What is Stephen King's Favorite Stephen King Novel

[SIMBA2.0]

Sai King was quite right when he said he might be more likely to forget some of his middle-period books. But I wonder, to such a prolific writer, how long will it take his most recent books to become middle-period books?

[JRM]

Aw, I wish that Onion article was real, lol. It cracked me up.

[djbeilstein]

Funny stuff . Time does some funny things. And if you live long enough, you're no exception to it.

[poisonrevolution]

No, his favorite isn't Lisey's Story! It's The Tommyknockers of course!

I Don't Even Remember Writing The Tommyknockers


By Stephen King
May 5, 1999 | Issue 35•17

Conversely, I read recently that The Stand is one of his least favorite he's written... any inklings why?

[JRM]

Conversely, I read recently that The Stand is one of his least favorite he's written... any inklings why?

REALLY??? I've heard that's his best from, well, everyone, lol.

[thewordisnineteen]

I now know that King forgets writing the Tommyknockers, but didn't he forget writing Cujo too, because of his alcohol/drug problem?

[chimpanity]

Okay, I'm back from mowing down the help, and cooking the grass with the hamburger. Now, the grass and the hamburger are no good. Thanx alot!

dID sOME oNE sAY gRASS>

[Flayer]

The Stand was one of his most difficult to write...not necessarily meaning he didn't like it. The original publishing he was unsatisfied with, so he went back and wrote the extended version.

[aeroplane]

While this isn't quite the same as "Favorite", anyone who picked up the new Pet Sematary paperback from a few years ago would have noticed that King wrote a new introduction to the book and states that he still considers Pet Sematary to be the scariest book he's ever written. That might have been around 10 years ago.

[theStandLover]

Conversely, I read recently that The Stand is one of his least favorite he's written... any inklings why? Originally posted by PoisonRevolution.

The Stand is probably my all-time favorite and when the "Uncut" version was first released, I bought it that day (1990). I had actually read the one that was published in 1978 and had loved it so much that I just had to have his uncut version too.

In that book, he has a Preface where he is talking to is CR and says this:


"Although it has never been my favorite novel, it is the one people who like my books seem to like the most."

He actually says a lot more in his Preface, but I'm not sure I am even allowed to post that much. I will risk it though to be able to participate in at least part of this discussion.

I just recently read Lisey's Story and really did love it. It's totally different from any other SK book I've ever read, but many of his books are "totally" different from other things he's written. I think that's just one of the reasons I really enjoy SK -- you never quite know what you'll get.