I read Doctor Sleep a couple of months ago. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, I've read all his work. Doctor Sleep is very well written with a great story to back it up. King has a way of making the reader believe everything he's writing about even if it seems so over the top.

I also just finished reading Joyland and it was quite good too. I can't wait for the next SK release coming this spring.

I am a big Stephen King fan, too.

I started reading Doctor Sleep, but felt like I needed to go back and reread The Shining.

I just finished it, and am about to begin Doctor Sleep again.

NinaB said:

bloody excellent book, i raced through it.

so far it is keeping my attention...just getting to the point where their trying to kidnap the little girl

Empress said:

I read Doctor Sleep a couple of months ago. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, I've read all his work. Doctor Sleep is very well written with a great story to back it up. King has a way of making the reader believe everything he's writing about even if it seems so over the top.

I also just finished reading Joyland and it was quite good too. I can't wait for the next SK release coming this spring.

I think I will read some of his other stuff...of course we've all seen his movies, but the books seem great so far .

chocolate1 said:

I am a big Stephen King fan, too.

I started reading Doctor Sleep, but felt like I needed to go back and reread The Shining.

I just finished it, and am about to begin Doctor Sleep again.

Nice idea...I kinda felt like I needed to read The Shining again, but I dove right into Doctor Sleep anyway

nursev said:

Empress said:

I read Doctor Sleep a couple of months ago. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, I've read all his work. Doctor Sleep is very well written with a great story to back it up. King has a way of making the reader believe everything he's writing about even if it seems so over the top.

I also just finished reading Joyland and it was quite good too. I can't wait for the next SK release coming this spring.

I think I will read some of his other stuff...of course we've all seen his movies, but the books seem great so far .

His movies can be kind of lame. Some are ok, but others seem silly and unbelieveable. I find when I'm reading his books I can believe anything he writes because he's such a good writer. Sure, he's not Hemingway, but he's great at his genre. I've been reading SK for 30 years. Some of my fav books are IT, The Stand, The Dark Tower series, Black House, Misery, Duma Key, The Green Mile. I've liked all his books, some just a little more than others. I really enjoy the characters in his stories too. Some are complete assholes and others are heroes.

Empress said:

nursev said:

I think I will read some of his other stuff...of course we've all seen his movies, but the books seem great so far .

His movies can be kind of lame. Some are ok, but others seem silly and unbelieveable. I find when I'm reading his books I can believe anything he writes because he's such a good writer. Sure, he's not Hemingway, but he's great at his genre. I've been reading SK for 30 years. Some of my fav books are IT, The Stand, The Dark Tower series, Black House, Misery, Duma Key, The Green Mile. I've liked all his books, some just a little more than others. I really enjoy the characters in his stories too. Some are complete assholes and others are heroes.

I agree.
I've read everything he has written.

I loved The Dark Tower series, and how they connect to so many other books.
I thought that "Lisey's Story" was one of the hardest to read.

The movies, meh...

I can watch Shawshank Redemption every time it comes on, but I'm still mad about The Tommyknockers. The rest fall somewhere on the spectrum.

haven't picked it up yet but looking forward to it!

nursev said:

Empress said:

I read Doctor Sleep a couple of months ago. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, I've read all his work. Doctor Sleep is very well written with a great story to back it up. King has a way of making the reader believe everything he's writing about even if it seems so over the top.

I also just finished reading Joyland and it was quite good too. I can't wait for the next SK release coming this spring.

I think I will read some of his other stuff...of course we've all seen his movies, but the books seem great so far .

'IT' was the first King book i read and i've been hooked eversince. I also love and highly reccomend The Talisman and Black House, their all good though really, he's just a great story teller.

This is a sequel to the Shining?


The Talisman is my favorite for some odd reason, maybe cause it's just crazy.

morningsong said:

This is a sequel to the Shining?


The Talisman is my favorite for some odd reason, maybe cause it's just crazy.

Yes.

I really liked "The Talisman". Its sequel is "Black House".

chocolate1 said:

morningsong said:

This is a sequel to the Shining?


The Talisman is my favorite for some odd reason, maybe cause it's just crazy.

Yes.

