Riding the Bullet, The Plant, In the Tall Grass are all good. Throttle is average I would say, I like it better as a comic.
How much Stephen King have you read?
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Riding the Bullet, The Plant, In the Tall Grass are all good. Throttle is average I would say, I like it better as a comic.
....it is a well done piece of non-fiction, up to you-but I feel you'll short yourself if you skip it.....
The Plant is the only one I think I have not read. I have every book Uncle Stevie has written and companion books by Bev, Robin and Rocky (God/dess rest him) and a few others. I have several in my Kindle library. If one of SK's books turns up on my Book Gorilla list, I get it. I usually get the new releases sent at 9:00 my time (so nice to turn on my Kindle and see a new SK book). Don't plan to stop until he does and even then I re-read them. 
I haven't read The Colorado Kid. I read it over the next couple of months.
I really liked it. It was a story, if ya ken.
Jag ken. I'm surprised that King hasn't done more titles with that publisher, Hard Case Crime. I always like the covers on their books.
I think people who expect a detective story find it disappointing, because of how it ends. I think more of it as an X-files kind of story, and probably that's also why it became a tv-series in that vein.
He did! Joyland is also from Hard Case Crime.
I have read all except Firestarter, Black house, the Tailsman and the Dark Tower series. I Want to read the DT series, but I cant seem to get the motivation, I suppose Freud would have a theory on it.
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I have read all except Firestarter, Black house, the Tailsman and the Dark Tower series. I Want to read the DT series, but I cant seem to get the motivation, I suppose Freud would have a theory on it.
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Yes! I agree. It is a story in its very essence. We know that storytelling is the earliest method for sharing narratives and King is at his best in this book. I'm very fond of Colorado Kid, even if I prefer Joyland more!
Joyland is, IMHO, one of the best he's ever written.
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I'll second that! Joyland is still the fastest I've read a book, only the prospect of getting less than 3 hours sleep got me to stop reading it. It was just so hard to put down.
I'm currently trying to follow SK in chronological order and am, best count 17 books behind. Although I own a few of the more recent ones. I just bought Revival. I don't read the Dark Tower stuff, and couldn't get into the Peter Straub collaborations. And oddly enough, I love Straub. I could not read Gerald's Game, and just could not get anything meaningful out of Buick 8, no matter how hard I tried. So I gave up. I've read all the short story collections, which I count as outside the book chronology. Oh, I've never read Carrie! I didn't like Scott Fitzgerald's, or Kurt Vonnegut's first book either. Or either Capote's, I don't think. So that puts SK in good company. But anyway I've read a goodly amount. And I read a book hard! Believe me, in the books of his I've read, I did not miss much.
I didn't like Scott Fitzgerald's, or Kurt Vonnegut's first book either. Or either Capote's, I don't think. So that puts SK in good company. But anyway I've read a goodly amount. And I read a book hard! Believe me, in the books of his I've read, I did not miss much.
The Dark Tower series is phenomenal, I hope you change your mind about reading those.I'm currently trying to follow SK in chronological order and am, best count 17 books behind. Although I own a few of the more recent ones. I just bought Revival. I don't read the Dark Tower stuff, and couldn't get into the Peter Straub collaborations. And oddly enough, I love Straub. I could not read Gerald's Game, and just could not get anything meaningful out of Buick 8, no matter how hard I tried. So I gave up. I've read all the short story collections, which I count as outside the book chronology. Oh, I've never read Carrie!
The Dark Tower will call to you-- eventually!!I'm currently trying to follow SK in chronological order and am, best count 17 books behind. Although I own a few of the more recent ones. I just bought Revival. I don't read the Dark Tower stuff, and couldn't get into the Peter Straub collaborations. And oddly enough, I love Straub. I could not read Gerald's Game, and just could not get anything meaningful out of Buick 8, no matter how hard I tried. So I gave up. I've read all the short story collections, which I count as outside the book chronology. Oh, I've never read Carrie!
The thing is that too many of his later books disappoint. It seems that he can't constraint himself in writing. Sometimes it seems that his only purpose is to write books that are as long as possible (or to just keep writing whether he has any good ideas or not), but then a short one can disappoint too - apart from the wonderful drawings and cover Gwendy's Button Box again is nothing special - another version of Matheson's 'Button, Button', that adds nothing and has no real surprises at all. I can't see a reason to have absolutely read everything he has done, apart from being able to say you've read them all.
Often the start of the book and the idea seems promising, but in the end it doesn't feel like it added up to much.
Although it seems this is a quite common pattern in creative careers: the later work not being that strong as the earlier work. It seems creativity is not an endless well, it seems to dry up over time rather. It often feels like an artist has said all he had to say at a certain point and the later work feels redundant. Or the later work doesn't say things quite as brilliantly as the early work and lacks its sharpness.
It's hard to say though of the later books (past Misery) what the real good ones (or possible classics) are, as opinions wildly vary. The Green Mile is one of the few I can think of where everyone agrees it's really good, but I don't know about the others - there doesn't seem to be much consensus on this. Gerald's Game is a big personal favourite, but I know by no means everyone agrees on it being good.
Often the start of the book and the idea seems promising, but in the end it doesn't feel like it added up to much.
Although it seems this is a quite common pattern in creative careers: the later work not being that strong as the earlier work. It seems creativity is not an endless well, it seems to dry up over time rather. It often feels like an artist has said all he had to say at a certain point and the later work feels redundant. Or the later work doesn't say things quite as brilliantly as the early work and lacks its sharpness.
It's hard to say though of the later books (past Misery) what the real good ones (or possible classics) are, as opinions wildly vary. The Green Mile is one of the few I can think of where everyone agrees it's really good, but I don't know about the others - there doesn't seem to be much consensus on this. Gerald's Game is a big personal favourite, but I know by no means everyone agrees on it being good.
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I can no longer decide whether my favourite book I've ever read is still IT, or if 11/22/63 has taken over.