Dream, Need or Tommy?
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That was me. -- edited to add: Thought I better clarify that since I was the only one who posted at the time. ahahhaha! Needful Things all the way.
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Needful things, then Dreamcatcher and Tommyknockers. Again I liked all three.
Needful Things, but Tommyknockers is very close behind.
Voted for Dreamcatcher...only the 2nd story from King I read, shortly after it came out...in hardback...but I liked them all equally. Why is it that you can remember some stories like you read them yesterday and other stories you forget them the day after? Anderson's disease? Need some of that jelly-fish goop?
Dreamcatcher and Tommyknockers are in my bottom 5 of all King books--lol. Needful Things for the win.
Needful Things. Love the balancing of humor and horror in this one and also Leland Gaunt. Even after a re-read years later I still don't like Tommyknockers. Dreamcatcher is good but not the best of the three.
I will fight with youse guys upon this theme! Until my eyelids will no longer wag!
I've always liked any story with a possession motif, plus TK reminds me of that line in On Writing about the fossil...and yay back in the ago...used to tell Ma, I'm going up in the bush! head out the door and walk up through Ed Loughner's terraced yard, make my way down the C&H tracks, cross over to the Copper Range by the Dizzy Bridge and head up the trail along the Hungarian...a big deep gouge in the earth...that coulda held a spaceship...too, it reminds me of a favorite story, Desperation. All three stories, really, have a balance of humor and horror. the salad-eating, Evian-drinking Goths had reached their objective! Knew quite a few people like whatever his name is...I forget...in my travels.
...Tommy...it was a great rock opera...
I will fight with youse guys upon this theme! Until my eyelids will no longer wag!
I've always liked any story with a possession motif, plus TK reminds me of that line in On Writing about the fossil...and yay back in the ago...used to tell Ma, I'm going up in the bush! head out the door and walk up through Ed Loughner's terraced yard, make my way down the C&H tracks, cross over to the Copper Range by the Dizzy Bridge and head up the trail along the Hungarian...a big deep gouge in the earth...that coulda held a spaceship...too, it reminds me of a favorite story, Desperation. All three stories, really, have a balance of humor and horror. the salad-eating, Evian-drinking Goths had reached their objective! Knew quite a few people like whatever his name is...I forget...in my travels.
I loved Tommyknockers also! Maybe one of those type of novels where.... it either speaks to you or not.... ? It gets my vote of the 3 (most memorable too!)
.... there he goes again.... <sigh!>
I will fight with youse guys upon this theme! Until my eyelids will no longer wag!
I've always liked any story with a possession motif, plus TK reminds me of that line in On Writing about the fossil...and yay back in the ago...used to tell Ma, I'm going up in the bush! head out the door and walk up through Ed Loughner's terraced yard, make my way down the C&H tracks, cross over to the Copper Range by the Dizzy Bridge and head up the trail along the Hungarian...a big deep gouge in the earth...that coulda held a spaceship...too, it reminds me of a favorite story, Desperation. All three stories, really, have a balance of humor and horror. the salad-eating, Evian-drinking Goths had reached their objective! Knew quite a few people like whatever his name is...I forget...in my travels.
I'm not arguing quality--they're just not to my personal taste.
Aliens bore me. My older son is fascinated/sort of scared of aliens, and UtD/Dreamcatcher are his two very favorite SK books (he found IT sort of boring. Not sure he's my kid-;P). Different strokes for different folks
Tommyknockers has no votes, and I feel sorry for the guy. He's the ugly duckling of King's canon.
Needful Things is in my top 10 of all SK books, so it got my vote here. Next, I would vote for The Tommyknockers; I actually like this book. Dreamcatcher was out of the running for me since it is the only SK book I have never been able to finish; even after 3 very serious attempts (got about 3/4 of the way once).
To quote Michael Jackson- 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.'I will fight with youse guys upon this theme! Until my eyelids will no longer wag!
I've always liked any story with a possession motif, plus TK reminds me of that line in On Writing about the fossil...and yay back in the ago...used to tell Ma, I'm going up in the bush! head out the door and walk up through Ed Loughner's terraced yard, make my way down the C&H tracks, cross over to the Copper Range by the Dizzy Bridge and head up the trail along the Hungarian...a big deep gouge in the earth...that coulda held a spaceship...too, it reminds me of a favorite story, Desperation. All three stories, really, have a balance of humor and horror. the salad-eating, Evian-drinking Goths had reached their objective! Knew quite a few people like whatever his name is...I forget...in my travels.
I never felt a connection to either of the main characters in Tommyknockers. Just didn't care about either one of them.
"Dream", great Everly Bros!
I have to go for Dreamcatcher. I just loved the relationship between the boys. I still laugh out loud at the s**t weasels and the toilet bits. Needful Things does have a lot of good points. Tommyknockers will never be one of my faves.
...ain't I a stinker?...
Dreamcatcher, then Needful Things. Tommyknockers didn't hit a cord with me.
The only SK book I could not finish was The Talisman (maybe I had a mental block because it was a collaboration...?)