5 best and 5 worst King book

[friend of Oye]

For me:
Best 1) Salem's Lot
2) The Shining
3) It
4) The Stand
5) Full Dark No Stars tied with The Dark Tower (all 7 books)

Worst
Only Geralds Game was hard for me to finish..........Sorry

[Timmy]

I responded to this once before, but now that I've thought about it further, I'd like to revise my answer. I think King - like all authors - has strong points in his writing coupled with periods of weakness (or what I would call a thin plot - although Steve would argue plot is a lame device). I wouldn't say any of his books are bad, but they all have some soft spots. Any author - any one that is producing large amounts of material - is susceptible to the same critique. You can't knock out thirty bestsellers and not have a jacked up line every once in awhile. He is the King, but he is also human.

Further, the books that I like - by King or any other writer - are usually not because of literary merit, as that is a subjective term. I like them because I can identify will someone or can relate to a situation. Take Hearts in Atlantis for example. Great book, brilliant even. I didn't fight in Vietnam (or Afganistan) and can't relate to the time period, however the description of college life - the eternal card game - resonated deeply within me. To think of all the time I wasted (not to mention my parents money) and all the screwing off - or just screwing - all the while kidding myself that I was getting an education, that is what I found so powerful in that book.

I suspect others would probably select their "favorite's" accordingly. It's more of a case of what you, the reader, can identify with and relate to. That is what makes an enjoyable book. And if you run across a line that doesn't quite ring true, you are not going to care as much. Granted, King doesn't have many of those lines, but still.

[lovely1]

Wouldn't say worst just my least favorite books. I like a little bit of everything in all his books, my top books though would have to be Pet Semetary, Misery, It and the Dark Tower series.

[Tiny]

1: It.
2. TGHLTG
3. all 7 D.T. books
4 Carrie
5.The Stand
Im talking about books only. Not the movies or the f#ckawful made for-TV stuff.

The worst.
bag of bones, children of the corn(written work), SALEM'S LOT (sorry, just didn't like it), Thinner,Sleepwalkers.
these are in no order, except salem's lot was my least fav.

[dsurrett]

Favorites, not necessarily in order:
The Stand
Salem's Lot
DT series
Talisman/Black House
It

Least favorite (I won't use the word "worst," so will say "least likely to read again")
Lisey's Story
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

[Tiny]

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon; is a work of pure genius!
I don't know anyone cant see that.

[Schmidty]

Doesn't that list depend on what the reader is looking for in a book and if they are really into it?

[Honeybee14]

My top 5 are:
1. Christine
2. Different Seasons
3. IT
4. The Shining
5. Pet Sematary

The ones I didn't enjoy very much are:
1. Bag of Bones (too much moping at the beginning)
2. Salem's Lot
3. Insomnia
4. The Stand (please don't hurt me!)

[Spade]

I really haven't read enough to give a good Top and Bottom 5... maybe only 15 novels or so, but:

Best:

1. The Green Mile
2. Bag of Bones
3. Lisey's Story
4. The Drawing of the Three
5. Misery

[JohnDalglish]

The ones I didn't enjoy very much are:
4. The Stand (please don't hurt me!)

Hi,

But a little remonstration may not go amiss surely?

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