Anyone see "The Mist", do you like Steven King?

[Yosamite Sam]

This movie ranks along with the most freakiest movie I have ever seen.... Dawn of the living dead. Anyway I got spooked out about the 4 foot spiders with porkypine quills and spit web that has acid in it. Also, the 70 foot whatever with tentacles hanging from underneath it and shook the ground as it walked.
Really something else!

[thedog]

Haven't seen it yet.

I've read most of King's stuff.

[TalonChief]

I read the original story 20-some years ago. Waitin' for the DVD release.

[Highmiles]

I haven't seen the movie yet but the story is one of my favorites.

[SafetyMan]

I read everything King ever wrote up through the mid '90's.... then I moved on.
Read Dreamcatcher, it was good. I read Cell last year, it was really good, and classic King.

The Mist was really good. Haven't seen the movie.

[Shaw_2112]

not a King fan at all, and I read a lot. His books usually bore me, can never get past the first couple of chapters.

The movies are even worse, only good one I saw was Christine....

[Highmiles]

not a King fan at all, and I read a lot. His books usually bore me, can never get past the first couple of chapters.

The movies are even worse, only good one I saw was Christine....

If you get a chance to read Skeleton Crew, it is a collection of Steven King short stories. My favorite was Mrs Todd's Shortcut. If you can't get into that story quickly, you will truly always hate Steven King.

That story is one of my favorites, and for the most part, I dislike King also.

[SafetyMan]

Mrs. Ophelia Todd...

Loved that story!

[dynageno]

I'm getting scared!:blink:

[Dirty Dan]

I've read most of King's earlier stuff. After he started really churning out novels I thougt the quality of writing declined and quit. Now my favorite fiction writer is Tom Clancey. Altho I haven't seen new fiction work from him for a while now...

[Sparky]

I gave up on Stephen King a few years after Insomnia came out. Then, I picked up the "Dark Tower" series he started writing in the '70's and didn't finish until last year (then or 2005). HOLY CHIT!!!! Though the series is 7 books, none less than 400 pages (if my memory serves me correctly), it was AWESOME!!! It truly showed his evolution in writing. And let me tell you, you better buy all 7 books at once if you're gonna read it. He ends each book right in the middle of something BIG!

[SafetyMan]

The last Tower book I read was The Waste Lands...


I liked the Drawing of the Three...

[Rock]

I dig King. But the poor bastard dreams all this stuff. I'd be scared to go to sleep.

[BigBurger]

I dig King. But the poor bastard dreams all this stuff. I'd be scared to go to sleep.

I liked the Shawshank Redemption

[Berserker]

Read the Mist haven't seen the movie. Bough the Cell last year, but haven't read it.

Huge fan of the Dark Tower, reread the 1st two a few times. Was an epic book for me. Started reading around 7/8th grade an finished around 30. I was excited to get to the end, but also bummed, it had been there most of my life.

I often think of Mrs Todss Shortcut, when I think I am ahead or when I am behind, you can't fold the map.

[brain eater]

I like his short stories but haven't made it through many of his novels, in fact The Shining may be the only one I did make through for years until Cell, that was an exceptional story. I loved that book.

I'm waiting for Mist to hit DVD, I've heard good things about it.

[ms_tapestry]

I read all of his earlier stuff, but then he just weirded out, in my opinion. I loved the Green Mile. I read them in the serial version when they were originally released (they are all in one book now) and literally waited by the book stand for the new edition. It's one of the few books I've ever read that I thought the movie was as good as the book.

Then there was The Stand. The television mini series sucked, but I've read the book four or five times. The first time I read it I finished it in two days.

[bigjailerman]

Ditto here, read all the earlier stuff and love the Dark Tower series..


Hile Gunslingers

[Bofinn]

I also liked IT, and Pet Semetary.

[TJ Willy]

The Stand is one of my all time favs. Also IT though it still scares me...

The Mist was good and talk about FUKCED up endings... OH MY GOSH. It blew me away... I could not believe what I was seeing... that poor poor guy... Imagine doing what he did, then running out of you know what, then seeing what he saw...

Don't want to give it away but those that have seen the movie (don't know about the book) know what I am talking about.