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    inspired by comments about stephen king in another thread.
    what is your favorite book, short-story or movie by stephen king?

    my favorite movie is "stand by me", because of all the nostalgia. when i was pregnant with my first, bed-ridden, one of the things that got me through was reading "the green mile" with my partner. if you've never read stephen king with someone, i highly recommend it. it is great bonding material!i don't think there ever has or ever will be a writer quite like him.
    i love in the filmings that he always makes cameo appearances as the most random characters.
    i've said it more often on here, but "the stand" is probably the greatest story existing. SCARY, but good, and most of it isn't even that scary.
    i do think it would be hard to be stephen king and that he went into the right field. i can't imagine having all that gruesomeness and scariness in my brain without being able to write it down. and since he never really stops writing, there's way more of it in his head than even comes out on paper.
    i wish i could write like him.
    I concur: superchang847, The Easter Bunny
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    I would agree that The Stand is his Magnum Opus!
    The great thing about SK is that he gets into the psyche of his characters... they are never perfect human beings(just like real people) and have there flaws!
    He is really just such a good writer...
    The ONLY book of his that I have read and didn't enjoy too much, was "From a Buick 8"... and "Cell" was like a cheap knock off of "The Stand"... it seemed that he was under contract to produce a book and wrote that in a few days (although I still found the book entertaining)...
    One of his best works though, was "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"... not a single supernatural event in the entire story!!!Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that, by the process of elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy...
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    I actually liked his short stories much better. I read Dean Koontz more for the longer stories. Such as Watcher.
    But I did like Stephen kings Gunslinger series. It was different than his usual work. But I got to say that I didn't enjoy The Stand as much as most people. I felt it was a bit drawn out and dry.
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      CommentAuthorAddler
    • CommentTimeMar 9th 2010
     
    My favorite Steven King novel is the stand. Which is odd because god saves the day in the end, BUT I am willing to accept the fact that it is a fiction novel, and in the bounderies of the fictional world, there is a god.Jesus has risen, It's no surprise. Even he would martyr his momma to ride to hell between those thighs.
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    :) the shawshank is totally awesome and even if there is no supernatural things, it still has a real dim(as in after dusk) feel. i have read some of the short stories(can't tell you how i got some of them, actually my ex did, so it's not my responsibility anyway!!), there are some pretty funny ones. i read bits and pieces of the gunslinger(in dutch). he's all over the place in them, but they are still great fantasy. i'm tryin to remember the name of the story about the kids that are in a race and if they slow down to a certain speed will not be eliminated, but ELIMINATED. that story a good one. wish i could figure out what it was from.
    i can't remember alot of the names of his books and stories come to think it, just the stories themselves. i saw the movie "desperation", which was way too violent with no real point. by the way, stephen king has his own production company called "castle rock". ring any bells?    (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")
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    The short story about the Kids was called "The Long Walk"... was brilliant... it was in the same collection of short stories as "The Running Man", which had a similar type theme... Did you Know, SK sued the makers of the movie "The Running Man" to get his name removed from the credits because the film was nothing like the short story at all... can't remember what the collection was called tho... Yeah, I new Castle Rock was his production co... most (if not all) of his stories are based in Castle Rock, Maine :) ... I have read nearly every book SK has ever written, with the exception of The Gunslinger series and a few of his later novels (just don't seem to get the time to read too much at the moment)... One of my other favourites is Misery (kind of prohpetic actually, when you consider SK's accident)....
    I concur: breezyspreezy
    Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that, by the process of elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy...
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    and to answer the question on what the collection of short stories was called... here's wikipedia

    "The Long Walk is a novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original.
    It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books."