I really liked "The Talisman". Its sequel is "Black House".

Wolf and Henry are probably my favourite King characters.

I'm DEFINITELY going to read it. I'm working my way through my 3rd re-read of my favorite Stephen King novel, "It", at the moment though.

There are several of his that i've missed that I'd like to go back and read.

Empress said:

BobGeorge909 said:

Empress said:

I read Doctor Sleep a couple of months ago. I'm a huge Stephen King fan, I've read all his work. Doctor Sleep is very well written with a great story to back it up. King has a way of making the reader believe everything he's writing about even if it seems so over the top.

I also just finished reading Joyland and it was quite good too. I can't wait for the next SK release coming this spring.

My fav of his so far for me is Lisey's Story. Their connection was very intimate and erotic and something I want in a lover/wife...but in a real sense...not a SK sense if u follow. I can still vividly see that beast chained in the basement...well enuff to tell a police sketch artist. Those little creeps in insomnia make me giggle...and the come-to-lif cartoons in regulators...MOVIE PLEASE. u better include the pantieless shot and the ceremonial tip of the martini glass to the sealed vermooth bottle. Details...love em.

I had to put it aside, then go back to it when I ran out of other SK things to read... Then I had to start it over because I forgot what happened.

chocolate1 said:

BobGeorge909 said:

chocolate1 said:

I had to put it aside, then go back to it when I ran out of other SK things to read... Then I had to start it over because I forgot what happened.

Start over before or after the rape and can opener/nipple action?...it was kinda slow before the inkunk caught up with her. [Edited 1/4/14 22:24pm]

Oh no... I wasn't that far in. It was the beginning that just dragged for me.
I remember thinking that it was the first Stephen King book that I really didn't like.
But then I found myself with nothing new to read, so I picked it up and started over.
I'm glad I read it now, but boy oh boy... it was a struggle.

BobGeorge909 said:

Oh...also...doctor sleep has commenced. Also...I read the shining like 15 years ago and don't remember much...will it still work?

I had to go read it again. I got about 2 chapters into Doctor Sleep and decided to go back.

BobGeorge909 said:

chocolate1 said:

I had to put it aside, then go back to it when I ran out of other SK things to read... Then I had to start it over because I forgot what happened.

Start over before or after the rape and can opener/nipple action?...it was kinda slow before the inkunk caught up with her. [Edited 1/4/14 22:24pm]

say what? see, that's the thing about reading king's stuff, it can really be really, truly scary. i had to put gerald's game down for about fiteen years before i had the courage to pick it back up and read it to the end. hehe. the plots are often completely fantastic and you can practically even smell the characters they're so real but king's voice is so charming i follow the story no matter how unbelievable. i love his collaborations with peter straub too, btw. lisey's story is upstairs in my book cupboard, waiting to be read. what's this about a rape scene and can opener nipple action????

[Edited 1/5/14 5:42am]

XxAxX said:

AAAGGGGHHH

HOW does such a sweet looking fellow come up with these scary nightmares? can openers and nipples??? you suppose he like, eats wayyy too much spicy food, goes to sleep, then writes down his bad dreams??

This thread made me think what SK books have been made

into good/decent movies. I could think of 6:

Carrie

The Shining

The Dead Zone

Misery

The Green Mile

The Shawshank Redemption

Now I know the list of shitty SK movies is very long.

Some of those shitty movies are based on weak books.

But I can't think of any other author from the second half

of the 20th century who has had so many of his books

made into movies. At least a few are good.

XxAxX said:

thedoorkeeper said:

BobGeorge909 said:

XxAxX said:

AAAGGGGHHH

HOW does such a sweet looking fellow come up with these scary nightmares? can openers and nipples??? you suppose he like, eats wayyy too much spicy food, goes to sleep, then writes down his bad dreams??

He had a very poor, outhouse status, childhood. On top of that he was and unpopular, an outsider and isolated. So his imagination had lots of time to grow coupled with sources of 'motivation'.

sometimes when i read these amoral characters written so competently by writers i love i cannot help wondering how much research the author has done and how for example, the wifebeater character that king wrote who liked to talk up close and personal. how does king tap into these characters without becoming one himself??

XxAxX said: