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| Posted by: Whidden | | What is your favorite Stephen King Book? You can choose more than one. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | The Stand is my favorite, hard to beat that one.
Dark Tower 7, 4, 3 and 1 were awesome.
Tommyknockers is one of my favorites. Salems Lot was a classic, like the Stand. The Long Walk was brutal, but enlightening. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | THE STAND!!! I've read that book, once a year, for more years than I can count. I absolutely love this story... and never get tired of reading the book, or watching the movie. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Dead Zone, It, 'Salem's Lot and Carrie.
I haven't read the Dark Tower series yet, and maybe a couple of others, I don't remember... those 4 impressed me the most.
We should also do a Worst Stephen King Book thread. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Delorus Clairborne go right on the top of that one for me. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | |
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Whidden said this in post #5 :
My life for you!!! |
Hey, how's it going, Trash?
I got a special job, in the desert, just for you! 
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gaboman said this in post #4 :
Dead Zone, It, 'Salem's Lot and Carrie.
I haven't read the Dark Tower series yet, and maybe a couple of others, I don't remember... those 4 impressed me the most.
We should also do a Worst Stephen King Book thread. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Delorus Clairborne go right on the top of that one for me. |
Rose Madder sucked so bad, I didn't even read it. 
Actually, I read a few of his short storys that were so terrible, it hurt to read them. One, Cain Rose UP, made me sick for a couple of days. To horrific.
The other, the Long Jaunt, or Juant or something, I read before going to sleep and it gave me nightmares. A kid in that book, fakes sleep, so he can see what it's like to travel through a teleporter. If you are not asleep when you go through, you spend eternity trapped, unable to move, just staring into nothingness. Uh!!!!!!!!!!
I went to bed, and dreamed of that poor kid, stuck year after year, after year, looking at nothing. And I started thinking about how long it would take to go insane with something like that.
I have tried to read Needful Things a few times, can never get past the first few chapters. Other than that, I normally enjoy his books and re-read them after awhile.
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| Posted by: gaboman | |
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Whidden said this in post #7 :
Rose Madder sucked so bad, I didn't even read it.
Actually, I read a few of his short storys that were so terrible, it hurt to read them. One, Cain Rose UP, made me sick for a couple of days. To horrific.
The other, the Long Jaunt, or Juant or something, I read before going to sleep and it gave me nightmares. A kid in that book, fakes sleep, so he can see what it's like to travel through a teleporter. If you are not asleep when you go through, you spend eternity trapped, unable to move, just staring into nothingness. Uh!!!!!!!!!!
I went to bed, and dreamed of that poor kid, stuck year after year, after year, looking at nothing. And I started thinking about how long it would take to go insane with something like that.
I have tried to read Needful Things a few times, can never get past the first few chapters. Other than that, I normally enjoy his books and re-read them after awhile. |
Horrific I can deal with. I usually read writers with less of a conscience than Stephen King as it is. Much less... so I may check out those short stories you mentioned 
Rose Madder did suck though. Needful Things was alright... a lot of his books take some work to get past the first few chapters.
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| Posted by: Whidden | |
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gaboman said this in post #9 :
Horrific I can deal with. I usually read writers with less of a conscience than Stephen King as it is. Much less... so I may check out those short stories you mentioned
Rose Madder did suck though. Needful Things was alright... a lot of his books take some work to get past the first few chapters. |
The Long Walk was horrific, but I couldn't put the book down. Read it almost in one setting.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I read the Bachman books. They're all pretty good, I think. I forget which one Long Walk was... something like they had to walk and walk and walk and they'd get shot if they walked too slow? Or was that another writer? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | yeah, the Long Walk, was like walking survivor. Whoever fell below 3 miles an hour or whatever it was, got shot by Army Dudes. The winner got a big cash prise.
Our hero wins the walk, but is completly insane at the end. I guess the book is really about how we all face death. The kids reacted in different ways to dying.
Would make a terrible movie, but the book was awesome. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | The Stand is what I voted for, but my second favorite is In the Eyes of the Dragon. It is a fairy tale he wrote for his kids. 
To tell the truth, the book where I think he went down hill was The Tommyknockers.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I agree Sherry  I didn't like Tommyknockers one bit...
Sorry buuuu-ddy. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Invisible | | "Rose Madder" is by far my favorite book. I have read it 15 times. The Dark Tower series would be a close second. I started to read the Dark Tower series and LOVED them but couldn't get ahold of anything but the first two books. I can't find the others near me anywhere.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | Check out second hand stores, maybe. I think all my Stephen King books were bought second hand, with exception to The Talisman and Dreamcatcher. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | The Dark Tower series without question. i'm going to read The Stand shortly, and don't doubt i'll enjoy that as well. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Lawless | | You've not read The Stand, SS? Please let us know what you thought of it, afterwards. It's really, in my opinion, one of the best books, ever. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Dekka00 | | Dark Tower series was awesome, I chose books 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7.
The Stand and The Talisman are quite excellent.
