"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

when was the last time he wrote an ending that wasn't complete shit, i honestly cant recall

i'm going to go ahead and say he's ended under 5 novel-length stories in a satasfactory manner. It, Misery, and Carrie spring to mind.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

I'm a King fanatic from way back, though I haven't kept up with much of his newer stuff. The most recent King novel I read was Cell, which I thought was his best non-Dark Tower book in years. It wasn't overlong, as his recent books all seem to be, and I thought the ending was uncharacteristically strong.

My favorites are The Stand and the Dark Tower series (sorry to pick the obvious ones   ).      I thought the last two volumes of the Dark Tower were very good (though the more I think about it, the more I hate the ending). Wizard And Glass was not only my favorite of the series, it's one of my favorite books of all time.

I read IT when I was a kid and it scared the bejeezus out of me. I became convinced that one night I would wake up and find the leper standing over my bed  .      I've read it a couple of times, but I find it less effective as I get older. I definitely agree that the 1950's portions of the book are a LOT better than the "contemporary" ones.

I reread a few King books, most notably The Stand and the Dark Tower series (which I read in it's entirety every couple of years). I also reread a lot of the short stories, a form which SK is an absolute master of.

His poetry bites, though

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

 not if its anything like your posts lolololol

but seriously yeah if you actually wrote a book i'd at least give it 100 pages

lol

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

lol

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Here is the plot of SK's 1120 page epic coming in November 2009 called Under the Dome - sounds like old school pulp horror SK - can't wait

On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mills, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when—or if—it will go away.

Dale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens—town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician’s assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing—even murder—to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Because time isn’t just short. It’s running out.

EDIT - He also has a novella called Ur that just came out on Kindle.  I don't have one of those expensive things.  I bet Amanda will buy one if she hasn't already with the money she makes working for four minutes at her job.  *grumbles jealously*

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - D. Cooper

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer." - P. Atreides

"Whoever can see through all fear will always be safe" - L. tzu

My favorite book of all time begins a little something like this...

"The terror, which would not end for another twenty-eight years--if it ever did end--began, so far as I can tell, with a boat made from a sheet of newspaper floating down a gutter swollen with rain."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Nah. I'm going to wait until Amazon finally opens the gates to allowing Kindle files to be used anywhere and on anything. Granted that's a long way down the road, but I refuse to pour that much money into the hardware itself. The price needs to come down by quite a bit first. (I do have to say...it would be WONDERFUL if I could get all my textbooks in Kindle format...THAT would get me to buy into their program with a quickness. Alas, in the time since the Kindle was first introduced, I have only found two of my required textbooks available in that format)

And j...you have incredible delusions about my job and my salary. But I like 'em, so keep it up. :P

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

Jordan .

Stephen King's Top Ten Book Villians (Favorites of his)

http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20268412,00.html

Top 10 Villians in SK Books (Helz yeah!)

http://www.examiner.com/x-4886-Stephen-King-Examiner~y2009m3d3-The-Top-10-Greatest-Stephen-King-Villains

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

Susan

     
“Half a truth is often a great lie.”

Ben Franklin