Any recommendations for those starting with Stephen King?
>It
>The Shining
>etc.
We have one thread a week about King. Just check the archive and kill yourself.
The short stories in Everything's Eventual are pretty good, and some of them are among his most literary.
Start anywhere you like. Some good ones are The Long Walk, Under the Dome, 11/22/63, Salem's Lot, It, The Stand...
They're all accessible. The only two I haven't liked, that I've tried to read, are Doctor Sleep and Bazaar of Bad Dreams, which both left me with a bad taste in my mouth.
>>8204054
Shit I meant mr Mercedes not dr sleep
>>8204034
Reading King since 1995, read almost everything from him and this this my rating:
>god tier
Pet Cemetary, Misery, Different Seasons, Salem's Lot, On Writing, The Shining,
>fine if bored (really long and sometimes stretched books)
It, Green Mile (6 books), Dark Tower series (good books but ending is shit)
>average
Desperation, Blaze, Cell, Colorado Kid, Carrie (muh teen girl feels), Cujo.
>avoid at all costs tier
Mr. Mercedes Trilogy, post-2010 King's work, most of the Richard Bachman's work.
>>8204082
>Misery
Stop with this meme. Misery is boring as shit.
>>8204082
>avoid bachman
>on writing god tier
so this is the kind of person who binges king huh
OP, ignore this moron: >>8204082
Here's the real list.
>god tier
The Stand, IT, Pet Sematary, Firestarter, Different Seasons.
>very good tier
The first 4 books of the Dark Tower, The Green Mile, Cujo, The Dead Zone, Carrie.
>shit tier
Everything else. Especially the newest books.
>People responding seriously to the question
Don't you see OP's picture? He doesn't care about King, he wants to wind us up with /pol/ shit.
>>8204104
i guess we should argue with him about that instead of discussing literature?
>>8204104
>mad because people ignored bait and actually discussed literature
fuck off
>>8204101
What! Where's Needful Things? Desperation? Nightmares and Dreamscapes? 'Salem's Lot?
I stopped reading anything after Lisey's Story, but there are so many solid books and especially short stories before then.
>https://enotez.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dark-tales.pdf
Start with "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away". I think it's King at his best. No spooky monsters, just a man alone with himself.
>>8204280
Fuck off, OP.
>>8204082
Boy, are you fucking retarded.
It is God-tier, fucking Pet Semetary is bored-tier
Read the Gunslinger
That's it
>>8204082
> Mr. Mercedes at the "avoid at all costs tier"
Nice bait
>>8204046
This. I roll my eyes every time I see another Stephen King thread. We have that SF/F thread for containment purposes, OP.
When did he become King Cuck?
>>8204163
>I think it's King at his best. No spooky monsters, just a man alone with himself.
Hopefully, they actually adapt other Stephen King books so that his books might get exposed more.
>>8204415
Dude, they were bad. King is an old fossil who's out of touch with modern life. He should stick to fantasy and retro/historical settings.
>>8204034
don't be a fool. Start with Salem's Lot.
>>8204280
Goodson is a PoC though, so it wasn't racist
Stephen King's novellas > short stories > novels.
>>8204101
>>god tier
>>Firestarter
Surely you jest. This was the first King book I read, and it put me off reading another for a long time. When I did finally read another, it was The Colorado Kid (I was reading a lot of Hard Case Crime books at the time) and it was even worse. I did try again with The Running Man, and that one was actually entertaining.
>>8205413
Kindly off yourself.
>>8204148
Needful things was okay but nothing special.
Desperation was utter shit. Salem's lot was boring and with a very green, clumsy prose.
>>8204254
One of his worst. Tries to be deep but ends up just long and boring.
>>8205362
Pet Sematary has a surprising good prose, tight story, nice characters and some really well done scenes.
Also, it's short. Which is usually a good thing, with a logorrhoic like King.
>>8204415
They were boring, with shit characters, shit prose and no interesting things to say about anything.
Just bad. Really bad. Can't find a virtue in that shit.
>read mr. mercedes and finders keepers
>straightforward intriguing detective/crime novels
>read end of watch
>suddenly supernatural mind control bullshit
why did he do this?
I thought we were supposed to discuss literature on this board. Why is Stephen King even being mentioned at all?
>>8205589
I think it's the sad aftereffects of an r/books visitation.
>>8204034
I recommend you to reconsider reading Stephen King.
R A G E
A
G
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don't waste your time
>>8204034
Check out one of his early short story collections, Night Shift or Skeleton Crew. They do a good job of representing his range as a writer and the stories collected are mostly inventive, atmospheric and memorable. After that try Salem's Lot or Pet Sematary, or Different Seasons if you're more a fan of his less fantastical stories.
>>8204034
So virtuous. But it is funny how being black any where increases your chances of dying a violent death or getting AIDS or just generally living in a shitty environment.
>>8204097
What are your criticisms of On Writing out of interest?
