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I am going to read a book by Stephen King. Which one should I pick?

>> No.10993850
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>>10993843
>boosk
what did he mean by this?

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10993853

try killing yourself instead

>> No.10993867

>>10993843
They're all of similar quality, so just pick the one that interests you the most.

>> No.10993884

>>10993843
Salem’s Lot
It
The Stand
Tommyknockers

>> No.10993890

>>10993884
Is tommyknockers a reference to big tiddies?

>> No.10993922

>>10993843
The long walk

>> No.10993936

>>10993890
A Tommy Knocker is a mythical creature. Either a leprechaun type thing or the ghost of a miner killed in a mine

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>>10993843
Start with Misery or Pet Sematary. The Stand is alright but overlong and the ending really shits the bed.

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>>10993843
The Stand.

>> No.10994538

I read IT last year, and by the end of it I was just annoyed by how much time I spent reading that shit. It's a pretty simple story with atleast 500 pages of filler.

>> No.10995520

>>10993843
I would probably go for The Black Cat

>> No.10995664

>>10993843

>Tip Top
The Shining

>Great
The Long Walk
The Stand
Night Shift

>Good
Carrie
Salem's Lot

>Has its moments
The Dead Zone

I was reading chronologically and stopped when I rounded out the 70s. Never got around to reading the pdf of Rage.

>> No.10995689

The Stand is the only King book I have read all the way through, and it was pretty alright.

Definitely read an original edition, though. The extended edit added some likely unimportant stuff and shifted the date up from the 70s to the 90s, which makes a huge chunk of the contemporary issues void, such as funk and casual racism, also exclusively 70s tech in the 90s seems a bit odd.
Nobody would sing "baby can you dig your man" in the 90s

>> No.10995693

American Gods

>> No.10996546

read cujo, thought it was a pretty neat story.

if you're gonna read stephen king books do it with the mindset that they have really imaginative, new, refreshing story lines.

dont read it looking for nice descriptions and a cool sorta writing style, just go with da flow and enjoy the cool story. :)

>> No.10996553

Watch The Shining

>> No.10996663

>>10993843
IT

>> No.10996844

>>10993843
mein kampf

>> No.10996960

IT and 11/22/63 were the only King books that I really enjoyed. Not great literature but fun reads. IT is probably a better book, but the ending is meh. 11/22/63 was entertaining throughout.

>> No.10996990

I finished up reading The Gunslinger last week and I've no idea where the fuss comes from?
I picked it up because I hadn't read a book in some time so I wanted something easy to ease myself back into reading. It was certainly an easy and somewhat entertaining read, but I found it quite slow and with very little world building.
Is it true that The Dark Tower series improves after the first book?

>> No.10997037

play alan wake