    These are the novels collected in The Bachman Books:
    Rage (1977)
    The Long Walk (1979)
    Roadwork (1981)
    The Running Man (1982)Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that, by the process of elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy...
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    oh, rage was also awesome! i took an excerpt out of the dutch version and used it as a monologue in school(dramatic arts class, hippie school). that was my second ecounter with stephen king. the first was my brither telling to watch out when i wash the dishes because blood might come out of the sink, i was 10 and so flippin scared for such a long time, i don't think that fear left me til we moved house a couple years later!!! .(\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")
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    I actually cannot remember what rage was about??? read all these stiries about 25 years ago...lol... giving away my age here!!!Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that, by the process of elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy...
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    about a boy who is sick of being picked on and pissed off at the system and takes his class in school hostage, in the end the whole class is actually feeling with him and understanding him. i can't remember if he shot the teacher or not, i'm pretty sure he did, though. me, too, i'm old.:)(\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")
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      CommentAuthorJDMHADTO
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2010
     
    Baron
    The Dark Tower series is a must read. It has got romance, action, macabre story telling, intrigue, and plot twists up the yin-yang.

    Also, if you like Stephen King's works, you'll be glad to know that most every one of his stories ties into the main story of the series.

    The only thing that I didn't like about it was *SPOILER* that he made himself apart of the storyline. It totally ruined the unique and dark way that propelled me through the first 5 books.

    Unfortunately, i've seen other author's do this with their stories as well. It's like they just don't know what else to do. One of the best SciFi series, by Frank Herbert, fell into this scenario. Even more unfortunate is the fact that this author died before finishing such an EPIC tale.

    Any one read Orson Scott Card's, Ender's Game series? Or how about Brian Lumley's, Titus Crow!!!??? It's unyielding before any other story of Gods and their demise.

    And yeah, Dean Koontz is an excellent read. Almost all of his books are about a day read each. Twilight Eyes is fantastic.

    JoshuaHe who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. -M.L.K JR.
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      CommentAuthorStevo
    • CommentTimeMar 12th 2010
     
    LOUD NOISES.Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.
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    Posted By: JDMHADTOThe only thing that I didn't like about it was *SPOILER* that he made himself apart of the storyline


    was he actually a part of the storyline? there was a writer(but there often is in his works), but was he stephen king? i think he just likes to be personally involved in the story. he doesn't only write for the enjoyment of others, but also for himself.    (\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")
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    Posted By: breezyspreezy

    was he actually a part of the storyline? there was a writer(but there often is in his works), but was he stephen king? i think he just likes to be personally involved in the story. he doesn't only write for the enjoyment of others, but also for himself.


    Read it and find out ;p
    It's a great series.
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    i read bits and pieces(i'm wierd that way, or should i say, my relationship was wierd that way; we would read them together.). wait a minute. the gunslingger and the dark tower are one and the same, aren't they. i'll have to see if i can steal them from my ex somehow.(\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")
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    The gunslinger is the first book in the dark tower series. My sister was trying to get me to read them, but I couldn't get through gunslinger.Canto Ergo Sum
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      CommentAuthorJDMHADTO
    • CommentTimeMar 13th 2010
     
    Baron
    I'm sorry for the spoiler, but no, he incorporated himself into the story line. You'll see once you read the rest of it. It really ruined the story for me... Really it did. I only read the rest of it because I had begun it.

    And yeah, he mentions a writer in his novels some times. But, remember, he intertwines almost EVERY single storyline into the Dark Tower series. There are bits and pieces from Salem's Lot, It, Desperation, etc.... in this DT novels. It's pretty cool.He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. -M.L.K JR.
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    yeah, there are original bits too, though, like the lady who time-warps from city to cave and all kinds of wierd symbolism that has nothing to with anything, actually, probably does but i just don't get. nice to read though, def.(\__/) (='.'=) (")_(")
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    Posted By: JDMHADTOAny one read Orson Scott Card's, Ender's Game series?

    I have! I love it! Marvel did a nice comic book rendition of it, too."I don't intend to achieve immortality through my work. I intend to achieve it through not dying." -Woody Allen
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      CommentAuthorStevo
    • CommentTimeMar 14th 2010
     
    any1 read "the name of the wind", or "left hand of god"?
    favourite books so far lol.Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned.

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