What was your reading experience with Stephen King's earlier books?
By Sporean
@Sporean (58)
Singapore
July 2, 2007 12:59pm CST
Hi, fans of Stephen King,
What was the first Stephen King novel that you had read? If you were to compare his later books with his earlier works, what would be your conclusion?
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3 responses
@Tanya8 (1733)
• Canada
2 Jul 07
The first novel of his I ever read was "The Shining", and I think it's also my favorite. I read all his earlier novels when I was a teenager, but as I got older, I kind of outgrew the horror genre, and didn't read any of his later stuff.
I always enjoyed how much depth he went into when developing his characters and their relationships with one another. I had always intended to try some of his later books, but then I heard from a few people that they weren't as good.
Do you think his later stuff is worth trying?
@Sporean (58)
• Singapore
3 Jul 07
Hi Tanya,
"The Shining" was a great book. Even though just a simple premise of couple and their son isolated in a haunted house in the mountains, King was able to portray the eeriness of the place & the helplessness of the son superbly.
As for King's later works, i am of the view that they were not as good as his earlier works. They were somehow too..longwinded, complicated and had too much of psychological bent to them.
@breepeace (3014)
• Canada
2 Jul 07
The first King novel I ever read was 'The Stand'. I was only 12, and I wasn't supposed to, but I was visiting a family friend on her farm, forgot reading material and she was a big King fan.
I loved it, and I got hooked on reading his stuff.
