5 best and 5 worst King book

[66bronco]

1. Geralds Game
2. Long Walk
3. Full Dark...
4. Duma Key
5. Blaze

Not Best (But not worst )

1. The Shining

[Christiane17]

Hello!!

5 bests:

The Green Mile
Carrie
Misery
The Stand
Duma Key

5 worst

Roadwork
Silver Bullet
The Cell
Rose Madder
Bag of Bones

[elle borrett]

Theyre all awesome, however i do love a list...
BEST
1) The Stand
2) Under the Dome
3)IT
4) Different Seasons (Slight cheat as technically 4 in one,not a big fan of the breathing method though)
5) Gerald's Game
Closely followed by ..... Long Walk,Tom Gordon, Rose Madder, Eyes of the Dragon,Lisey's story, and everything else!

My personal least favourite
1) Roadwork (bleh, couldnt finish it)
2) Dreamcatcher
3) Hearts in Atlantis
4)The Regulators
5)Tommyknockers

[elle borrett]

Cockadoodie. I forgot the Green Mile.

[Alexandra19]

Hi !

5 best :

- The Dark Tower
- It
- The Stand
(and here the hard part begins)
- Pet Semetary (I didn't felt close to Louis Creed the way I felt close to Roland, the Losers Club or the Free Zone but that book haunts me in its own particular way - does that make it better than The Shinning, which also haunts me in its own particular way, or Misery, that also... - is a choice even possible ?!)
- Night Shift. Or Skeleton Crew. I want short stories in my list because God knows I love them, but there again, it's hard to make a choice.

Let's say : 1 - The Dark Tower, 2 - It, 3 - The Stand, 4 - The Shinning, 5 - Night Shift.

I don't have many worst ones but I'd say :
1 - Roadmaster
2 - Dreamcatcher
3 - Cell

I also need to read Lisey's Story in english.
I've always been afraid to miss something if I tried but I suspect the french translation to be particularly awful.
I don't know if any of you have had the same problem, but there were sentences that I couldn't get until I mentally turned them in english and surprise, surprise : it made sense.

[91rewoT]

Best
1. Dark Tower Series (Yes, all of them, they are, after all, one story)
2. The Stand
3. The Talisman
4. The Green Mile
5. Lisey's Story
Least Favorite (sorry, can't bring myself to type "Worst")
1. Tommyknockers
2. Dreamcatcher
3. Storm of the Century (Dang it. I never got through it because it's a screenplay.)

[jellydonut25]

Well, since this is all each person's own opinion:

BEST:
1. The Stand
2. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
3. Gerald's Game
4. Bag of Bones
5. Duma Key

Honorable Mentions: The Eyes of the Dragon, The Talisman, Pet Sematary

Books 2 and 3 genuinely terrified me (and Pet Sematary) and are to date the only King novels that I would recommend those who are faint of heart avoid entirely. Bag of Bones and Duma Key are BEAUTIFULLY written works with a ton of complexity and depth without ever seeming contrived or forced like, for example, Insomnia. The Stand is my all-time favorite book.


Worst:
1. Rose Madder (This book took me a LONG time to finish, felt more like a padded-out-to-length novella or short story...)
2. Tommyknockers (Another one that took FOREVER to finish...feels too long even though he's written WAY longer works)
3. From a Buick 8 (I don't mind this one but it's dry. another one that feels padded-out)
4. Black House (for the life of me, I could not get into this one with its odd narrative tone...)
5. 'Salem's Lot (its more that it's sloppily written than bad...it's also a bit of a bore)

(dis)honorable mentions: The Colorado Kid, Dolores Claiborne - neither of these is necessarily BAD, but my interest level in either was nearly zero

[skyrow]

Best:
1. The Dark Tower series
2. IT
3. The Stand
4. The Talisman
5. Under the Dome

Worst:
1. From a Buick 8
2. Desperation
3. Storm of the Century
4. The girl who loved Tom Gordon
5. Cycle of the Werewolf

[RoseMadder7]

BEST
1.It
2.The Stand
3.'Salem's Lot
4.Christine
5.The Dead Zone

Worst
1.Dreamcatcher
2.Insomnia
3.The Regulators/Desperation
4.Blaze/From a Buick 8
5.Skeleton Crew

I just couldn't get into the "worst" books.

[RoseMadder7]

Oh no!!! I forgot Rose Madder, loved that book too!!