I just got done reading Black House, and it was cool to see how The Talisman/Black House tied in with Dark Tower, but it didn't live up to the awesomeness of The Talisman. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Dekka00 | | oh yeah I also chose Short Stories. Some of them are really good, like the ones in Different Seasons. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | I couldn't get into the weird third person narrative that Black House had. It hurt my brain to read that book. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Kerry02 | | Was The Shining not a book? Actually now that I think of it, I believe it was. How could it not have been on this list? I watched it on TV last night. Heck of a story. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | You have to keep in mind, Kerry02, that Whidden made the poll. He's not all there all the time. | | Reply To this Message
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Dreamzwalker said this in post #27 :
I really loved Gone with the wind |
 ROTFLMAO!
Where is The Shining? That was the scariest book he wrote! (Not to mention one of the most popular!) HELLO........Jack Nicholson.."Here's Johnny." Wow...cant believe that wasnt on the list.
I picked Gerald's Game though because I liked that one as well (not as good as The Shining but I liked it). It was wierd...but intense...
Still...where is The Shining?? 
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| Posted by: mystic | |
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Whidden said this in post #29 :
It's under "one of his novels, not listed here." |
Nice comeback. Though admit it...you forgot to add it.
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| Posted by: mystic | | Alright....who added it just recently? I know it wasnt here earlier because I looked over that list a few times. Plus, Whid made the list and he said it was under his "novels not listed" part.
So? Who's the culprit? | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Whidden | | It's a mystery....
Lets launch an official Inreview investigation. There will be reward money involved, so this will get done right, guaranteed. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I can solve it. Wheezy did it.
You know, I have never read a Stephen King book, and I think I'm a good man for it.
-HECK! | | Reply To this Message
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HECK! said this in post #34 :
I can solve it. Wheezy did it.
You know, I have never read a Stephen King book, and I think I'm a good man for it.
-HECK! |
Not so fast Bubba. First we need to hand it over to the Inreview Council, and have the event studied. Then the council will appoint an arbiter, someone we can trust, like when Ken Star investigated Clinton and found out about the Blue Dress.
Then, after the independent investigator is done, we will hand it over to committee, and from that point, Lawless or Fuscia will get the results.
I think it goes without saying, that no set limit for money and time will be implemented for this investigation, as it's of the utmost importance that we find out the TRUTH of what really happened to this poll.
It may take months, and valuable Inreview advertising resources, but I promise you people, we will find an answer.
---Whizzle
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| Posted by: mystic | |
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Whidden said this in post #33 :
It's a mystery....
Lets launch an official Inreview investigation. There will be reward money involved, so this will get done right, guaranteed. |
Still such a wee bit sensitive are ya lad? Get over the grudge already.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I want to be in charge of filing forms 82A through to 82F. They're the more interesting documents. Except 82C, but I guess I have to take the good with the bad. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | |
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gaboman said this in post #31 :
I can see it there... or was that added in recently? |
I didn't do it. I just close polls.
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| Posted by: Whidden | |
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gaboman said this in post #37 :
I want to be in charge of filing forms 82A through to 82F. They're the more interesting documents. Except 82C, but I guess I have to take the good with the bad. |
sounds good. Heck! is in charge of interrogations. He is torturing Dekka00 right now, as we speak.
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| Posted by: gaboman | | I can imagine him now, stepping on Dekka's taco shells.... Dekka crying for him to stop... oh, he'll crack soon!
Anybody know how long it takes King to write a story? I mean, I just figure that "It" or "The Stand" would've taken him a hell of a long time. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: gaboman | | That's true. It takes half the book to get started, and you're just wishing it would end for the last half. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | I read a synopsis of The Running Man online and it sounds lame. The movie was dope.
-HECK! | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: Shadow Stalker | | Yeah, the Stand lived up to the hype, excellent book. Loved his portrayal of the breakdown of society. The ending sure was interesting, made me think. | | Reply To this Message
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HECK! said this in post #43 :
I read a synopsis of The Running Man online and it sounds lame. The movie was dope.
-HECK! |
See, I thought the movie was lame and the book was dope (or at least doper, it's not exactly the best thing I've ever read).
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| Posted by: Invisible | |
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| Anybody know how long it takes King to write a story? I mean, I just figure that "It" or "The Stand" would've taken him a hell of a long time. |
King usually puts the start and end date at the end of the novels doesn't he? I think the average is about 2 years.
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gaboman said this in post #48 :
See, I thought the movie was lame and the book was dope (or at least doper, it's not exactly the best thing I've ever read). |
To be fair, I just read a review of it. Never read the book.
To be unfair, the movie had Richard Dawson. You know, from the Feud? Uh, that rules bro. He's the only one to have a snappy comeback to Arnold's trademark catchphrase.
"I'll be back"
"Only in a rerun"
Excellence!
-HECK!
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| Posted by: HECK! | |
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Whidden said this in post #46 :
Stand was awesome. |
I watched the TV mini-series. I should say tried to watch it. Two buddies and I in high school decided to rent it all and watch it all night. We had some brews, stayed up, and at about tape 3 of 8 we were all racked. We never finished watching it. Any-who, the next morning one of my buddies finds out his motorcycle was egged in front of my house sometime in the night. We know who it is without asking. This one dork I never kicked it with in the first place but the other two guys did.
