Favorite Stephen King Book

I've only read a few but the only one that I would describe as really serious literature is "The Stand."

Doesn't he have a consortium of writers writing for him under his name these days?
 
It.

The ending goes off into some his pot-induced fantasy writing but overall its a great book that plays on the clowns are evil fears.

Besides I love books that show characters at several points in the lives.
 
Duma Key

Needful Things and Salem's Lot were also good.

Stephen King ain't no Shakespeare but he is entertaining.

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Definitely The Stand.

The Mist - as a novelette - is also good.

There was also one that I think he wrote as Bachman about some kid and an alternate universe. Liked that one a lot.

AND, I liked almost every short story in Monkey Shines.
 
King wrote a book called Different Seasons. It is a set of four short novels that has each one of the seasons as a subtitle in the name. One was titled Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. It was subtitled Hope Springs Eternal. Another one was called The Body. It was subtitled Fall from Innocence.

I think you may have heard of the movies.
 
Hands down the best is The Stand. Pet Cemetery was very good too. You could almost see and smell the puffs of musty dust from his ressurected dead wife's breath at the end of the book.

King had several pen names of which I think the Richard Bachman was used most often. I have not heard of a group of writers writing for him though.
 
Yeah, I have to agree with The Stand.

When I was about 15 I was in a book store with my brother and he picked it up and tossed it to me. Said "Here, buy this...but don't get sick while you're reading it"

Alas, I got a sore throat and the sniffles. Anyone else? What a fantastic book.
 
One year, someone gave Shadowdancer a copy of The Stand for Christmas. He started reading it, but got the flu about halfway through and could not finish.

I started calling him "Capt. Tripps".
 
I read Pet Sematary as a teenager, got turned onto it from a friend at summer camp.

It scared the everliving **** out of me.

However, The Stand I think is his best work overall.

And yes, the movies based on Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and The Body were the two best movies based on his books. By far.
 
I've read alot of SK. I loved the Dark Tower series.

But, my favorite novel was "Bag of Bones".

Spooky, emotional, heartbreaking, and inspirational. A tremendous book.
 
I like his short stories. I can think of quite a few but some may have come from separate books. Skeleton Crew rings a bell as being a good collection of them..
 
Lot of votes for the Stand. I'm also partial to Hearts in Atlantis, but I think it is better if you're somewhat aware of the dark tower mythology.
 
Nobody else found "The Stand" to be a very simple template of good and evil archetypes in an apocalyptic fantasy?

As literature, I go with "The Shining", because he maintains ambiguity about the character so long. Of course, I'm a bigger fan of Straub than King.
 
The key to many of Steven King's scary books is that instead of making you scared of something scary like gobblins, wolves, witches or monsters, he makes you scared of something benign and friendly. In Christine it was your car, in Cujo the family dog, in It was clowns, and even in The stand the Rocky Mountains symbolized dread.
 
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