Oops I edited in a big bunch there. I was interested in the Colorado kid because it seems to have sparked Haven in a really lame way. I want to the connection there.
Love makes you do the wacky.
Willow ,'Beneath You'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 6:19:42 am PST #13509 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Amy - Jan 11, 2011 6:23:23 am PST #13510 of 28282
Because books.
The Stand is completely worth it, even uncut. One of my all-time favorite books of any kind.
The Shining is fantastic, and has a much more satisfying ending than the movie.
Misery is actually wonderful, so don't cross it off the list entirely. Great, tight POV, incredible tension.
Carrie is fantastic, and really inventive, too, in style and format.
Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are both totally worth it, and full of gems.
The only ones you don't have on here that I'd really recommend are Desperation and The Regulators, which you should really read as a pair, in whatever order you like, and Delores Claiborne, which gets overlooked, but which I really loved.
For just starting out, though, I'd go with one of the short story collections and then either Carrie, Salem's Lot, or The Shining.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 6:28:53 am PST #13511 of 28282
brillig
I've been thinking about reading The Dark Tower. Good to hear it's worth it.
Amy - Jan 11, 2011 6:34:09 am PST #13512 of 28282
Because books.
I have the first book of The Dark Tower that I picked up at a used book sale, and I was thinking of reading it soon, too.
Oh! Also Pet Sematary! Brutal and fantastic and chilling.
tiggy - Jan 11, 2011 6:36:17 am PST #13513 of 28282
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
am i alone in loving The Tommyknockers? i'm thinking after i re-read The Stand(after reading all the new books on my Nook) that i'll re-read it. that, The Stand and The Green Mile are the only SK books i can remember reading when i was younger.
Connie Neil - Jan 11, 2011 6:37:47 am PST #13514 of 28282
brillig
Oh, lord, Pet Sematary . . .
Amy - Jan 11, 2011 6:38:21 am PST #13515 of 28282
Because books.
I skipped The Tommyknockers somehow. But The Green Mile is excellent.
tiggy - Jan 11, 2011 6:43:24 am PST #13516 of 28282
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
TGM movie made me cry. TGM book made me bawl. i remember sitting in my car on lunch hour sobbing my eyes out. gah.
Holli - Jan 11, 2011 6:43:46 am PST #13517 of 28282
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
(Liese, I'm so glad you liked it! yay!)
I haven't read King in a long, long time, but his books have stayed with me more than a lot of the stuff I read in junior high. My dad had a whole shelf of King, and my parents didn't monitor my reading, so I burned through them the same way I did every other book in the house. I was probably too young for them-- I think I was 11 when I read Firestarter-- but I don't know what I'd think of the books now.
§ ita § - Jan 11, 2011 6:48:40 am PST #13518 of 28282
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've read Misery. I don't want to go there again.
I haven't read The Green Mile, but the movie had such a magical negro in it, I was never tempted.
Night Shift and Skeleton Crew are short stories, right?