That starts off an interesting series of events.
We all go our separate ways that day. That night, my friend with the motorcycle doesn't even come out. My buddy who crashed the night before and two other friends roll out. The four of us grab some brews and a few dozen eggs with the intention of finding the egg thrower(s). It only took a few hours but on the main strip when dudes pull up behind us. One of my pals jumps out of the car and runs up the hood and over the egg throwers car, it was a VW Bug. That was great. So the egg throwers are pissed. We try to huck a few at them with mixed results. A while later we are at McDonald's parking lot eating cheeseburgers with 40's when the egg throwers roll up and unleash a barrage. They tag my other buddies car and one egg breaks about three feet away from the one buddy who watched the Stand with me and a wee bit of egg gets on his pants. He wigs. I think he was on steroids at the time. Anyway, we get more eggs and end up at Del Taco at the end of the night, as per what everyone did back in them days. Sure enough, egg throwers roll in. Meanwhile, another dude we know who is in jail now is talking to us and hears the story thus far. He takes an egg and hucks it at the VW bug cruising in. Man, this was a shot heard 'round the Del Taco. It curved, at a sick angle right into the driver’s window of a moving car and pegged that dude like a carnival duck shooting game. Dozens of people hit the floor laughing. Dude parks, jumps out, and was asking who did it. The jail guy was like, "I did". The egg thrower ignores him or whatever still asking who did it, maybe so the answer will change because he ain't doing crap to that dude. Finally egg thrower bounces. Night over? Nah. Remember my buddy with the little bit of egg on his pants? He was still pissed. Egg pants wants to go to egg throwers house for retaliation. We do. So it's my one buddy driving, egg pants in the passenger spot, I'm in the back with another buddy. Egg thrower comes out and talks to us through the driver's window. We're all shooting the stuff, talking like it's all cool, when in mid-sentence egg pants reaches over and slams an egg in dude's face. He wigs and wants to fight. Before he can even get the words out egg pants is out the door and they are rumbling. First the thrower tries to ninja kick and egg pants starts laughing. The thrower was kind of loppy and kind of looked like some karate special Olympic stunt. They are rolling around in the neighbor’s driveway and pants is kicking dude's ass something heavy. Finally the throwers dad comes out and we all bail in a flurry of cuss words and self-satisfaction.
But this is not over. My friend who's car was tagged in the McD's parking lot calls out egg thrower and we all meet Monday morning before school, well during school, in the park to fight. My friend kicks the egg throwers ass handedly. We scatter and go to school. A few weeks later we were all almost arrested because of unrelated events.
Good times. The moral to the story: never watch The Stand.
-HECK!
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| Posted by: Whidden | | I can't STAND the movie version of the STAND. Absolutely terrible.
But the book rocked. Best book EVA. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: HECK! | | Yeah, I don't even know what they stood for. World peace maybe. I missed the point.
King books seem too long. It's like, get to the point windbag.
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| Posted by: Whidden | | eh, when you get to be an old old man like me, one who is ancient of age, and generally burned out, you won't mind reading a big *** slow 4 inch thick book from Mr. King.
Look at yourself as a young Luke Skywalker, full of energy, vigor, delusions of grandeur and teen angst. Headstrong, questioning authority, disenfranchised by the system, ready to take on the empire will the force of your own will.
Look at me like the old Obi Wan, hobbling around, limping, can't barley fight with his light saber no more, slinking the corridors of the Death Star making wiseacre observations, trying to use the force on weaker minds, wearing old out of date cloaks and lying to Luke about how his old man left a light saber for him, but his Uncle Owen didn't want him to have it.
Yes, it's just like that. When you get to be a old feller like me, you will like the fact that Mr. King goes into minute detail of the past life of every side character that comes and goes. You will enjoy that the book makes your wrist ache to hold it up to read, because King couldn't form any self control with his word processor. You will take joy from the fact that Tards and Deaf people and the handicapped and lesbians fight for the good side, while the engineers, jet fighter pilots and electricians fight for the Dark Man.
Ye young punk.  | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | |
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Whidden said this in post #52 :
I can't STAND the movie version of the STAND. Absolutely terrible.
But the book rocked. Best book EVA. |
Now Dave, it was a great book, but NOTHING will ever compare to The Lord of The Rings. That was sheer brillance.
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| Posted by: Whidden | | Wood elves and Rock Gnomes can't compare to super plague and Stu Redman.
M-O-O-N, that spells Tom Cullen. | | Reply To this Message
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| Posted by: fuscia | | Trashcan man vs. gollem? No contest. Aragorn would kick Stu's sorry butt. I loved the Stand, but King is no Tolkien. | | Reply To this Message
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fuscia said this in post #57 :
Trashcan man vs. gollem? No contest. Aragorn would kick Stu's sorry butt. I loved the Stand, but King is no Tolkien. |
I dunno, I think I would go with the Stand against Tolkien.
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