I'm watching late night USA and they are playing a movie called "Cat's Eye". Thats the same thing as a Stephen King story I read 10 times Night Shift. About 30 years ago. I loved that book. King is one author I hate to be put in film, because it always sucks, But he's my favorite dirty treat. I love reading him, but hate seeing his stuff on film. Does not Translate. Tell me your King stories.

Mine? Well I keep thinking of The Tommyknockers. My favorite novel. I keep thinking of the rampant coke machine slaying everyone near it!

Also, I love the 4th Dark Tower book beyond all, even The Stand. 

The Shining was good...I think mainly because he DIDN'T try to stay absolutely true to the book. 

It and The stand

/thread
//still grumbling about "secret window" 

The Stand (excellent book and movie)
Insomnia
The Green Mile (Great books and movie)
IT (brilliantly written book, imo)
Thinner
The Bachman Books (specifically the short story, 'The Long Walk'.
The Dark Half
Desperation
Tha Talisman

... these are the ones I thoroughly enjoyed. 

shawshank redemption was a killer of a movie and book. 

Stand By Me was a great interpretation of the story. 

shawshank redemption was a killer of a movie and book.

Whoa...wait...what?? That was by Stephen King?! 

Amazing...I had no idea.
It's late, but I think I'll watch the Shawshank Redemption again...I need something to get the pure annoyance that is Eternal Sunshine out of my head. 

Shawshank Redemption was a tremendous film
The Shining was also pretty damn good, but I'm biased towards Kubrick so..

I must admit my King readings are not exactly extensive. I've only read Shawshank, Gerald's Game and 'It'.
'It' was an absolutely brilliant book and an absolutely terrible film so in that sense I see what you're saying. Stupid TV movies. 

absolutely terrible film

Hey man..Tim Curry as pennywise has to be the most amazing casting in the world. that fucker made me hate clowns for life.

Whoa...wait...what?? That was by Stephen King?!

The things you learn from me stile.. :) 

I thought the clown in IT looked like a drunk child molester. 

The Clown was ok, the rest of the film was awful. 

I for one thought It was an extremely refreshing take on the whole horror film business...normally, the villain/creature/whatever is built up slowly, through shadowy glimpses, and finally revealed in his true horror near the climax. This is frightening, of course, and that's why everyone does it...but it's almost more horrifying, in a way, to have the monster strut around in broad daylight, confident in the knowledge that nobody can see him...except for you. There's an almost "Gaslight" quality about it...and Tim Curry was brilliant, in a role that didn't really require that much brilliance. 

Pennywise 

These are the SK books that I've read:

Bag of Bones
DT I - VII
Insomnia
Firestarter
The Talisman
Black House
Desperation
The Regulators
Different Seasons
The Stand
and I'm almost finished with Needful Things

Yeah, I read a lot....no, I don't go out that often. Why?

But seriously, though, The Stand (although it's the size of a phone book) is a damn good book. If you can hunt down the associated ABC Miniseries, that's not too shabby either. 

It's all about Maximum Overdrive.

Honey! C'mon over here, Sugar-buns. This machine just called me an asshole!

You can't! WE MADE YOU!

Best movie quotes evar. 

That was a good movie. 

Not reading the thread.

Stephen King is a talentless piece of trash.

/hate 

"The Stand" and "The Dark Tower" series are brilliant.

"It" was a great book

Of all his short stories, the one that they are cleaning up the rat problem under the building, and come across the giant mutant thing really creeped me out the most.

I love most of his stuff, the only one that I thought was kind of weak was "Gerald's Game". 

specifically the short story, 'The Long Walk'

Best by King imho. He's better with short stories than novels. 

The Mist was a good story
The Jaunt was also good
Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank and the Talisman were the best though
Creepshow, though dated, is still a cool movie. 

I need to find The STand on DVD, I thought it was one of the best King movies made... 

I'm a big fan of The Green Mile. 

I thought it was one of the best King movies made...

I love that book and like the movie. It's what made me fall in complete lust with Gary Sinise. 

