best Stephen King novel i haven't read? this is a question poll
 

the entire Dark Tower series (i hear its good but the idea sounds dumb)
Needful Things (i did like the movie but i'm not motivated to read it)
Dolores Claiborne
Gerald's Game
Insomnia
Rose Madder
The Green Mile (the movie made me feel like i didn't need to read the book)
Bag of Bones (started it and was bored to death and never finished)
The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon
Dreamcatcher
that Hearts in Atlantis shit
Riding the Bullet
From a Buick 8
Everything's Eventual

i need more poll options!

You know, Stephen King is really horrible.

Not that I haven't said as much 1000000 times here before.

Have you read Different Seasons? If not you should read that.

the long walk was one of my favorites

it's not that the movie was boring, it's just that i've seen the other movies and none of them interested me enough to read, or i heard that it was complete crap.

Carrie the book is actually pretty well written in the way that Carrie comes off as alot less of a freak than she does in the movie. In the movie she's a freak and you're waiting for her to pop so when she does its no big surprise. In the book she's a freak but also a relatable and understandable girl so when she pops the violence and intensity of it hits you alot harder.

if i could get funding i would make it into a movie. my friend and i might just shoot it on handheld camera for the hell of it. if i can get 100 kids.

my favorite Stephen King books for reference:

EDIT OH WAIT I FORGOT ONE

1. The Stand
2. The Long Walk
3. THE TOMMYKNOCKERS!
4. The Running Man
5. Desperation
6. Rita Hayworth & the Shawshank Redemption.. though yeah it's probably really the best thing he wrote

i love the collection book he recently published- everything's eventual, esp the stoory 1408.

i would love to see this; what a great book

who would cast as garraty? stebbins?

i'd like to see toby mcguire as stebbins...



my three favorites in that order

deja vu was my fave

deja vu frusterated me. but i have a feeling that was the point :loaded:

also- i would like to say that i voted for misery. i read the book before i saw the movie so that's probably the only reason why i like the movie- but the book certainly is better. cathy bates did a good job but nothing portrays the insanity of annie like the words of stephen king do.

i loved it when he called the guy's mouth a bloodhole

I read Carrie and thought it was a pretty good read. I think it was pretty short too.

i would never get it made by a studio. even if i knew how to get a movie going. even an indie wouldn't want to make this, since i'd want to stay true to the source material and make it mostly about them walking. kind of like Gerry as a fascist contest.

if i did manage to get a budget i'd probably cast unknowns. the kids are supposed to be pretty young... like 16 or so?

DIRTY BIRDY!! RINSE!! :mad: :erm

the most striking image of annie that i have in my head is the moment in the book where she is standing in the doorway looking at the author (his name escapes me), and she grabs her bottom lip with her nails and squeezes it until she draws enough blood for it to trickle down her chin :erm

try reading some books by john saul. much scarier.

16 exactly if i remember correctly


i'd like to see you make one about the Walk but also ******* some flashback scenes about the Squads, etc.

that'd kick serious ass

maybe Jake Gyllenhaal as garraty

Dude, It was kickass.

He is starting some television series about some wierd hospital. It looked lame....but then again so are most things on Tv.

Re: best Stephen King novel i haven't read? this is a question poll
 

I thought it sounded dumb aswell, but then I gave it a chance and I can't stop reading the books. (I'm on 4 now.)

Different Seasons

I always heard Pet Sematary was good.

And I enjoyed the Carrie movie.

EYES OF THE DRAGON is interesting. I heard a French company was in production with an animated adaptation of it.




BTW: King is an awful, awful short story writer

King has really played out the whole "four boys in the woods" concept one too many times, no? (e.g. "the body", DREAMCATCHER, IT)

"The Talisman"....mm... and "Rose Madder", both very good.

"Gerald's Game" is kind of twisted. it's about a woman locked to the bed after a game of dirty sex involving handcuffs goes bad when the husband dies. :erm

i'll always hold "The Running Man" close to my heart.

rage.

Re: best Stephen King novel i haven't read? this is a question poll
 

and this is a really great book, too. except it seemed like he ran out of ideas for the ending.

Re: Re: best Stephen King novel i haven't read? this is a question poll
 

He really isn't that good with endings. I just hope he has a good ending for the black tower series. It would suck to have a 7 book series have a bad ending.