Damn you Neil Gaiman!

[inulro]

FX: shakes fist

I haven't read a Stephen King book in decades - while I've always appreciated that there's more to his books than most people think, I found that every second one or so just bored me.  
However, I just read Neil Gaiman's interview with Stephen King (it's behind the Times' paywall so Gaiman put his unedited first draft on his blog).

Comments

[50_ft_queenie]

Tell me about it. I read Carrie when I was in high school and hated it, but a couple of years ago, I decided to give King another go. I read a couple of his short story collections and really liked them. One of those stories gave birth to the Dark Tower series, and I know that's a MASSIVE series.

[inulro]

Love: It, Salem's Lot (I was reding the latter in my dorm room late at night in 1st year, someone knocked on my door & I screamed &the book hit the ceiling.

Quite liked The Tommyknockers- read it the summer after I took the Dickens course & found lots of allusions to Victorian books-, Needful Things and a few others.

Bored to tears by Firestarter and The Dead Zone but was about 12 so maybe not fair; also Christine (a haunted car? Really?).

Also loved Black House, the one he did with Straub.

[dali_muse]

The Talisman, which is the predecessor to Black House is far superior. It's also co-written with Peter Straub.

I would also recommend The Stand, Four Seasons, The Shining, It, Misery, heck, even Cujo is a good quick summer read. (Half of the book is a mother and her son trapped in a car with a rabid dog outside, and yes, King can keep the tension up.)

I stopped reading King after Misery, but The Dome sounds interesting and my Mom gave it to me to read, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

[inulro]

I read Cujo at the time, as well as The Shining-the topiary animals coming to life scared the crap out of me. I've read most of the earlier books, I think the last was Needful Things.

[girfan]

Once again, you are welcome to borrow any of my Stephen King books. I have at least 3/4 of the ones he has written.