What in you opinion is the best book you have ever read?

My all time favortie is 1984... It's so well written and scary as well... It's interesting to read it now that 1984 has come and gone, but imagine what people were thinking when this book was first published!

The best book I ever read was "IT". It was scarey. I read it when I was 13 or so. I loved it.

The Stand is definatly one of my picks for best book ever as well. I've got the regular edition and the extended edition and have read and reread it. It's such a great story and he makes the characters in it so real. It's like I know them all personally. I recently saw the movie version and was very disappointed in it. A little bit because of the fact that it differed from the book in some pretty important parts but mostly because I wasn't happy with the actors chosen to play some of the lead parts. I've read the book so often that I've got my own ideas of how the characters should be and I think they missed when they cast that movie.

Stephen King is (next to John Irving) my favorite novel writer, and I, too, think that 'The Stand' is one of his best books. That seems to be a sentiment shared by most of his readers, and Stephen King himself makes fun of that fact, because he wrote it more than 20 years ago. The first of his novels I read was 'Shining'. At about halfway through the novel it became clear that there were some supernatural forces at work in this hotel. And it surprised me. I thought 'Hey, you don't need this'. In my opinion Stephen King writes first and foremost about people, and the 'horror' in his novel to me just doesn't seem necessary.