King Books You Couldn't Finish ~

[samhain]

I know we love 'em, but there's gotta be one or two books you couldn't get through to the end.

Mine:

Insomnia
The Talisman
Lisey's Story (and I tried twice!)
Dreamcatcher

[Garriga]

I couldn't finish Cujo because I love dogs, and before he turns into a monster he is a good dog and I just couldn't bare it.

[KJ Norrbotten]

No such thing as an unfinished SK book for me, mostly for being a fan, on couple of occasions, for stubborness.

Of the latter, there's one book that comes to mind, Gerald's Game. Took me a year to finish, and still after 19 years, I don't have any intension to reread.

But that's really, really rare.

[ConstantReader1973]

Nope, none. Sorry, I'm one of those who reads to the end whether I like the book or not. In fact, I can only recall one book, ever, that I could not finish, and it was definitely not one of sai King's. And, I really like most of King's work. The only one I really didn't care for was The Colorado Kid, but only because when I got to the end, it seemed a little pointless.

[Evil Queen]

I started Gerald's Game & Insomnia a long, long time ago & could not finish them. So I put them away & came back to them not too long ago & was able to finish both of them. One I was very pleased with, the other was ok...but I'm very glad I did finally read them all the way to the end. That's just me though, I hate leaving things undone...eventually I have to finish something I've started.

[Srbo]

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Not yet, anyway.

[Srbo]

When Robert Bloch died, the only thing that anybody really remembered about him was that he wrote Psycho (1960), which became the famous Alfred Hitchcock movie. And whenever I'm introduced, I'm the guy that wrote "The Stand". When my name comes up in the blogs these days, it's usually in relation to H1N1: "He was the guy who thought about the flu!"

You can still reconcile the idea that things are not necessarily going to go well without falling back on platitudes like "God has a plan" and "This is for the greater good."

I'm in the supermarket one day with my cart, and there's this woman, about 95. She says, 'I know who you are. You write those stories, those awful horror stories . . . I don't like that. I like uplifting movies like that 'Shawshank Redemption'. So I said, 'I wrote that.' And she said, 'No, you didn't.' And that was it. Talk about surreal. I went to myself, for a minute, 'It's not very much like my other stuff. Maybe I didn't write it!'

(About seeing Carrie (1976) for the first time) In the row in front of us there were two huge African-American men. Two-hundred and fifty pounders at least. They're screaming like children. They're grabbing each other around the neck and one of them says to the other one, "That's it, that's it. She ain't never gonna be right". And I looked at my wife and I said this movie's gonna be huge.

Harry Potter is about confronting fears, finding inner strength, and doing what is right in the face of adversity. Twilight is how important it is to have a boyfriend

...

[Jojo87]

I've read most of his books but no book has been unread yet. When I start I always finish them.
They are good in their own way.

[blunthead]

...there's gotta be one or two books you couldn't get through to the end

There does not have to be. As far as I'm concerned you're wrong.

[King fan from trinidad]

Well i've never not finished an entire book but in my first stephen king book "Goes to the movies" I couldn't finish low men in yellow coats. But i was inexperanced back then so i'm gonna try again when i buy the full hearts in atlantis book!