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Which Stephen King books do you like best. My votes are It and The Green Mile

The Green Mile, standing alongside The Shining and The Stand.

The Stand and It

The Stand.

I also liked The Dark Half, Insomnia, and Pet Semetary,

The worst was Cell.

The Stand, The Shining, Pet Sematary

I really liked The Green Mile as a movie but I haven't read the book(s) which is kind of weird for me because usually I won't watch a movie based on a book until I have read the book

I've only read It and The Dark Tower series so I can't really say which is best to me, but of the ones i've read I liked It the best. I thought the book was really creepy when I was fifteen.

I've seen The Green Mile, The Night Flier, It, The Shawshank Redemption, Hearts in Atlantis, Storm of the Century, The Running Man and Christine.

The Eyes of the Dragon has always had a special place in my heart.

I'm trying to read The Stand right not but i keep getting distracted...*chases a butterfly*

I've read dozens of Stephen King books. They were my special interest for a while, and I don't exactly recall most of them, my favorites were the Dark Tower Series and The Stand. There is another one I vaguely remember that's also pretty up there, but I forget what.

I enjoyed It, but it certainly wasn't my favorite.

My favourite is Misery. I love Annie Wilkes.

I remember reading his novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" one evening in a single three hour session.

Wow.

'It' has the most convoluted, pointless, irrelevant ending of any story I've ever read. Its like Stephen was humming along, turning out some of the best work he'd ever done and someone snuck up behind him and injected him with mescaline. Very good story up to a point, but the last hundred pages are some of the worst crap I've ever read by anyone. Very disappointing.

'The Stand' is my favorite, but I don't necessarily consider it the best in terms of sheer prose. I especially like the restored version with all the extra stuff that had been edited out originally - except (again) for the ending. Having Flagg pop back up after the story had come to a conclusion and a peaceful coda, was just dumb and unnecessary and kind of spoiled the whole effect.

I always liked 'Firestarter', too, because it seems so plausible.

The Dark Tower series.

I loved the book Christine. I never saw the movie though. My favorite movie based on his book was The Langoliers. I was 12 when I saw it and it freaked me out. lol

Probably Pet Semetary or The Shining.

I can rarely tolerate King, and I gave up on him entirely when I discovered Richard Matheson, but Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Apt Pupil, and The Mist are the best ones I've read, if novellas count as books.