I just finished reading this book... Really enjoyed it. I always seem to slip into thriller/horror mode sometimes during the summer; not quite sure why. Anyone else into Stephen King? I read Cell last summer and really didn't like it very much, but 'Salem's Lot was very satisfying. I've also read Misery and The Shining, but I think that's it. Any other recommendations?

After dismissing King for years (though I'd never read him), I roared through On Writing in 2006, and I've appreciated him since. He's not the best writer alive — he'd be the first to admit that, and has — but sometimes hits home runs.

I read Cell not too long ago and really enjoyed it. I've also read a fair number of his short stories, which are really hit or miss. And his columns in Entertainment Weekly are uniformly excellent. I don't love the guy, but I'm now genuinely interested in what he has to say.

The only King I've read is his a-typical The Colorado Kid for the Hard Case Crime line of books. It's not horror or supernatural; in fact, it consists entirely of a woman and two old men discussing a decades-old murder. It moves at a brisk pace and does a good job pointing out the tension between "genre" and "reality" in genre fiction, and beyond that, it looks at with the ways we deal with life itself--not in a very deep way, but still pretty ambitious for a detective story.

I recently got back into Sai-King (hence my screen name). I started out with The Dark Tower series, just finished Cell, and have started Nightmares & Dreamscapes.

Desperation- a classic starts off with a bang and never lets up.... when i first read this i thought King was taking a Christian turn due to one of the characters and where it goes.

Bag of Bones....a love story/ghost story, about u guessed it, a middle aged writer living in Maine. even better- get this bad boy on audio as the King miester himself reads the complete text ...a real treat in of itself. His aptitude for dialogue is as usual stunning and to hear the variety of accents he does for each character makes it a rewarding experience- especially if confined on some long road or plane trip.

ill second the Dark Tower series of seven books... pure solid King, great characters

Jacques: I love the audio recommendation! Thanks. I wonder sometimes if authors are the best readers of their own works. You would think they would be, but I've heard a few titles that have suffered from being read by the authors.

Ditto Mister C. I suffered through a few...the worst was an Lp recording of Hemingway...he would of been better reading the poems of Emily Dickenson.. that bad. Oh and i forgot to add, plz do be careful if ur driving and listening... no joke its that good- so be vigilant if alone for i found myself, as did the wife-erama, caught up so by the narration .