Was Stephen King ever any good?

I can only think of one film that was as good as, possibly better than the book it was based on.

They say The Shawshank Redemption, a King story, was much better as a movie. I didn't read it.

Pseudonym, my friend. It was Stephen King.

Well aware

Didn't appear so with the lol

Until Steven King writes about Chem Trails as a scary mist full of mind controlling chemicals he will not be accepted on GLP.

LOL. I guess the fog doesn't count.

That was James Herbert not King. Good book btw.

He may be a leftist protest but you can’t say he isn’t one of America’s best living authors.

If you don’t appreciate it then maybe you’re not much of a reader.

Well, he might have outed himself as a flaming libtard,
but 'Hearts In Atlantis' is still a dang good novel, in
my humble opinion.

He didn't direct the movie, idiot.

I always wished he'd write an UNWOKE sequel to 11/22/63 starring one of the door guys. Tell us more about that!

I read every Stephen King book there was until the late 90's, and I always enjoyed them. I especially like the short story collections since once I start a book, I will probably not stop reading until I have read it all. I pretty much stopped reading all fiction again besides this internet fiction around the year 2000, I have no idea after that.

I just watched 11/22/63. I thought it was mostly boring except parts of the first and last episodes.

The Stand was great, the shining was awesome, Dreamcatcher was good in concept. I mean hes one of the most prolific writers of all time. Not all of it is terrible. Some of it is duds. Kind of like Louie LAmore. Some of it is good. Some of it is terrible.

Scariest one I ever read. I was so scared that I had to sleep in my mom's room that night. (I was 15.) Just as we were about to fall asleep, the closet door opened, squeaking loudly. I screamed. My mom screamed. We slept with the lights on!

Go then, there are other worlds than these

I believe there are many people writing novels under the name Stephen King.

Not sure if the person known as Stephen King has written anything.


He's a brand, not an author.

Christine was good.
The Stand was good.

He has a kinship with southern Baptist preachers in his use of repetition to build a mood and set a tone that other writers seem to eschew.

Does a pretty good job with what I'll call "coming of age" settings. The movie Stand by Me was based on a short story.

"Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption was made into the movie The Shawshank Redemption, one of the better prison milieu movies in my opinion.

'Salem's Lot was also good, one of his earlier works.

Hearts in Atlantis, book AND film, are top notch.

The Dark Tower series...meh from me on that one.

Green Mile was a good story (he serialized it a la the 30's) and a decent film as well.

I didn't mind Doctor Sleep.

The Shining, as a book, was decent if you read it in winter...

For some reason the transition of his works from book to film has been an art that filmmakers have NOT mastered; they dumb things down waaaay too much and feel a need to spoon feed the audience.

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That's really funny. Thanks for sharing. The scariest book I ever read was Amityville Horror. I couldn't read it at night. I loaned it to my 15 year old friend, he was reading it one night, got so scared that he threw it under the bed. We never found it. Weird.

TRUE.

THE BOOK WAS DIFFERENT THAN THE MOVIE... IN ALL CASES.

EVEN WHEN THINGS WENT WELL FOR KING AND HE WAS AT THE HELM HE COULDN'T GET THIS PERSON HE WANTED, OR THAT... AND THOUGH THEY WERE GOOD MOVIES, A BOOK IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN A MOVIE.

YO HOGAN SHOULD MAKE A HOLLYWOOD WHERE WE WATCH MOVIES FOR 2 DOLLARS, THEN RE-WATCH FOR A DOLLAR, THEN 50 CENTS, THEN 25, ETC UNTIL IT'S THE COST OF THE UPLOAD AFTER 10 VIEWS FROM ONE IP ADDRESS.

He had a great run until he quit smoking, drinking and taking drugs. Seriously. I bought hardcover editions of the Dark Tower series. They suck except for the Gunslinger, which he wrote at age 18. The Stand was my personal favorite.

If you don’t like reading, The Shining movie was great.

Maximum Overdrive. Everyone was coked our filming that one.

For all of you mentioning "The Shining" you know that King hated what Kubrick did to his novel, right? And you also know that Kubrick used that movie to show that he was involved with faking the moon landings, right?

Watched???

READ THE BOOK!

he wrote decent stories 35 yrs ago but they are all dark and evil stories...he must be dark and evil at the core to make that shit up

EXACTLY! That's why I love reading it. I can't think of that shit on my own, so to me, it's "creative."

^ This ^

I give King a pass because he got his ass run over and probably brain damaged for life. As for the rest like De Niro, fuck em’.

I enjoy reading King. At this moment I am reading, The Institute.