2015, The Year I re-read Stephen King
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I fixed my typo-I meant "listed!" I was just so excited to have an answer I posted too soon! 
VERY COOL!!I just know it by heart. I can list every single King/Bachman book in publication order from my memory. It's one of my few skills.
The order is:
Carrie
'Salem's Lot
The Shining
Rage (Bachman)
Night Shift
The Stand
The Long Walk (Bachman, pretty sure it came before Dead Zone)
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
I really like Tommyknockers, while sK apparently doesn't all that much, though he has personal, drug-related reasons for his opinion.
First on my reread list (which I won't be looking at for a long time) is Lisey's Story, which I expect to appreciate more than I did first time. It seemed such a departure from the sK I was used to at the time, as I was a noob then.
...so I guess my Danielle Steel appreciation group, "Danielle's Underappreciated Mega Books" or DUMB, probably isn't going to get off then ground then huh?....
You can do that right in The Library. Just click on the column title "First Published" or "Date" (the title is different in some of the categories) and it will resort them chronologically rather than alphabetically.
You could join along with us over at Stephen King Revisited, where Rich Chizmar is doing the same thing.
Really enjoying SK Revisited!
I am way behind in my Stephen King Revisited posts. I'm going to have to check this out now for sure, thanks Bev.
I actually came across a list of reading for 2015- it has stuff like "a book set in another country" "a book made into a movie" "a book over 100yrs old" etc. A lot of the categories can be filled with King books and I fully intend to do so!
OK. It is 2015 and i am gonna reread some King. I do not intend to do it in any specific order. I'll start with these that i haven't read in a while. Late 2014 i reread some books like Pet Semetary, Tommyknockers, The Green Mile, Christine, Cycle of the werewolf, Cujo, The Dead zone, The Girl who loved Tom Gordon and Salems Lot so these will not go first in line for 2015. That it became so many has partly to do with there being two King releases that i bought the first day but mostly because i was here, talking and discussing King which made me want to revisit territories i thought i remembered. The posts here made understand that i had forgotten parts. The last book i actually finished 2014 was Christine. Later today or tomorrow i intend to start my King reread with Carrie, not because it was the first King but because it was a long time since i read it. After that i don't know. Good luck to my fellow rereaders(and of course firsttime readers too) in their different ways to the goal.
I will follow Lord Peter Wimseys family policy: "As my Whimsy takes me"
I have started "The Dark Half." I haven't read it since 1989 (or maybe 1990 - I looked up the release date and it was 1989. I have the hard cover so I must have bought it shortly after release.)
I started THe Dark Half for the very first time about 2 months ago and got interrupted. So, I will be reading this one for the first time during my year of Stephen King. I hope it's good.
A 100 pages into Carrie. You can sense that there still is some rough edges in the writing and buildup but the King feeling is all there. When i break for the day a thought that strikes me is "I wonder what a more mature King would have made of the portrait of the mother? Wouldn't he have it a bit more fleshed out?" That was just a reflection that passed me by. But, ohhh, i like it. I looked at the clock and saw it was after midnight so i better get to sleep. If i hadn't i would probably be reading still.
Carrie would be at least another 300 pages long if a more mature King wrote it. I like that it's a short novel. It got more packed into it's little not-quite-200-page length than alot of other books do.
I like that its short too. I was just thinking of Piper Laurie from the movie... She was great as the mother, and thought just her character could be seen or heard more. We hear from Sue and Tommy and Chris but we hear almost nothing from mother. She is after all just as important though not as active as them. I very seldom compare King with other authors, when i do i find it most often to the other authors disadvantage and they are good in their own way.
Okay, I got Carrie on audio from my library. I was waiting for my Xmas gift of Carrie from Cemetery Dance to get here, but didn't make it in time and I need to get started on my resolution. I have never heard the audio, so decided to go that route. And the fact that my public library had 9 stephen king books total. 9.
You could say that maybe they were all checked out. But, there was absolutely NO room on the shelves anywhere around his pathetic section to shelve anymore stephen kings. I am so disappointed in my library.
You could say that maybe they were all checked out. But, there was absolutely NO room on the shelves anywhere around his pathetic section to shelve anymore stephen kings. I am so disappointed in my library.