stephen king c/d?

! if you had to pick ONE tho

It, hands down

Nonono, stay the hell away from IT!

That was my first King and it really soured me on King.

imo IT is his masterpiece, might as well start there if you have some time on your hands... not that it really takes that long to read, took me a month of leisurely reading

It taken me eternity

You never It.

I agree with 'Salem's Lot and Night Shift as the obvious "first King" contenders. My first was Firestarter, which was fine but in retrospect not his best work.

that trailer.

peter jackson directing or something?

roland deschain is not a fucking power ranger.

That's debatable.

i like Elba there but McConaughey looks spot on

how have people not realised Idris Elba (one career-making performance aside) is a terrible actor at this point

I second 'Salem's Lot and Night Shift as the ideal entry points, with the original version of The Stand another solid contender.

he was good in Zootopia xp

ah hes great i mean i dunno if he acts i dont be looking but hes so fucking cool

but even without the matrix shite there i dunno if hes roland. hes not near wasted enough for starters

king entry point.... eye of the dragon, nightmares and dreamscapes

i feel like you can kind of start anywhere and if you dig his style, it doesn't matter if the book is a lesser work... like the first thing I read was Dreamcatcher (fwiw I was 10), and i've been a fan ever since.

i will say CUJO is one you absolutely have to check out, not to be overlooked... just finished it last night, it's batshit insane (infamously the novel he doesn't remember writing at all bc of his drug addiction), really fucking dark, the prose is just vicious.

It is his best book and although it's on the longer side it goes down really easy and is in a lot of ways his most representative book, so might as well start there.

Salem's Lot was the first one I read and although it was genuinely scary at times, the characters weren't very fun and the writing wasn't all that lively and memorable. Go with It.

I really enjoyed The Dark Zone, too, which was also one of the first ones I read, but it doesn't have the epic sweep of some of his better books

Dead Zone? Or Dark Tower?

or the Dark Half?

lol

lol he's written too many books. Dead Zone was the one.

The Dark Half sucked. Like, really sucked.

roland deschain is not a fucking power ranger.

― s'rong, unstable (darraghmac), Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:58 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sweet jesus it just occurred to me, is roland's last name a reference to renowned Maine weatherproofer Dave Deschain, of the wacky self-produced commercials???

"Keep out the rain, call Dave Deschain"

"Raindrop I thought I got ridda yoo!"

how do you get "Power Ranger" from that trailer

Read Salem's Lot first, I'd say, or The Dead Zone. Something from the initial star-making run but before he started churning out the verging-on-self-parody material like Christine and Firestarter. Of course, I can't vouch for the last two decades' worth of stuff. I think Dolores Claiborne is the most recent I've read.

― insidious assymetrical weapons (Eric H.)

christine and firestarter are prime cocaine era stephen king. is "christine" the one he doesn't even remember writing?

No, that's Cujo.

It's Cujo! Someone asks that every 50 posts or so despite it being mentioned every 50 posts or so, it's weird xpost

Cujo is so awesome. The dog is barely in it - it's mostly a really fucked up love triangle thing, the follies of parenting, and a really brutal ending. It's also not that supernatural - I think it has a lot in common with IT w/r/t adulthood corruption, childhood innocence, energies passing thru generations & families. like i said upthread, the prose is so much more livelier and pungent than Firestarter for example, which I found really rather boring and bland.

dark tower trailer... from what I read they're eschewing the whole first book & looks a lot like it's kinda book 3 centric ie Wastelands

idk who that helps. like who else but Dark Tower nerds are going to see this?

i'll reserve judgement for now. i like the casting tho

It's Cujo! Someone asks that every 50 posts or so despite it being mentioned every 50 posts or so, it's weird xpost

― albvivertine, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 22:45

Posts nobody remembers because drugs.

I say we rename the thread Stephen King Doesn't Remember Writing Cujo and see how many times people ask it still

Should I read Night Shift or a Joe Hill book to get my horror fix?

Uh doy Night Shift, man.

Dead Zone was my first (I think in 6th grade). It was good. Needful Things was the only one of his I've read (of somewhere between 1.5-2 dozen or so) where I finished and said, 'that was some bullshit.'

Amen. Such bullshit.

Different Seasons seemed like everyone's favorite back when I was a kid. Maybe it had to do with the movie adaptations being popular.

Oh man, I haven't revisted Different Seasons since I was a teenager. I'll have to tackle that one after I finish the Stand.

All of the King/Bachman novella quartets I've read are uneven, but Different Seasons is probably the least uneven.

(Although I guess they don't sell The Bachman Books as a collection anymore, since King made the wise decision of allowing the puerile Rage to go out of print.)

Cujo was my first. I read it in 5th grade and just about everything flew over my head other than the scene where it seemed like the girl was vomiting up blood but it turned out to be food dye.

I re-read it as an adult and, man, it's really the underheralded star from the early '80s run. Maybe even bleaker than Pet Sematary.

That vomiting scene was the one that stuck with me the most as a kid, too.

I've never read The Rage but quite a number of people consider it among his best.

omg this book sounds crazy xp

Decades later, I still am reticent about going back to Pet Sematary. Reading that book shortly after your sibling dies and your whole family is deep in the throes of grief is not recommended.

I liked Rage a lot, but I read it young. Never had a desire to go back to it, unlike The Long Walk and Thinner.

i used to watch Pet Sematary the movie at sleepovers i remember it really creeped me out

Oh my god, Dan, that's awful. Yeah, I can't imagine that book being anything but traumatic under those circumstances.

My general takeaway was that all of the supernatural stuff was really, really stupid and the meltdown at the funeral was way too real.