Here is a list of books that I need to get left ’til I complete his entire collection of work, I still need to get these on hardcover:
- Carrie
- Salem’s Lot
- The Shining
- Danse Macabre
- Cujo
- The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
- The Dark Tower II: Drawing Of Three
- Thinner
- The Regulators (Bachman)
- Cell
- Blockade Billy
- Faithful
- Night Shift
I believe that’s pretty much it! Yep, I pretty much own most of his entire collection of work. Why do I feel the need to own every book he has ever published? Well, no. 1, I want to appreciate him as his biggest fan. 2., Hardcovers will be something valuable sometime down the road, and they last longer than paperbacks.
Stephen really changed my life over the years with his writing. I started reading his books underage, when I was a teenager, and have been addicted to his writing ever since.
Of course, I like his classic novels more than his new stuff. His new stuff, he has been staying away from the horror genre. I like him better being the horror writer. I miss him writing horror novels, ya know? I think after his accident when he got hit by a van, that was when he changed his style of writing. He kind of moved away from the horror genre after that. I do like his new stuff, but the best new books he has ever written were, “Under the Dome”, “11/22/63”, and “Lisey’s Story”.
Plus, I think all of the Dark Tower books are just amazing as well.
And no, I have never met Stephen himself in person yet, but I’m hoping I get lucky to meet him someday before he gets too old and die. I wouldn’t care to get an autograph or a photo with him, I just want to shake his hand and thank him for the inspiration.
Kev
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Have you read his advice to young authors books. Gosh, what is it called. It’s amazing if you haven’t read it – he tells all about his life and you really get an in-depth look at how he became such a prolific fantasy/horror/realism writer.
I think you’re talking about, “On Writing”, yes, I do have it and I did read it. He just teaches people his way of writing your own novels. Good book.
Kev
I just loved the sections about his mother. I think only because I had never imagined Stephen King’s mother before, haha. Sorry I was too lazy to google the name of it, I should have just went out to the hallway and actually looked at my shelf.
Salem’s Lot is by far his best book, in my opinion. I would get that one first. Carrie, is his first, and you can really see his voice clearly in that one, without the drugs and alcohol of his middle years, and the rush to get it done that I felt in the 90s. You can’t go wrong with the two books that made him who he is.