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Misery. My second time reading it.
Before two years ago it was the only Stephen King book I’d ever read. I read it when I was a teenager, then never read any other King.
A couple years ago a friend talked up the Dark Tower series, but listed me off some other books to read beforehand as the books tended to loop in with each other.
I decided I’d just give myself the fan-since-way-back experience and read all of King’s books in order of publication. There’s like 50+!
So far I’ve read:
- The Stand
- Salem’s Lot
- Per Semetary
- The Shining
- The Long Walk
- Firestarter
- Carrie
- The Dead Zone
- Cujo
- Roadwork
- The Running Man
- The Mist
- The Gunslinger
- Christine
- Cycle of the Werewolf
- Thinner
- It
- The Eyes of the Dragon
- The Drawing of the Three
- (currently, again, at age 40) Misery
I love how Misery’s about an author. I bet King started with the image of himself with broken legs, looking out at the barn. The presence of the sadistic jailor, the big evil nurse woman acting as his editor. I bet that image is where the whole notion of the book began.
How to make a setup that enables that scene to exist?
Oh, dude! I am a huge Stephen King fan, although I haven't read as much as you! I really like his short story collections since he notoriously hates writing endings. Might I recommend the short story collections, Night Shift, Skeleton Crew, Different Seasons, and Four Past Midnight? Also, if you liked the The Shining you should totally read it's sequel Doctor Sleep.
I just rewatched 11.22.63 recently and now I'm listening to the audiobook for it. That one is by far my favorite modern Stephen King book.
And interspersed between all the King has been some sci fi and thrillers. Read all the Bourne books by Robert Ludlum and some other author, Mars trilogy by Robinson, Three Body series by Cixin. I’ve got a bunch of non-fiction queued up but I rarely ever move on it: Ghandi autobiography, history of europe, I’m slowly working through history of the Hapsburgs. I’ve got various self help books I barely touch: flawless consulting, drama of the gifted child, the bible, The Wind in my Hair by Masih Alinejad, Healthy Gut, Healthy You by Dr Michael Ruscio, How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place by Bjorn Lomburg, and lots more. I’ve never read or barely touched half the books on my kindle.