Stephen King at his worst
 

I am a new found Stephen King Fan but I was just wondering what do you think are staphen kings three worst books?

I personally dont have 3 least fave yet because i have only finished two and they were awesome.

Hmmmmmmmmmm. That is hard, Shit .........the one about the aliens and the farting thing............... I forget it right now.......very disappointing. I like all of them really, just some more than others.

Sounds like that story Modestas was planning awhile back:p

that wasnt a book .. that was a dream you had after eating that entire pizza by yourself.


the farting was real :D

The Tommyknockers
Cujo

SK does not write crap!

i didnt say crap i said worst if you order something from top to bottom what you like best is at the top and WORST at the bottom so if you ordered his books favorites first what would be at the bottom of you list? those are what u consider his worst in my opinion.

i could never get into firestarter, christine or the tommyknockers.

I have to agree...Christine was alright until it started where the car would morph itself back. thats a bit too fakey to be scary for me, Firetstarter I liked, and TommyKnockers...it didnt really intrest me.

yeah he does ...

any of the Peter Strawb collaberations, It, Desperation,
oh hell, pretty much all of them

You are thinking of "Dreamcatcher".

I loved the first half of that book. Thought it was hilarious and entertaining as hell.:D


I hated "The girl who loved tom gordon". Thought it was terrible boring. After reading that one i thought it was the begining of the end for old King.

But the i read "Dreamcatcher"....;)

"Tommyknockers" was rather boring. I didn't like "Gerald's game" too.
On the contrary I liked both "Cujo" and "Christine".

In general, I prefer the old King to the recent one, but there are some exceptions ;)

always preferred his short stories over his novels

Stephen King is a pretty wierd dude. I heard an interview with him on the radio. at the end he sang "Stand By Me"

Yes that was it..the first half was good.....then it went to shit!

I really don't like it when SK tries to write books that are not horror. He is a good writer. As a horror writer he is one of the best.......but he hasn't got the talent to be a classic writer. Just is not in that league. Those mostly fall short, except for ShawShank maybe.

In horror though.....he rules..........stick to what you do best SK!

STEPHEN KING AT HIS WORST.
 

THE REGULATORS (writing as Richard Bachman)

BLACK HOUSE (written with Peter Straub)

THE TOMMY KNOCKERS

I could never get into The Dark Tower series of novels and gave up after a couple.

Re: STEPHEN KING AT HIS WORST.
 

I liked two of those books, but haven't read Dark House. That is supposed to be a sequel to The Talisman and I loved that book. I think it may even be my favorite. Why didn't you like them? The Regulators was not fantastic, but ok.

Check out "The Gunslinger". And the contuning series of that book.

Don't talk shit...The Talisman was an amazing story...so was It, Desperation (Can't wait to see the movie)! Damn, every story he ever wrote displays his genuis...

When i began reading Geralds Game i found it boring but now that i'm a few hundred pages in, it is getting good. for me, there is no SK creation that stands out as utterly bad, but for me (and i've read almost everything he's released) the hardest SK book to get into is Geralds Game...
What did you guys think of it?

I forgot that one............well that one I didn't like much. Not really horror, and I like his horrors better.

i'm not talking shit .. i read better books.

i would have to say "Thinner"/ "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon"/ and "The Dark Half";)

Stephen King's Worst
 

TO CLASSIC BLONDE,

It's not that I don't like the King books I mentioned but if I had to compile a league table of the great man's work then these would be the ones I rate as the 3 weakest.

I haven't read a bad Stephen King book with that said I've only read 4 of them so I'm sure there's some bad ones.

if you read 4, then you basically read them all ...

he's a craftsman .. who has figured out how to reproduce one thing perfectly - over and over again.

Re: Stephen King's Worst
 

Oh.........k then........:)

I think most of them are different...................splain yourself urge........:p

uhmm...lets see ..

author .. with a past ... maybe an alcoholic ...
nasty things happen .. people die ...
author somewhat redeems himself ...


its not just that its his formulae

prologue
today
flashback...
today
flashback
today.

holy cow .. it all ties in togerther !!!

and his prose ...
everything explained for you in great detail.

I wish i could articulate what i mean better ..
all i can say is i read everything that came out when i was younger and then it started to dawn on me that although he was good at hooking you into wanting to 'see what comes next' it wasnt all that interesting.
I just found myself less and less involved.
Recently i went back and read one or 2 books to see if he had improved. I hated Insomnia, I hated Desperation - even worse, and i couldnt read more than 30 pages of Black House or whatever that shit was that he wrote with peter strawb.

The type is rank with smugness ... its tired and worn .. as is most of Horror fiction.

There just arent that many good authors .. i found myself reading
better authors outside the genre and once i did that - i couldnt go back to crap.


that being said - my ceiling is someone elses floor .... so its subjective ... all i can say is that i also thought King was the cats ass, until i got exposure to what i found to be were better authors.

Do you read Classics? Because I have read a lot of them. I have been always very critical about writers in general because I have read most of the best. My brother is a writer and passed on some great books to me. Still being very well read, I think that SK is one of the better modern writers. The quality of his writing is far better than say Dean Koontz or John Saul. Even if the stories are good...........can't stand the writing.....I am just spoiled by reading so much better.

I am not a snob...............do like some trendy authors.....but if I could do better............well I don't want to waste my time, and I am NO writer. :rolleyes:

i dont think i'm a snob - but i do read modern classics ... and once I got a taste of what i consider to be far superior writing, its hard to go back.
Reading Stephen King is like a huge step backwards..
I never liked Saul - i think he's awful - always did. Koontz is a better science fiction author - he should stick to that.

its the same thing for movies with me ... since seeing more complex and compelling horror films - i cant watch pedestrian slashers anymore .. they bore me to tears ...

Stephen King's Worst
 

I can't believe the comments made accusing Stephen King sticking to a formula.Can someone tell me how these stories are similar: THE SHINING
CARRIE
CUJO
BAG OF BONES
PET SEMATARY
DREAMCATCHER
THE STAND
MISERY
INSOMNIA
CHRISTINE

I could go on but I think you get my drift
The only connection is that they are all horror/supernatural/thriller stories but they all have a totally different formula/plot and character types.
Yes you may come up with a couple of titles with similar themes but any author who has written as much stuff as King has will have some of that in his locker.

Re: Stephen King's Worst
 

uhmm.. no there have been several repeated character types ..
the troubled author ..
the grizzled wise oldtimer

i read this guy progressively from the 1st book on as they were being released.
Its not like i read one or two then said ..meh ..

It just started to feel like the same book over and over again.
I thought Salems Lot was his best book.

He's just not that great a writer in the opinion i developed over years of exposure to his, and other works.

I thought Peter Strawbs Ghost Story was more interesting than anything Kinbg ever wrote ...
And i thought Strawbs Shadowland was brilliant until i discovered it was lifted largely from Robertson Davies: The Manticore.
Proving once again - there isnt any more origionality in horror literature than there is in the films.

Stephen King?
dude does any onme even read his books any more?
i just watch the movies!

Bats
Cujo
it some other just cant think of them right now!

Bats? What? I checked on IMDb...no movie he was involved with called Bats...I searched google...no book called Bats...:rolleyes:

He hasn´t. Let it go..

I hated Dream Catcher, i liked it at first but half way through i hated it. I also didn't like The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

Wasn't a big fan of "Bag of Bones" and "The Green Mile".

the worst was langoliers.