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Posted: Aug 15 2010 01:27 am

here is a complete list of stephen king novels just to refresh your memory... yes I know it's fucking huge.

1960 - People, Places, And Things - Volume 1 (limited edition with Chris Chelsey)
1964 - The Star Invaders (limited edition)
1974 - Carrie
1975 - Salem's Lot
1977 - The Shining
1978 - Night Shift (stories)
1978 - The Stand
1979 - The Dead Zone
1980 - Firestarter
1981 - Cujo
1981 - Danse Macabre (nonfiction about horror)
1981 - Roadwork
1982 - Creepshow (comic book, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson)
1982 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
1982 - Different Seasons (novellas)
1983 - Christine
1983 - Pet Sematary
1983 - Cycle of the Werewolf
1984 - The Talisman (written with Peter Straub)
1985 - Skeleton Crew (stories)
1985 - The Bachman Books (novel collection)
1986 - It
1987 - The Eyes of the Dragon
1987 - Misery
1987 - The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three
1988 - The Tommyknockers
1988 - Nightmares in the Sky (Photo book with text by King)
1988 - Dark Visions
1989 - The Dark Half
1989 - Dolan's Cadillac (limited edition)
1989 - My Pretty Pony (limited edition)
1990 - The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition
1990 - Four Past Midnight (stories)
1991 - Needful Things
1991 - The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
1992 - Gerald's Game
1993 - Dolores Claiborne
1993 - Nightmares & Dreamscapes (stories)
1994 - Insomnia
1995 - Rose Madder
1995 - Umney's Last Case
1996 - The Green Mile (originally published as a monthly serial consisting of six parts: The Two Dead Girls, The Mouse on the Mile, Coffey's Hands, The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix, Night Journey, and Coffey on the Mile)
1996 - Desperation
1997 - Six Stories (stories)
1997 - The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
1998 - Bag of Bones
1999 - Storm of the Century
1999 - The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
1999 - The New Lieutenant's Rap (limited edition)
1999 - Hearts in Atlantis
1999 - Blood and Smoke (audio book)
2000 - Riding the Bullet (electronically published novella)
2000 - The Plant(electronically published)
2000 - Secret Windows
2000 - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (nonfiction autobiography)
2000 - Dreamcatcher
2001 - Black House (written with Peter Straub)
2002 - From a Buick 8
2002 - Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
2003 - The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (revised edition)
2003 - The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
2004 - The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah
2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower
2004 - Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
2005 - The Colorado Kid
2006 - The Secretary of Dreams
2006 - Cell
2006 - Lisey's Story
2008 - Duma Key
2008 - Just After Sunset
2009 - Stephen King Goes to the Movies
2009 - The Little Sisters of Eluria (limited edition)
2009 - "Graduation Afternoon" (in PostScripts)
2009 - "Throttle" (in He is Legend)
2009 - UR (e-novella available only on Amazon.com's Kindle)

Posted: Aug 15 2010 02:00 am

For the record, that's not a list of all of his *novels.* You've got short story collections on there too, and "SK Goes to the Movies" is just a reprint of a few of his short stories that were eventually turned into films. If you truly want a list of his novels, go to the source: http://www.stephenking.com/library/novel/

Just for fun, if you want a list of EVERYTHING he's ever written:
http://www.stephenking.com/library/written.html

Damn but that boy's prolific. I love him. Very Happy

Title: The Self-Titler Joined: Aug 14 2010 Posts: 598

Also missing off the list is "Under the Dome".

Posted: Aug 15 2010 10:59 am

I didn't see Rage on the list. Was that a short story?

Posted: Aug 15 2010 03:46 pm

Yeah, more a novella than anything else. I have it in the Bachman Books collection.

Title: General jackass Joined: Jul 29 2010 Posts: 182

Spanish Meatloaf wrote:

2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Worst. Subtitle. Ever.

Posted: Aug 15 2010 04:37 pm

mechafuhrer wrote:

Spanish Meatloaf wrote:

2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Worst. Subtitle. Ever.

Wizard Joined: Jun 12 2009 Posts: 4209

SoldierHawk wrote:

mechafuhrer wrote:

Spanish Meatloaf wrote:

2004 - The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Worst. Subtitle. Ever.

BUT IT FITS. I will defend it with my life. And wizard powers.

Posted: Aug 23 2010 09:57 pm

I've always liked The Stand a lot. I also love The Dark Tower series now that I've finally read the whole thing. Misery, It, Salem's Lot, Dreamcatcher, the man has a lot of good work under his belt.

Joined: Sep 10 2010 Location: Kearney, NE Posts: 65

I just read Salem's Lot a half a year ago, which is the first book I've read by him. I thought the story started off strong, but lost steam as everything went to shit in the town. However, it did scare the shit out of me. I couldn't read it at night because I thought that if I walked by a window that there would totally be a vampire there. And then I would be fucked cause I'd have nothing to fight them off in my house.

You know what I thought was really awesome though? The Great and Secret Show by Clive Barker.

Joined: Mar 04 2011 Posts: 3

Those of you who enjoyed "The Stand" really should check out "Under The Dome." It's of roughly the same length, but King has matured a great deal as a writer since 1978. A lot of the character archetypes are very similar.

