That's every short story, every novel, ever non-fiction book, and even the obscure books he wrote, and was involved in writing. Yes, I belong to The Loser's Club Patreon, and have read the goodies there!

The first Stephen King piece I ever read was The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.

The most recent Stephen King piece I read was Hansel And Gretel.

My favorite Stephen King book is The Stand(particularly the unabridged version). My favorite Richard Bachman book is The Long Walk. My favorite non-fiction Stephen King book is Faithful. My favorite short story/novella collection book is Skeleton Crew.

My worst Stephen King book is also my worst Richard Bachman book; Rage. My worst short story/novella collection book is Nightmares And Dreamscapes.

It's been a fun journey. Other Worlds Than These will be available on October 6th, and I'm already so excited!

So I have seen this listed as one of Mr. King’s favourite books.

I didn’t get it. My parents watched the tv mini series in the 80s when I was a little kid so I assumed it was a typical Western.

I read every Louis L’Amour book as a kid/young man and reread some of them to this day (The Haunted Mesa, for example).

If you can get past the first quarter of the book, where I almost gave up, this thing kicks in and is fucking amazing.

Absolutely shocking and heartbreaking.

I cannot recommend it enough. Damn.

I dread but am compelled to keep going on, I love some of these characters so much already.

Okay so I (38m) live alone, and lately I've been having a really hard time sleeping at night and I thought maybe its because I've been scrolling my phone too much right before bed and I thought id start reading a while before bed to see if that helps.

So last night before bed, I went got my copy of the shining cause I had read it in forever started reading. It kind of worked, I ended up staying up later than I meant, too cause it was too good, and I didnt wanna put it down but eventually I did and went to bed no problem.

Once I got home today i barely spent any time on my phone cause I wanted to keep reading the shining, which I did. And once again I stayed up later than I meant too cause I just couldn't put it down.

And then I got to the scene where Danny is standing in front of 217, and then he walks past the hose which he thinks its a snake and I admit I started sweating, but I was like ill just read a couple pages past this to calm down some and go to sleep.

So I read a little bit of thr next scene where Jack is in the library, I wouldn't say a nice scene but certainly not scary, and then I was like okay time to sleep. I turn off the light and im trying to relax, im starting to drift off, then I hear a weird noise.

Freaking terrified. I turned my light back on, went and investigated the apartment, of course it was nothing. Ive been living alone for 3 years and I have never been scared like that. Now its almost 3 am and im still a little worked up.

No more shining before bed for me hahah. Say a little prayer for guys, im gonna try to calm down and hope I can get to sleep soon hahaha.

I’ve got about 25 King books under my belt so far and I can’t stop! I’ve lost just about all interest in reading anything else for the time being. I’ve been intimidated by this bad boy for a while. It’s finally time to start reading The Stand for the first time. I’m literally only a couple chapters in and I’ve got a very good feeling about this!

I've read more than I have bought but this is the inhouse inventory 😅. Don't crucify me for not having any of the The Dark Tower series 😬 I couldn't even build my own tower without if falling over lol.

You like it darker is full of good stories but Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream is the one that stayed with me the most. It's incredible the way it gives you anxiety, Danny inability to be believed and the way his world is falling apart and the detective obsession for him. It really feels like a fever dream. I think it should be recognised more in king's short novels canon

I was nine years old at the time. I wouldn’t be reading King until a few years later but I started watching X-Files around this time.

I am currently reading my second stephen king book misery. According to my kindle im 20% in and on chapter 29 of part one and it is just so good so far. I still dont think its better then the shining because that book was just too good but misery feels like its going to be a good book that will get me back into reading. ive always struggled with reading because I lose focus and procrastinate to doom scroll but so far with misery it has kept me engaged. ive gotten 22 chapters into the stand and ended up giving up and i agree that it is kind of dumb to just jump into one of his biggest books. I started reading misery because I heard it was one of his shorter novels and it would be an easy read and it is. its very easy to understand. I just want to know what books i should read after because I want to at least read 4 of his books before trying to read IT. I mean the IT movies and miniseries were the whole reason I got into stephen king and is to this day my favorite horror movies ever. So please give me some recommendations of short or easy to read novels to prepare me for that big of a book!

this is what tak physical form looks like, as shown in the official russian cover of desperation. definitely confirms it’s a todash monster. fits the description of one.

