Got myself a few books to read, all Steven king as i read a lot of his stuff years ago and thoroghly enjoyed them all. Problem is, im unsure which to start with. Has anyone read them and can recommend which one to start with?

The Shining.
DreamCatcher.
Insomnia.
The Talsiman
From A Buick 8

Anyone recomend any other impressive books?

 

Out of that list i would go for The Shining first

Also try The Funhouse - Dean R. Koontz

 

I would say the Shining, Thats what i did anyway and have enjoyed his books since,
As youve probably seen the film, so knowing the film carries you on the the book where you may be getting lost in the writing,
This will then pre educate you into his writing for his next books that you may read.

 

i liked rainbow six by tom clancy. terry pratchett can be funny as fook.not read any of your books tho,so cant comment

 

I liked the Jason Bourne series of books by Robert ludlum. Also got a couple of books by chris ryan, the guy that wrote the book about bravo two zero(andy mcnabb wrote one to) and I thought they where ok.

It all depends what you like though, I thought dan browns books where good but some dont like them.

 

have you read The Da Vinci Code or Angels and Demons by Dan Brown? EXCELLENT reads!!!

tried reading Insomnia but just couldnt get into it...book seemed boring for me

bassboy

 

Ditto.

 

any ian rankin book is a brilliant read imo.
also read lots of jack higgins books when i was somewhere i shouldnt have been
there really the only books that have actually made me want to keep reading
an irvine welsh book is always a good read

 

The Talisman is a stunning book and prob one of my top 5
saying that insomnia is fantastic as well,

if you like stephen king also try his gunslinger series as they are well worth the read and got me through many a 12 hour sunday shift

Also one book you must buy is the choir boys by Joseph Wambaugh and if you don't piss yourself laughing out loudly i will give you back the money you payed for it, it was written in 1975 and my dad gave me his original copy but it did get reprinted in 2002

Have fun

Martin

 

Excellent advise here.. thanks fellas

 

The Shining. = Wicked builds up nicely this book and pretty ominouse (sp)
DreamCatcher. = takes for ever to get going

The other three I aint read

 

The Shining is simply an all time classic.

Personally I like Wilbur Smith - one of my favourite authors.

I must spend Ł30 + a month on books - couldn't live without em.

 

Get the "Bachman Books". A compilation of some of Richard Bachman's (King's) shortish stories. Blew me away when I read "The Long Walk". Not horror but some of King's best work IMO.
I'm going to re-order it from Amazon now

Newts

 

I absolutely loved Insomnia (would definitely recommend that first), but The Shining was also pretty good...

I prefer Clive Barker to Stephen King these days, CB tends to churn out more surreal horror than SK, which I prefer.

 

Here you go

Carrie
Salem's Lot
The Stand
Firestarter
Cujo
The Dead Zone
Pet Cemetary
It
Misery

 

Stu,
The Shining is a quality read.
Im not really into books in a big way at all but could not put it down.
Was one of the first books that i read offshore.

 

Oh yeah I have just finished reading three books by Bernard Cornwell

Harlequin, Vagabond and Heratic

Blinding books all about a guys personal quest for the grail, seriously vicious

 

shining is a nice easy ish one to start with

Dan Browns 4 books are really really ace

 

Books I've recently had delivered:

David Eddings - "Mallorean" series (Guardians of the West, King of the Murgos, Demon Lord of Karanda, Sorceress of Darshiva, The Seeress of Kell)
Robert Jordan - "Wheel of Time" series (The Great Hunt, The Dragon Reborn, The Shadow Rising)
Robin Hobb - "The Farseer Trilogy" (Royal Assassin, Assassin's Quest)

There went another Ł50 of money I should have been saving towards a house! Will have to re-read the five books in the "Belgariad" series, by David Eddings, before I start on the Mallorean......plenty of reading to do yet!

 

The Talisman, just finished reading it a couple of weeks ago.

Starts slow, but once you've been past the first 50 or so pages, I couldn't put it down, awesome book.

 

How about Steven Kings "The Body", great read, and the film was made under a different name, does anyone know's its name?????????????

 

the shining is awesome...

i think i might go and get some aspirin and start crunching and chewing it now!!!!

RW

 

i feel sure it was a stephen kings one i read.......

desperation

shit scary!!!

was 1998 on hols and the phrases in the book i remember like yesterday!

 

anything by Irvine Welsh is but on a totally different tract to the posts on this thread

 

The Shining - good book, read this one first!
DreamCatcher - pretty recent, quite a short read as well but still fairly good
Insomnia - good book, read this one second or third (after Talisman) - LOTResque but still very good
The Talsiman - long book, one to take your time over!
From A Buick 8 - relatively short, latest book out of the lot, not as good as his earlier stuff but has a bit of a good twist to it

That's about the extent of my book reviewing skills!

I'm just getting into reading Dean Koontz's stuff at the mo

Andy