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    Posted: December 14 2011 at 08:10
Vote and talk about your favorite novel by Stephen King!

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For me, it is The Stand followed by It.  I enjoyed the first book from The Dark Tower, but I've not read the rest of the series yet. 
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The Stand. It should have been an option - I suspect it is a popular choice.
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loved The Shining and Christine...
 
but my fave two are not on your list... The Stand and the outstanding Different Deasons
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^Different Seasons are four novellas...
 
(and are awesome stories, btw).


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Awesome Poll! I've got to go with Dark Tower, though I've enjoyed everything I've read by him (which is most of what he's written Wink)
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The Stand - by quite a margin
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I've never read the Stand - I take it from these comments that it comes highly recommended?
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I really enjoyed The Stand.  I also enjoy the 6-hour miniseries that they made for it.  I read The Stand twice.  The first time that I read it, it was a 600 or 700 page paperback.  One day I was over at my neighbors' house and she had an expanded edition copy that was 1100 or 1200 pages, so I read it again.  The longer book filled in a lot of holes from the original, but I thought it was quite excellent.  Also, you can listen to Shadow Circus' album Whispers and Screams and have music to go along with the book.

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I'd definitely recommend it. Great stuff.
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The Green Mile is extraordinary prose and might be my favorite novel from him.  King was pretty much the author that made this non-reader a reader.  My car broke down outside of a bookstore and it was a two hour wait for a tow.

I started with It, then read The Shining.  I also read The Dead Zone and Cujo to my wife (as well as The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Needful Things- we never finished the latter for some reason).

Guy writes books faster than I can read them.
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I've only read The Running Man but it was excellent.

It, The Stand and The Long Walk are all on my Christmas list.
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Originally posted by The Truth The Truth wrote:

I've only read The Running Man but it was excellent.

It, The Stand and The Long Walk are all on my Christmas list.


Good choices, although I might also recommend Different Seasons.  It is a collection of four novellas (one of which is "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption").
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I might also get that as well. Thumbs Up
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I've read a lot of King's novels, and The Stand and It are among the best. The Shining was also very good. Pet Sematary and Cujo were also extremely enjoyable. But, knowing my tastes, considering I've read it 4 times, my favorite vampire novel ever (in par with Dracula), Salem's Lot is my favorite by far.
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^ I could have gone for Salem's Lot too, and I was tempted by From a Buick 8 but in the end I could pass The Shining which has a great long build of tension.
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"Misery".

"Roadwork" would be my second choice.
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Points: 2866 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 14 2011 at 21:56
Never liked him that much, he seems to be writing like he were writting for a sitcom or movie. I have only read four by him, Pet Semetary (about 2 out of 5, thought it was pretty lame and uncaptivating), Desperation( 4 out of five, really good, interesting plot, lots of weirdness), and From A Buick Eight ( 4 out of five, I liked this better than Desperation, really really cool and inventive plot), and last and certaintly least, It (1 out of 5, 900 pages for a goddamn spider, ugh)
Whenh Stephen King gets into stranger and more "weird fiction" type stuff I really like him, but he doesn't do that enough.
 
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Am I the only one that saw "The Shinning" in the poll and instantly thought of The Simpsons? :3

I've never been a huge Stephen King fan, whenever I read his novels I always feel like the writing is very... dry. Throughout the entire thing I can't help but feel like it's terribly boring and I want it to end. Then I finish it and think "wow, what a great book, the plot was brilliant." Basically, I'm not a fan of his writing style, but I enjoy the stories immensely.

The only ones I've really enjoyed is the Dark Tower series. I've only read the first two books so far, but they were fantastic, I can't wait to read the rest of the series.
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The Stand. Just finished reading 11/22/63 which would be my second choice.
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