My favorite is still Salem's Lot, followed closely by the shorter version of The Stand. King has a remarkable imagination and is one of the best writing things that are unputdownable. I will argue that he needs an editor.
I loathed Cujo because I love dogs.
your comments are definitely making me want to re-read Tommyknockers to see if i still like it.
can't deal with Cujo, the movie. so i don't think i could deal with the book.
I am too much of a chicken to read King.
On Facebook, a friend was looking at the NYT bestsellers the week she was born, and she got a Stephen King book, as did many of us. I got
Cujo.
Another friend got
The Butter Battle Book,
so I mentioned that I'd been in a comic opera based on that book with Gilbert and Sullivan songs set to new lyrics. So a friend joked about wanting a G&S comic opera about
Cujo.
And then the original friend declared that it must star Miss Piggy.
And so I wrote this, which I felt like sharing.
I am the very model of a modern rabid killer dog.
I just ate up Miss Piggy; she was nothing but a filler hog.
My favorite meal is bacon but I'll also eat men on a jog.
For my dessert I think I'll go chomp on the legs of Kermit Frog.
I'm frothing at the mouth just like the writer of a gender blog
Who's glad I'm not a bitch because then King would get the fem'nist flog.
If humans coming near me would bow down, I do think that'd be great.
It really makes them easier to kill and then decapitate.
I'm very good at murdering, devouring, and causing gore.
My hunger is insatiable; you always leave me wanting more.
In short, you can't escape me without jumping right into a bog.
I am the very model of a modern rabid killer dog!
I forgot about
The Dead Zone
and
The Dark Half.
I liked both. There's not a lot of King I don't like, honestly. I even read
Rose Madder,
way back.
the movie had such a magical negro in it, I was never tempted.
Yeah, I thought about that. I don't remember it being quite so smarmy in the book, though.
hahaha!! that was fabulous, P-C!
I got
Franny and Zooey
and
The Making of the President 1960
I are old.
sumi, I also got Franny and Zooey. With Robert Frost, Barry Goldwater, and Richard Nixon on the non-fiction list.
No Stephen King.
I got a Helen MacInnes and a John Le Carre, both of which my mother no doubt read.
I got the same as ita, though I doubt my mother read those.