There was this short story, in one of the Bachman books, I think, where this guy back in the early 1900's got shipwrecked on an island. Anyway, he was a DR and was transporting a ton of morphine with him and that was all he had when he beached. Anyway, he starts getting hungrier and hungrier, and tries to kill a seagull but breaks his leg pretty badly doing it.

Great short story, and I won't ruin the rest of it. I read it when I was about 13 and it scared the shit out of me.

Other than that. The Shawshank Redemption is the best translation to a movie. 

The Shawshank Redemption is the best translation to a movie.

Yeah, Morgan Freeman is really convincing as an irishman. 

Yeah, Morgan Freeman is really convincing as an irishman.

I said translation, right? And when does any movie follow a book exactly? Shawshank was a great movie, in any respect. 

Hey man..Tim Curry as pennywise has to be the most amazing casting in the world. that fucker made me hate clowns for life.

holy shit, ain't that the truth. 

I made mention of the fact that a lot of stephen king stories are shit when made into movies as well, and then I realized Stand by Me, Shawshank, the Green Mile, the Shining, Carrie, and a bunch of others are actually pretty good.

He's written off a lot as just a hack, pulp writer, but there's tons of those--why is he so good? Oh, and the DT series is probably definitely my favorite series of writing ever. 

My Favs:

Christine
Tommyknockers
The Dead Zone
Insomnia
The Gunslinger

I've also read quite a few more, but those are the ones i've liked the best. In my opinion, the stuff he wrote in the seventies when he was on drugs were better. 

This past month my husband re-read all of the dark tower books. I would ask him whats going on in them. Sounds like a pretty interesting series of books. I just dont think i can read all of that. Its a sad thing, but big books discourage me. I have read half of insomnia, and last summer i read a bucnh of short stories he wrote. I wish i could read more and not get so flustered by how big the book is. 

All that and you marry a SK DT fan.

ships passing in the night... 

The Regulators and Desperation.
It was realy wild to watch him be Stephen King and Richard Bachman to tell the same story. Sort of like a concept album 

Those were fun to read. I'd kind of like to re-read them. 

Desperation was way better, tho.

Would make a great movie, as well. 

Did anyone get Hearts in Atlantis?
He was just kinda polishing his knob with that one/five. 

I got the first story with the Low Men and all because it's part of the Dark Tower world.

The story with Hearts and Rip-rip and all was okay. But some of the other stuff was ick. 

the stand is my favorite novel. needful things is good to me because i know the areas he speaks about. sometimes his stories hit close to home, one novel had the character getting off the highway on an exit i get off on all the time.

he spoke at the university of maine orono graduation. he is very active in the bangor community. he is a nice guy. 

he is a nice blind got hit by a van guy.

 

the stand is my favorite novel

The stand is great. I remember I read that durring one of my most depressed years as a kid and it helped me keep out of trouble. 1000 pages of reading over a summer was good for a kid. 

the man who hit him with the van is dead now.

DEAD i say! 

Anyway, he starts getting hungrier and hungrier, and tries to kill a seagull but breaks his leg pretty badly doing it.

"Lady fingers... they taste just like lady fingers." 

The first of the dark towers scared me, so i stopped

The Dead Zone was my favorite
The Green Mile makes a tear come down just thinking about it 

the man who hit him with the van is dead now.

Didn't he buy the van then rock that shit with a sledge hammer? 

He died a suspicious, untimely death, too. 

Yeah...Shawshank Redemption is teh sex.

It's part of a collection of four stories, the book itself being called the Four Seasons (i think).

Apt Pupil is also part of the series.

The written story of Shawshank is called Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and represents the season of Summer. 

The Green Mile makes a tear come down just thinking about it

I was weeping like a girly man the entire movie. 

I wept like a girly man through the whole book. Books always hit me harder than movies, but that was a really good one. 

That boy's cheese dun slid off his cracker

 

the stand is the best long book....the long walk is the best 'short' one

the tower stuff is cool

him and pratchet pwn the reading thing