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King books you didn't like?

Funny, Bag of Bones is one of my favorites, just one of those stories that always stays with you. But it WAS a bit too long.
Personally, Tom Gordon is the one I couldn't even finish. I just could not get into it at all, and finally I was like, ah screw it.

Insomnia, has to be my least favorite!!! I couldn't get past chapter three without falling asleep.

how ironic...:-D

The Regulators. Despite the name it was under, this is still a dreadful novel.








Did anyone ever catch the TV movie vrsn of Riding the Bullet they did a couple of years ago? Oh my lord, I was embarrassed for the guy who directed it. It was awful! That's my fave story (one of them) and they butchered it. They made it take place in the 60s (????), and the guy was some tortured suicidal art student with a hippie girlfriend. Awful, just awful.
I did not happen to catch that show, but I hear there will be a Talisman movie and I wonder if that will be any good???

anyway he is one of my favorite authors but there are some books I just don't like.I don't care for most of his short stories.I think i really like maybe 4.I did not like Gerald's Game,for the life of me I can't think of the title now.I'm sure it will come to me once i'm in bed.But it came out after It.The one with the writer who suffered from headaches and he had a twin that was inside his head or something like that.The movie was terrible too.




I loved Bag of Bones, liked Buick 8, and thought Lisey's Story had some nice moments.
I read the Tommyknockers when I was young and impressionable - the same time I read It, and the Stand. I remember absolutely nothing about that book, while plenty of details from the other two have stuck with me.


Bag of Bones was best when I heard the audiobook, which Stephen King reads himself. It totally made a difference, it's one of my favorites now.

I also did not like the Dark Half, it was too dated, and Dean Koontz wrote a similar novel (Mr. Murder) which I think I read before Dark Half and it just kindof tainted my reading. They were so alike I hardly can tell them apart.
Another book I did not like (I am a diehard King fan but never let it be said I follow him mindlessly!) was Christine. It was just... sooo boring. Maybe I just don't like cars (Although I loved From a Buick 8, so maybe I just don't like the book)






New here, so bear with me. I've read King since jr high and I think I've read them all. There are some great ones (the stand) and there are some stinkers. I agree that the writing hasnt been as good post accident. My least favorite, however, is Gerald's Game. Just absolutely freaked me out! Any man mentions handcuffs to me and he is out the door! haha


I agreee with you 100% on 'It'.
*It spoilers ahead!*
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It lost me with the sex in the sewers thing, too. How old were they? 12?
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It had something to do with a need for a primal, mystical connection for the group to achieve in order for them to defeat IT. As morally weird as it was, it was more than just sex involved with it, I would venture. Some of us are re-reading IT now...perhaps bringing this up in the Let's Revisit IT thread can elicit some intelligent answers to this from other folks.

I guess got the reasoning behind it to a certain degree, but I just didn't really buy it. It kind of jerked me out of the story and I couldn't get back into it. Maybe I should give it another try some time.

It was a free book someone had left in a hospital waiting room. If I had remembered to bring a book with me, I never would have finished it.

And it was a trial to finish the last three books of the Dark Tower series. Wolves of the Calla about done me in on my resolve to finish the series. I just felt that King rambled far too much and the whole inserting himself as a character in the story just seemed lame to me.


Jeralds Game. I just hated this book. I finished it because I have to finish books. It was the story I didn't like not the writing.
Desperation. The whole book just grinded on my nerves. I am not even completely sure why. I felt it droned on a bit, but again it was mostly the story not the writing that I didn't like.
There are 2 more that had 1 aspect I didn't like in an over all good book.
IT... *Spoiler!*
Why oh why did they have to all have sex with the girl after the monster was already defeated in order to get out of the sewer? As if the monster fight didn't take away enough of their inosence. Keep in mind I loved the book other then that. It is the only book to ever give me nightmares. I read it more then a decade ago and still don't look at clowns the same.
Bag of Bones. I loved the story when it finaly got moving. I think the first 5 chapters needed to be edited. It felt like listening to someones running thoughts. It just went on and on with out much purpose.