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).  

As always when Neil enthuses about something, especially something I know is a Good Thing, I feel the need to read King's back catalogue.  And the man is nothing if not prolific.  As if there aren't enough things that I feel the desperate need to read already.  

I may be some time.

Comments

[50-ft-queenie.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.livejournal.com]

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.