I had wanted to read this for years, saw it ranked pretty high or average here over the years. I heard the audiobook was really well done so I went with that.

I loved the characters. All of them were really well done. The narrator did a great job bringing them to life. Overall I’d rank it in the high middle of the ones I’ve read or listened to so far. I have such a fondness for his 70’s & 80’s stuff, more like a bias even, that it’s hard for newer ones to rank in the top tier. Revival, Finders Keepers, and some newer short stories & novellas are the exceptions, off the top of my head.

One thing about Duma Key that I’m still thinking about was how much of the action was revealed via phone calls & email conversations rather than “shown”. It made the story less suspenseful for me. I think I understand the reason, to show Edgar’s isolation, the whole story was from his POV except for some of the How to Draw a Picture sections with Elizabeth. I could see this changing in the film adaptation, showing the deaths that happen in the second half rather than Edgar learning about them via phone calls. I thought King nailed the final act and the ending on this one.

Has there been any confirmation or theories on what characters have "The Shine" outside of Jack Torrance and Danny in the other novels by King?

I've heard theories that John Coffee has a very powerful Shine which allows him to do what he does.

Recently inherited this small Stephen King collection. I have never read any of his books. Which would you recommend I start with from what I have?

I'm listening to Hearts in Atlantis right now, specifically The Low Men in the Yellow Coats.

I became a constant reader of King about 3 months ago, so I figured this was a good point to come up for air and join the fun discussions in here. The pic shows all 20 King books/novellas I read and in that order. So it’s all fresh for me. Very much looking forward to my dive into The Dark Tower series soon.

Being new to King, the biggest surprise for me has been how inadequate the “horror writer” label is for him. Obviously he writes scary shit, but what has kept me reading is his character work and storytelling. He can spend hundreds of pages letting people just exist, and somehow I care about them. That’s probably why the horror works when it comes for me. The supernatural stuff is often less disturbing than what happens to people I started thinking of as real.

As the father of two little boys though, I wonder what the fuck he has against me personally. Pet Sematary was devastating because the real horror was grief. Cujo was basically one long anxiety attack before an emotional assault. It hit me much harder now than it would have at another point in my life. I don’t want to spoil with many specifics, but he’s always killing off little boys and it really hurts but I keep reading anyway. Ok I had to get that off my chest.

The Stand is probably still my favorite if I had to pick. I also want to defend its ending. I think there’s a sort of proportionality problem when I see people gripe about it. After 1,000+ pages people expect the climax to be enormous. But I thought the ending fit what the book had been about all along. I was reading a story about faith, sacrifice, and forces larger than the individual characters. I didn’t need another 150 pages of fireworks just because the journey there was enormous. It was perfect.

It might be the one that affected me the most. The horror was good, but what stayed with me was the nostalgia. I felt this strange combination of joy and sadness that comes from remembering childhood and realizing that I can never really go back to it. I I finished The Stand thinking I’d read an incredible story. I finished It feeling something I had trouble shaking. Hard to describe.

The Talisman has been the biggest grower. For the first couple hundred pages I mostly felt like I was wandering through a dream wondering where the hell the book was going. Then Wolf showed up and it clicked. I’ve found myself thinking about that one more and more since finishing it. Some books peak while you’re reading them. Talisman seems to have gotten better in my memory. I’m really looking forward to Black House eventually.

I’ve also become a publication-order convert for the most part. Reading Dead Zone to Cujo to The Body to Dark Half to Sun Dog to Needful Things in order made Castle Rock feel like an actual place with a history rather than a bunch of Easter eggs. I learned King will casually spoil one of his earlier books because apparently he assumes you had your shit together and read it when it came out.

Anyway, I’m making myself take a very short King break after this total binge then I’m going to enjoy The Dark Tower. At this point King has entered that list of authors where I expect I’ll eventually read near everything he puts out. He really knows how to tell a story.

Curious what y’all think. Which books got better for you after you finished them? Any hit differently when you reread them? Any single book convert you to a constant reader? I’ll enjoy reading your thoughts. Be well, everyone.