re: Best Stephen King book you have read

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He creates characters so well. So much other fiction you read and either every character all sounds the same or like some stereotype. But he nails it every time.

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Yes. He captures The small-town, drunk, abusive red-neck is so well.

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I know MANY times movies don't do books justice, but I just don't see how the Shining could be better than the movie. Of course that's completely without merit because I haven't read the book, but the movie was just so perfectly scary and awesome. Did you read the book before or after seeing the movie?

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The best thing to do if you're reading a book and you've already seen the movie on which it was based, is to just put the movie out of your mind. Don't try to compare the two, they're two totally different animals.

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I read the first chapter and was like WTF? I quit reading after that. It wasn't even a conscious decision, I just didn't have any desire to keep reading and eventually forgot about it and moved on to something else.

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I muscled through it for the hope that it got better, only for it to get worse. He tries to create a something out of the usual, then tried to turn the "King" on in the last chapter. The only one I've hated so far.

And I liked Cell, From a Buick 8(actually the 1st King book I ever read), and even though it caused an awful tragedy, Rage. Tommyknockers, and I still don't think I've read my copy of Under the Dome or finished Full Dark, No Stars.

His son actually has done some pretty good work as well...

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I like From a Buick 8 as well. Maybe I should try Cell. It seemed ridiculous to me, but maybe it's not what I thought it was.

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That new zombie movie that's coming out kinda reminded me of it.

I had to delay my reading of it initially as the copy I ordered went from English to Spanish like 10 pages in.

I've got to go through my shelf and start up some again. Tried to do so with Everything's Eventual around Christmas, but I put it down.

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seem to remember one about a lawyer touched by a gypsy and proceeds to lose weight, can't remember the name, maybe it was a short story

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Thinner

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I seem to remember one about a lawyer touched by a gypsy and proceeds to lose weight,

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Thinner

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Thinner

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went and looked it up. Bachman books were all very good

was rage the short story where the kid kept saying "lets get it on"?

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The Shining is the only book to ever give me nightmares. I thought it was bull shite to get nightmare from reading a book until I read that novel.

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I felt the same about it being ridiculous to get nightmares from a book until I read The Shining. It's hands down the scariest thing I've ever read. I slept with the lights on the entire time I was reading it, and at least two weeks after I finished.

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Columbine was Catcher in the Rye, if memory serves.

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I never heard that. I know John Lennon's killer was obsessed with Catcher in the Rye.