Favorite Stephen King novel/movie?

[Deja Q]

Gotta say "Carrie" (1976), Stephen is such a freakazoid! :evilgrin:

[mourningdove92]

1. I love Stephen King!

My favorite,

THE STAND

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

2. The Stand....

Or possibly The Green Mile...
Or Possibly Stand By Me...

Un fortunately, there have been more bad movies than good made from SK's works. I'm waiting for The Gunslinger miniseries. :evilgrin:

[blondeatlast]

6. How did I forget Stand by Me?

I thought the movie was pertty good too; the kids seemed very natural.

[Ladyhawk]

14. The Stand is my favorite novel by King,

followed by Bag of Bones.

[MuseRider]

32. Bag of Bones

was a really scary book. I too liked that one.

[latebloomer]

3. Second "The Stand"

and "The Shining"-- book was better than movie--

By far his best recent one was "Bag of Bones".

[blondeatlast]

4. Carrie for movie;

Christine for book. Right now I'm reading "Everything's Eventual," his short story collection from a couple of years back. The first one scared me sleepless that night!

[LuLu550]

5. The Stand

the book, not the made for TV movie. Scared the pants off me.
Come to think of it, The Shining (book not movie) also scared the pants off me. Carrie (the original) is the only movie that that has lived up to the book, IMHO.

[MsChiff]

7. MIne has to be....

"The Shining." I was in high school and wanted the book for my birthday. My dad was going to buy it until he opened to the first page and read the first words......

"Officious little prick."

He told me that he closed the book and put it back on the shelf. I guess it just wasn't my year. He got a sweater for me instead. LOL

[fedupwithbush]

8. "The Stand"

Also try "Swan Song" by Robert Mccammon. Great book about people revealing their true selves when it counts. Scary too!

[Droopy]

9. The Stand. The Green Mile is a close second.

I read the edited version, which I think was the original, when I was 15 or 16. Years later when the long version came out I read that too. A close second is the Green Mile. They also made an excellent film out of that book, too, which is kind of unusual.

[koopie57]

10. I would have to vote for

"It" and "Needful Things"

[fedupwithbush]

11. Skeleton Crew

specifically "The Mist". Would love to see a movie made about it.

[Swede]

13. I forgot about The Mist

That would be a movie.

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. The Mist is my absolute favorite story out of my absolute favorite

book. We live off of a lake and every time the silvery morning fog crawls in, I freak out just a little bit. In the car, driving my daughter to school, I picture some prehistoric giant fish fly landing on my windshield. BBBBRRRRRrrrrrrrrr.:scared:

[Swede]

12. Favorite book The Stand. Favorite movie The Shining

Some of his best books were made into crappy movies,some of his so-so stories turned out to be good movies. Maximu Overdrive ugh.

[Rowdyboy]

15. The Stand, hands down...

isn't this fascinating. Somehow, we find it EASY to agree on this...

[Mikimouse]

16. Still reading, but the Dark Tower series is awesome

I started reading it in 1995, and it simply gets better with each new release. The next one is supposed to be arriving in November. If you have not yet examined the series, I strongly urge you to do so.

[Droopy]

18. I forgot about the dark tower series

That definitely ranks up there in the top three. I'll put it tied with the Green Mile at number 2 for me.

[uberotto]

19. Also my favorite books by Mr. King...

The Waste Lands was my favorite of the series. I haven't read the fourth book yet, mainly because I didn't know it existed.

[Mikimouse]

34. The fourth book is entitled

Wizard and Glass:hippie:

[dmr]

17. The Stand

was my first King book, and my favorite, Stand By Me, Misery, Christine. I enjoyed It too.

My son is now reading King for the first time. He devoured the first 2 books of the Gunslinger this week-end, I'll go out tomorrow and get the other two. The fifth book is out in November, I think.

[Swede]

20. When Pet Sematary came out (the book)

my nephew was the same age as the boy (can't remember his name). After the intense death scene I had vivid nightmares about my nephew getting run over. I just couldn't finish reading the book.

[ccvirgo911]

35. Pet Semetary, by far

I was in my early 20's when I read this one, and I read far into the night. I got as far as Louis taking his dead son up to the burial ground, and then tried to sleep. That was one long night. I never did get to sleep and still carry that feeling of terror, reading that book, late at night, with my son who was the same age as Gage at the time sleeping in the next room. It haunted me for days, the thought of losing a child was so chillingly and heartbreakingly told in the story that I had horrible nightmares of what I would do if it happened to me.
Second favorite would have to be Christine, since I was in high school and kind of an outsider at the time; I related to Arnie and was rooting for him till he went off the deep end. That's what I like about King; he takes normal believable characters that are easy to relate to and adds unimaginable human emotions.

[FloridaJudy]

43. Pet Semetary isn't his best book

But it scared the snot out of me.

I used to have this elderly, obese, half-blind cat. When "Jack" didn't come home one night, I figured he'd crawled off to die (he WAS over 18 years old, which is ancient for a cat).

Flash forward almost a year...

I'm heavily pregnant, and have dozed off reading reading Pet Semetary.. suddenly, I wake up with a heavy weight on my chest, and a cat with one eye explaiming "Meow!" in my face...

Jack the Cat is back; neither my hubby nor I had the sense to block off the cat door. I screamed so loud that I woke up all the neighbors, my former husband, my widwife, the paramedics, and the Emergency Room staff at the local hospital.

It *could* exlain why my son is so strange.

BTW, Jack hung around for at least five more years.

[Ilsa]

21. I'm scared.

I can't exit this thread.
Someone help me.
Really really scared.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Oh it's okay.....

Bwaaaaaahaahahahahahah...just teasing, here's a hug. :hug:

Boo!

[amber dog democrat]

22. The Shining

Movie was OK too. Still gives me the willies, ( what ever they are ).

[MercutioATC]

24. Book: "It" Movie: "The Shining"

What idiot cast John Boy in "It" anyway...

[MuseRider]

27. John Boy

AND John Ritter! What a combo with a few others. I kinda liked the movie but I loved the book, LOVED it.

[MercutioATC]

28. The book scared the piss out of me.

I read the first 3/4 in one night at a friend's house. Farmhouse in the middle of the country. I kept seeing things in the windows out of the corner of my eye. Had to sleep in the same bed as her that night...

...seriously, we were just friends. I was really that scared.

[MuseRider]

30. A few months

after reading that one, yes it scared the crap out of me, I came downstairs in the middle of the night to get a drink and one of my kids helium balloons had lost enough helium to be below the top of the couch. As I went around the corner it floated up, I screamed some kind of horrible strangled sound and cleared the couch like it was a little bitty hurdle. I almost wet myself! I have never liked clowns, they terrified me as a kid and now they just totally creep me out. "We all float down here." Pennywise the Clown

[MercutioATC]

40. Great story! I never liked clowns as a kid, and "It" sure didn't help...

.

[MuseRider]

26. OOOhhh King!

Book toss up between the Dark Tower series and The Stand
Movie The Shawshank Redemption

[Blue_Chill]

29. Pet Cemetary was the best movie

as for his books they all suck. His books all have horribly boring endings.

[Hogarth]

37. How could I have forgotten "Pet Semetary?"

I'll revise my list and make it number two, after "Needful Things."

[SmileyBoy]

31. The Stand. (book kicked ass, movie sucked)

Great story, but very depressing and saddening at times.

[Hogarth]

33. "Needful Things" ...

... then "Stand by Me" and "Shawshank Redemption."

In "Needful Things" the intense enmity between the two pastors was, to me, a perfect illustration of the difference between religion and spirituality.

In "The Stand," though, I thought the "Hand of God" scene was really pretty corny.

[Oracle]

36. Carrie...the many babes were HOT!

[dofus]

38. The Long Walk

It's one of his early Bachman books, and is by far the best thing he ever wrote. I would love to see it made into a movie, preferably by the same crew who did "Stand By Me". All too often his books are made cheaply into movies, or at least they come off that way. Going for the gore (which is what King himself too often does) undermines the very real strengths of the books.

For those of you who haven't read it, "The Long Walk" takes place in a future/alternative world in which 100 18 year old males start walking at the border of Canada and Maine, and keep walking, no rest stops at all, until only one is left. If a walker slows down below four miles per hour, he's removed from the walk. Permanently. It's very claustrophic, very dark, very good.

[MuseRider]

39. I had forgotten

that one, thanks. I am going to reread that collection. I love King but am particularly fond of his short stories.

[MercutioATC]

41. I forgot about the Bachman books.

"The Long Walk" WAS fantastic.

[lfairban]

49. Not the same crew!

The ones that are still alive are now pushing thirty.

[Hogarth]

42. Oh, yeah!

"Dead Zone" is right up there, too. I love Christopher Walken in all his movies.

[Spirochete]

44. First one I read...

was Salem's Lot. Scared the living shit out of me! I loved it. Pet Sematary and The Shining scared me pretty good too. The unedited version of the Stand was probably his best work. Favorite movie based on a full novel was The Green Mile. Favorite movie based on a story was Shawshank Redemption.

[GalleryGod]

45. THE BODY

:grouphug:

[Skittles]

47. Ooh

I believe that was part of FOUR SEASONS? Excellent.

[Downeast]

46. The Talisman

Don't know if it was ever a movie.

[Nomad559]

48. Shawshank Redemption

Of the films that I've seen, Shawshank Redemption Is my favorite.

[maxanne]

50. Dark Tower series

though "The Shining" is a great book. The movies both sucked, imo.
"Carrie" was a good movie - and "The Green Mile" and "Shawshank Redemption" were as well. "Stand by Me" was too.

"The Stand" is one of his best.

I notice no one has listed "The Tommyknockers" which may have been the most tedious book I've ever finished reading.

My very favorite Stephen King book is "On Writing" which is a real gem on the craft of writing mingled with some autobiographical stuff.

[MuseRider]

53. "The Tommyknockers"

was awful in my opinion. It is hard for me to keep any interest in a book where there are no good characters with no reedeming features. It has been a long time since I read it, I might attempt it again and see if I misjudged it but I remember being very disappointed in it. "On Writing" was a really fun read even though I am not even the slightest bit interested in becoming a writer.

After reading and posting on this thread last night I dreamed of Lobstrosities. Thankfully clowns were absent.

[peacefreak]

51. Count me in for the Stand too

It is the benchmark by which I measure everything else he's done.

[blondeatlast]

52. Tried to post this last night; I forgot the one that gave me the most

sleepless nights: "Thinner." Severely, terribly creepy, and worse yet, it stays with you a long time. A must read, in other words!

[MissMillie]

54. Book: The Stand, Movie: Shawshank Redemption (n/t)

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[Aristus]

55. Novel: Tie - Christine and Salem's Lot.

Short Story: Jerusalem's Lot; from 'Night Shift.'

Movie: The Shawshank Redemption.

[lindashaw]

56. Shawshank, with Delores Claiborne running a close second

[skewthat]

57. The Long Walk followed by Desperation then The Stand.

Was a Richard Bachman book, friggin creepy.