Any Stephen King fans?

[Nessa]

I kind of doubt it because most people here seem to be strictly fantasy fans (nothing wrong with that), and a lot of people seem to find King mediocre and only good for cheap scares. I actually read his books for the quality of story-telling and often times deep emotion.

Some of my favorates are The Tailsman (he only co-wrote that, and its very fantasy), Dreamcatcher (kind of sci-fi) and Hearts in Atlantis.

So?:grin:

[Nessa the Dancer]

I've only read one Stephen King book 'Through the eyes of the Dragon' and I liked that.
But I'm not just a fantasy fan, I also like Westerns and historical novels and others which I don't know what catorgory they fit into.

[Nessa]

Thats actually one I never read. Figures. :p

I didn't mean everyone is into fantasy, it just seems like this board talks about mostly fantasy type books.

[Catz]

well.....just start a thread.....you'll be surprised at the range of interests people have....i do know several people have read The Talisman cos it was discussed a while ago, elsewhere, so its kind of cool youve brought it back up, Nessa :grin: :cool:
Im not a huge King fan myself tho.....i find he has an annoying (to me;) ) habit of padding....never using one word where twelve would do....bit like Dean Koontz...love their ideas tho...and i have read some King that i did like...tho it tends to be the shorter ones, where the ideas dont get buried under an avalanche of excess verbiage....tho i have got to read the Talisman...:grin:
:catz:

[Nessa]

Catz, the extra words can be (*deep breath*), annoying. There I said it.

But I tend to read books for the character quality, and King has many beautiful characters, ones that you can love and others despise and best of all the ones you can't decide about..

Enough rambling. The Tailsman is a great book, wonderful characters (especially Wolf), but you can tell the man he co-wrote it with kind of had the upper hand. Now the sequel, Black House, is good as well, but King seems to be in charge this time and was set on packing it as full of gore as possible, kind of making up for the lack of bloodiness in the first one. I like it, but wouldn't recommend it to people who tend to be squemish.

[TheRingBearer]

Well I love The Shining but I've only seen the film not read the book so there might be stuff I'm missing but anyway, great story.

[Nessa]

Sure is, RingBearer. :) The book is better of course, but the movie (the older one with Jack Nickleson) is pretty good. Creepy, too.

[Sindarin]

I enjoy reading the more "non-horror" type books of King.

"Hearts in Atlantis," "The Green Mile," "Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption,"
"Rose Madder," "The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon," "Insomnia," "Bag of Bones," etcetera and so forth...

Books he had written which are more "real life," or have a somewhat supernatural/suspense plot to them.

The list could go on. :thumbs:

[Nessa]

I agree, Sindarin. Hearts in Atlantis is definately a favorate here. Bag of Bones was great...... a good story with a little scariness as well...

[Sindarin]

:thumbs:

[Mirkgirl]

I read couple of his horror books ("It" for sure, though my copy lacked pages (now those were not the words I wanted to miss)) I remember the movie too, but it was years ago... I liked it then :)