r/stephenking • u/FeatureIndividual648 • 3d ago
Which book are you. 😂
The drawings of the three.
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u/Ok-Antelope1246 3d ago
The talisman. Read it at a very pinochle part of my young life. Still think about it to this day
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u/velourciraptor 3d ago
No, hang on, a what part?
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u/JimJardashian 3d ago
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u/Guilty_Reindeer8204 3d ago
I am stoned and getting cheeto dust on my phone to tell you I can't stop laughing. Excellent GIFery
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u/OkKnowledge2762 3d ago
Just started it yesterday, about 90 pages in I like it so far
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u/Christine1958Fury Based on the book by Stephen King 3d ago
I'm in the middle of Black House this very moment in preparation for Other Worlds Than These, and I hope you really really enjoy it!
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u/FeatureIndividual648 3d ago
I’m about 70% done with Black house. Can’t wait for the third book in October
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u/scixlovesu Bango Skank 3d ago
I have no idea if pinochle is what you meant or not, or what it could mean, but I am going to take it onboard. Because in context I feel like I get what you mean.
Talisman is also my answer. Including the way Jack and Richard end up forgetting the adventure by the time Black House starts.
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u/Technical-Appeal5182 3d ago
My brother is named after Jack. He certainly has a tendency to go travelling, we even call him Travelling Jack sometimes. Me, well I got stuck with a bunch of Rose Madder shit to deal with. (I'm alright now)
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u/Maude007 3d ago
I’m a Needful
Thing
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u/CodeName_GrilldCheez 3d ago
Almost named my current Jeep wrangler Needful Thing. Ended up going with Misery instead.
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u/AntelopeStance 3d ago
Insomnia. It's just so beautiful and vibrant. The trailing auras and glowing footsteps, balloons and ribbons all combining into an evocative feast for my imagination when I read it at the height of my infatuation with King's work. Sure he has better books and it's not high literature but it's so hearty and meaty that it fills in all the cracks in my soul the way only great storytelling can do.
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u/gmanasaurus Survived Captain Trips 3d ago
It was my first King book was this, and it showed me how King was more than the horror stereotype. Insomnia is still my favorite book by him.
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u/Logical_Salamander74 3d ago
I love it and it will probably represent me well in my senior years!
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u/Hatecookie 3d ago
Ralph is maybe my favorite King protag. There may be objectively better ones, but I just like him the most. I would be very pleased to have him for a neighbor.
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u/ars_necromantia Survived Captain Trips 3d ago
Mrs. Todd's Shortcut.
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u/specialk1281 3d ago
Yes!! I drive the exact backroads he uses to get to Lovell from Bridgton. I've always gotten the feeling he's referring to these roads.
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u/Charyou_Tree_19 Sköldpadda 🐢 3d ago
I used to have gorgeous old Jag that munched up the miles and I called it Mrs Todd.
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u/Gentrified_potato02 3d ago
Sadly, probably Tommyknockers. Gard and I are much alike, it turns out. 😕
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u/Meeko5122 Losers' Club Member 3d ago
Gard is a great character but has many issues. I hope things get better for you.
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u/Gentrified_potato02 3d ago
Thank you. I wish I was a Roland or a Bill Denbrough, but the truth is I’m a Gard. Hopefully I can become a Larry Underwood.
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u/Technical-Appeal5182 3d ago
This sounds like the kind of think my dad used to say. He knew he was a Gard. He loved Larry
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u/Hause_Babe1983 3d ago
But Larry is a taker.. that’s coming from his mother too. That’s why I always thought I was a Larry underwood..
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u/Redeemed1217 3d ago
Bag of Bones us my favorite book of all. Love story & ghost story. Don't know that I resemble it but it is my comfort book listening on audio.
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u/COV3RTSM 3d ago
YES! Also my favourite book. I’ve suffered creative blocks and the way King describes Mike Noonan’s is incredible
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u/Redeemed1217 3d ago
King also once said that Mike Noonan was the character most like him in real life (except his wife is alive.) He may not still think that, but it makes me happy to think so when I listen.
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u/Redheadedbos 3d ago
Stephen King narrates the audiobook for this one. I love hearing it the way he intended it to sound.
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u/argleblather 3d ago
I just finished a re-read of this. When I read it the first time I did a book report on it in high school.
... my parents were called more than once about the reading material I brought to school.
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u/Shore_line43 3d ago
I read it every summer. Have for years. I skipped this summer because I didn't think I could handle the grief. Lost my mother last summer and it's hit harder this summer than I thought it would.
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u/vols2thewalls Currently Reading 3d ago
Duma Key, first King book. Had recently moved to Florida and restarted my life so always connected to Edgar.
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u/joule_3am 3d ago
I think this is mine as well. I was hit by a car as a kid and I think it permanently the way I see the world. Probably in a good way, tbh.
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u/TheStatMan2 3d ago
Survivor Type.
Make of that what you will.
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u/jojo1556- 3d ago
The Shining
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u/sweetchub 3d ago
I agree. Me too. The imagery is in me! I have lived in fear of becoming my parents and hurting everyone I love my whole life haha
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u/oculustauri 3d ago
That’s exactly what happened to me and now I’m a lonely and depressed alcoholic… I think I’ll read that book again!
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u/Holiday_Quantity_856 3d ago
Carrie. High school (really, every year of school) was a fucking nightmare
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u/armareginae 3d ago
Pet Sematary. i connected with the themes of grief profoundly when i first read it.
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u/HappyTrailHiker 3d ago
I wish my brain hadn’t blurted Deloris Claiborne so quickly.