Joined: May 22 2009 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 353

For me its a tie between The Eyes of the Dragon or Rage. I'm sad to hear Rage is out of print, and the prices on ebay are outrageous. Is there anyone here with a paypal account willing to part with their copy for a reasonable price?

Joined: Mar 08 2011 Location: Ohio Posts: 131

I have read The Shining and Dreamcatcher. I liked Dreamcatcher a lot more than I liked the movie even though both were kind of silly. I might like Dreamcatcher more than The Shining actually. I have read Danse Macabre which is nonfiction and it made me feel sorta eh about him.

I know it is not reading but his version of The Kingdom as "Kingdom Hospital" on TV is the project of his that I like the most. : )

Posted: Mar 13 2011 05:42 am

phantasmzombie wrote:

For me its a tie between The Eyes of the Dragon or Rage. I'm sad to hear Rage is out of print, and the prices on ebay are outrageous. Is there anyone here with a paypal account willing to part with their copy for a reasonable price?

No fear! Don't buy the expensive out of print edition--buy it in the collection "The Bachman Books" along with three other early King novels! (Including "The Long Walk," which is still one of my favorite things he's ever written.)

http://www.amazon.com/Bachman-Books-Stephen-King/dp/B000RC0NVC/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1300009111&sr=8-9

And I'll tell you what: if $20 bucks is a hardship, I'll gladly send you my copy. It's dog-eared and well loved, and I know it wouldn't object to being passed on to another willing reader.

Also: I frigging LOVE Eye of the Dragon! Very Happy

I really should have liked Dreamcatcher more than I did. One of his few longer books that just fell completely flat for me. (Insomnia, on the other hand, I really enjoyed--mostly because of the IT/Derey mythology worked in there.)

Posted: Mar 13 2011 03:26 pm

Did they ever make a movie out of Needful Things, or the Regulators / Desperation?

Posted: Mar 13 2011 06:14 pm

Blackout wrote:

Did they ever make a movie out of Needful Things, or the Regulators / Desperation?

Not to my knowledge, although I do tend to avoid King-inspired movies unless it's a special situation. (Which usually translates into "not based on one of his horror stories.")

Posted: Mar 13 2011 06:18 pm

Holy crap they did make a Desperation movie (for TV), and Ron Perlman played the crazy murderous sheriff!

Weird, from the screenshots in google it looks like it was actually Gary Busey playing him... You don't think the'd intentionally make an actor look more Buseyish to enhance the craziness of the character do you?

Posted: Mar 13 2011 10:32 pm

Blackout wrote:

Holy crap they did make a Desperation movie (for TV), and Ron Perlman played the crazy murderous sheriff!

Weird, from the screenshots in google it looks like it was actually Gary Busey playing him... You don't think the'd intentionally make an actor look more Buseyish to enhance the craziness of the character do you?

*insert dropped jaw here*

Amazing!

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

How can you people have not seen Needful Things? It has fucking Ed Harris AND Max von Sydow in it and it is fantastic.

Posted: Mar 14 2011 02:22 pm

joshwoodzy wrote:

How can you people have not seen Needful Things? It has fucking Ed Harris AND Max von Sydow in it and it is fantastic.

*SPUTTER*

Good grief! I guess my "ahhh, Stephen King movie, stay away!" radar was so strong that I missed this one entirely. TO NETFLIX!

Max von Sydow and I DIDN'T KNOW! Shameful Hawk. Sad

Posted: Mar 28 2011 06:21 pm

If Max Von Sydow is Satan Im totally seeing it. Playing Jesus and the Devil in one career? Totally awesome.

Ok the first King I ever read was IT and for a while there I would walk to the other side of the road to avoid passing sewer grates. I still I still fucking hate clowns to this day. It doesn't help that I thought they were creepy pedophiles in the first place.

My favorite is The Stand as I notice is a lot of other peoples, definitely epic. I also like Eyes of the Dragon though that book is a bitch to find these days, he wrote it for his daughter who didn't like horror. Though lets be honest Flagg is one scary ass villian.

Posted: Mar 28 2011 11:09 pm

carnage_complex wrote:

Those of you who enjoyed "The Stand" really should check out "Under The Dome." It's of roughly the same length, but King has matured a great deal as a writer since 1978. A lot of the character archetypes are very similar.

I read Under the Dome not too long ago and I definitely got a Stand vibe from it. It was pretty good though.

Posted: Mar 29 2011 12:12 am

Ugh. I STILL can't walk past a gutter like the one poor ol' Georgie got pulled in to without shuddering. Sad

Posted: Mar 30 2011 03:08 pm

SoldierHawk wrote:

Ugh. I STILL can't walk past a gutter like the one poor ol' Georgie got pulled in to without shuddering. Sad

Don't worry, Hawk, we all float down here! And for the record, Just After Sunset is another great collection of short stories. Haven't checked Full Dark, No Stars yet. Waiting for Doctor Sleep.

Posted: Mar 30 2011 03:15 pm

I dunno, I'm wary of short story collections, Everything's Eventual was pretty damn awful, the only book I've ever given away immediately after finishing it because I knew I'd never want to read it again.