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>Re-visit IT
>Love how bonkers the whole lore is, get to the gang-bang part...Okay there Stephen
>Figured I'd read more King on my time off, realized the cut version of The Stand is more cohesive than the uncut version

Okay Anon,s give me some Stephen King recommendations, this man's bibliography is bloated beyond belief but for simple reads I'm enjoying him.

>> No.15454730

If you've read those two books, you can pretty safely ignore everything else he's ever written. If you insisted on Stephen King faggotry, try the shining and/or dreamcatcher

>> No.15454732

best ignored

>> No.15454735

r/books

>> No.15456134
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15456134

Different Seasons
The Dead Zone

>> No.15456997

>>15456134
>$2500 in 1974 is about $13,320 in today's dollars.

>> No.15457014

>>15456134
This is cool, thanks for sharing. I don't particularly like King, but this is cool.

>> No.15457036

>>15456134

Old photos the are pure luls. I always have to hold my laugh when I see my parents old photos. I definitely need to take more photos of myself to laugh later.

>> No.15457043

>>15454700
salem’s lot

>> No.15457066

>>15454700
Pet Sematary. That's about it.

>> No.15457158

If you loved IT give Insomnia a read. It takes place in the same town and is set a few years after, even mentions a lot of the events from IT like the flood.

>> No.15457166

I can;t read him because I have a high IQ

>> No.15457185

>>15456134
kek before the cocaine warped his nose
This demented fuck is great

>> No.15457273

>>15454700
>people went sicko mode and killed each other
>lore

>> No.15457336

>>15454700
I don't understand how anyone can read his over hyped, under performing garbage.

King was so fucked up on drugs and alcohol that he can't even remember writing most of his own books. That would explain why all of his writings come off as boring drivel or batshit insane and incomprehensible.

No thanks, I think I'll read something else.

>> No.15457407

I would read The Dark Tower series and related books, so like Eyes of the Dragon, Insomnia, Salem's Lot, The Regulators and Desperation, Hearts in Atlantis, It, and The Stand. You already got a couple so you're making good progress.

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15457482

Salem's lot
Pet semetery
11,22,63

Bachman books are good too. Try thinner

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The Gunslinger

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>>15454700
I think this is his best stuff.

>> No.15458359

>>15458233
This. Rage is pretty good as a genuine document of King's seething youth as a bullied kid. Basically a much more disturbing version of the Breakfast Club, but published before. The Running Man and the Long Walk are also great dark, sci-fi "dystopian" novels.

>> No.15459353

>>15454700
Duma Key is so underrated. It's honestly one of his best work, and closer to actual literary fiction / magical realism than to the niche Lovecraftian horror of "It" or "The Shining", which are more popular.

>> No.15459372

stephen king has never written anything worth discussing. get the fuck off my board

>> No.15459435

>>15459372
>he's popular so he must suck
>he's genre fiction so he's a hack

fuck your biases. He's a good writer who has been incredibly successful for a reason: his writing resonates with people, including critics. Yes, he has written a lot of crappy stuff. He has also written a lot of good works, like The Stand, Rage, Duma Key, the Green Mile, etc.

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>>15454700
Revival

>> No.15461042

His memoir On Writing is pretty good. Especially if you've ever been hooked on drugs before.

>> No.15461055

Do yourself a favor and never read the Dark Tower series just because of the last book and its ending.

>> No.15461446

>>15454700
Liseys Story
The Bachman Books
The original version of The Gunslinger
The Dead Zone
Firestarter
Night Shift
The Eyes of the Dragon

>> No.15461498

>>15454700
There are many recommendations in this thread. Are you gonna read any of the recommended books or have you just created a thread and fucked off?

>> No.15461838

>>15461446

This. I feel like I'm the only person I know who thinks Liseys Story was good af

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>>15456997
Let that be a lesson to us. King was a good writer before he melted his brain. But that wasn't what made him famous. It was the fact that he was cheap and would meet any deadline in order to feed his $100/day coke habit

>> No.15463590

>>15461446
The Gunslinger is trash.

Bag of Bones and Duma Key are the best

>> No.15463643

11/22/63 is good if you ignore the pretense and just enjoy the setting. Also skip the ending because it’s garbage.