Stephen Kings The Outsider

Heckler

About a third of the way in. After a few misfires King is back on form. Riveting.

CWF

Heckler wrote: »

About a third of the way in. After a few misfires King is back on form. Riveting.

Sounds good. Might pick it up. I've never read any of his books would you believe, what would be your top 5 King books in order of preference? Thanks.

CWF

Anyone? Started reading the shining today and loving it so far

GLaDOS

Off the top of my head I'd say

It
The Stand
Salems Lot
Misery
The Shining

Not including The Dark Tower Series

Curious about the new book, reviews seem to be good.

CWF

GLaDOS wrote: »

Off the top of my head I'd say

It
The Stand
Salems Lot
Misery
The Shining

Not including The Dark Tower Series

Curious about the new book, reviews seem to be good.

What would you recommended out of the dark tower series?

GLaDOS

CWF wrote: »

What would you recommended out of the dark tower series?

It's chronological so start with book 1, the gunslinger. It's a great series (imo), though does go off the rails a little after book 4. Also it's fantasy rather than horror. It's a hell of a commitment though, 7 books in all (plus an 8th added retrospectively, can be considered somewhat optional) and the last few are not small books.

smurf492

Dark half and dead zone... Big king fan so do yourself a favour and forget dark tower for a while, go with the castle rock books and the derry books

the purple tin

You won't go far wrong with any of his short story collections.

Posy

Hmm... must check out The Outsider.

Top 5 is a tough one.

I really loved 11.22.63 and Under the Dome.
I also enjoyed Misery, Carrie and The Shining- which is completely different from the film of course!

CWF

Posy wrote: »

Hmm... must check out The Outsider.

Top 5 is a tough one.

I really loved 11.22.63 and Under the Dome.
I also enjoyed Misery, Carrie and The Shining- which is completely different from the film of course!

Finished The Shining yesterday, enjoyed it.

Irishder

about half way through this really enjoying it

CWF

Irishder wrote: »

about half way through this really enjoying it

Have you read his other books? How would it compare

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I am an on off king fan. I have a version of IT with 1200 pages and I am on page 900. I am having trouble going back to it. I much prefer the shorter reads. I should go back and finish it obviously but did anyone else have this problem?
For he guy looking to read some. I recommend The Shining, 11.22.63, Night Shift(Short Stories), Salem's Lot. I am not sure I have read others. I have the Stand on myself. Will read it sometime. But I generally try to stick to shorter fiction. 300 pages or so. King's short stories are really excellent. Ah Also check out Full Dark, No Stars.

Irishder

CWF wrote: »

Irishder wrote: »

about half way through this really enjoying it

Have you read his other books? How would it compare

Yeah read misery, the stand, the mist (short story). Its kind of different in a strange way. I think it lost its way a bit in the 3rd quarter but i got back into it by the end. Def recommend it. Looking for a new book now. Any recommendations?

LincolnHawk

Bout a third of the way through IT now and enjoying it. Tried reading it before and just couldn't get into it.
Big fan of him, read most of his renowned work including the 7 dark tower books.
If I could only choose 1 from his whole collection though it would have to be The Stand.

Mr.Nice Guy

I enjoyed Pet Sematary and would recommend it.

I haven't tried any of his recent efforts but I may give The Outsider a look. I saw Sleeping Beauties in the library a few months back but I didn't go for it in the end. Anyone read that one?

GLaDOS

Sleeping Beauties is decent but nothing amazing. Bloody long too.

Dial Hard

I refuse to read The Outsider because of

the Mr. Mercedes trilogy crossover. Those books were godawful.

Sleeping Beauties was ...fine. There are far better King books to read if you want to dip back into him.