shifted from the horror genre some time ago I stopped. Read 1 or 2 of those and that was it, but when he was at the height of his game, his stuff was awesome.

Stand
Salem's Lot
Tommyknockers
The Shining

 

[deannalw]

I own every word the guy has ever written.

The top choices here are pretty much universal. He was a magic man back then.

Then he went and got sober and fucked up everything.

But Bag of Bones is a favorite of mine, along with the obvious choices.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The Shining. It. The Stand. Salem's Lot not far behind.

I sorta laid off King after The Tommyknockers. Something was missing after that.

One of these day I may binge the Dark Tower series.

 

[Darkwind]

The Shining. It. The Stand. Salem's Lot not far behind.

I sorta laid off King after The Tommyknockers. Something was missing after that.

One of these day I may binge the Dark Tower series.

I was not a fan of the Dark Tower series. I think he was experimenting with the concept of a novel in a short story release format. I think it bombed.

I did like the Tommyknockers and of course, all those on the top tier list.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

The Shining. It. The Stand. Salem's Lot not far behind.

I sorta laid off King after The Tommyknockers. Something was missing after that.

One of these day I may binge the Dark Tower series.

I was not a fan of the Dark Tower series.

I heard that from many.

 

[2aguy]

My favorites are - 1) The Stand 2) The Shining 3) The Dead Zone 4) Danse Macabre (terrific non-fiction book), and 5) The Green Mile

Salem's Lot.....best of the lot....

 

[Shawnee_b]

It

 

[2aguy]

It

Dead Zone was great too.....

 

[aaronleland]

The Talisman, but it was co-written by Peter Straub.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The Shining. It. The Stand. Salem's Lot not far behind.

I sorta laid off King after The Tommyknockers. Something was missing after that.

One of these day I may binge the Dark Tower series.

I agree.
I use to read everything he did till the early nineties... then have only read a handful since. He has certainly done good books since then, but it is a bit like a box of chocolates now. A good one here and there with a lot of meh in between.

Having said that, I would agree with most The Stand was his best work. Dreamcatcher was a great book, but lead to a dreadful movie. Misery was very good. There are so many it is hard to say really.
But none had the depth and story creation of The Stand.
I have always wanted The Stand to be done by HBO as a 3 part series. A 2 hour movie can't do it. And it needs to be done right, with a good producer, actors etc. and not a bunch of cheap cheesy "B" actors his movies usually get.

 

[hjmick]

The Stand. Both versions.

Anything after and beginning with Gerald's Game, with one or two exceptions, isn't worth the time it takes to read the dust cover.