a highly selective stephen king poll

weird

well that isn't helpful at all!

On Writing (the best of his I've read).

I actually don't like On Writing as much as I like Danse Macabre, but they're both up there for me.

I don't feel like Tom Gordon getting 3 votes over a whole cluster that got two votes is any indicator that I should start with Tom Gordon. I'm most intrigued by ideas behind Under the Dome, the Regulators, and Cell though, so maybe I'll start with one of them.

I mean, if two people each agree they don't totally blow...

More than one person out there thinks Dolores Claiborne doesn't totally blow. Don't know how that one ended up so underrated.

tom gordon was only ok for me, but i enjoyed the pulpiness of the regulators.

Cell has a virtuoso first act but never really figures out what to do afterwards.

Ahhhhhh, worried about this. I'm about halfway through the book at this point (when they get ready to leave the boarding school) and it hasn't faltered a step for me so far. Very vivid and well-paced.

Regulators was really good too. Although it was almost too brief (I guess there's more to learn about Tak in the companion novel) the ending and epilogue are satisfying.

The main problem with later SK novels is the way WTF is so often replaced by smh.

― bit.ly sno cone maker (Jon Lewis)

bears repeating

Ahhhhhh, worried about this.

You should be. King can't write an ending that isn't utter shit.

I really, really liked the second act of Cell, btw. Haven't explored any of these since last summer though.

Wait, I started on 11/22/63, but only made it a couple of chapters in.

Cell was fine. I dunno that I'd go back and reread it but it was enjoyable enough.

I'm about 200 pages into Dreamcatcher, and it's the first King book I'm tempted to just give up on. I don't care about any of the main characters, or their life-changing childhood friendship with Duddits, the aliens plot is taking waaaaaay too long to kick into gear, and all of the farting/belching stuff is just ridiculous rather than scary.

Anyone want to convince me to keep slogging through it?

I've never read it (the movie is completely ludicrous) but I've been intrigued inasmuch as it's the thing he wrote while recuperating from his accident and is reportedly a document of his state of mind at the time.

The book not only does not get better, it gets an order of magnitude worse.

His recent police procedural trilogy starting with "Mr. Mercedes" wasn't too bad.

Dreamcatcher was the first one I read, around when the movie came out. Too much farting

Man, if this was the first King book I ever encountered I never would have read The Stand or It.

ha i think the second one I read was the collection that had Secret Window or whatever in it, the rebranded movie reissue with Johnny Depp on the cover. Read The Shining and The Stand shortly after that though... finally got around to Carrie and Misery this year, gonna read It real soon....

The movie of Dreamcatcher is hilarious.

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is Doctor Sleep any good? I read a review (which was a good review) and it sounded ridiculous

I didn't care much for Dr Sleep.

Dreamcatcher is terrible and yet so memorable

I liked Doctor Sleep, though it felt less like a direct sequel to a weighty novel, and more like a Dean Koontz novel. The book reads fast, and should be worth satisfying your curiosity re: the direction an adult Danny would go.

11/22/63 is great so far (first third), I’m kind of scared how King will fuck it up in the last third.

imo you may be pleasantly surprised

has anyone who read doctor sleep also seen the movie

if i think the movie is ok is it worth reading the book?

answers, i need answers

You'll get more backstory. The movie's faithful, though Dan turns out to be Abra's half-uncle as Jack Torrance fathered Abra's mom and the True Knot gets defeated differently, with Dan living at the end.

Cell was so fucking weird

Dreamcatcher is terrible and yet so memorable

― his eye is on despair-o (Jon not Jon), Friday, January 6, 2017 1:07 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

fwiw I managed to finish this book 4 years ago, and I just now had to go read the Wiki synopsis to recall what happens, so no, not memorable. But yes terrible.

Not sure if I read this one so I read the Wiki synopsis and I'm still not sure

I guess I don't even remember the movie properly because I sure don't remember this

https://s3.birthmoviesdeath.com/images/made/dreamcatcher1_600_446_81_s.jpg

Just why

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