Your most underrated SK book

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blunthead

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I'm interpreting the thread to be for sK books we've personally decided are better than we'd thought they'd be or heard they are, and for me tops on such a list is From a Buick 8, which I'd not heard great things about and I'd assumed less. I loved it. Black House is next in the list. I'd started it years before my second try, had read two chapters and decided to move on. I'd not read The Talisman by then, though, which had I might've meant my not stopping at two chapters. I've just finished BH and, after the first two chapters, loved that one, too.
 
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its not really underrated but it is so good mine has got to be Four Past Midnight, I mean that book is simply amazing

Yes! One of the stories in Four Past Midnight (Langoliers) had so many negative reviews, I did not expect to like it but I loved it. :) I thought it was very imaginative. I like a little sci-fi thrown into horror stories. :)
 

ghost19

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Hearts in Atlantis. Specifically the actual story in the book called "Hearts in Atlantis". A wonderful story about getting your legs underneath you in college and trying to figure out who you are going to be. The whole undercurrent of linking all the stories together in that book is just an incredible job of writing.
 

RichardX

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I'm going with The Shining. I think the movie and debate about the differences between the book and movie has overshadowed what a great book this is. It works on many levels. Cujo is also underrated. A really dark story with some interesting asides. The cereal professor etc. It's not just big dog - although there is that!.
 

Kurben

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It is a pick between The girl who loved Tom Gordon or Cell. You don't have to understand Baseball. It is about a girl getting lost in the woods. It could have been Johhny Depp or whatever. Cell because i have heard bad things about it which is totally unwarranted. It is a good, fastpaced Kingchiller.
 

fljoe0

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It's hard to call any of them underrated but two that I like that don't get talked about too much are "From A Buick 8" and "Hearts In Atlantis."

With Hearts, I really liked the way the stand alone stories are connected but it never really seems like a novel so it's a bit of an oddball as far as novels go. The Lowmen and Hearts stories are terrific.

I appreciated Buick 8 much more the second time around. The first time I read it, I wasn't too crazy about it but a few years later, I listened to the audiobook and loved it.
 

AchtungBaby

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Joyland. I think this is better than any book he has released since its publication: Doctor Sleep, Mr. Mercedes and Revival.
I feel like this book just does not get the love it deserves. It is such a wonderfully written and realized book. For me, it hits all the right notes of a classic SK story.
I love all the books you listed, but I agree about Joyland being overlooked. Seemed like everyone kind of ignored Joyland because they were excited for Doctor Sleep (not the people on the boards, I mean the reading public in general).