Which SK book are we going to read for Halloween??

jackiback

Put some ideas in this post and I'll make a clicky of the popular ones in a couple of days!

Our Annual SK readalong is one of my favorite things about NBC

In the past we have read: Salem's Lot, The Shining, Needful Things, Bag of Bones and.... Someone help me out here. I'm missing one...

RevJen

Maybe we should do the new one this time around.  If not, I vote 11/22/63.  Everyone should read that.

jackiback

Duma Key
Misery
Under the Dome

booneybear

Why not branch out to other horror writers too?  Peter Straub, Dan Simmons, Dean Koontz, Jack Ketchum, Joe Hill.

There are so many good horror/scary/spooky books out there.  Not that Stephen King isn't awesome, but it would be nice to add more ingredients to the pot.

jackiback

Oh, that's fine. We just always do SK and I am a creature of habit.

duxcaelo

I know we did IT the year before last.  I think Doctor Sleep will win the votes, but I'll suggest Under the Dome.

jackiback

duxcaelo said:

I know we did IT the year before last.  I think Doctor Sleep will win the votes, but I'll suggest Under the Dome.

Yup, I was forgetting IT. How is that even possible

Ali2b1g

I vote for The Stand or Doctor Sleep.

 

Hoycie

Maybe it should be The Shining since Doctor Sleep comes out this month.

jackiback

Hoycie said:

Maybe it should be The Shining since Doctor Sleep comes out this month.

We did The Shining last year as our October book club book. 

I know we've always avoided doing new releases as our discussion books, but I'll be reading Doctor Sleep either way and I'm sure we'll all discuss it. We can make it official or not, but I know I won't be able to wait until late October to talk about it  

Hoycie

jackiback said:

Hoycie said:

Maybe it should be The Shining since Doctor Sleep comes out this month.

We did The Shining last year as our October book club book. 

I know we've always avoided doing new releases as our discussion books, but I'll be reading Doctor Sleep either way and I'm sure we'll all discuss it. We can make it official or not, but I know I won't be able to wait until late October to talk about it  

I'm still half asleep! haha.

I like @booneybear 's idea aboout branching out to other authors.

myJunegirls

Hmmm. As much as I love SK (I knwo you are all shocked by that) I would be open to another author too.

But for SK I vote:
Misery,

Duma Key (man, I loved that one!)

Needful Things (because Sheriff Pangborn always makes me happy)

Under the Dome (because I could use a reread as the series is screwing up my recollection of what happened in the book)

I'd be totally up for a group reading of Dr. Sleep but I know I won't be waiting till Oct to read it for sure

EliStar

I vote for Under the Dome or Misery.

Doctor Sleep is a sequel to The Shining, so everyone will have to have read both. 

ThisModernLove

If Carrie hasn't been done yet then maybe that?  I know my IRL book club is reading it for October plus the remake of the movie is coming out so I'm sure a lot of people will re-read it.

84Lauren

@myjunegirls I was totally thinking I need an Under the Dome re-read, too!

Honestly, any of them would be fine with me.  I have never read Carrie so I'll probably read that one around Halloween just for fun anyway.

myJunegirls

Carrie is super short too. It's also fun to see how much his writing style has progressed since Carrie.

jenndawnp

I vote for Under the Dome, I'm selfish and almost finished with it and I'm dying to discuss it. 

RiverPlate

Wasn't UTD a book club read a while back?  I thought that I read it with several of you guys.  I'm going to vote for

SK's Insomnia or Joyland

And if we're branching out:

Joe Hill's Nos4a2

Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (although as one of my favorite books ever, I'm not sure I could handle it if you guys didn't like it, and I'm not sure it falls squarely into the Horror genre)

Hoycie

RiverPlate said:

Wasn't UTD a book club read a while back?  I thought that I read it with several of you guys.  I'm going to vote for

SK's Insomnia or Joyland

And if we're branching out:

Joe Hill's Nos4a2

Koushun Takami's Battle Royale (although as one of my favorite books ever, I'm not sure I could handle it if you guys didn't like it, and I'm not sure it falls squarely into the Horror genre)

Yes!

jackiback

I haven't read UTD since it first came out and the details are super vague. I'd love to sharpen them back up and also boil with anger every time I see the words Big Jim. 

booknerd226

I've never read an SK. But DH owns and has read most of his books. He also has all the Joe Hill books, which I've also never read. I have a ton of Dean Koontz and have liked his books.

I'm up for anything. I just want to be scared.

shellmh

I vote for Duma Key!

jackiback

booknerd226 said:

 I just want to be scared.

This is exactly me. I'm fine with whatever but there is nothing better than a super-scary book at the beginning of fall. 

booneybear

jackiback said:

booknerd226 said:

 I just want to be scared.

This is exactly me. I'm fine with whatever but there is nothing better than a super-scary book at the beginning of fall. 

Than I think Under the Dome wouldn't be the book to read for this than.  

queenofhearts1728

booknerd226 said:

I've never read an SK. But DH owns and has read most of his books. He also has all the Joe Hill books, which I've also never read. I have a ton of Dean Koontz and have liked his books.

I'm up for anything. I just want to be scared.

^^^ this. 

I have honestly never read a horror novel, so I am excited to do so this halloween!

shellmh

Some other suggestions based on a google search for the scariest SK books:

Carrie
Pet Semetery
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
Gerald's Game
Cell

abt8113

I vote for Carrie. I want to read and it compare the two moves and the book!

NicoleAnne416

I've never read a SK so I'm up for whatever!

sonore32

NicoleAnne416 said:

I've never read a SK so I'm up for whatever!

Me too!

Passanie

Misery

Duma Key

Joyland

I'd be up for branching out too. If others were reading I might be brave enough to try NOS4A2 (though husband showed me a pic of Nosferatu the other day and it scared the crap out of me. Not sure that has much to do with the book though.)

Hoycie

IMO opinion, Joyland is not scary AT ALL but more of a "who did it".  If you want to be scared, that's not the book.