Favorite Stephen King movie/book?

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  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Shawshank Redemption.
    That's not a book. That's a movie.

    My answer to the OP: Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption.
    My sincere apologies. I finally just read the title of the topic.
  • pitbullmama
    pitbullmama Posts: 454 Member
    I liked the mini series they made of The Stand and also really liked the book. But I think his best work is one of his latest, 11/22/63...not quite horror, but really interesting.

    I'm reading 11/22/63 now and I can honestly say I think its the best thing he's written in years.
  • itsjustdawn
    itsjustdawn Posts: 1,073 Member
    For books - I love Under the Dome and the Dark Tower series. I've read Under the Dome about 3 times since it came out. I've read the entire DT series 4 times, with the earlier books being somewhere around 6-8 times each.
  • schpanks
    schpanks Posts: 468 Member
    Book: The Stand. Forever and ever. Amen.
    Movie: The Shank and Stand By Me. Don't try to do the scary ones. Once Stephen King has been working from inside my brain, you can't scare me from the outside.
  • territhefrog
    territhefrog Posts: 1,134 Member
    Book: Misery
    Movie: IT (that clown is the only clown that creeps me out)

    I liked the movie The Shining better then the book. The book was just sort of boring to me.
  • lidybug1984
    lidybug1984 Posts: 71 Member
    Lisey's Story :)
  • Starla_
    Starla_ Posts: 349
    Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Green mile, Carrie, The Shining, Pet Cemetary. I'll watch them all but I think a lot of things are lost when it comes to movie adaptations...

    Books: Every single book he has written.... Bag of Bones, Carrie, Salems Lot, Tommyknockers, Needful Things, Christine, Rose Madder, The Shining, It, The Stand, Geralds Game, Lisey's Story, Duma Key, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, From a Buick 8, and I could go on and on and on and on..... lol I used to own all of his books, even the Richard Bachman ones until half were stolen and now I'm slowly building up my collections again as well as getting his newer releases.


    Also I love love love the Talisman and The Black House that he wrote with Peter Straub
  • Books: The Dark Tower Series, The Stand, and Eyes of the Dragon are my three favorites.

    Movies: Green Mile.
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    Book: The Shining, the Stand (unabridged), It, Tommyknockers, Misery, The green Mile (read this as each book came out & i was on pins & needles waiting for each one to come out

    Movie: The Shining (only the original, not the tv version), The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption. & of course Misery

    Anybody recognize these? Shawshank Redemption was filmed about 90 minutes from my house

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    the "boarding house"

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    Driving up the front driveway

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    The shower room, both in the movie & in reality when it was a working prison. In the last pic, all the orbs are not camera tricks or dust, the reformatory is truly haunted, knowing it's history makes it even more interesting.
  • blytheandbonnie
    blytheandbonnie Posts: 3,275 Member
    Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Stand By Me, Green mile, Carrie, The Shining, Pet Cemetary. I'll watch them all but I think a lot of things are lost when it comes to movie adaptations...

    Books: Every single book he has written.... Bag of Bones, Carrie, Salems Lot, Tommyknockers, Needful Things, Christine, Rose Madder, The Shining, It, The Stand, Geralds Game, Lisey's Story, Duma Key, Nightmares and Dreamscapes, From a Buick 8, and I could go on and on and on and on..... lol I used to own all of his books, even the Richard Bachman ones until half were stolen and now I'm slowly building up my collections again as well as getting his newer releases.


    Also I love love love the Talisman and The Black House that he wrote with Peter Straub


    Oh, yeah. Black House was great.
  • Books: Thinner and Firestarter and Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

    Movies: The Shining and The Green Mile


    Because of my insane fear of clowns I cannot read or watch IT.
  • tamtamzz
    tamtamzz Posts: 142
    Man, this is tough.

    I'll have to say Misery and It is a tie for the book, although I really liked Thinner.

    Well, I'll have to say the same for movies as well, with the exception of Thinner. I liked The Shining too.

    It was the only book that actually frightened me. My kids love to play with balloons, and sometimes the balloons will just flow through the house. It instantly reminds me of Pennywise the clown and his scary teeth. Ugh. I read the book 20 years ago!

    Oops. I forgot Tommyknockers and the Apt Pupil. Ah, hell. It's so hard to pick just one.
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    Books: Thinner and Firestarter and Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

    Movies: The Shining and The Green Mile


    Because of my insane fear of clowns I cannot read or watch IT.

