# Help my 75 year old dad get hooked on Stephen King **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 5, 2014, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540 "2014-09-05T02:53:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540/41 "2014-11-16T23:12:06Z")
Forty posts and no explanation why we are supposed to dislike Christine? ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540/42 "2014-11-17T00:51:19Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Forty posts and no explanation why we are supposed to dislike Christine? Thank you. I’m glad that **Penfeather** and I aren’t the only ones. It did well enough that a movie was made. Granted, the movie sucked, but that doesn’t necessarily reflect on the book. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540/43 "2014-11-17T04:34:15Z")
> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#): > > Forty posts and no explanation why we are supposed to dislike Christine? I like Christine. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2014, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540/44 "2014-11-17T05:04:06Z")
> [@Savannah](#): > > I like Christine. That’s nice. But you’re not the OP. I quote: “I told him to put it down immediately before it ruined him for any other Stephen King books” Now I suppose that could mean that Christine is immensely better than every other SK book, and reading it first will make every other book seem like crap, and make the OP’s father wonder why everyone thinks SK is so well regarded.\* But I don’t think so. The implication is the OP thinks Christine is immensely _worse_ than every other SK book. We’d like to know why. - I don’t want to threadshit, but that’s how I feel. I think most of his stuff is junk. Oh, I liked Christine OK, except for the absolute ending (that Christine can’t be destroyed, ever), but that’s just an opinion. I liked Thinner. And that’s about it. I tried. Maybe true SK fans like everything but hate Christine, and I’m the opposite, so I’m not of the body. What do I know? I liked Zima, too. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2015, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540/45 "2015-04-07T01:50:43Z")
> [@engineer\_comp\_geek](#): > > My personal list: > > Dolores Claiborne > Pet Semetery > Misery > Carrie > > I didn’t care much for It or a lot of his other longer books. I think he gets too long-winded and goes off on too many tangents in his longer books and I get bored with the tangents. His shorter books are more focused and I enjoy them a lot more. Just my opinion. > > ETA: > I had a hard time not putting The Green Mile and The Shining on my list. Nah, not _Dolores Claiborne_. That was my first King. I read it in 1994 and found it so bland that I couldn’t be bothered to read another King for 20 years, until reading _11/22/63_ just a few months ago and which I found so fascinating I moved on to and just finished this morning _Salem’s Lot_. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-my-75-year-old-dad-get-hooked-on-stephen-king/697540.md?page=2)