King's worst novel?

[Mattrick]

You're crazy, Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon was great. Read it in a few hours. Loved it.

I also think Bag of Bones is his greatest single novel, even more than the stand.

[Roland of Gilead 33]

well i'm glad you liked it. but i didn't. to me it's just about a girl walking in the woods, & there's really almost no other characters than that. someone here said that "Gerald's Game" is a bit like that well i haven't read that one yet so i can't comment on that one.

& i DO agree about "Bag of Bones" i LOVED IT when i 1st read it. & i've read it a few more times since than. i'd love to see them make that one into a film.

[Mattrick]

TGWLTG is hardly about a girl in the woods. It's about fear, about loneliness and helplessness. I found the book particularily creepy. The fact that we see a simply lost in the woods story, from a little girls perspective, it allows us to see the world as she sees it. The way

Spoiler:

He infantile mind and incessant imagination manifests a bear into a hideous creature of the night. Not until she feels safe and the world is normal, do we see how she imagined a lot of it. Most of the horror comes from remember being a child, alone in the woods in the dark and how terrifying it would be. And the beacon of hope that keeps her going is a baseball player and her imagination is also powerful enough to have Tom Gordon there with her, as well as that dark force.

TGWLTG is easily his most underrated novel. I hear a lot of people didn't enjoy it. Gerald's Game I can see, that is more twisted for sure.

[Roland of Gilead 33]

well i can understand you point of view & that makes sense no doubt about that. i'm just going by how i felt while i reading it way back in (1999)

maybe it would make a better film i honestly dunno? actually last i heard & granted it's been a looong time i thought it was going to be a film? or was it cancelled? what did you think of the Cut Version of "The Stand" ? i think it stinks actually. & before anyone here says how dare I? he he.

let me also add that i read the Uncut version 1st a few times before i landed myself a copy of the original version & read it. so i was able to tell what was added in the book. & what had gotten cut out. so if i had read the original version 1st like many of you here prolly have done so.

i prolly would have enjoyed it more. that's why i state my reason about the original version of "The Stand"

[Mattrick]

I've only read the uncut.

[Rice Dancer]

I liked TGWLTG, but I didn't read it myself, I listened to the audiobook.

[Jean]

bears adore TGWLTG, even though, like in DT3, their public image suffers from misinterpretation there

[Mattrick]

If i get to make movies, I'm making TGWLTG. Would make a fantastic movie but I don't think it could be a box office smash. Would have to be slow and brooding to build up suspense and create fear.

[Roland of Gilead 33]

you should try & read the Cut version & see what i mean. & since you are used to reading the uncut version you will notice the difference. there's no epilog for one thing like there is in the uncut version. it starts with Stu at the gas station if memory serves me right. i don't think that's a spoiler unles i'm wrong?

anyways i LOVE "DT3" it's one of my favorite books of his. & as for "The Girl who loved Tom Gordon" i think it would make a better film than book.
one of the RARE examples of a film a SK film being better than the is "Dolores Clairborne" excuse me if i spelled any of that wrong.

the book i love, even though it takes awhile for you to get used to on HOW he wrote it. but the film i think is better. it's one of those RARE instances where the film outshines the book. it doesn't happen very often from any author but in the case of 'Dolores Clairborne" it does.

[pathoftheturtle]

TGWLTG is easily his most underrated novel.

I agree.

And I'm also close to agreeing with you on Bag of Bones -- it's definitely a great one.

[Roland of Gilead 33]

i'd LOVE to see "bag of bones" as a film that is easily one of his best books. i think it's one of those films that should be done by either "Mick Garris' or even better "Frank Darabount" & if i spelled his last name wrong i apologize.

[bettinas.ashes]

I think Gerald's Game is the one I have enjoyed the least so far, but I think I will try and re-read it again one day. Perhaps time has changed my perspective a bit.
Also, I have found that some of the books that I didn't really enjoy reading in Danish, has been much better once read in English, and that might also make a difference to my opinion.

A long time ago I tried to read The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, and I don't recall ever finishing it mainly out of boredom, so that might be a book to be read in English one day too.

[Roland of Gilead 33]

well i was bored to death reading 'The Girl Who loved tom Gordon" so don't feel bad if you still feel that way when you read the english version

[brandnewfan]

The Tommyknockers was the hardest King novel for me to get through. Bag of Bones and Insomnia are close seconds.

[BROWNINGS CHILDE]

I liked Tommyknockers, its one of the few that I have read only one time. I think I will get it back out soon.

[Jean]

Do. Bears absolutely love it.

[ur2ndbiggestfan]

I liked THE TOMMYKNOCKERS too. From what my poor memory can recall, it was weird and offbeat, and it worked for me!

I didn't like THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON. It wasn't the idea of the story, which I thought was good, but just the way it was written. Again, memory fails me on the finer points. Maybe it's just because I'm not that interested in baseball as a professional sport any more. That's one I'm putting on my mental list to re-read one day to see if my opinion changes on a 2nd reading.

[Roland of Gilead 33]

i love 'The Tommyknockers' the only downside to that novel at least for me is that it moves to damn slow at 1st. before "Gardner" gets to "bobby's Book i think if they are to remake one of his films, it shouldn't be "Firestarter" it should be "The Tommyknockers" but i'd love another Min-series that

"SK" himself writes & would be longer than just 2 parts. as for "The Girl Who Loves Tom Gordon" that also is another reason it bores the hell out of me. as a kid i loved baseball but sports just bores the hell out me anymore. i'd rather watch grass grow than watch any kind of sports.

no offense to those who love sports on here. i'd just rather read a good book, or watch a good movie. or watch a good tv show. but maybe that's just me?

[Jean]

I hate all kinds of sport with a passion, never read anything sport-related, don't know shit about baseball (not even the basic rules), and love TGWLTG.

[Mattrick]

Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon has nothing to do with baseball, save for it's structure. Tom Gordon is no more than a larger than life hero and could be any profession, just can't listen to most of em on the radio.

[Jean]

precisely

[Roland of Gilead 33]

i didn't say the book was just about baseball, but it has baseball moments in it. & Thank you Jean for HATING sports, like i do. though i can't think of any other guy that hates sports. other than me of course. i mean that i know. never the less. it was a book that just bored me to death. did he write that before his accident or after it? i can't remember actually.

[kluker]

My husband hates sports and i'm the one that likes them
But I love TGWLTG cause it was something that could happen in real life and little girl/boy could get lost like that and start seeing things that scare her/him, and little kids are tougher then they look

[Roland of Gilead 33]

i know they are. tougher i mean, i think when it comes to "SK" books some stuff in his books depending on which book you read it COULD indeed happen in real life. "Cujo" for one is something that COULD happen. anyways, maybe someday i'll try & read it again who knows?

[Merlin1958]

Yeah, However the way the "Vampire-craze" is going these days, I wouldn't be surprised to hear that a whole Town was turned!!!!!!


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