Stephen King

Stephen King has published 66 works of fiction (which include several novels of short stories )to date. It is my mission to read them all so far I have read :

1. The Shinning
2. Carrie
3. It
4. The Green Mile
5. The Dead Zone
6. Bag of Bones
7. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
8. Cell
9. Cujo
10. The Tommyknockers
11. The Mist
12. Under the Dome
13. Dr. Sleep 
14. Joyland
15. 11/22/63
16. Blockade Billy
17. Black House
18. Christine
19. The Colorado Kid
20. Cycle of the Werewolf
21. The Dark Half 
22. Desperation
23. Dolores Claiborne
24. Gerald's Game
25. Thinner
26. Salem's Lot
27. The Stand
28. Misery
29. Insomnia
30. Mr Mercedes
31. Finders Keepers
32. End of Watch 
33. Skeleton Crew
34. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
35. Night Shift
36. Just After Sunset
37. Everything's Eventual
38. Different Seasons
39. Four Past Midnight

So 66 % done which is 27 Novels to go. Trying for 12 or more of his books a year!

Book Review - Misery

Misery

Stephen King

Stars 8
Pages 369
Med Reading Level
Horror/ Thriller / Psychological / Dark

Being a Stephen King this has been on my TBR for a while, I have watched bits and pieces of the movie and mostly knew what the novel was about. It just didn't seem very appealing, like it was going to be one of Kings incredible character novels. That would lack on the action, too much buildup and setting, maybe a little bit anticlimactic

I was really wrong, this was an amazing book, probably one of my fastest King reads. I just couldn't put the book down, read it all in one day. There was so much action, and just a perfect balance of "this can't be happening" and "this is so real". That King added a book into the middle of this book, gave a glimpse that he could write whatever he wanted. If he wanted to write sterotype, super mainstream popular novels I'm sure he could. If he wanted to write YA I'm convinced he could and he would dominate in every field.
I am just happy he chose to stick with his own visions instead of fallowing advice I am sure he got from publishers at some point.