5 best and 5 worst King book

[vitaminc]

Well let's see....

Best: (not in order)
DUMA KEY
IT
PET SEMATARY
UNDER THE DOME
MISERY

Honorable mention: INSOMNIA

Worst: (I don't hate any Stephen King book these are just my least favorites)
Roadwork
Mist (again I don't hate this, just not my favorite)

That's it!
The least favorite of mine is Roadwork. The beggining was much to slow for me and I'm used to slowness, frankly it was bland. It got better at the end, the last 80 pages are so were pretty good.

My favorite is a tie between Duma Key and IT they were just both so good!

scariest is by far Pet Sematary, especially the last 50 pages, scariest thing I've ever read!

Under The Dome gets a bad rap, it seems that people either love it or hate it. I loved it! the 1000+ pages seemed to zoom by very fast, even faster than IT. I really loved it. probably my 3rd favorite

Misery I finished this book in about three days, I loved it and it's the first book I really loved.

Mist Was good it just wasn't my favorite. The ending in the movie was much better.

Insomnia I liked because it was so strange! and since I'm so strange it fit well with me!

THERE YA GO!

[pauljj]

I loved the mist! Scary as hell. The Regulators sucked though. Too many characters introduced at once.

[fljoe0]

Top 5 today (can change without notice) (not in order) Duma Key was hard to leave off this list

The Stand
The Shining
Dark Tower series
Salem's Lot
It

Least favorites (I could only come up with 3 that I had a lukewarm reaction to. I haven't read Lisey and Cell which seem to be on few people's list)

Tommyknockers
Gerald's Game
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

[John Joyce]

It is such a treat to be a new King fan -- simply because you know you have such a vast collection still to read. In the last 2 years I have read about 20 king books, and love the way they are all so different. So many people think of King as pure horror, and although there usually is an element of horrow I don't think the real horror parts are his strongest skill! His strongest skill is the creation of bonds between people and groups of people - think of the kids in IT and how he bonds them together so beautifully! I read IT a while ago and I can still remember all the names of the kids.
Someone also made the point about the first King book read is the best - The Green Mile was a powerful book and it moved me!!
I think Needful things was the hardest to put down -- it ruined my social life, not that i cared - all I wated to to do was to be left alone with my book! It is the kind of book where you read until 1am and then set your alarm clock for 5am so that you can geta few chapters in before work!!
Didn't you find it hard to put your top 5 into any order? I was always deliberatng about that.
Cheers all you good people from Sunny South Africa
John Joyce

[Mohawk]

Liked the most so far - haven't read every single King book... yet (in no particular order):
Pet Sematary
The Stand
On Writing
Misery
Bag of Bones
Needful Things
The Shining
Salem's Lot
(I know, that's more than five but I couldn't help myself)

Liked "not as much" but still entertaining:
Gerald's Game
Insomnia

[Andrés A. S.]

Let's see:

Top 5:

Misery
A bag of bones
Firestarter
The running man
A tie between From a Buick 8 (for real!) and Cell

Bottom 5:

Gerald's game
The girl who loved Tom Gordon
Roadwork
The Tommyknockers
The Colorado kid

[graveflower]

Fun Thread! I love seeing everyone's different opinions. I can't decide so I refrain from answering!

[Timmy]

This is gonna be kind of lame, because I have only read five King novels (don't hate me). But, I plan to do A LOT of reading over the summer, and most of my list is S.K. stuff... Also, I didn't dislike ANY of the books that I have read, this is just my preference... Ok, here we go:

Tied for first - The Green Mile and On Writing (I don't mind ranking them together since they are different categories {fiction and non fiction}). But, I enjoyed both of these books and have read them several times...

Second (again, tie) - Cujo and The Shining (NOTE: I think I would have enjoyed the Shining more, if I had not seen the movie first... The differences have been discussed on other threads, but I got the movie version stuck in my head, and the variations threw me off...)

Third - The Stand. I realize I'm taking a risk here, because many LOVE the Stand, but, I think I made a mistake and bought the LONG version (the 1,100 page epic) first. I should have got the original novel, which is cut in half... When I got about mid way, I hit a slow spot and struggled to keep going. I want to get the edited version, read that, and then come back to the epic... It seems like the long version gives you a more in depth view of the character's, their backstory, etc. But, for me, I lost sight of the overall story. Once I get a better feel for the story (via short, edited, original version), I want to come back to the Epic Stand and give it another shot... I suspect I will have a much greater appreciation at that point.

Ohh, also, I just realized that I have also read Insomnia, which I liked. So, I would probably rank that a three way tie with Cujo and The Shining. My question for you guys is, based on these novels that I like the most (The Green Mile), which one's do you think I should read next???

[wick]

Out of the handful I have read.
Favorite
1. IT(currently reading, but can tell it will be #1)
2. Shining
3. Misery

Least Favorite
1. Lisey's Story
2. Talisman (Some parts dragged on)

[ZBliss]

My favorites are:
IT
The Shining
Eyes of the Dragon
Christine
Misery

I haven't read any that I dislike, but I haven't read them all yet either.