I have read 'It' three times and was thinking about starting it again soon! Also I have read 'The Regulators' four times.
I have read 'It' three times and was thinking about starting it again soon! Also I have read 'The Regulators' four times.
Huh. It would probably be a tie between It and the Stand, for me.
It 'cause it was the first Stephen King book I ever read, when I was eleven. When everyone else my age was reading R.L. Stine and Goosebumps, I read It, and there was no going back to lesser horror books. I've revisited it a lot since then. For some reason, its a book I love to read when I'm sick -- which happens a lot -- its spooky but comfortable to curl up with.
I've re-read the Stand quite a few times as well. As much as I love It (the book, not the murderous clown) The Stand just seems to have a fascination that It doesn't have. I'd say I've probably read both books at least seven times and probably more.
I've read The Green Mile three times. And there will be a fourth time one day as well.
The Stand at least 10
IT same as the Stand
The Girl who Loves Tom Gordon 5 or 6
Night Shift many times (These are my most reread books of his)
The Green Mile 2
Rose Madder 2
The Shining 3 or more
Salem's Lot 2 or 3
Insomnia 2
The Dark half 2
Firestarter 3
Carrie 2
I've worn out several copies of The Stand and IT
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I've read a few of them a couple times and I think that's the most of any of them, twice.
Salem's Lot
Christine
Misery
Pet Sematary
The Eyes of the Dragon
The Tommyknockers - second reading in progress
I have several others on the list to read, just don't have enough time to get to all the ones on the list.
I guess I'm the weirdo in the house. Never in my life have I read any book more than once. I don't even like watching a movie or tv show I've seen before.
LOTR, almost annually!!!
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No, you're not! You're perfectly in time.Originally Posted by subie09lega
Looks like I'm way late to this post (and the site as well
yes, this is something bears can't understand at all...
I hate to break it to you, Bill, but LoTR is not a King book...
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When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)
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Oops, thought it said Non-King book. My bad!!!
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My non-King book is To Kill a Mockingbird. Read it several times. (just continuing with the non-King theme
Black House. I love the Thunder 5.
Yeppers!!! Black House would be my fav as well!!!
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Out of King's books, I'd have to say Carrie. Read it 4 or 5 times.
honestly i dunno, i've read the Shining a few times. i dunno the numbers though. really The Regulators i thought that one was terrible but to each their own. Desperation i've read 3 or 4 times. It oh it has to be about 10 times by now. i'm 700 pages into IT now. i've been reading off and on that's why it's taking me so long. "The Stand' is my favorite one. i've read that at least 5 or 6 times. i no doubt have read IT more times but i also read that before i ever started "The Stand' and actually for those 2 it's kinda of a tie on which one i love more.
i've also read Rose Madder a couple times, Insommina. i've read a couple times. i've read the 1st DT books a few times as well. the (2003) edition only once though. and this was before W&G ever came out. and after it came out as well. i've read The Tommyknockers a few times as well.
Bag of Bones at least 3 or 4 times. The Dark half a few times as well. that's all i got for now without looking up each of his novels. that's what i got from the top of my head.
The Stand, followed by The Tommyknockers.
The Stand (more times than I'd admit) and then Insomnia
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ANY S/L #459
haha and IT.
HELP ME FIND
Insomnia #459
ANY S/L #459
Salem's Lot for me. I've read it countless times. Really. I'd say ay least 25 times front to back but it also was in the bookrack in the shitter for years and was one of the books I oculd just pick up, open to a random page and read while doing the business. Dune, LOTR and a couple others hung out in that rack too but I can probably recite Salem's Lot from memory. The weirdest part about reading it now, compared to even 10 years ago, is how much the world has changed. I'll also admit to liking the 4 hour miniseries made for TV way back in the 70s, despite all the differences it was creepy as hell when I was a kid.
The Long Walk, by a country mile...
"A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King
As for non-DT sK books, I've only read one more than once, which is On Writing. I didn't start reading sK 'til 2006, and I'm a slow reader, both in the sense of not reading very constantly () and taking a relatively long time to get thru a page. There are a number of sKs I've read which I'd like to reread, tho; in fact, I can't think of one which I wouldn't.
Probably "IT", followed closely by "Misery" and "Gerald's Game". I think I've re-read those 3 the most.
This thread has spurred me into rereading the King oeuvre. Since my last post, I have reread most of my favorites. Its been like rediscovering them.
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shit!!! who the fuck resurrected this thread?! I want to read new books!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok, I can compromise... I can, for example, reread one King after each 10 new books... no, five... no... three... no...
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Go re-read, 11/22/63!! Maybe you'll appreciate it this time round!! LOL
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