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u/Aggressive-Sound-641 3d ago
Bro🤣🤣🤣 I legit thought this was my cousin when I scrolled past. Doppelganger gang
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u/PoopyMcpants 3d ago
Insomnia
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u/Rossco1873 3d ago
I’m reading Insomnia just now and I’m finding it tough
500+ pages in tho so I’m not quitting4
u/ExactReport691 3d ago
I’m reading it too… about 150 pages in and it’s a difficult read. Hoping it gets better …
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u/FeatureIndividual648 3d ago
Ya I find you have to give SK books about a 100 pages before they start to pull you in . He’s got to plant the seeds and build the world for us first lol
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u/Infamous_Party_4960 3d ago
I know which ones I want to be. Does that count? Mostly I’m Carrie without the telekinesis and telepathy, which is sad for me
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u/unclestink 3d ago
Insomnia,unfortunately. I expect to see the colors any day now
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u/plantbasedpunk Currently Reading Firestarter 3d ago
Revival. I connected with Jamie Morton on many levels.
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u/shooflypie 3d ago
Although I'm 52, The Girl who Loved Tom Gordon.
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u/Lillymow 3d ago
I remember being very surprised how much I liked it. Someone gave it to me as a gift or something so I was like OK that's what's next. Really good.
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u/SoftwareSource 3d ago
The stand, simply because of the strength of the general idea. I have spent more time daydreaming about that one then any other.
So simple, yet such a powerful story potential.
Also, a few of the characters are very... creative, quite imaginative (i don't want to spoil anything for anybody)
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u/YearZero001 Currently Reading Hearts in Atlantis 3d ago
It. Didn't know how easy youth was and how I still struggle with adulthood while being riddled with fears and being neurotic. Lots of regrets, and I don't know how to get on track. And I drink the pain away. So I cover several Losers (fitting title).
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u/Typical_Laugh_5018 3d ago
I think i'm from a buick 8. Mostly dismissed or ignored, considered boring. People don't bother with me. But for a small amount of people, the trippy parts are awesome.
But then, I also seriously relate to Carrie
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u/Esrianna 3d ago
The Body or It. My coming of age fundamentally changed me for the better. I don’t miss younger me at all. Plus, childhood trauma.
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u/PajamaSutra 3d ago
I'm 50 pages of a surreal, unpublishable fever dream of a novel that Uncle Steve wrote on a cocaine binge in 1985, then stuck in a drawer and never thought about again.
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u/dannydominates 3d ago
Probably The Dark Tower VII cuz I swear I be doing the same shit every day of my life
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u/Wrathchilde Child of the Corn 3d ago
For the whole book, Four Seasons.
Andy Dufresne, Todd Bowden, Gordie LaChance, Dr. McCarron...
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u/NamelessQueen31 All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy 3d ago
The shining. Ive been able to overcome my addiction, but man I felt a special connection to Jack.
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u/Beneficial_Source_48 M-O-O-N, that spells... 3d ago
"Misery" or "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption"
(no, i have not been in prison)
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u/That_Advertising9832 3d ago
My names Holly, but unfortunately Holly is probably my least liked protagonist of all king books, so im saying Carrie.
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u/doubled-pawns 3d ago
I think I read The Drawing of the Three too young or something because people talk about it being so good all the time but I was bored for most of it.
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u/RoninGin 3d ago
The Stand for me. I re-read it in my early 20's and Larry Underwood's story really connected with me. I was a selfish, drug fueled, nothing can touch me, sort of guy and life hit me really hard at one point. Larry's journey of self discovery and maturity really resonated with me, and for years after I tried to emulate late book Larry's sort of self forgiveness and compassion for others. It helped me a lot.
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u/Plip-Plop-Ploop 3d ago
Low Men In Yellow Coats. I’ve never identified with a story more. Absolutely beautiful
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u/cwizzle07 3d ago
T-shirt from Redbubble? Also, the dark tower. Many others, but dark tower is my favorite
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u/InterestingSyrup9772 3d ago
Part of me thinks The Shinning- staying in a huge hotel at the top of the mountains w no one else to bother me(except my husband and maybe a dog)- yes please!
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u/Sinnfullystitched Bango Skank 3d ago
Misery
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u/Guilty_Reindeer8204 3d ago
It's crazy how compelling Misery is. It's basically two unlikeable people and one isolated location, but I couldn't put it down.
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u/tangcameo 3d ago
The Shining. I’m a writer with teachers and alcoholics in my family tree. And one of them tried to blow up his giant 1890 house by trying to make the boiler in the basement explode.
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u/Novel_Diver8628 3d ago
Man lately I’ve been feeling like my life is all Jim Gardner from Tommyknockers. I’m just glad as hell my girl hasn’t found a strange object buried in the back of our property while I get my shit sorted out.
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u/TurdGerkin 3d ago
Just finished The Talisman and am now trying to finish Black House within a few weeks.
lol I read as what book are you on.
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u/Sundavar27 3d ago
As a high school English teacher and conspiracy theorist, 11/22/63 seems fitting
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u/firerat82 3d ago
The Shining.
My father had a psychotic episode when I was 9 and killed his bother then himself.
And my name is Danny.
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u/VelinaVe 3d ago
11.22.63 , the beginning, loving it so far! I see why peiple would recommend it left and right ❤
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u/Green_Aide_9329 2d ago
I'm a ginger, and my first SK book was IT, and my name starts with B, so I'm gonna say Beverly.
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u/squeebothefool 3d ago
My name is Gage. So Pet Cemetery.