    My best friend's husband is so afraid of clowns, she isn't even allowed to have the book in the house
  • mgobluetx12
    mgobluetx12 Posts: 1,326 Member
    Anyone read 11/22/63 yet? I really liked it and can see it as a great movie, I hope.
  • Shell_7609
    Shell_7609 Posts: 786 Member
    11/22/63 is the next on my "to be read" list. I can't wait to read it.
  • mycrazy8splus1
    mycrazy8splus1 Posts: 1,558 Member
    I like a lot of his books (Misery, The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption, 11/22/63, Thinner, The Long Walk, etc ...) but my all time favorite is ... by far ... The Eyes of the Dragon.

    how did I forget The Eyes of the Dragon! that was a great one!
  • wbgolden
    wbgolden Posts: 2,066 Member
    Book: The Shining, the Stand (unabridged), It, Tommyknockers, Misery, The green Mile (read this as each book came out & i was on pins & needles waiting for each one to come out

    Movie: The Shining (only the original, not the tv version), The Green Mile, Shawshank Redemption. & of course Misery

    Anybody recognize these? Shawshank Redemption was filmed about 90 minutes from my house

    100_1198.jpg
    the "boarding house"

    100_1057.jpg
    Driving up the front driveway

    4c59b18e.jpg

    The shower room, both in the movie & in reality when it was a working prison. In the last pic, all the orbs are not camera tricks or dust, the reformatory is truly haunted, knowing it's history makes it even more interesting.
    That's pretty cool :)
  • _the_feniks_
    _the_feniks_ Posts: 3,412 Member
    Favorite movie, The Green Mile. Favorite book, Christine. For me, none of the movies can come close to capturing his literary detail.
  • crystal_darling
    crystal_darling Posts: 53 Member
    :heart: Rose Madder:heart:

    Loved this book! I couldn't put it down!
  • vbrent07
    vbrent07 Posts: 115
    The Stand and IT. I think all his books are better than the movies but I do like IT and The Shining as a movie too.
  • morningmud
    morningmud Posts: 477 Member
    Movies: The Shining (I worked at a hotel), Maximum Overdrive, The Storm of the Century

    Books: The Dark Tower series, The Talisman, It

    My favorite author; I could go on and on.
  • EileenT72
    EileenT72 Posts: 15 Member
    Books - Pet Sematary was by far the scariest to me. I loved The Talisman & Skeleton Crew and the Dark Tower series too.

    Movies - Rose Red, The Mist, Storm of the Century

    He's always been my favorite author!
  • catniss
    catniss Posts: 326 Member
    DARK TOWER SERIES!!! (after getting through The Gunslinger which is totally necessary)
  • Friday74
    Friday74 Posts: 36 Member
    Oh, so many to pick from!! Movies - Shawshank Redemption, Silver Bullet, and The Green Mile.

    Books- The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, From a Buick 8, Insomnia, The Stand, It, Rose Madder...and the list goes on...
  • slkehl
    slkehl Posts: 3,801 Member
    I've only seen the movie It. Wasn't too impressed.
  • 1. Insomnia
    2. It
    3. Stand
  • verptwerp
    verptwerp Posts: 3,639 Member
    Love all his stuff ...... but have never been able to get through "Pet Semetary" ...... scares the cr*p out of me still :sad:
  • weighlossforbaby
    weighlossforbaby Posts: 847 Member
    Movies: Rose Red, Thinner, The green mile, Silver Bullet, Storm of the Century.

    Books: The girl who loved Tom Gordon, The stand, The Green Mile.
  • SabrinaJL
    SabrinaJL Posts: 1,579 Member
    The Stand is my favorite book. Not just my favorite King book. It's my favorite book ever. I've read almost all of his books (except 11/22/63 and Blockade Billy) and am currently reading The Wind Through the Keyhole. I'm also partial to The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon and Eyes of the Dragon as I read those with my daughter. Also, I'm gonna throw it out there that I think Cell was a giant turd of a book.

    Movies: Shawshank is the best movie adaptation I think. Oh and Misery. Kathy Bates was awesome as Annie Wilkes.
  • Books: Thinner and Firestarter and Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

    Movies: The Shining and The Green Mile


    Because of my insane fear of clowns I cannot read or watch IT.

    My best friend's husband is so afraid of clowns, she isn't even allowed to have the book in the house

    I'm not proud but I'm the same it is the most irrational fear but I can't help it. No clown related crap in my house.