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I just discovered this new author. His name is Stephen King, and apparently he's written a whole bunch of books; imagine that.

So I read this one called "The Stand" and thought it was terrific, and now I'm reading this one called "It," and I'm also quite enjoying it.

So. If you've heard of this Stephen King guy and if you've read any of his works -- what do you recommend I tackle next?

(And to think I thought I'd read everything worth reading...)

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[lenadances.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, lemme see.

It is almost my hands-down favorite, not because of any plot parts but because I *know* these people like mad now, and I go re-visit them, a lot. Love them all. Want to marry Ben.

His best scary book is Pet Sematary because it is just that purely fucked-up. I have it, but it takes me about five or six years between reads. Seriously, I've only read it about twice because it scares me THAT DAMN MUCH that I can't go near it without feeling sick to my stomach again. And it's just human emotion and human characters driving it, is the fucked thing. Scares me pissless.

I like Firestarter because it's all about a man and his daughter, at the heart of it, but Stephen King doing government conspiracy is like a man trying to juggle Jell-O. Still, worth a read.

Different Seasons is three kick-ass novellas and one odd story.

Cujo is almost as scary as Pet Sematary, but... not really. But it's fucked. Nobody does sympathy for the devil like Steven King.

And I don't care what anyone says, I love Needful Things like crazy because it is the funniest apocolypse ever. The first time I read it I didn't know it was supposed to be funny. Now it just cracks me up. You can set people to kill each other but they *do* bumble around doing it.

Those are the ones on my bookshelf. (Not counting The Stand, which you have already discovered the glory of, and the other books that Token has that I have yet to read.) I'll have to look at a list to remember the others I've read, because I forget. But yeah. Love the King. Nobody makes you like such fuckers like he does.

[qowf.livejournal.com]

Pet Semetary has the best ending line of just about any book ever. Don't read ahead, Em. It will ruin it.

[noelleleithe.livejournal.com]

I did that, read the ending first. Or, okay, JUST the ending. *g* Only I wasn't planning to read the rest of the book (and still haven't read anything by SK). If you're going to actually read it, I say wait for the ending, but then I say that about every book. Harry Burns I'm not.