OT: Favorite Stephen King book or movie

[cRURah]

If you're a fan, there's so many great stories to choose from. My favorite all-time is now 11/22/63, both book and the video mini-series. What a great story framed on one of the most historic events ever and a love story to boot. What's yours and why?

 

[Myrtleknight]

King's overrated. Good starts and development, followed by gawd awful endings.

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

Shawshank..Nuff said.

 

[DT Hawxhurst]

The Stand

 

[Crazed_RU]

Thinner was very good. Pet Sematary too.

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

I think SK is a good SHORT STORY writer...

Like in The Man Who Loved Flowers

 

[RU-AGK]

It.

Just the book. The TV mini-series was overrated nonsense if you read the book.

 

[ron313]

The Stand

Agree. That book was one of my favorites.

 

[colbert17]

"The Shining" the gold standard for horror movies.

 

[PatrickRU92]

Huge King fan!

Impossible to pick just 1, but the whole Dark Tower series kept me captivated, and 11/22/63 was incredible. And yes I know (and agree to some extent ) that sometimes King's endings aren't satisfying, but in 11/22/63 it was just perfect.

Good example of great book with horrible last stanza was Insomnia. I couldn't put it down the 1st half of that book but the end was cruddy :(

 

[DirtyRU]

Stand By Me.

 

[NickyNewark51]

Salems Lot and the novelette/movie Thinner..

 

[RUaMoose]

The Stand

Took me about four months to read it..lol

 

[SJScarlet]

"The Shining" the gold standard for horror movies.

Interestingly, Stephen King disapproved of the movie The Shining. He thought Kubrick distorted it to much.

 

[Rutgers1976]

I agree with Patrick about the DT series and 11/22/63. I did find one football-related factual error in 11/22/63. The way to acquire currency was to bet on games where the outcome was known...only in 1963, the bet was placed on the Bears-Giants "NFC Championship Game". Only the NFC didn't exist until after the AFL-NFL merger.

Aside from that, the best movie was Shawshank. Green Mile was originally released as a series of short stories. Hearts in Atlantis was a very good book and a god-awful movie.

I always enjoyed finding the easter eggs in so many books which intertwined, mostly with he Dark Tower series.

 

[mildone]

"It" was my favorite of his books. The Shining my favorite of the movies made from his books. Actually, The Shining is the only instance I can think of where I thought the movie was even better than the book.

 

[RU_DIO]

The Stand

 

[RU5781]

The Mist. Thank God Darabont changed it to perhaps the best ending to a movie I have ever seen.

 

[bac2therac]

not into reading books but for me in my top 10 movies of all time are Carrie and the Shining, also the Mist was very very good

 

[LC-88]

The Stand

Same for book. Movie: The Shining, because of Nicholson.

 

[DT Hawxhurst]

Took me about four months to read it..lol

I hear ya. Someday I'd like to get the complete and uncut edition, see how much more there is.

 

[albanyknight]

I always thought the best movie was 'Storm of the Century.' I thought it held your interest from beginning to the end. I usually watch it sometime during the winter when it is snowing outside.

 

[Arizona Knight]

Agree with those who say The Stand.

 

[runrayrun]

IT

 

[Ridge 22]

Shawshank
The Long Walk
The Mist

 

[IheartRutgers]

Loved 11/22/63. Just started the Shining.

 

[DJ Spanky]

Strawberry Spring.

"Why am I afraid to look in the trunk?"

 

[El Curioso Impertinente]

1. 11/22/63.
2. The Stand
3. Rita Hayworth

 

[Scarlet_Scourge]

Creepshow. He wrote a graphic novel for it.

The Shining but the movie has almost nothing to do with the book.

Salem's lot has creepy as hell vampires.

Stand By Me is a great film as well.

 

[Alaska_Dawg]

I never cared much for the movies, but as far as books go .. Salem's Lot, and the Shining were solid books imo. Christine was decent also.

 

[DT Hawxhurst]

Love most of his books. Unfortunately, not many of them translate as well into movies, imo.

 

[G- RUnit]

The underrated and overlooked, and for a Sports message board, "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon."

 

[Clearscreen25]

Misery - Book and movie both excellent. In the book, she hurts him even more than the movie.

 

[RU31trap]

Pet cemetery.

 

[BABYBULL24]

Gay...

 

[RUJohnny99]

I agree with Patrick about the DT series and 11/22/63. I did find one football-related factual error in 11/22/63. The way to acquire currency was to bet on games where the outcome was known...only in 1963, the bet was placed on the Bears-Giants "NFC Championship Game". Only the NFC didn't exist until after the AFL-NFL merger.

Aside from that, the best movie was Shawshank. Green Mile was originally released as a series of short stories. Hearts in Atlantis was a very good book and a god-awful movie.

I always enjoyed finding the easter eggs in so many books which intertwined, mostly with he Dark Tower series.

Make that two factual errors.

Spoiler

Time travel isn't real

 

[Rutgers1976]

Of course it's real, in spite of the fact that that nerds from Big Bang Theory haven't quite proved it yet. YET!

Make that two factual errors.

Spoiler

Time travel isn't real